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Birthdays
1959Sammy Lee, Former Liverpool football player
1949Alan Lancaster, Former member of the group 'Status Quo'
1943Gareth Hunt, British TV actor; 'New Avengers'
1937Peter Jay, Former Ambassador to Washington
1924Dora Bryan, Actress appearing in over 50 films
1923Earl of Harewood, Managing director of the English National Opera
1812Charles Dickens, Celebrated novelist; 'A Christmas Carol'
1478Sir Thomas More, Writer, statesman and Lord Chancellor
 Events:
1993Former Wimbledon champion Arthur Ashe, died in New York of AIDS
1988Torrential rains and flooding killed 120 people and injured thousands in Rio de Janeiro
1984US astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to 'Spacewalk' untethered to a spacecraft
1976A woman refereed an all male football match for the first time
1940Walt Disney's 'Pinocchio' had its world premiere, in the USA
1922During an outbreak of the disease 'Foot and Mouth', thousands of cattle were slaughtered
1878Pope Pius IX died, having reigned for over 31 years
1845A priceless glass Roman was broken by a drunken visitor to the British Museum


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