1832 - Horatio Alger born
1884 - Sophie Tucker born
1919 - The first Indian peer takes his seat in the House of Lords
1919 - Robert Stack born
1925 - Gwen Verdon born
1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly born
1941 - James Joyce dies
1943 - Richard Moll born
1961 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus born
1964 - Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people
1969 - Stephen Hendry born
1972 - An army commander seizes control of Ghana while the prime minister is in London for medical treatment
1977 - Orlando Bloom born
1991 - Around 13 people are killed and at least 140 injured as Soviet troops continue to attack Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania
1993 - American, British and French fighter jets carry out a series of bombing raids over southern Iraq
1997 - Peruvian left-wing guerrillas holding 72 hostages open fire on police outside the Japanese Embassy in Lima
2001 - More than 1,000 people are feared dead after an earthquake strikes the Central American city of San Salvador
2004 - Harold Shipman, the former GP who is believed to have killed more than 200 people, is found dead in his prison cell.
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