1969: Paul McCartney weds Linda Eastman - Paul McCartney has married Linda Eastman in a civil ceremony in London.

Hundreds of people gathered outside the Marylebone

Register Office to catch a glimpse of the couple as they arrived with

Miss Eastman's six-year-old daughter, Heather, from a previous

marriage. 

1993: Bombay hit by devastating bombs - At least 200 people have died and 800 have been injured after 13 bombs exploded in Bombay.

Born on this Day

1626 John Aubrey

1710 Thomas Arne

1890 Vaslav Nijinsky

1917 Googie Withers

1940 Al Jarreau

1946 Liza Minelli

1948 James Taylor

1956 Steve Harris

1965 Coleen Nolan

1969 Graham Coxon

1975 Kelle Bryan

1979 Pete Doherty

1985 Bradley Wright-Phillips

1986 Danny Jones

Sport

1881 Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.

1984 Exeter City football club which was bottom of the Third

Division appointed chaplain Richard Chewter to take care of the squad's

spiritual well-being. The manager Gerry Francis said "We certainly need

all the help from above we can get".

1988 British chess Grandmaster Nigel Short beat Jan Timman, the

Dutch player ranked third in the world, in the Max Euwe memorial

tournament in Amsterdam.

1992 Cricket's World Cup, England beat South Africa by 3 wickets,

with New Zealand beating India by 4 wickets to becaome only the second

team in the tournament's history to win a clear 6 games in a row.