1. 64 - The first Roman persecution of Christians begins
2. 1918 - Nelson Mandela is born
3. 1925 - The first volume of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf is published
4. 1936 - The Spanish Civil War begins as General Francisco Franco leads an uprising of army troops based in Spanish North Africa
5. 1966 - US police charge a seaman with the murder of eight student nurses in their hostel in Chicago
6. 1976 - 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci earns the first perfect score, a 10, at the Montreal Olympics and went on to score six more tens and win three gold medals
7. 1981 - 10,000 take part in a march through Dublin in support of republican hunger strikers in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland
8. 1986 - New close-up videotapes of the sunken ocean liner Titanic are released to the public
9. 1992 - Whitney Houston marries Bobby Brown
10. 2000 - Police confirm the body they found in a West Sussex field is that of missing eight-year old Sarah Payne
11. 2003 - A body believed to be that of Iraq specialist and government scientist Dr David Kelly is found in Oxfordshire
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Source: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com, thepeopleshistory
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