8:26am Tuesday 9th September 2008
On this day in...
1884 - Antoine Feuchtwanger invented the hot dog.
1921 - Charlie Chaplin returned to London, and was greeted by thousands of admirers.
1992 - At the MTV Awards, Chris Novoselic of Nirvana was knocked unconscious by his own guitar. He had thrown it in the air and failed to take cover.
1998 - The Monicagate files arrived in Congress.
2000 - C&A withdrew 60,000 children's t-shirts that had a website address printed on the front, after it was found that it was a link to a hardcore gay porn site.
2001 - Bob the Builder secured his second number one single with his version of the hit Mambo Number 5.
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