1836 - Michigan becomes the 26th State of the US
1880 - Douglas MacArthur born
1886 - General Gordon of Khartoum is killed
1923 - Anne Jeffreys born
1925 - Paul Newman born
1929 - Jules Feiffer born
1935 - Bob Uecker born
1942 - Scott Glenn born
1944 - Angela Davis born
1946 - Gene Siskel born
1950 - The independent republic of India is born as the new president replaces the King as head of state and a new constitution is adopted
1952 - Reports from Egypt say at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds injured in anti-British riots in Cairo
1953 - Lucinda Williams born
1955 - Eddie Van Halen born
1958 - Anita Baker and Ellen DeGeneres born
1961 - Wayne Gretzky born
1969 - Police wielding truncheons and firing tear gas from pressure canisters break up a march by hundreds of demonstrators in central Prague
1970 - Kirk Franklin born
1982 - The number of people out of work in Britain rises above three million for the first time since the 1930s
1998 - President Clinton denies allegations he had an affair with 24-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky and rejects accusations he asked her to lie on oath
2001 - A massive earthquake strikes western India and parts of Pakistan, killing many thousands of people.
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