1992 Woman detained for "unusually large buttocks" She was attempting to smuggle 1½ pounds of surgically implanted heroin through a Columbian airport.

1992 Publisher's Clearing House announces it had "accidently" discarded thousands of sweepstakes entries after claims it had thrown away entries which did not purchase magazines.

1992 First criminal prosecution for cheating on a college entrance exam A Maryland man is sentenced to six months in jail for paying another man $200 to take the exam for him.

1992 First Japanese Emperor to visit China Emperor Akihito.

1992 AIDS The director of the French national blood transfusion center is convicted of knowingly distributing AIDS-infected blood, resulting in 256 deaths and hundreds of new cases of the disease.

1989 Charles Stewart Murder Stewart kills his pregnant wife and shoots himself.  He then blamed it on a fictional black robber who jumped into his car. He committed suicide when his story began to unravel.

1987 Robert Bork Pres. Reagan's nomination of Bork to the Supreme Court is rejected by the Senate.

1983 Truck-bomb strikes the Marine headquarters at Beirut, killing 241 U.S. marines and sailors.

1947 Ronald Reagan president of the Screen Actors Guild, testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

1934 First successful stratospheric flight through clouds Jean Felix Piccard and his wife in a balloon reaching an altitude of 11 miles.

1932 The Linit Bath Club Review debuts on radio. It was Fred Allen's first radio show.

1924 First U.S. national radio network broadcast received on the West Coast A speech by Pres. Coolidge.

1850 First national Women's Rights Convention

4004 B.C. Day of Creation As calculated in 1658 by Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh, Ireland.

1959 Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew Yankovic), American satirist musician, Eat It (1983) and I Lost On Jeopardy (1984).

1942 Michael Crichton American author, The Andromeda Strain (1969), Westworld, Coma, and Jurassic Park.

1932 Dimitra Arliss actress, Maria Falconetti of TV's Rich Man, Poor Man-Book II.

1925 Johnny Carson d. 2005 American Emmy-winning TV late-night host of the Tonight Show for nearly 30 years.

1917 Robert Bray d. 1983 American actor. TV: Lassie (Corey Stuart).

1905 Gertrude Caroline Ederle d. 2003 American swimmer. She was the first woman to swim the English Channel (1926) and winner of three medals, including a gold, in the 1924 Olympics. Source: Guinness Book of World Records

1895 Maury Maverick d. 1954 American politician, U.S. congressman (Texas, 1935-39), mayor of San Antonio (1939-41). He coined the word "Gobbledygook" (1944).

1835 Adlai Ewing Stevenson I d. 1914 23rd U.S. Vice-President (1893-97 under Grover Cleveland).  While serving as first assistant postmaster general in 1885, he fired over 40,000 Republican workers and replaced them with Democrats from the South.  In 1893, due to mouth cancer he required the replacement of his upper jaw with a prosthesis.  Not wanting to start another panic on Wall Street, the operation was kept secret by performing it on a Yacht.

1762 Samuel Morey d. 1843 American inventor.  He patented the first U.S. internal combustion engine.  It was later used to power the first automobile ride in the U.S. (The second in the world).

1752 Nicolas Appert d. 1841 French scientist and chef, The Father of Canning, the first person to preserve food in jars (1804), opened the first canning factory, and invented the bouillon cube.

1994 Robert Lansing b. 1929 (Robert Brown), American actor. TV: Twelve O'Clock High (Gen. Savage) and The Equalizer (Control).

1983 Jessica Savitch b. 1947 American news correspondent, NBC newswoman, and anchor of PBS news magazine Front Line.

1950 Al Jolson b. 1886 (Asa Yoelson), American jazz singer.

1939 Zane Grey b. 1875 American western novelist.

1928 George Barr McCutcheon b. 1886 American author. Novels: Brewster's Millions (1902, It has been the basis for at least six movies).

1921 John Boyd Dunlop b. 1840 Scottish veterinarian, patented the pneumatic tire (1888).

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