Joe McKnight was shot by 54-year-old Ronald Gasser, in what was described as a road rage shooting. Four days later, Gasser was arrested for manslaughter. In 2017, he was indicted by a grand jury on the more severe charge of second-degree murder.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is a tactical shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is an entry in the Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six series and the successor to Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Patriots, a tactical shooter that had a larger focus on narrative.
A Bronx Tale is a musical based on the play by the same name with a book by Chazz Palminteri, music by Alan Menken, and lyrics by Glenn Slater. The musical is co-directed by Robert De Niro, who directed the original film, and Jerry Zaks, who directed the one-man show on Broadway in 2007.
Jovan Henry Allen Belcher was an American football linebacker who played for the Kansas City Chiefs. On this day Belcher died in a murder-suicide, murdering his girlfriend, 22-years-old Kasandra Perkins, before driving to the Chiefs' training facility and shooting himself in the head with a handgun.
"Diamonds" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna for her seventh studio album, Unapologetic. It was written by Sia Furler together with its producers, Benny Blanco and StarGate. "Diamonds" topped music charts in over twenty countries.
"Last Christmas" is a song by English pop duo Wham!, released on Epic Records in December 1984, on a double A-side with "Everything She Wants". It was written and produced by George Michael and has been covered by many artists since its original release. Wham! donated all of their royalties to the Ethiopian famine.
"No One" is a song by American singer and songwriter Alicia Keys from her third studio album, As I Am. It was written and produced by Keys, Kerry Brothers Jr., and DJ Dirty Harry. "No One" was the most listened-to song on US radio of 2008, with 3.08 billion listeners. It is one of the best-selling singles of all time, having sold 5.6 million copies.
The Color Purple is a musical with a book by Marsha Norman and music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray. Based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker and its 1985 film adaptation, the show follows the journey of Celie, an African-American woman in the American South from the early to mid-20th century.
The 2003 New Zealand-American epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson and based on the third volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings was officially introduced to a close group of participants in Wellington's Embassy Theatre.
After opening, it became the tallest hotel at that time, while currently being the third tallest one in the world, although 39% of its height is made up of non-occupiable space. Standing on an artificial island, it soon became an icon of Dubai. The 5,000-ton heavy island was actually constructed off-site in Finland, then shipped to Dubai in eight pieces.
Two major oil companies Exxon and Mobil merged. The company is the largest descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company. By revenue, it is the world's 10th largest company and the 7th largest publicly traded company by market capitalization.
The Jetstream 31, operated by Express Airlines II as Northwest Airlink, collided with a group of trees in a forest during final approach to Hibbing, and crashed into two ridges just east of the airport, killing all sixteen passengers and the two pilots aboard.
Voyager is the third book in the Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Claire Randall, time-traveling 20th-century doctor, her daughter Brianna and Roger discovered, that her husband Jamie Fraser, 18th century Scottish Highlander warrior, survived the battle of Culloden. Discovering that Jamie survived, sends Claire back to the stone circle that twenty years earlier hurtled her through time.
"I'm Your Baby Tonight" is a song recorded by American singer Whitney Houston for her third album I'm Your Baby Tonight. The song, written and produced by L.A. Reid and Babyface, was released by Arista Records as the lead single from the album of the same name.
British and French diggers met in the middle of the English tunnel and shook hands. The tunnel was opened four years later. It is 50.45 kilometers long. At its time the tunnel was the most expensive construction project ever proposed. The suggested prize was £5.5 billion. Final prize was £9 billion. Channel tunnel links Folkestone in the United Kingdom to Coquelles in France.
"Ice Ice Baby" is a hip hop song written by American rapper Vanilla Ice, K. Kennedy, and DJ Earthquake. It was based on the bassline of "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie, who did not initially receive songwriting credit or royalties until after it had become a hit.
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan. As Prime Minister, her attempts at reform were stifled by conservative and Islamist forces, including President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and the powerful military. Her administration was accused of corruption and nepotism and dismissed by Khan in 1990.
James Gabriel Wanderson Keogh, known as Vance Joy, is an Australian artist. He was a promising Australian rules football player. His music career started after his debut single From Afar in 2013 which became an instant success. His song Riptide has launched Joy's career worldwide. He released 2 studio albums and 9 single songs.
Janelle Monáe is best known for her first unofficial studio album, The Audition, and Metropolis: Suite I which peaked at number 115 on the Billboard 200 in the United States. Monáe's music has garnered her six Grammy Award nominations.
Michael Jackson released his 6th album, Thriller. This album had become the world's best-selling album with sales over 66 million copies worldwide until today. It originates from the previous album Off the Wall and explores genres including pop, post-disco, rock, and funk.
