1973 Owners of American League baseball teams voted to adopt the designated-hitter rule.
1990 - Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229)
1991 - Ric Flair wins NWA/WCW wrestling title (WOOO!!!)
2003 Calling the death penalty process "arbitrary and capricious, and therefore immoral," Illinois Gov. George Ryan commuted the sentences of 167 condemned inmates, clearing his state's death row two days before leaving office.
2006 A Georgian court convicted a man of trying to assassinate President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in 2005 with a grenade in Tbilisi and sentenced him to life in prison.
2007 English soccer star David Beckham announced a five-year deal to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy.
2008 Former Olympic track gold medalist Marion Jones was sentenced to six months in prison for lying to investigators about using performance-enhancing drugs and her role in a check-fraud scam.
2008 Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to conquer Mount Everest, died at age 88.
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