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- 06-March-1997, At the age of 115 : Pablo Picasso's ''Tete de Femme'' is stolen from a London gallery (recovered a week later).
- 04-February-1997, At the age of 37 : O.J. Simpson is found liable in civil court for the of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. Simpson is ordered to pay $35,000,000 in damages to the families of the 2 victims.
- 12-February-1994, At the age of 130 : Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" is stolen in Oslo (and is recovered on May 7).
- 17-June-1991, At the age of 206 : U.S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of arsenic is found.
- 15-May-1990, At the age of 137 : ''Portrait of Doctor Gachet'' by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million.
- 28-March-1990, At the age of 76 : U.S. President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
- 25-January-1981, At the age of 87 : Chiang Ching ('Madame Mao') is sentenced to death in the People's Republic of China.
- 02-July-1979, At the age of 159 : The Susan B. Anthony dollar is introduced in the U.S.
- 16-October-1978, At the age of 66 : Pope John Paul II succeeds Pope John Paul I as the 264th pope. He is the first Polish pope in history.
- 25-September-1978, At the age of 165 : Giuseppe Verdi's opera ''Otello'' makes its first appearance on Live from the Met, in a complete production of the opera starring Jon Vickers. This is the first complete television broadcast of the opera in the U.S. since the historic 1948 one.
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