Something astoundingly huge in a distant region of space is attracting whole galaxies towards it. Known as “The Great Attractor”, it must be monumental in size to generate such a gravitational pull; in fact, many physicists argue that it is physically impossible for such a massive object to exist at all.
For eight years, a 23-year-old British man was trapped in constant deja vu. The man’s condition was so persistent he avoided watching television, listening to the radio and reading newspapers because he felt he had “encountered it all before”. He once went to get a haircut. As he walked in, he got a feeling of deja vu. Then he had deja vu of the deja vu. He couldn’t think of anything else.
An undercover cop got a straight A high school student to fall in love with her, and then made him find her weed. He was then arrested and expelled.
In an international study that looked at age and happiness, people were their unhappiest at 46 years old.
Some hotels have sensors in the mini-bar that automatically charge you if an item is moved, even if you never intended to consume it
1957 - FBI arrests Jack and Myra Sobel, charged with spying for USSR
1961 - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released
1971 - WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting
1988 - 15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon and Whitney Houston
1990 - Around 39 people, among them children, as a storm hits England
1993 - Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales dept after 97 years
1750 - Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer
1903 - "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker
1950 - Gloria Naylor, US author (Women of Brewster Place)
1953 - Malcolm Green, rocker (Split Enz-I Got You)
1969 - Nolan Harrison, NFL defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders, Pitt Steelers)
1974 - Robert Budreau, Canadian film director
1726 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
1852 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)
1992 - Mahmoud Riad, sec-gen of Arab League (1972-79), dies
1995 - Tom Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Brave Dodo), dies at 62
1996 - Jonathan Larson, composer, dead Aortic aneurysm at 35
2005 - William Augustus Bootle, American judge (b. 1902)
