1616 - English playwright William Shakespeare dies on his birthday.
1977 - Dr Allen Bussey sets a new world record when he completes 20,032 loops of a yo-yo.
1984 - A Paris tiger park announce the birth of the world's first tigon, the offspring of a tiger and a lioness.
2001 - An unmanned spy plane makes the world's furthest non-stop robotic flight, crossing the Pacific Ocean and covering 8,600 miles in 22 hours.
2002 - A Brighton man sets his kitchen on fire after trying to dry his underpants on his cooker. The man is said to have put the pants on top of the cooker, but they slip under the hot grill as they dried out.
2002 - P Diddy's bad boy image is threatened when it is revealed he has a phobia of clowns.
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