Isolation of Legionella pneumophila bacterium was announced in the New England Journal of Medicine. The microbe caused an outbreak of the deadly Legionnaires' disease. The fatality rate is variable. It ranges from 5 to 50 percent depending on specific conditions. Symptoms include a cough, shortness of breath, high fever, muscle pains, headaches, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
Wilton Norman Chamberlain was an American basketball player. Chamberlain's main weakness was his notoriously poor free throw shooting, where he has the third lowest career free throw percentage in NBA history with 51.1%. Chamberlain missed more than 5,800 foul shots over the course of his storied career.
Impressed with the song, Jones recorded and released the song in the UK in 1966 and it reached No. 1 on 1 December, staying there for a total of seven weeks. The song has sold over 1.25 million copies in the UK. Jones' version also reached #11 pop, #12 easy listening on the Billboard US charts.
The 12 countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve, establishes freedom of scientific investigation and bans military activity on the continent. It was the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War.
The fire broke out shortly before classes were to be dismissed for the day. The elementary school was operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago and had an enrollment of approximately 1600 students. A total of 92 pupils and 3 nuns ultimately died when smoke, heat, fire, and toxic gasses cut off their normal means of escape.
Holly and the Crickets performed "That'll Be the Day" and "Peggy Sue" on The Ed Sullivan Show. Following the appearance, Niki Sullivan left the group because of the intensive touring.
Buddy Holly and the Crickets performed “That’ll Be the Day” and “Peggy Sue” and Sam Cooke sang “You Send Me” and “For Sentimental Reasons” on The Ed Sullivan Show in CBS Studio No. 50 in New York City.
Rosa Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger. Her act of Montgomery bus boycott became the important symbol of the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks is perceived as an international icon of resistance to racial segregation.
First edition of an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine features nude photos of Marilyn Monroe. She was also in the cover photo. The magazine became an instant success. It was sold more than 50,000 copies after it was released.
Jeffrey Leon Bridges is an American actor, singer, and producer. He comes from a prominent acting family and appeared on the television series Sea Hunt with his father Lloyd Bridges and brother Beau Bridges. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 2009 film Crazy Heart and earned Academy Award nominations for his roles in six other films.
Escobar was born in Rionegro, Colombia and grew up in nearby Medellín. He studied briefly at Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana of Medellin but left without a degree and began to engage in criminal activity. In the 1970s, he began to work for various contraband smugglers before beginning to distribute powder cocaine himself.
The so-called Beveridge Report influenced the founding of the welfare state in the UK. It was introduced by the economist William Beveridge, who proposed reforms address squalor, ignorance, want, idleness, and disease. The reforms led to the expansion of National Insurance and the creation of the National Health Service.
American physicist Stephen A. Benton was interested in various ways of imaging. He invented the rainbow holograms, which could be viewed under the visible light illumination. Before his invention, holograms were visible only with laser light. He held 14 patents in optical physics and photography.
Sandy Nelson is American best-known rock drummer of the early 1960s with over 30 released albums and several solo instrumental songs listed in Top 40 hits. In 1963, he was in a motorcycle accident and lost his right foot and part of that leg. He still continued to record until the 1970s.
Heywood Woody Allen is an American director who began his career as a comedy writer in the 1950s. In the early 1960s, Allen performed stand-up comedy performances. Later, he moved into filmmaking. He is often identified as part of the New Hollywood. He won four Academy Awards: three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director for movie Annie Hall.
Sergey Kirow was a leader of the Russian Revolution and important member of the Politburo. He was shot at his Leningrad office by Communist Party member Leonid Nikolayev. Apparently, Joseph Stalin instigated Nikolayev to carry that act out.
Lady Astor won her husband's former seat in Plymouth and became the 1st woman to sit as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons. She served in Parliament as a member of the Conservative Party for Plymouth Sutton until 1945.
Arsenal Football Club is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England, that plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. In 1886, Woolwich munitions workers founded the club as Dial Square. Arsenal was the first club from the South of England to join The Football League.
George Everest was Welsh geographer. Earth’s highest mountain is named after him, although he did not want it. He was in charge of Great Trigonometric Survey of India which aimed to precisely map Indian subcontinent. It included an exact measurement of the three highest peaks in the Himalayas. The other two were K2 and Kangchenjunga. The latter was considered the highest mountain in the world before the survey.
Anna Maria "Marie" Tussaud was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London. Tussaud was perceived as a royal sympathizer; in the Reign of Terror she was arrested, along with Joséphine de Beauharnais, and her head was shaved in preparation for her execution by guillotine.