On this date in . . .

1868: Outlaw Jesse James and his gang escaped with $14,000 from a bank in Russelville, Kentucky.

1961: Ricky Nelson recorded "Hello Mary Lou."

1965: Motown arrived for its first British tour with Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, and The Temptations.

1969: John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.

1984: Naomi and Wynonna Judd made their stage debut in Omaha, opening a concert for The Statler Brothers.

1986: Fallon Carrington and Jeff Colby were married wed on the primetime TV soap "The Colby’s," a spin-off from "Dynasty."

1987: A Houston man was fined $10-thousand and assessed ten years probation for stealing 76,680 rolls of toilet paper from the hospital where he worked.

1990: The Colorado legislature made it legal to tear the "Do Not Remove" tags off mattresses.

1990: Singer Gloria Estefan suffered a broken back when a speeding truck plowed into the back of her tour bus on a snowy Pennsylvania highway.

1991: Michael Jackson signed the biggest deal in recording history: a $1-billion contract with Sony.

1994: Joy riders stole a car in Amsterdam, then abandoned it apparently without noticing the suitcase filled with thousands of dollars in cash and diamonds in the back seat.

1996: A 21-year-old Muppet fan claiming to have a bomb took over a radio station in Wanganui, New Zealand, and demanded that "Rainbow Connection" by Kermit the Frog be played non-stop for 12 hours. Police evacuated the area, decided the bomb was a fake, stormed the station, and arrested the listener. No one was hurt.

1999: Dale Adams of Gunthorpe, England, introduced Tinky, a miniature stretched version of his mother, Cassey, a giant rottweiler. Tinky's father, quite incredibly, was Rusty, a tiny dachshund. The owner said he had no idea how the two proud parents got together to produce the very unique cross-breed.

2002: Actress Pamela Anderson disclosed that she had hepatitis C.

2003: U.S. and British forces invaded Iraq from Kuwait.

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