Five years ago: The United States pounded terrorist targets in Afghanistan from the air for a second night. An SAS airliner taking off from Milan, Italy, hit a private jet, careened into an airport building and exploded, killing 118 people. Seventeen Virginians were killed when a dive boat capsized during a hurricane in Belize. American Leland H. Hartwell and Britons R. Timothy Hunt and Paul M. Nurse won the Nobel Prize in medicine. Radio commentator Rush Limbaugh told listeners he was virtually deaf (Limbaugh later had an electronic device implanted in his skull that restored much of his hearing).

Ah, so THAT explains his pain pill episode!