1900 - Adlai E. Stevenson born
1914 - William Burroughs born
1919 - Red Buttons born
1928 - Andrew Greeley born
1934 - Henry "Hank" Aaron born
1935 - Alex Harvey born
1940 - H.R. Giger born
1942 - Roger Staubach born
1948 - Barbara Hershey and Christopher Guest born
1953 - The rationing of confectionery ends after 10 years, with schoolchildren first in the queue for unlimited sweets and chocolate.
1962 - Jennifer Jason Leigh born
1968 - Another trawler from Hull sinks off the coast of Iceland, with all hands on board - the third in three weeks.
1974 - The 19-year-old daughter of the millionaire American publisher, Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped from her home in California
1982 - Pioneering budget airliner Laker Airways collapses owing £270 million to banks and other creditors.
1989 - Jeremy Sumpter born
1994 - A mortar bomb explodes in the main market square in Sarajevo killing 68 and wounding 200 people
1996 - Two British supermarket chains will be stocking genetically modified tomato puree from today - the first GM food to be sold in this country.
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