1903 - Bix Beiderbecke born
1910 - Slavery is abolished in China
1918 - Pamela Mason born
1928 - James Earl Ray born
1940 - Chuck Norris born
1947 - Bob Greene and Kim Campbell born
1956 - Greek Cypriots demonstrate and strike after Britain arrests and deports Archbishop Makarios.
1957 - Osama bin Laden born
1958 - Sharon Stone born
1964 - Jasmine Guy born
1964 - Prince Edward born
1969 - The killer of Martin Luther King, James Earl Ray is jailed for 99 years by a court in Memphis, Tennessee, after admitting the murder of the American civil rights leader.
1973 - The British governor and his assistant have been assassinated in Bermuda, a British-dependent territory in the North Atlantic.
1977 - Shannon Miller born
1988 - The Prince of Wales narrowly avoids death on the ski slopes of Switzerland in an avalanche which kills one of his closest friends.
1990 - A court in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, imposes the death sentence on The Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft.
2011 - The Dalai Lama announces that he will retire as the political leader of the Tibetan government-in exile, to make way for a democratically elected Prime Minister.
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