1998 Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship

1999 Fire blazes through a nightclub in Taichung, Taiwan, killing 64 people.

1804 New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery

1936 Hitler announces building of Volkswagen

1942 Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces

1971 Britain changes its currency to the decimal system

1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn arrives in Switzerland after being expelled from the USSR

1989 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends

1564 The birth of Galileo Galilei, Italian scientist and astronomer

1882 The birth of John Barrymore, American actor.

1931 The birth of Claire Bloom, English actress

1951 The birth of Jane Seymour, English actress

1954 The birth of Matt Groening, American cartoonist.

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