1735 - Paul Revere born
1752 - Maker of the first U.S. flag Betsy Ross born
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln signs the emancipation act, thus freeing all slaves in the US
1877 - Queen Victoria proclaimed Queen Empress of India
1892 - Ellis Island Immigration centre opens
1895 - J. Edgar Hoover born
1900 - Xavier Cugat born
1901 - The Commonwealth of Australia comes into being
1905 - The Trans-Siberian railways opens
1909 - The first old age pension was issued in Britain and failed republican U.S. Presidential ccandidate Barry Goldwater born
1919 - Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger born
1924 - Robert N. Cronk born
1927 - The BBC comes into being
1943 - Don Novello born
1944 - DNA discovered by Oswald Avery
1959 - The President of Cuba, Fulgencio Batista, flees the country in the face of a relentless advance by the rebel army of Fidel Castro
1969 - Verne "Mini-Me" Troyer born
1973 - Great Britain joins the EEC
1978 - Newspaper editor Donald Woods arrives in London after fleeing South Africa's apartheid regime
1995 - Fred West, the Gloucestershire builder charged with 12 murders, is found dead in his prison cell.
2000 - The first baby born in the new millennium, Kala Sosefina Millennium Kauvaka is born in New Zealand
2002 - Twelve of the European Union's 15 countries wake up to life with a new currency as the euro reaches the streets.
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