1990 Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait

1991 France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti

1991 Muslim Shites release hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland

2000 A major fire at the 350 room Marriot Mountain REsort in Vale Colorado starts no deaths

1626 In Rome, St Peter's Church is consecrated

1963 The Bell telephone company introduce the first push button telephones in the United States.

1901 The birth of George Gallup, American pollster

1909 The birth of Johnny Mercer, US composer

1923 The birth of Alan Shepard, First American astronaut in space

2005 The film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is released in the UK and USA.

2007 The Zasyadko mine disaster in eastern Ukraine claims the lives of 101 miners.

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