1706 - Benjamin Franklin born
1820 - Anne Bronte born
1884 - Mack Sennett born
1899 - Al Capone born
1912 - Scott of the Antarctic reaches the South Pole
1922 - Betty White born
1927 - Eartha Kitt born
1928 - Vidal Sassoon born
1931 - James Earl Jones born
1934 - Shari Lewis born
1939 - Maury Povich born
1942 - Muhammad Ali born
1949 - Andy Kaufman born
1956 - Anthony Glise born
1962 - Jim Carrey born
1971 - Kid Rock born
1977 - Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed in Salt Lake City. He was the first person to be executed since capital punishment had been suspended in 1967
1983 - People have been switching on their televisions a little earlier than usual to catch Britain's first breakfast news programme
1991 - Operation Desert Storm begins as Gulf War Allies send hundreds of planes on bombing raids into Iraq - Saddam Hussein remains defiant
1994 - An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale devastates Los Angeles in the USA, killing more than 20 people
1995 - A massive quake destroys whole areas of Japan's industrial heartland, leaving many hundreds of people dead
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