1840 - Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert
1890 - Boris Pasternak born
1893 - Jimmy Durante born
1898 - Bertolt Brecht born
1905 - Lon Chaney born
1912 - Joseph Lister dies
1913 - Scott of the Antarctic found dead
1927 - Leontyne Price born
1930 - Robert Wagner born
1939 - Pope Pius XI dies and Roberta Flack born
1950 - Mark Spitz born
1952 - Independent India's first general elections pass off peacefully, and return Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to power.
1955 - The American Navy has moved thousands of people from the Chinese Nationalist Tachen Islands and Greg Norman born
1961 - George Stephanopoulos born
1962 - American spy plane pilot Captain Francis "Gary" Powers is freed from prison in the Soviet Union in exchange for a Russian spy jailed in the US.
1967 - Laura Dern born
1976 - Lance Berkman born
1983 - Police launch a mass murder investigation in London after discovering human remains in drains.
1996 - The IRA admit planting the bomb that exploded in the Docklands area of London last night.
2005 - The Prince of Wales and long-term partner Camilla Parker Bowles are engaged, Clarence House announces.
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