- Patrick Henry calls for America's independence fromBritain, telling the Virginia Provincial Convention, "Give meliberty, or give me death!"

- President Boris Yeltsin fires his prime minister and theentire Cabinet in Russia's biggest government shake-up since thebreakup of the Soviet Union.

- Clearing the last major obstacle to compensating agingvictims of Nazi-era forced and slave labour, negotiators agree onhow to divide a $5bn German fund with hopes of startingpayments by year's end.

- Egypt's state security court finds Sherif al-Filali, anEgyptian engineer, guilty of spying on behalf of Israel, andsentences him to 15 years in prison with hard labour.

- Former chief weapons inspector Hans Blix says UNinspectors would have been able to determine that Iraq did not haveweapons of mass destruction had the United States and Britainallowed more time for them to work before going to war.

Erich Fromm, German-born US psychoanalyst (1900-1980); JoanCrawford, US actress (1908-1977); Akira Kurosawa, Japanese filmdirector (1910-1998); Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket expert(1912-1977); Ric Ocasek, British rock singer/producer (1949--);Chaka Khan, US singer (1953--).

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