Untitled Document1979Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd
1974Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election
1941New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland
1939Churchill signs British-Russian anti-Nazi pact
1934Military coup by Colonel Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria
1929General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek Government
1916Escadrille Américaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun
1915Australians repel major Turkish attack on their positions at Gallipoli
1905Italian King Victor Emmanuel &Swiss President open world's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) linking Italy &Switzerland
1902Great Britain &Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria
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Lon Chaney's great skill as a silent film actor came about as a result of his upbringing. Both of his parents were deaf-mutes, so he learned to communicate by expressive pantomime.
Untitled Document1954Phil Rudd
1953Victoria Wood
1952Grace Jones
1945Pete Townsend
1939James Fox
1932Alma Cogan
1925Malcolm X
1896Sir Michael Balcon
1890Ho Chi Minh
1861Dame Nellie Melba
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