German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is born. He wrote short epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther and epic closet drama Faust.

In 1828 Russian writer Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj was born. He wrote novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

In 1851 Slovene writer Ivan Tavčar is born. He wrote Cvetje v jeseni (Flowers in Autumn) and Visoška kronika (The Visoko Chronicle).

In 1963, the American human rights campaigner Martin Luther King at the Washington Freedom March, which was attended by more than 200,000 people, gave his famous speech "I have a dream".

In 1980 Slovene writer and publicist Beno Zupančič dies.

In 1995 in a bomb explosion at the Sarajevo market Markale 40 people died, 85 were wounded. The UN found the Bosnian Serbs guilty for the crime.

In 1996 Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer were officially divorced.

MUSIC HISTORY
1965 - The Beach Boys with 'California Girls' are at the top of the American singles chart.
1968 - Simon and Garfunkel take the top spot of the British albums chart with 'Bookends'.
1988 - Kylie Minogue sets a record. Her debut album 'Kylie'becomes the best selling album by a female singer in Great Britain. Two million copies are sold.
1993 - Billy Joel is at the top of the American albums chart with 'River Of Dreams.'
1993 - Culture Beat is at the top of the British charts with 'Mr Vain'.

BORN ON THIS DAY
1949 - Hugh Cornwell, singer in The Stranglers (1982 'Golden Brown').
1951 - Wayne Osmond, singer in The Osmonds (1974 'Love Me For A Reason').
1965 – Canadian singer Shania Twain ('The woman In Me').
1982 - singer LeAnn Rimes ('How do I live').