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2001 - The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.
1996 - The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
1994 - Peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina announced (so called Vance-Owen peace plan).
1991 - Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
1986 - Comet Halley reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the sun, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th century.
1975 - The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
1973 - Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party elected leader of opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
1971 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1971 - The 6.4 on the Richter Scale Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.

1996 - Jimmy Bennett, American actor
1985 - David Gallagher, American actor
1982 - Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer
1981 - John Walker Lindh, American Taliban fighter
1979 - Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress
1979 - Mena Suvari, American actress
1979 - Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
1979 - David Gray, English snooker player
1976 - Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican Major League Baseball player
1974 - Amber Valletta, American supermodel and actress

Saint Apollonia, patron saint of dentists and dental technicians
Saint Maroon's Day - Lebanon
Saint Ansbert of Rouen

2006 - Freddie Laker, British Airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
2002 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)
2001 - Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
1999 - Bryan Mosley, British actor (b. 1931)
1995 - J. William Fulbright, U.S. Senator (b. 1905)
1994 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1934)
1989 - Osamu Tezuka, the godfather of Japanese manga (b. 1928)
1984 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914)
1981 - Bill Haley, American musician (Bill Haley and the Comets) (b. 1925)
1979 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)