1809 - Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin born
1904 - Ted Mack born
1906 - Keir Hardie becomes Labour Party leader
1915 - Lorne Greene born
1917 - Dom DiMaggio born
1923 - Franco Zeffirelli born
1926 - Joe Garagiola born
1934 - Bill Russell born
1938 - Judy Blume born
1939 - Ray Manzarek born
1954 - A new body is established (Atomic Energy Authority) to control the production and development of atomic energy in the UK.
1955 - Arsenio Hall born
1964 - Fighting between ethnic Turks and Greeks in the disputed island of Cyprus has left at least 16 people dead.
1974 - Naseem Hamed born
1980 - Christina Ricci born
1989 - Leading solicitor Pat Finucane is shot dead at his home in north Belfast in front of his wife and children.
1994 - One of the world's best-known paintings, The Scream by Edvard Munch, is stolen from a museum in Norway.
1999 - A group of international scientists reinforces warnings that genetically modified food may be damaging to health.
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