1809 - Louis Braille born
1838 - Charles "Tom Thumb" Stratton born
1896 - Utah becomes the 45th US State
1905 - Sterling Holloway born. With well over a hundred films to his name he is probably best known (or not as the case maybe) for being the voice of Winnie the Pooh.
1914 - Jane Wyman born
1917 - Jesse White born
1935 - Floyd Patterson born
1937 - Dyan Cannon born
1951 - Chinese and North Korean troops are close to recapturing the South Korean capital of Seoul for the second time since the war began last year
1958 - Conquerer of Everest New Zealander Sir Edmund Hilary arrives at the South Pole, the first person to reach it since Captains Scott's fateful journey
1960 - Michael Stipe born
1967 - Donald Campbell dies while attempting to break his own water speed record in his jet-powered boat, Bluebird K7
1985 - Scotland Yard is investigating a surrogate mother in London following reports she is to receive £6,500 for her baby from a childless couple
1986 - Phil Lynott, the former frontman of rock group Thin Lizzy, dies 11 days after collapsing from a drink and drug binge
2000 - Catherine Hartley and Fiona Thornewill, the first British women to walk across Antarctica to the South Pole arrive safely, more than two months after starting their record-breaking journey
2011 - Hundreds of birds have dropped dead from the sky in Louisiana just days after a similar incident in Arkansas
2011 - Musician Gerry Rafferty dies aged 63
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