1791 - American inventor of Morse Code Samuel Morse is born.
1968 - Abortion is legalised in Britain.
1999 - Soldier Paul Grumbar is court martialled and jailed for torturing the hamster of a junior colleague.
2000 - Anne Robinson becomes the highest paid celebrity on British television, after making £1 million from "The Weakest Link" in Britain - and £15 million from the American version.
2005 - Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger plane, takes off on her maiden flight. The twin deck "superjumbo", designed to carry as many as 840 people, takes off from Toulouse, with a crew of six.
2005 - The blue and white gingham dress worn by Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz" fetches £140,000 at auction.
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