1872 - Zane Grey born
1915 - Thomas Merton and Garry Moore born
1919 - - Jackie Robinson born
1921 - Mario Lanza born
1923 - Carol Channing and Norman Mailer born
1929 - Jean Simmons born
1931 - Ernie Banks born
1937 - Suzanne Pleshette born
1941 - Richard Gephardt born
1944 - Charlie Musselwhite born
1947 - Nolan Ryan born
1953 - A car ferry sinks in the Irish Sea in one of the worst gales of the winter, claiming the lives of up to 130 passengers and crew.
1959 - Kelly Lynch born
1961 - A chimpanzee sent into space in a United States rocket is recovered alive and well from the sea near Florida
1968 - The American command in Vietnam reports over 5,000 people dead after two days' intensive fighting.
1971 - Minnie Driver born
1981 - Justin Timberlake born
1983 - Mandatory seat belts introduced into Britain
1996 - A lorry carrying heavy explosives crashes into a bank in Colombo (Sri Lanka) killing more than 50 people.
2000 - Family GP Dr Harold Shipman is jailed for life for murdering 15 of his patients, making him Britain's most prolific convicted serial killer.
2005 - The death of Robert McCartney, killed by IRA supporters, leads to a major backlash in the Nationalist community of Northern Ireland and abroad.
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