1473 - Nicolas Copernicus born
1924 - Lee Marvin born
1940 - Smokey Robinson born
1948 - Tony Iommi born
1955 - Margaux Hemingway and Jeff Daniels born
1961 - Police battle with supporters of the murdered Congolese premier outside the Belgian embassy in London.
1963 - Seal born
1966 - Justine Bateman born
1968 - The High Court awards compensation to 62 children born with thalidomide-induced deformities.
1978 - At least ten Egyptian commandos are killed in a gun battle with Greek Cypriot soldiers at Larnaca airport.
1997 - China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping has died at the age of 92 after suffering from failing health for several years.
2001 - A five-mile exclusion zone is placed around an abbatoir in Essex after a suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease is detected.
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