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• In 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov went outside his Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by a tether.
• In 1980, Frank Gotti, the 12-year-old youngest son of mobster John Gotti, was struck and killed by a car driven by John Favara, a neighbor in Queens, N.Y. (The following July, Favara vanished, the apparent victim of a gang hit.)
• In 1990, thieves made off with 13 works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (the crime remains unsolved).
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• Ten years ago: Addressing thousands of soldiers at Fort Campbell, Ky., President George W. Bush warned that terrorists could never be appeased and said there was no safety for any nation that "lives at the mercy of gangsters and mass murderers." Overruling its staff, the Federal Communications Commission declared that an expletive (the "F-word") uttered by rock star Bono (BAH'-noh) on NBC the previous year was both indecent and profane. (The commissioners did not propose a fine for Bono's expletive during the 2003 Golden Globe Awards.)
• Five years ago: Under intense pressure from the Obama administration and Congress, the head of bailed-out insurance giant AIG, Edward Liddy, told Congress that some of the firm's executives had begun returning all or part of bonuses totaling $165 million. Tony-winning actress Natasha Richardson, 45, died at a New York hospital two days after suffering a head injury while skiing in Canada.
• One year ago: A plan to seize up to 10 percent of savings accounts in Cyprus to help pay for a massive financial bailout was met with fury. (That proposal was rejected by the Cypriot parliament; authorities ended up seizing large portions of uninsured savings in the country's two largest banks and imposing capital controls.) A mortar shell explosion killed seven Marines from Camp Lejeune and injured eight other people during mountain warfare training at Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada.
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• Today's Birthdays: Composer John Kander is 87. Country singer Charley Pride is 80. Nobel peace laureate and former South African president F.W. de Klerk is 78. Country singer Margie Bowes is 73. Actor Kevin Dobson is 71. Actor Brad Dourif is 64. Jazz musician Bill Frisell is 63. Singer Irene Cara is 55. Movie writer-director Luc Besson is 55. Actor Geoffrey Owens is 53. Actor Thomas Ian Griffith is 52. Singer-songwriter James McMurtry is 52. Singer-actress Vanessa L. Williams is 51. Olympic gold medal speedskater Bonnie Blair is 50. Country musician Scott Saunders (Sons of the Desert) is 50. Actor David Cubitt is 49. Rock musician Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains) is 48. Rock singer-musician Miki Berenyi (ber-EN'-ee) is 47. Actor Michael Bergin is 45. Rapper-actress-talk show host Queen Latifah is 44. Republi

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