1826 - The American Temperence Society is formed
1873 - L.L. Bean born
1882 - Composer Richard Wagner dies
1885 - Bess Truman born
1892 - Grant Wood born
1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford born
1920 - Eileen Farrell born
1923 - Chuck Yeager born
1933 - Kim Novak born
1934 - George Segal born
1942 - Peter Tork born
1944 - Stockard Channing and Jerry Springer born
1950 - Peter Gabriel born
1961 - Officials in the Congolese province of Katanga declare former Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba dead.
1968 - Kelly Hu born
1974 - Robbie Williams born
1975 - British mineworkers' leaders agree to accept the coal board's latest pay offer of up to 35%.
1978 - Tomorrow's World presenter Anna Ford has been officially announced as ITN's first female newsreader.
1991 - Hundreds of Iraqi civilians are killed and wounded in Baghdad by American bombers.
2001 - A man goes on trial in Glasgow for knowingly infecting a woman with the HIV virus in a case believed to be the first of its kind in Scotland.
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