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1728 * Captain James Cook, English naval officer who discovered
Australia and Hawaii.
1782 * Niccolo Paganini, Italian violinist and composer.
1904 The New York Subway was opened by Mayor McLellan.
1914 * Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet who wrote Under Milk Wood (1954).
1939 * John Cleese, English comedy actor and star of the TV series
Fawlty Towers.
1950 British intelligence searched for the missing atomic scientist
Bruno Pontecorvo who disappeared seven weeks ago.
1951 Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Britain for the
second time.
1968 An estimated 6,000 marchers demonstrating against the Vietnam
War faced up to police outside the US Embassy in London.
1971 The Republic of Congo changed its name to the Republic of
Zaire.
1977 Jeremy Thorpe told journalists he was not involved in a plot to
kill former male model Norman Scott.
1978 Four people were killed when gunman Barry Williams, went on a
shooting spree in the Midlands.
1982 Three RUC officers killed by IRA bomb exploding beneath their
armoured police car.
1986 'Big Bang Day' in the City of London saw the deregulation of
the money markets.
1997 The Dow Jones industrial average fell 554.26 points, forcing
the stock market to shut down.
1999 Two gay men make legal history in Los Angeles, USA, when they
win the right to be named on birth certificates as the parents of
surrogate twin babies.
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