1809 - Kit Carson born
1880 - Johnny Gruelle born
1905 - Howard Hughes born
1922 - Ava Gardner born
1929 - Mary Higgins Clark born
1962 - More than 1,000 men taken prisoner at the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba return to the United States in time for Christmas.
1968 - The Apollo 8 spacecraft and its crew of three astronauts (Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders) become the first manned space mission to orbit the Moon.
1971 - Ricky Martin born
1974 - Former UK minister John Stonehouse has been found in Australia after apparently faking his own death.
1979 - The first European-built rocket, Ariane 1, successfully blasts off into space.
1988 - Three North Sea oil fields are shut down after a giant floating storage vessel, the Medora, broke free of its moorings in gale-force winds.
1997 - The son of an unnamed Cabinet minister (later identified as Jack Straw) is arrested on suspicion of selling drugs.
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