1737 - John Hancock born
1832 - Edouard Manet born
1919 - Ernie Kovacs born
1928 - Jeanne Moreau born
1930 - Ballerina Anna Pavlova dies
1933 - Chita Rivera born
1944 - Rutger Hauer born
1947 - Dr. Laura Schlessinger born
1955 - Fourteen people die and dozens are injured when an express train travelling from York to Bristol derails at Sutton Coldfield station
1957 - Princess Caroline of Monaco born
1969 - Brendan Shanahan born
1971 - The Commonwealth Conference in Singapore ends with a compromise over the wording of the declaration
1973 - The US president, Richard Nixon, has appeared on national television to announce "peace with honour" in Vietnam
1974 - Tiffani-Amber Thiessen born
1989 - Hundreds of people are feared dead after a powerful earthquake strikes the Soviet Central Asian republic of Tajikistan
2002 - The treatment of a 94-year old woman sets off a bitter political row between the prime minister and the leader of the Opposition
2003 - Actress Nell Carter dies
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