1904 - Glenn Miller born
1910 - David Niven born
1914 - Harry Caray and Ralph Ellison born
1926 - Pete Rozelle born
1927 - Harry Belafonte born
1935 - Robert Conrad born
1944 - Roger Daltrey born
1947 - Alan Thicke born
1950 - Nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs is sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for espionage.
1954 - The biggest explosion ever made by man is witnessed in the Pacific when US scientists explode their second H-bomb at Bikini Atoll
1958 - Nik Kershaw born
1963 - Russell Wong born
1965 - Booker T born
1966 - Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan confirms the "historic and momentous" decision to change over to decimal coinage in 1971.
1971 - Hundreds of thousands of workers across Britain take part in an unofficial day of protest against the government's new industrial relations Bill.
1973 - The armed Palestinian group Black September has seized the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum.
1974 - Mark-Paul Gosselaar born
1977 - Donovan Patton born
1978 - Jensen Ackles born
1990 - Whistleblowers and journalists will, from today, risk criminal prosecution if they reveal information viewed as damaging to the defence of the UK
1994 - Fred West is charged with two further murders following the discovery of more human remains in the garden of his Gloucester home.
2011 - A large earthquake strikes close to New Zealand's capital Wellington, a week after another quake devastated the second city Christchurch. Also Japanese electronics brand Sanyo announce it is withdrawing from the huge advertising display at Piccadilly Circus after 33 years.
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