1847 - Alexander Graham Bell born
1911 - Jean Harlow born
1920 - James Doohan born
1959 - Ira Glass born
1962 - Herschel Walker and Jackie Joyner-Kersee born
1966 - The BBC announces plans to begin broadcasting television programmes in colour from next year.
1974 - A Turkish Airlines DC10 crashes near Paris, en route to London, killing all 345 people on board.
1982 - The Queen opens the new £153m Barbican Arts Centre in the City of London and Jessica Biel born
1985 - Miners' leaders vote to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
1995 - A bill which would ban hunting with hounds in England and Wales has become the first such proposal to get a second reading in parliament.
2005 - US millionaire Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo, non-stop around the globe without refuelling.
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