| 2008 | The Pussycat Dolls‘ Carmit Bachar — also known as the red-haired girl — announces that she’s leaving the group. |
| 2007 | The number of billionaires in the world grows to 946. Bill Gates still tops the list with a net worth of 56-billion dollars, followed by Warren Buffett and Mexico’s Carlos Slim. The list is an increase of 153 over the number of billionaires a year earlier. |
| 2002 | Ice Cube‘s All About the Benjamins opens in movie theaters. |
| 2001 | Rob Zombie regains the distribution rights to his film House of 1000 Corpses after Universal Pictures decides not to release it due to concerns about the horror flick’s violence. |
| 2000 | Two Jacksonville, Florida police officers trying to win tickets to a Kid Rock show are suspended for taking lewd pictures of scantily clad women on their patrol cars. |
| 1999 | New York Yankees baseball legend Joe DiMaggio dies in Hollywood, Florida at age 84. |
| 1999 | The Supreme Court upholds the conviction of Timothy McVeigh for the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City. |
| 1999 | Forbes names Michael Jordan the most powerful celebrity on the planet. |
| 1994 | The Us3 album Hand on the Torch goes gold. |
| 1993 | Beavis and Butt-head premieres on M-T-V as a series. |
| 1991 | LL Cool J makes his movie debut, playing an undercover cop in The Hard Way. |
| 1965 | The first U-S combat troops arrive in Vietnam. |