1982: Comedian John Belushi died of a drug overdose at age 33.

1984: The Los Angeles Express signed Brigham Young quarterback Steve Young for $42-million. When the USFL folded less than a year later it paid Young a guaranteed $35-million. The resulting long-term annuity will pay Steve until 2027.

1996: Township Trustees in Milan, Ohio, agreed to pay the electric bill at the Thomas Edison Museum, so the power company wouldn’t have to turn off the lights at the birthplace of the man who invented the light bulb.

1997: Alabama researchers at Auburn University announced they had achieved a 90% success rate at changing newborn female crappie fish into males by feeding them male hormones. Researchers said males grow into larger fish and are better for both fishing and eating.

2001: Vice President Dick Cheney underwent an angioplasty for a partially blocked artery after going to a hospital with chest pains.

2003: In a warning to the U. S. and Britain, the foreign ministers of France, Germany, and Russia said they would block any attempt to get U.N. approval for war against Iraq.

2003: A 48-year-old German man has been arrested in Rome after being caught jogging naked through a park. The man said he hadn't realized it was against the law to run naked in Italy.

2005: Martha Stewart was convicted in New York of obstructing justice and lying to the government about why she'd unloaded her Imclone stock just before the price plummeted. She served a five-month prison sentence.