1904 - Sally Rand born
1920 - Isaac Asimov born
1936 - Roger Miller born
1939 - Jim Bakker born
1942 - Dennis Hastert born
1961 - Gabrielle Carteris born
1967 - Tia Carrere born
1968 - Cuba Gooding born
1969 - The Australian media magnate, Rupert Murdoch, beats off a rival bid to win control of the News of the World newspaper group. It is his first Fleet Street newspaper and supermodel Christy Turlington born
1971 - Ibrox Stadium disaster, 66 Glasgow Ranger fans are killed when crush barriers collapse at the end of a Celtic-Rangers Match
1980 - Steel workers stage their first national strike for more than fifty years
1983 - Kate Bosworth born
1993 - Leaders of the three warring factions in Bosnia meet to discuss a peace plan aimed at ending nine months of fighting in the country
1996 - The first convoy of American combat troops arrives in Northern Bosnia to try to keep the peace between Bosnian Serbs and Muslims
2011 - Actor Pete Postlethwaite dies of cancer aged 64.
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