1821 - James Longstreet born
1910 - Galina Ulanova born
1911 - Butterfly McQueen born
1912 - José Ferrer born
1923 - Larry Storch born
1924 - Ron Moody born
1926 - Soupy Sales born
1933 - Charles Osgood born
1935 - Elvis Presley born
1937 - Shirley Bassey born
1939 - Yvette Mimieux born
1941 - Founder of the boy scouts Robert Baden-Powell dies
1942 - Stephen Hawking born
1946 - Robby Krieger born
1947 - Don Bendell and David Bowie born
1959 - General Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed first President of the new Fifth Republic in France during a brief ceremony at the Elysée Palace in Paris.
1961 - The French people vote to grant Algeria its independence in a referendum after seven years of guerrilla war.
1969 - Ami Dolenz and R. Kelly born
1979 - Hundreds of Khmer Rouge troops flee Cambodia after being crushed by Vietnamese-led rebel forces
1989 - A Boeing 737 airplane crashes onto the M1 motorway at Kegworth near East Midlands airport, killing 46 people.
1991 - One person dies and hundreds are injured when a commuter train from Kent crashes into buffers at Cannon Street station in London.
1996 - France mourns its longest serving president Francois Mitterrand who died today aged 79.
2001 - It is announced that the High Court has ruled that the identities and whereabouts of the two boys who murdered toddler James Bulger in 1993 will be kept secret for the rest of their lives.
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