1791 - Charles Babbage born
1891 - Henry Miller born
1893 - Mao Tse-tung born
1914 - Richard Widmark born
1921 - Steve Allen born
1927 - Alan King born
1940 - Phil Spector born
1945 - John Walsh born
1947 - Carlton Fisk born
1954 - Ozzie Smith born
1963 - Lars Ulrich born
1970 - British Olympic medallist Lillian Board MBE has died after losing her battle against a virulent form of cancer.
1979 - A group of Patriotic Front guerrillas receive a joyous welcome as they arrive back in Rhodesia to help monitor the ceasefire.
1988 - Crash investigators uncover wreckage which may hold the key to the Lockerbie air disaster.
1990 - Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said the death sentence on writer Salman Rushdie for alleged blasphemy will remain in force.
2004 - An 8.9 magnitude earthquake under the sea near Aceh, north Indonesia, at 0759 local time (0059 GMT) generated the biggest tsunami the world has seen for at least 40 years. The tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in 13 countries. At least 128,000 people died in Indonesia alone.
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