While sudden heart attacks during sex are rare, most of them happen to men who are cheating on their wives.
Children will regrow the tip of their finger if it is cut off.
Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has increased 300% in 2013 when compared to the 7 years prior to the U.S. invasion.
An Iraqi installed a remote-controlled paintball gun in his room and connected it to the Internet; he was shot 60,000 times in 30 days and got a severe case of PTSD.
1847 - New York and Boston linked by telegraph wires
1940 - Soviet Army attacks Romania
1973 - John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"
1978 - Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m, 7:32.1
1984 - Emmy 11th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 5th time
1998 - Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.
1809 - Francois de Canrobert, French marshal/parliament member
1880 - Helen Keller, Ala, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many
1918 - Adolph Kiefer, US, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1936)
1963 - Johnny Benson, American NASCAR driver
1971 - Jo Frost, English nanny and television host
1983 - Dale Steyn, South African cricketer
1776 - Thomas Hickey, plan to hand George Washington to British, executed
1785 - Egbert de Free Temminck, Amsterdam regent, dies at 84
1794 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
1973 - Ernest Truex, actor (Pop-Pete and Gladys, Mr Peepers), dies at 73
1989 - Jack Beutel, actor (The Outlaw), dies
2009 - Fayette Pinkney, African American singer (The Three Degrees) (b. 1948)
