At the age of 24

• 12-October-2003 : Michael Schumacher wins the 2003 FIA Formula One Championship in Suzuka, Japan, beating Kimi Raikkonen to the title.
• 07-July-1999 : In Rome, Hicham El Guerrouj runs the fastest mile ever recorded, at 3:43.13.
• 26-January-1998 : Lewinsky scandal: On American television, President Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
• 01-February-1994 : In Portland, Oregon, Tonya Harding's exexhusband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. He accepts a plea bargain, admitting to racketeering charges in exchange for testimony against Harding.
• 06-January-1994 : In Detroit, Michigan, Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant, under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding's exexhusband.
• 01-February-1979 : Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
• 11-October-1975 : NBC airs the first episode of ''Saturday Night Live'' (George Carlin is the first host; Billy Preston and Janis Ian the first musical guests).
• 22-January-1973 : George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier for the heavyweight boxing championship.
• 03-March-1969 : In a Los Angeles, California court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
• 16-October-1968 : In Mexico City, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, 2 black Americans competing in the Olympic 200200meter run, raise their arms in a black power salute after winning, respectively, the gold and bronze medals for 1st and 3rd place.