1887 - Emile Berliner patented the first gramophone.

1957 - Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story opened on Broadway.

1961 - Bob Dylan made his live debut in New York's Greenwich Village.

1984 - Britain agreed to transfer full sovereignty of Hong Kong to China in 1997.

1994 - The OJ Simpson murder trial began in Los Angeles.

2000 - A woman in Japan washed her car with her tongue and a man filled his with water and turned it into an aquarium, for £50 and a year's supply of tinned pears.

2002 - Milene Domingues, the wife of Brazilian footballer Ronaldo, became Spain's highest paid female footballer.