1855 - Percival Lowell born
1881 - Czar Alexander II of Russia is assassinated
1911 - L. Ron Hubbard born
1913 - William Casey born
1939 - Neil Sedaka born
1950 - William H. Macy born
1956 - Dana Delany born
1960 - Adam Clayton born
1961 - Three men and two women go on trial at the Old Bailey charged with plotting to pass secrets to the Russians.
1964 - Will Clark born
1967 - Hundreds of students at the London School of Economics are staging a sit-in over disciplinary action taken against two union officials.
1970 - Tom King trebles the Tory majority in the first by-election in which 18-year-olds can vote.
1979 - A coup in the Caribbean island of Grenada has toppled the country's controversial Prime Minister, Sir Eric Gairy.
1983 - The embattled leader of Zimbabwe's opposition party, Joshua Nkomo, has flown into London as his country appears to be teetering on the brink of civil war.
1984 - Rachael Bella born
1996 - A lone gunman goes on a shooting spree at a school in Dunblane, Scotland, killing 16 children and their teacher.
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