1848 - Mexico cedes New Mexico, Texas and California to the USA
1882 - James Joyce born
1905 - Ayn Rand born
1906 - Gale Gordon born
1923 - James Dickey born
1934 - Les Dawson born
1937 - Tom Smothers born
1940 - David Jason born
1942 - Graham Nash born
1943 - The half-starved remnants of the German 6th Army give themselves up after five months of bloody fighting for Stalingrad ends in defeat
1947 - Farrah Fawcett born
1954 - Christie Brinkley born
1962 - Michael T. Weiss born
1972 - Angry demonstrators burn the British Embassy in Dublin to the ground in protest at the shooting dead of 13 people in Londonderry on Sunday
1977 - Shakira born
1979 - Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious dies of a heroin overdose in New York
1987 - Reports from Lebanon say Church of England envoy Terry Waite has been kidnapped by an Islamic militia group in Beruit. He was eventually release in November 1991
1990 - The President of South Africa lifts the 30-year ban on leading anti-apartheid group the African National Congress
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