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Harry Houdini (1874), Famous escapologist
Butch Cassidy (1866), American 'Wild West' outlaw
Billy Dee Williams (1938), US film & television actor
John Betjeman (1906), Poet, author and broadcaster
Andre Previn (1929), American conductor
Paul Daniels (1938), Magician & TV quiz show host
Rev Ian Paisley (1926), Northern Ireland Politician
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1985 President Numeiri of the Sudan was deposed
1983 Ian Smith, the ex prime minister of Rhodesia, was granted a British passport
1982 The UK banned all Argentinian imports after the invasion of the Falklands
1973 The spacecraft Pioneer 11 was launched to the planets Jupiter & Saturn
1965 The worlds first commercial communication satellite, Early Bird, was launched
1944 The income tax system 'Pay As You Earn', devised by Cornelius Gregg, was introduced
1917 The United States entered World War I
1909 The North Pole was reached for the first time, by American Robert Peary
1896 The first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece
1830 The Mormon church was founded in the United States