1767 - 7th US President Andrew Jackson born
1912 - Samuel "Lightnin'" Hopkins born
1913 - Macdonald Carey born
1916 - Harry James born
1935 - Judd Hirsch born
1940 - Phil Lesh born
1944 - Sly Stone born
1961 - Fabio born
1962- The Liberals get their first by-election victory for four years, seizing Orpington from the government.
1972 - Mark Hoppus born
1974 - Architect John Poulson has been jailed for five years for bribing public figures to win contracts.
1976 - The driver of a London Underground train is shot dead as he chases a gunman after a bomb exploded on his train.
1977 - Joe Hahn born
1981 - The passengers and crew of a Pakistan Airways plane held hostage for nearly two weeks have been released in Syria.
1983 - Sean Biggerstaff born
1990 - Iraqi authorities execute The Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft in Baghdad bringing strong condemnation from Britain.
2011 - Japan's fears of a nuclear meltdown are rising after a third explosion and fire at the quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant have led to radiation leaking from the facility. People living less than 20km from the complex, which is 250km (155 miles) north of Tokyo, have been told to leave the area. Japan is later hit by a further aftershock of magnitude 6.4.
2011 - British reggae star DJ Smiley Culture dies during a police drugs raid on his home in Surrey.
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