1751 - 4th president of the U.S.A James Maddison is born. During his presidency he declared war on Britain in 1812 and got the Whitehouse burnt down for his troubles.
1906 - Henny Youngman born
1912 - Pat Nixon born
1917 - Czar Nicholes II or Russia abdicates
1926 - Jerry Lewis born
1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci born
1949 - Erik Estrada born
1953 - Marshal Josef Tito of Yugoslavia has arrived in Britain, the first Communist head of state to visit the country.
1963 - Kevin Tod Smith born
1976 - Harold Wilson, Labour leader for 13 years and Prime Minister for almost eight, announces his resignation to a shocked nation.
1978 - Former Italian premier Aldo Moro is kidnapped at gunpoint in Rome by a gang believed to be from the Red Brigade.
1988 - In the region of 5000 people, mainly women and children, are killed and up to 10,000 were injured when Saddam Hussain ordered a poison gas attack on a Kurdish town in Northern Iraq.
1988 - A gunman at the Milltown Cemetery in West Belfast kills three mourners and injures at least 50 people attending a funeral for IRA members shot dead in Gibraltar.
2001 - An 18-year-old woman, Claire Marsh is convicted of rape after she pinned down a victim during a horrific gang sex attack.
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