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1860 ~ Birthday of Billy the Kid, Outlaw.

1869 ~ The "Cutty Sark" was launched. It is the last example of a Clipper ship.

1887 ~ Birthday of Boris Karloff, Actor.

1888 ~ Birthday of Harpo Marx, Comedian.

1943 ~ U.S. Marines seized control of the Tarawa and Makin atolls from the Japanese.

1955 ~ Death of Shemp Howard, actor, comedian (The Three Stooges)

1963 ~ The first episode of the science fiction TV series "Doctor Who" aired on the BBC.

2001 ~ Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.

2002 ~ Sectarian violence force the Miss World contest to move to London from Nigeria.

2007 ~ A cruise liner carrying 154 people, the MS Explorer, sank in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. .