607: John Harvard, founder of Harvard University, was born in London.
1864: Charles Dodgson presented a little girl called Alice Liddell with a story she had inspired him to write. It was called Alice's Adventures Under Ground, which later became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and was published under Dodgson's pen name Lewis Carroll.
1922: Howard Carter and the Earl of Carnarvon became the first men to see inside the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun near Luxor since it was sealed over 3,000 years before.
1942: The film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman premieres at the Hollywood Theatre in New York.
1968: Rock group Cream - Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker - played their farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
1983: Gold bars worth £25 million were stolen from the Brinks Mat security warehouse at Heathrow Airport.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Outgoing Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma held talks with the two candidates at the centre of the hotly-disputed presidential election results.
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