1732 - George Washington born
1810 - Frederic Chopin born
1857 - Lord Baden-Powell born
1889 - Lady Baden-Powell born
1900 - Luis Buñuel born
1907 - Sheldon Leonard and Robert Young born
1908 - John Mills born
1918 - Robert Wadlow born
1932 - Edward M. Kennedy born
1946 - Dan Millman born
1950 - Julius "Dr. J" Erving born
1955 - Maureen Connolly 'Little Mo', one of America's greatest tennis players, is to retire from the sport after a horse-riding accident.
1962 - Steve Irwin born
1963 - Vijay Singh born
1968 - Brad Nowell and Jeri Ryan born
1971 - Lea Salonga born
1972 - Five women and an army priest are killed in an IRA bomb attack on army premises at the Aldershot Barracks in Hampshire and Michael Chang born
1974 - Fighting breaks out around food distribution points in California as newspaper tycoon Randolph Hearst pays a $2 million ransom for his kidnapped daughter Patty.
1975 - Drew Barrymore born
1978 - Jen Frost born
1986 - Two senior members of the government take refuge in the defence ministry building after demanding President Marcos step down following controversial elections.
1991 - The US President, George Bush, gives Iraq until 1700 GMT tomorrow to pull out of Kuwait or face the full force of the allies.
1997 - A sheep named Dolly is cloned by scientists in Edinburgh and is being hailed as one of the most significant breakthroughs of the decade.
2011 - At least 100 people are killed when an earthquake hits the city of Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island
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