1837 - Grover Cleveland born
1886 - Edward Everett Horton born
1926 - Peter Graves born
1927 - George Plimpton born
1932 - John Updike born and Sydney Harbour bridge opens
1936 - F.W. deKlerk born
1938 - Charlie Pride born
1941 - Wilson Pickett born
1950 - The Belgian government collapses over a referendum on the return from exile of King Leopold III. Also Brad Dourif born
1959 - Irene Cara born
1963 - Vanessa Williams born
1964 - Bonnie Blair born
1967 - The supertanker Torrey Canyon has run aground between Land's End and the Scilly Isles, leaking oil into the sea.
1970 - Queen Latifah born
1974 - Two Israeli soldiers are killed and three others injured along the Golan Heights.
1977 - Devin Lima born
1979 - Three die and eight are seriously injured in an explosion at the Golborne colliery in Lancashire.
1982 - Charges of gross indecency brought by Mary Whitehouse against a National Theatre director end today after intervention by the Attorney-General.
1992 - White South Africans back an overwhelming mandate for political reforms to end apartheid.
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