1853 - Andre Michelin born
1909 - Ethel Merman born
1911 - Dizzy Dean born
1920 - Prohibition begins in the US
1935 - A.J. Foyt born
1944 - Ronnie Milsap born
1948 - John Carpenter born
1950 - Debbie Allen born
1959 - Sade born
1970 - Colonel Muammar Gaddafi assumes the role of prime minister four months after leading a successful coup against the monarchy
1974 - Kate Moss born
1979 - The Shah of Iran flees the country following months of increasingly violent protests against his regime
1981 - The Northern Ireland civil rights campaigner and former Westminster MP, Bernadette McAliskey, is shot by gunmen at her home in County Tyrone
2001 - The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Laurent Kabila, is shot and seriously wounded by a bodyguard.
2001 - A fuel supply tanker to the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific runs aground off the island of San Cristobal
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