1862 - Edith Wharton born
1917 - Ernest Borgnine born
1925 - Maria Tallchief born
1941 - Aaron Neville and Neil Diamond born
1947 - Warren Zevon born
1949 - John Belushi born
1951 - Yakov Smirnoff born
1956 - Plans to build a "new town" in the Barbican area of London left devastated by the war are being considered at a public inquiry
1958 - Jools Holland born
1960 - Nastassia Kinski
1961 - Hollywood screen star Marilyn Monroe divorces her husband of five years, playwright Arthur Miller
1965 - Sir Winston Churchill dies at the age of 90 with his wife Lady Clementine Churchill and other members of the family at his bedside
1966 - Air India 707 crashes in to Mont Blanc killing 117 people
1968 - Mary Lou Retton born
1969 - Students protesting at the installation of steel security gates at the London School of Economics go on the rampage, with crowbars, pickaxes and sledgehammers
1979 - Tatyana Ali born
1986 - Trade and Industry Secretary Leon Brittan becomes the second cabinet minister to resign over the Westland affair
2001 - Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson resigns from the Cabinet over a passports-for-cash scandal
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