1835 - An assassination attempt on US President Andrew Jackson fails and Jackson kills the assassin
1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt born
1922 - Dick Martin born
1925 - Dorothy Malone born
1930 - Gene Hackman born
1933 - Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany and Louis Rukeyser born
1934 - Tammy Grimes born
1937 - Boris Spassky and Vanessa Redgrave born
1941 - Dick Cheney born
1942 - Marty Balin born
1947 - Steve Marriott born
1951 - Phil Collins born
1952 - Truce talks aimed at ending fighting in the Korean War are deadlocked.
1958 - Brett Butler born
1965 - Thousands of people pay their last respects to Britain's greatest wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill who is buried after a full state funeral
1972 - 13 Killed by British Army when they open fire on a demonstration in the Bogside district of Londonderry, in what was to become known as Bloody Sunday.
1974 - Christian Bale born
1991 - Iraqi troops seize control of a town inside the Saudi Arabian border after a fierce battle in which both sides suffered casualties
2003 - British-born 'shoe bomber' Richard Reid is sentenced to life in jail for trying to bomb an American Airlines flight carrying 197 people
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