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.
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