1678 - Antonio Vivaldi born
1885 - Grover Cleveland becomes US President
1888 - Knute Rockne born
1929 - Herbert Hoover becomes US President
1932 - Miriam Makeba born
1938 - Paula Prentiss born
1948 - Chris Squire born
1958 - Patricia Heaton born
1963 - Jason Curtis Newsted born
1968 - Patsy Kensit born
1969 - The Kray twins, Ronald and Reginald, face life sentences after being found guilty of murder at the Central Criminal Court. Also Chastity Bono born
1975 - Silent film legend Charlie Chaplin becomes Sir Charles after a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
1976 - A 40-year-old Irish born mother-of-four and six others are jailed for possessing explosives. Their convictions were later quashed.
1980 - Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
1982 - Landon Donovan born
1986 - Margo Harshman born
1989 - Six people die and 80 are injured, some of them seriously, in a train crash at Purley in Surrey.
2001 - Police say a bomb which exploded outside the BBC's main news centre in London was the work of an Irish dissident group.
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