1818 - Illinois becomes the 21st State of the US
1857 - Joseph Conrad born
1930 - Andy Williams born
1930 - Jean-Luc Godard born
1948 - Ozzy Osbourne born
1960 - Julianne Moore and Daryl Hannah born
1965 - An all-white jury in the southern US state of Alabama convicts three Ku Klux Klansmen over the murder of white civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo.
1968 - Brendan Fraser born
1971 - Border battles between India and Pakistan erupt into full-scale war.
1972 - Bucky Lasek born
1973 - Holly Marie Combs born
1980 - Anna Chlumsky born
1981 - Brian Bonsall born
1984 - Thousands of people die from the effects of toxic gases which leaked from theAmerican-owned Union Carbide Pesticide Plant near the central Indian city of Bhopal.
1989 - The leaders of the two world superpowers, the USA and the USSR, declare an end to the Cold War after two days of storm-lashed talks at the Malta summit.
1988 - Health minister Edwina Currie provokes outrage by saying most of Britain's egg production is infected with the salmonella bacteria.
1992 - Two IRA bombs explode in the centre of Manchester injuring 65 people.
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