1827 - Composer Ludwig Von Beethoven dies
1874 - Robert Frost born
1892 - Writer Walt Whitman dies
1902 - Cecil Rhodes dies
1911 - Tennessee Williams born
1923 - Actress Sarah Bernhardt dies
1930 - Sandra Day O'Connor born
1931 - Leonard Nimoy born
1934 - Alan Arkin born
1939 - James Caan born
1942 - Erica Jong born
1942 - Deportation of Jews to Auschwitz begins
1943 - Bob Woodward born
1944 - Diana Ross born and Lloyd George dies
1948 - Steven Tyler born
1949 - Vicki Lawrence born
1950 - Martin Short and Teddy Pendergrass born
1954 - Curtis Sliwa born
1960 - Marcus Allen born
1968 - Kenny Chesney born
1973 - Women are allowed on to the trading floor of the London Stock Exchange for the first time in the institution's 200 year history.
1979 - In a ceremony at the White House, Israel and Egypt end 30 years of war with a handshake, after the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty.
1981 - The Social Democrats launch their new political party pledging to 'reconcile the nation' and 'heal divisions between classes'.
1999 - Ex-miners suffering from lung diseases win the biggest industrial injuries case in British legal history.
2000 - Pope John Paul II, visiting Jerusalem, has prayed for forgiveness for those involved in the Holocaust.
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