1522: One of Ferdinand Magellan's five ships -- the Vittoria -- arrived at Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, thus completing the first rip around the world.

1968: Eric Clapton recorded his guitar solo on the Beatles’ "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."

1975: While in New York to compete in the U.S. Open, Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asked for political asylum.

1988: The youngest person ever to swim the English Channel, 11-year-old Thomas Gregory, swam from France to Dover, England, in 12 hours.

1989: Basketball's Michael Jordan married Juanita Vanoy in Las Vegas. The bride's 5-carat wedding ring cost $25,000. The groom's ring cost $15,000.

1990: Canadian singer Paul Anka became a U.S. citizen. While he was being sworn in, police towed away his car.

1991: An electric light glowed for the first time on the Greek island of Delos, the mythical birthplace of Apollo, the god of light. Power arrived on the island via underwater cable from the island of Mykonos.

1992: A 35-year-old man who had received a transplanted baboon liver died at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ten weeks after the surgery.

1993: British music lover Helen Stephens was jailed for a week after neighbors complained she played Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" loudly and constantly for five weeks.

1997: Britain's Princess Diana was buried in the grounds of her family home. The worldwide TV audience for the funeral ceremonies was estimated at over two billion.

1998: Nebraska Governor Ben Nelson proclaimed milk to be the official state beverage. Since Nebraska’s legislature gave the governor power to make official designations, he named the channel cat as the official state fish and Kool-Aid as the state soft drink.

1999: A Rio de Janeiro court ruled that a clothing store had to pay a 23-year-old female law student "moral damages" of $267 after the teeny weeny red bikini it sold her turned see-through when it got wet.

2003: It was a marriage proposal to remember when the young woman said yes standing on the seawall at Saundersfoot, Wales. Then her lover picked up his girlfriend in a romantic embrace, lost his balance, and both plunged into the mud 20 feet below. "It is a beautiful, romantic spot," said one of the coastguard members who rescued the couple, "but they were covered completely in mud."

2003: An Australian man picked up a $2.5 million lottery prize almost a year after winning it. The mechanic in his 40s aid he delayed because he didn't need the money, that his wages were enough to support his lifestyle. He said, after waiting a year, he finally decided to secure the financial future of his children, pay off his home loan, buy a new car and give some money to the Anti-Cancer Council.

2004: Former President Bill Clinton underwent a successful 4-hour quadruple bypass operation at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

2006: A Swiss driver caught speeding in Canada explained that he had been taking advantage of his ability to drive fast without hitting a goat.  The driver was caught traveling 100 mph in a 60 zone in eastern Ontario. The traffic officer's notes said it was the first time he had ever heard of such an excuse, and he had never found a goat on Ontario highways. Police issued the driver a $330 speeding ticket.