1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach born
1839 - Modest Mussorgsky born
1858 - The Indian Mutany ends
1867 - Florenz Ziegfeld born
1944 - Timothy Dalton born
1958 - Gary Oldman born
1960 - Sharpeville massacre,69 demonstrators were killed and 180 where injured when police opened fire on the protest against the racist pass laws.
1960 - Ayrton Senna da Silva born
1962 - Rosie O'Donnell and Matthew Broderick born
1963 - The first automatic train on the London underground could be hurtling into stations in three weeks, the government has revealed.
1984 - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher comes under attack for the breakdown of negotiations at the European Economic Community common market summit in Brussels.
1991 - The government has revealed plans for a new property tax in place of the controversial poll tax.
1999 - One of Britain's most loved and most successful comedians, Ernie Wise, dies aged 73.
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