At the age of 37

• 04-February-1997 : 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.
• 05-May-1978 : Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets his 3,000th major league hit.
• 10-November-1975 : The 729729footfootlong freighter ''SS Edmund Fitzgerald'' sinks during a storm 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board (an event immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot).
• 25-January-1973 : English actor Derren Nesbitt is convicted of assaulting his wife Anne Aubrey.
• 06-June-1971 : Soyuz program: ''Soyuz 11'' (Vladislav Volkov, Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev) is launched.
• 01-January-1969 : Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper, ''The News of the World''.
• 05-August-1966 : Martin Luther King Jr. leads a civil rights march in Chicago, during which he is struck by a rock thrown from an angry white mob.
• 16-May-1966 : In New York City, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. makes his first public speech on the Vietnam War.
• 05-May-1961 : Mercury program: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3.
• 22-January-1953 : ''The Crucible'', a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway.