1943 – Dutch SS police chief Hans Albin Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
1958 – 20th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle, 84-72; Seattle’s future Hall of Fame small forward Elgin Baylor is named tournament MOP
1972 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP
1981 – Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
1984 – Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL record scores 5 seconds into game
1989 – US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate
1996 – Cheryl Depew of Florida crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International
2011 – Lawrence Taylor pleads guilty for misdemeanors of sexual misconduct and is sentenced to six years probation
2012 – Ireland returns to recession as GDP falls by 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2011 following a fall of 1.1% in the third quarter
2014 – Guinea confirms Ebola outbreak has already killed 59 people