1833 - John Singleton Mosby born
1870 - William S. Hart born
1886 - Joyce Kilmer born
1887 - Lynn Fontanne born
1896 - Ira Gershwin born
1906 - Agnes Moorehead born
1920 - Dave Brubeck born
1924 - Wally Cox born
1926 - Artist Claude Monet dies
1936 - David Ossman born
1953 - Tom Hulce born
1955 - Steven Wright born
1956 - Peter Buck born
1957 - Andrew Cuomo born
1962 - Choking fog spreads across Britain
1969 - Andrew J. Howard born
1975 - Three armed IRA men on the run from police burst into a flat in central London and take two people hostage.
1978 - Spaniards turn out in force to cast a vote for democracy and end almost 40 years of dictatorial rule.
1983 - Swedish journalist, Lars Ljungberg, underwent the first heart and lung transplant operation to be performed in Britain.
1992 - A mob of Hindu militants tear down a mosque and attack other Muslim targets in the north Indian town of Ayodhya, in one of India's worst outbreaks of inter-communal violence.
1994 - The Queen gives the go ahead for oil drilling to take place in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
2005 - David Cameron is elected the new Conservative leader by a margin of more than two to one over David Davis.
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