1782 - Daniel Webster born
1856 - Dr. Daniel Hale Williams born
1882 - A.A. Milne born
1892 - Oliver Hardy born
1904 - Cary Grant born
1913 - Danny Kaye born
1919 - The Varsailles peace conference begins
1941 - Bobby Goldsboro born
1955 - Kevin Costner born
1961 - Mark Messier born
1963 - Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell dies after a sudden deterioration in his heart condition
1967 - The Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, who says he murdered 13 women, is given a life sentence for assault and armed robbery
1971 - Jonathan Davis born
1972 - Garfield Todd and his daughter, Judith, are seized after violence erupts over Anglo-Rhodesian plans for independence
1981 - Nine people are killed and 20 injured in a blaze which engulfed a house early this morning in south London
1991 - Israel teeters on the brink of joining the Gulf War after Iraq attacks Tel Aviv and Haifa with Scud missiles
1996 - Six major environmental organisations add their support to the growing anti-bypass campaign in Newbury, Berkshire
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