On this day in...

1863 – The International Red Cross was founded by Swiss philanthropist Henri Dunant.

1982 – In Australia, Lindy Chamberlain was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her nine week old baby. She claimed the child had been carried off by a dingo.

1998 – Santa Palmer-Tomkinson, sister of Tara, married Simon Sebag-Montefiore. Prince Charles and Camilla attended the ceremony but sat separately.

1999 – It was reported that X-Files agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully would finally kiss in an episode of the show.

2000 – A Yorkshire court was in stitches as it heard a case of how two would-be robbers had forgotten to cut eyeholes in their balaclavas before raiding a newsagents.

2002 – Winona Ryder spent her 31st birthday in court on charges of shoplifting.

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