1628 - Charles Perrault born. French writer who made fairy tales such as Cinderella and Puss in Boots famous.
1876 - Jack London born
1905 - Ritter born
1926 - An anti-tetanus serum is discovered
1926 - Ray Price born
1930 - Glenn Yarborough born
1944 - Joe Frazier born
1951 - Rush Limbaugh born
1954 - Howard Stern born
1955 - Kirstie Alley born
1964 - Jeff Bezos born
1966 - Three visiting members of the British parliament are attacked at a meeting in a hotel in Salisbury, the capital of Rhodesia and Rob Zombie born
1971 - Two bombs explode at the Hertfordshire home of Employment Secretary Robert Carr causing serious damage
1974 - Melanie Jayne Chisholm born
1976 - The most popular novelist in the world, Dame Agatha Christie, dies leaving a rumoured multi-million pound fortune and a final book waiting to be published
1982 - Mark Thatcher is reported missing in the Sahara desert while taking part in an international motor race
1991 - The United States Congress votes to authorise the use of military force against Iraq to end its occupation of Kuwait
2001 - The carers of an eight-year-old girl who died after being tortured and fed scraps of food like a dog are found guilty of her murder. Also the first foreigner to coach the England football team, Sven Goran Eriksson, flies in to start his new job
2003 - Bee Gee Maurice Gibb dies aged 53 following a stomach operation at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami
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