| 2007 | The Tennessee state legislature refuses to pass a resolution honoring native son Justin Timberlake. |
| 2002 | Alicia Keys is named Entertainer of the Year at the Soul Train Music Awards. The crowd boos when Ronald Isley thanks R. Kelly. |
| 2002 | Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears officially deny rumors that they have split up after Us Weekly runs a cover story on the two under the headline “It’s Over.” (The magazine, of course, was right.) |
| 2002 | In San Francisco, attorney Marjorie Knoller is found guilty of second degree murder in the death of Diane Whipple, who was mauled to death by Knoller’s two 120-pound Presa Canario dogs. |
| 2000 | ‘N Sync release No Stings Attached. The C-D goes on to sell a record-breaking two-point-four-million copies in its first week of release. |
| 2000 | Phillip Morris and R-J Reynolds are found guilty of misrepresenting the danger of cigarettes. A California jury orders the firms to pay $1.7 million in damages to an ex-smoker dying of cancer and to her husband. |
| 1994 | Dudley Moore is arrested for hitting his girlfriend. |
| 1994 | Steven Spielberg wins his first Oscars — Best Picture and Best Director for Schindler’s List. |
| 1992 | “Save the Best for Last” by Vanessa Williams hits number-one on the Billboard pop chart. It spends five weeks in the top spot. |
| 1991 | Whitney Houston gets a gold single for “All the Man That I Need.” |
| 1989 | Dick Clark informs the media that his current and 33rd year as host of American Bandstand will be his last. |
| 1988 | Michael Jackson‘s Bad album is certified five-times-platinum. |
| 1982 | The movie Annie opens. |
| 1980 | “J-R Ewing” is shot on T-V’s Dallas. |
| 1980 | President Jimmy Carter announces that the U-S Olympic Team will not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. |
| 1965 | More than three-thousand civil rights demonstrators led by the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior begin a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. |
| 1963 | Barbra Streisand weds Elliott Gould. |
| 1963 | Alcatraz Island, the federal penitentary in San Francisco Bay, CA closes |