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Linus Pauling (1909), American chemist & physicist
Barry McGuigan (1951), Irish boxer
Stephen Spender (1909), English poet
Charles Blondin (1824), French tightrope walker
Sir Peter Medawar (1915), English immunologist
Peter Alliss (1931), Ex-golfer and now commentator
Brain Moore (1932), Football commentator
Robin Cook (1946), Labour MP & Shadow Cabinet minister
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1971 Women were refused the right to vote in elections, in Lichtenstein
1984 The Winter Olympic Games opened in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1991 Iraq agreed to a cease fire in Gulf War conflict
1959 The first polar orbiting satellite, Discoverer 1, was launched
1912 The first ever parachute jump from an aeroplane was made, in the USA
1994 Bosnian serb jets (4) were shot down after they attacked Muslim towns
1948 The last British troops left India
1966 The 'Caven Club' in Liverpool, made famous by the 'Beatles', went bankrupt