1530: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, former adviser to England's King Henry VIII, died.
1892: A patent was issued to Almon Brown Strowger for the rotary dial telephone.
1939: The USSR broke off diplomatic relations with Finland prior to a Soviet attack.
1963: U.S. President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
1974: In Britain, a bill that outlawed the Irish Republican Army became effective.
1986: Actor Cary Grant, pictured, died at 82.
1987: A Korean jetliner disappeared off Burma, with 115 people aboard.
1992: Dennis Byrd (New York Jets) was paralysed with a neck injury during an American football game against Kansas City Chiefs.
2004: Screen Monster Godzilla received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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