1820 - The first freed slaves leave the US to form Liberia
1840 - The treaty of Waitangi is signed thus creating New Zealand as a British Colony
1895 - Babe Ruth born
1911 - Ronald Reagan born
1913 - Mary Leakey born
1919 - Zsa Zsa Gabor born
1931 - Rip Torn and Mamie Van Doren born
1939 - Mike Farrell born
1940 - Tom Brokaw born
1943 - Fabian born
1944 - Michael Tucker born
1945 - Bob Marley born
1950 - Natalie Cole born
1952 - His Majesty, King George VI, dies peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham House, aged 56.
1958 - Manchester City legend Frank Swift and seven Manchester United footballers are among 21 dead after an air crash in Munich
1962 - Axl Rose born
1969 - Masaharu Fukuyama born
1971 - Alan Shepard becomes the first man to hit a golf ball on the Moon during a two-day Moon walk from Apollo 14.
1983 - War criminal and former Gestapo commandant, Klaus Barbie (Butcher of Lyon), arrives in France to stand trial for crimes committed 37 years ago.
1997 - The Court of Appeal makes an historic judgement in favour of Diane Blood who will be allowed to be inseminated with her dead husband's sperm.
2001 - The leader of the right-wing Likud party, Ariel Sharon, wins a landslide victory to become the new prime minister of Israel.
2005 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair marks 2,838 days in his post at Number 10, making him Labours longest serving PM.
2010 - Former Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore dies on holiday in Spain at the age of 58
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