1863 - The London Tube, the worlds first undergound, opens
1869 - Grigori Rasputin born
1870 - The Rockefellers found Standard Oil
1904 - Ray Bolger born
1908 - Paul Henreid born
1927 - Johnnie Ray born
1927 - Gisele MacKenzie born
1939 - Sal Mineo born
1945 - Rod Stewart born
1949 - George Foreman born
1953 - Pat Benatar born
1954 - Thirty-five people are missing, feared dead, after a BOAC Comet jet airliner crashes into the Mediterranean
1957 - Harold Macmillan accepts the Queen's invitation to become prime minister following the sudden resignation of Sir Anthony Eden
1979 - The Prime Minister, James Callaghan, flies back into strike-torn Britain denying allegations the country is in chaos
1985 - Eight people die and dozens are injured when an explosion destroys a block of exclusive flats in south-west London
1991 - The United Nations Secretary General leaves for Baghdad in a final diplomatic effort to avoid war against Iraq.
1996 - King Hussein of Jordan makes his first public visit to Israel's largest city 'Tel Aviv' as relations between the two countries warm.
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