1561 - Elizabethen author and philosiphor Sir Francis Bacon born
1875 - D.W. Griffith born
1901 - Queen Victoria dies
1904 - George Balanchine born
1905 - Bloody Sunday in St Petersburg when the army shoots 500 strikers
1909 - Ann Sothern born
1922 - Pope Benedict XV dies
1932 - Piper Laurie born
1934 - Bill Bixby born
1935 - Sam Cooke born
1937 - Joseph Wambaugh born
1940 - John Hurt born
1949 - Steve Perry born
1960 - Michael Kelland Hutchence born
1962 - James Hanratty, accused of murdering a physicist in a lay-by on the A6, enters a plea of "not guilty".
1965 - Diane Lane born
1970 - The first Jumbo jet lands at Heathrow
1979 - Tens of thousands of public sector workers take part in a day of action - the biggest mass stoppage since 1926 - in support of a claim for more pay
1980 - One of the Soviet Union's most outspoken critics, nuclear physicist Dr Andrei Sakharov, is sent into internal exile for his outspoken views
1981 - Willa Ford born
1990 - President Mikhail Gorbachev announces Red Army troops have been sent into the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan
2001 - The government launches a £3m campaign to convince parents the controversial MMR triple vaccine is safe
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