1991 – Footage of Los Angeles police officers severely beating Rodney King causes a global outcry
The acquittal of the police officers involved sparked the Los Angeles riots in 1992.
1985 – The U.K. miners' strike ends
The year-long dispute was the country's longest-running industrial dispute and a defining issue of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government.
1974 – All 345 people on board a Turkish Airlines jet die as it plunges to the ground near Paris, France
The crash of the DC-10 aircraft has the 4th highest death toll of any aviation accident in history.
1938 – The world's fastest steam locomotive is built
The Mallard could reach a speed of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).
1924 – The last remnant of the Ottoman empire in Turkey is abolished
The end of the Islamic caliphate marked the demise of the 600-year old empire and gave way to the formation of a reformed Turkey under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
1981 – Julius Malema
South African politician
1977 – Ronan Keating
Irish singer-songwriter, actor
1869 – Henry Wood
English conductor
1847 – Alexander Graham Bell
Scottish/American engineer, invented the Telephone
1845 – Georg Cantor
German mathematician
1987 – Danny Kaye
American actor
1983 – Hergé
Belgian illustrator
1707 – Aurangzeb
Mughal Emperor
1706 – Johann Pachelbel
German composer
1703 – Robert Hooke
English scientist
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