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• In 1973, the Pink Floyd album "The Dark Side of the Moon" was first released in the U.S. by Capitol Records (the British release came nearly two weeks later).
• In 1985, Konstantin U. Chernenko, who was the Soviet Union's leader for just 13 months, died at age 73.
• In 1988, prior to the 50th anniversary of the Anschluss, Austrian President Kurt Waldheim apologized on his country's behalf for atrocities committed by Austrian Nazis. Pop singer Andy Gibb died in Oxford, England, of heart inflammation five days after turning 30.
• In 1993, Dr. David Gunn was shot to death outside a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic. (Shooter Michael Griffin is serving a life sentence.)
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• Ten years ago: Facing almost certain defeat, the United States and Britain delayed a vote in the U.N. Security Council to give Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein an ultimatum to disarm. Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, told a London audience: "Just so you know... we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." (Maines later apologized for the phrasing of her remark.)
• Five years ago: A suicide bomber killed five U.S. soldiers as they chatted with shop owners while on a foot patrol in central Baghdad. New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer apologized after allegations surfaced that he had paid thousands of dollars for a high-end call girl; he did not elaborate on the scandal, which drew calls for his resignation. Democrat Barack Obama ridiculed the idea of being Hillary Rodham Clinton's running mate, saying in Columbus, Miss., that voters had to choose between the two for the top spot on the fall ticket.
• One year ago: Rick Santorum won the Kansas caucuses in a rout and Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney countered in Wyoming. Israel pounded Gaza for a second day, trading airstrikes and rocket fire with Palestinian militants, killing 15 of them. F. Sherwood Rowland, 84, the Nobel prize-winning chemist who sounded the alarm on the thinning of the Earth's ozone layer, died in Corona del Mar, Calif.
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• Today's Birthdays: Talk show host Ralph Emery is 80. Bluegrass/country singer-musician Norman Blake is 75. Actor Chuck Norris is 73. Playwright David Rabe is 73. Singer Dean Torrence (Jan and Dean) is 73. Actor Richard Gant is 69. Actress Katharine Houghton is 68. Rock musician Tom Scholz (Boston) is 66. Former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell is 66. Actress Aloma Wright is 63. Producer-director-writer Paul Haggis is 60. Alt-country/rock musician Gary Louris is 58. Actress Shannon Tweed is 56. Pop/jazz singer Jeanie Bryson is 55. Actress Sharon Stone is 55. Rock musician Gail Greenwood is 53. Magician Lance Burton is 53. Ac

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