1910 - Louis Prima born
1915 - Eli Wallach born
1916 - Lloyd George becomes British Prime Minister
1923 - Ted Knight born
1932 - Ellen Burstyn born
1941 - Japan has launches a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, declaring war on Britain and the United States. Within two hours, six battleships had been sunk, another 112 vessels sunk or damaged, and 164 aircraft destroyed.
1942 - Harry Chapin born
1947 - Johnny Bench born
1949 - Tom Waits born
1955 - Clement Attlee resigns as leader of the opposition Labour Party, following months of speculation.
1956 - Larry Bird born
1958 - Edd Hall born
1966 - C. Thomas Howell born
1967 - Tino Martinez born
1979 - Cabinet minister Lord Soames is named transitional governor of Rhodesia to oversee its progress into legal independence.
1983 - Chief chimney-toppler Fred Dibnah is halted in his work after a ginger tomcat got to his latest assignment first.
1993 - Dozens of people are injured at the end of a 20-year battle to save a 250-year-old chestnut tree in east London.
2001 - Taleban surrender Kandahar
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