1876 - The first chancellor of West Germany, Konrad Adenauer born
1908 - George Dolenz born
1914 - George Reeves born
1922 - Poler explorer Ernest Shackleton dies
1928 - Walter Mondale born, US Vice President to Jimmy Carter.
1931 - Robert Duvall born
1938 - Juan Carlos I born. King of Spain since the death of the dictator Franco. It was the king who re-introduced democracy into Spain, unlike many other leaders with absolute power he did this at his own behest and not as a result of external pressure.
1946 - Diane Keaton born
1952 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in the United States for an official visit, his first since re-election last October
1953 - Pamela Sue Martin born
1969 - Marilyn Manson born
1976 - Ten Protestant men are shot dead as they return home from work in a mini-bus in Northern Ireland
1981 - Peter Sutcliffe arrested for Ripper murders, the 35-year-old lorry driver from Bradford, suspected of carrying out 13 murders across West Yorkshire over the past five years, appears in court.
1985 - Thousands of Jewish refugees from Ethiopia are airlifted from Sudan to Israel in a secret operation
1993 - A tanker carrying 85,000 tonnes of crude oil is aground in hurricane force winds off the Shetland Islands
2001 - The former GP Harold Shipman may have killed more than 300 of his patients, a report reveals
2011 - Around two million fish have died in the Chesapeake Bay area in Maryland, just days after two similar incidents elsewhere in the US baffled scientists.
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