1903 - Lawrence Welk born
1926 - Ralph Abernathy born
1931 - Rupert Murdoch born
1934 - Sam Donaldson born
1942 - Charles W. Swan born
1950 - Bobby McFerrin born
1952 - Douglas Adams born
1955 - Sir Alexander Fleming - the man who first discovered the life-saving drug penicillin - dies of a heart attack.
1974 - Two self-proclaimed British Government spies have escaped from a top-security prison in Ireland where they were serving sentences for armed robbery.
1977 - French film director Roman Polanski is charged with raping a 13-year- old girl in Hollywood.
1979 - Benji and Joel Madden born
1981 - LeToya Luckett born
1982 - Thora Birch born
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev takes over as Soviet leader following the death of Konstantin Chernenko.
2001 - It is the worst day for new foot-and-mouth cases since the disease was first diagnosed two weeks ago
2004 - 191 people are killed and over 1,800 are injured after powerful explosions tear through three Madrid train stations during the morning rush-hour.
2011 - Sendai and Tokyo in Japan are hit by an 8.9 magnitude Earthquake, triggering a 10m Tsunami warning for the entire Pacific basin.
2011 - Most of Japans northeast coast is left devasted and thousands dead, when the 32 ft Tsunami triggered by the earthquake hits land.
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