Former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson was given an additional 40 years in prison for trying to hire someone to kill the prosecutor who put him behind bars for killing his third wife.
Authorities in Loudoun County, Virginia, have arrested the son of Chiefs assistant coach Eric Bieniemy and charged him in the shooting of his mother.
6-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a department store in Hollywood, Florida, and was later killed (Adam’s father, John Walsh, subsequently became a victims’ rights activist and, in 1988, launched and hosted the television show “America’s Most Wanted”).
Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Louise Joy Brown, the first “test tube baby,” was born in Oldham, England; she’d been conceived through the technique of in vitro fertilization.
A stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans left 21 people dead and more than 500 injured at the famed Love Parade festival in Duisburg, Germany.
The Minnesota man who killed Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.
The company effectively delayed a recall that ultimately resulted in customer confusion.
Kerri Strug made a heroic final vault despite torn ligaments in her left ankle to help secure the U.S. women’s gymnastics squad’s first-ever Olympic team gold medal.
The bagel in America is an immigrant story with a hole in the middle. It came with Eastern European Jews escaping poverty and antisemitism, landing in New York street carts and bakeries.