1759 - Robert Burns born
1882 - Virginia Woolf born
1918 - Ernie Harwell born
1919 - Edwin Newman born
1931 - Dean Jones born
1933 - Corazon Aquino born
1971 - General Idi Amin seizes power in Uganda while President Milton Obote is away on a foreign visit - troops seal off Entebbe airport. Also China Kantner born
1981 - MPs Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, William Rodgers and David Owen called a news conference today at Dr Owen's home in Limehouse, east London, to unveil plans for setting up of a "council for social democracy". Also Alicia Keys born
1990 - At least 39 people, some of them children, die in the worst weather to hit England and Wales since the 1987 hurricane
1998 - During a historic visit to Cuba Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country
1999 - At least 300 people are killed and 1,000 are injured in an earthquake in Colombia, South America - the worst for 16 years. In addition six members of the International Olympic Committee face expulsion following an inquiry into a corruption scandal
2004 - The second of two Nasa rovers sent to explore Mars has landed on the surface of the planet, where it will look for signs of water
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