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