1542 - Mary Queen of Scots born
1865 - Jean Sibelius born
1886 - Diego Rivera born
1894 - James Thurber born
1911 - Lee J. Cobb born
1916 - Richard Fleischer born
1925 - Sammy Davis born
1930 - Maximilian Schell born
1933 - Flip Wilson born
1936 - David Carradine born
1939 - James Galway born
1943 - Jim Morrison born
1947 - Gregg Allman born
1953 - Kim Basinger born
1964 - Teri Hatcher born
1965 - The Race Relations Act comes into force in the UK, making racial discrimination unlawful in public places.
1966 - Sinead O'Connor born
1980 - John Lennon is shot dead by Mark Chapman outside the musician's apartment in the Dakota Building, on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
1983 - The House of Lords votes in favour of allowing cameras to broadcast live discussions from its chamber.
1987 - Leaders of the world's two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States of America sign the first ever treaty to reduce the size of their ground-based nuclear arsenals.
1995 - Head teacher Philip Lawrence is stabbed to death outside his west London school whilst protecting a pupil who was being assaulted.
2003 - A court in Athens convicts 15 key members of Greece's most infamous left-wing terrorist group known as November 17.
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