1910 - Samuel Barber born
1918 - Mickey Spillane born
1923 - Lenin retires due to ill health after several strokes
1926 - Irene Papas born
1932 - Keely Smith born
1934 - Yuri Gagarin born
1936 - Mickey Gilley born
1940 - Raul Julia born
1943 - Bobby Fischer born
1945 - Robin Trower born
1956 - The British authorities order the deportation of the Greek Cypriot leader, Archbishop Makarios, in the hope of restoring law and order to the island.
1964 - Juliette Binoche born
1967 - Svetlana Stalin, daughter of the Soviet dictator, requests asylum at the United States Embassy in India.
1971 - Emmanuel Lewis born
1973 - The people of Northern Ireland vote overwhelmingly to remain within the United Kingdom.
1976 - A line supporting a cable car snaps killing 42 people, including children, in the Dolomite mountains in northern Italy.
1980 - Chingy born
1981 - The man known as the M5 Rapist, who for three-and-a-half years terrorised women in the south west of England, is sentenced to life behind bars
1995 - The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh pay a symbolic visit to Northern Ireland - their first since the IRA and Loyalist ceasefires came into effect last year.
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