1822 - Louis Pasteur born
1879 - Sydney Greenstreet born
1901 - Marlene Dietrich born
1906 - Oscar Levant born
1939 - John Amos born
1943 - Cokie Roberts born
1948 - Gérard Depardieu born
1960 - The French move a step closer to developing a compact nuclear bomb after a third test in the Sahara desert.
1965 - Four men are dead and nine are still missing after Britain's first North Sea drilling rig 'Sea Gem' capsizes.
1975 - Heather O'Rourke born
1977 - Thousands of people flock to UK cinemas to watch the long-awaited blockbuster, Star Wars.
1985 - At least 16 people are killed and more than 100 injured during twin terrorist attacks in Rome and Vienna.
1997 - A leading protestant paramilitary, Billy Wright, is shot dead at the maximum security Maze prison in Northern Ireland.
2004 - Ukraine's "orange revolutionaries" celebrate as opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko is declared winner of the presidential election.
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