1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti born
1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning born
1836 - The Battle of the Alamo
1906 - Lou Costello born
1923 - Ed McMahon born
1926 - Alan Greenspan born
1930 - Lorin Maazel born
1936 - Marion Barry born
1941 - Willie Stargell born
1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa born
1945 - Rob Reiner born
1946 - David Gilmour born
1957 - The people of Ghana celebrate the end of colonial rule and the dawn of their independence.
1959 - Tom Arnold born
1961 - George Formby dies after a heart attack
1963 - D.L. Hughley born
1970 - The British Government announces an indefinite ban on the importation of domestic pets.
1972 - Shaquille O'Neal born
1974 - UK coal workers bring an end to a 16 week dispute following a pay increase of over 30%.
1987 - 193 people are killed when a Townsend Thoresen car ferry 'Herald of Free Enterprise' capsizes just outside the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
1993 - Hundreds of people are reported to have died in clashes between the rebel Unita movement and Angolan government forces in the central town of Huambo.
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