1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born
1832 - Lewis Carroll born
1885 - Jerome Kern born
1901 - Composer Giuseppe dies
1916 - Conscription introduced into Britain
1918 - Skitch Henderson born
1921 - Donna Reed born
1936 - Troy Donahue born
1944 - A successful Soviet offensive drives German troops away from the Leningrad which has been besieged since September 1941. Also Nick Mason born
1945 - The Red Army liberates the Nazi's biggest concentration camp at Auschwitz in southern Poland
1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov born
1959 - Cris Collinsworth born
1964 - Bridget Fonda born
1967 - The crew of Apollo 1, astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee die when fire swept through their capsule in testing.
1969 - Students protesting against the closure of the London School of Economics seize control of another university building
1970 - Jennifer LB Leese born
1980 - Rhodesia opposition leader Robert Mugabe makes a triumphant return to his home country after five years in exile
1984 - Michael Jackson is rushed to hospital with burn injuries to his head after a stunt for a Pepsi commercial went wrong
1995 - Manchester United's Eric Cantona is fined £20,000 and banned from playing football over his kung fu-style attack on a fan
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