On this date in . . .

1918: Slacker raids began in the U.S. as uniformed soldiers stopped draft-age men at bayonet point and demanded to see their draft cards.

1954: The 2,956th and final episode of "The Lone Ranger" aired on radio after the masked man and his faithful companion Tonto led the fight for law and order in the early West for 21 years.

1955: Bill Haley & the Comets declined their first offer to tour outside the U.S. because they were afraid to fly.

1967: Sweden switched driving from the left to the right side of the road.

1967: The TV game show "What's My Line?" broadcast its final episode. The show aired over 17 years on CBS.

1976: The U.S. spacecraft Viking-2 landed on Mars at Utopia.

1977: On the British Top 100 albums chart, 27 of the titles were by Elvis Presley.

1978: 56-year-old Arnold Hanvey raised $1,300 for Jerry's Kids by riding a tricycle in 117-degree heat 79 miles across Death Valley. He lost 10 pounds.

1967: The final show was telecast of the original What’s My Line with John Charles Daly. The show lasted 17 years on CBS-TV.

1967: Motorists in Sweden began driving on the right-hand side of the road, instead of the left.

1979: The world’s first full-time multilingual TV station, CFMT-TV, began telecasting in Toronto in 26 languages.

1989: Karen and Stan Sutton sailed back into San Francisco harbor 8½ years after leaving on their trip around the world. They made it in a 43-foot ship they built themselves, despite Karen’s chronic sea sickness. Along the way, the couple had two children.

1992: Singer Prince signed a $100-million recording contract with Warner Brothers—$10-million each for 10 albums.

1996: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco announced it was testing a new "smokeless" cigarette called Eclipse.

1999: Charges were dropped against nine photographers and a motorcyclist in connection with the 1997 crash that killed Princess Diana.

2003: In Janesville, Wisconsin, a 40-year-old man was arrested and charged with stealing a computerized tracking device. A corrections officer said the thief apparently "didn't know what he had because he would be awfully stupid to steal a tracking device." To find him, all police had to do was switch on a computer.

2004: Former President Clinton was hospitalized in New York with chest pains and shortness of breath, resulting in heart bypass surgery.