This Day In History

Travel back in time to this day in history

1956 - The city of Cleveland invoked a 1931 law that barred people under the age of 18 from dancing in public without an adult guardian.

1981 - Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Britain's Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer.

1992 - Wayne's World opened in U.S. theaters.

1992 - Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love were married.

1999 - Prince filed a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit against nine websites, which he claimed were selling bootlegs and unauthorized downloads of his music.

2008 - Cuba's parliament named Raul Castro president, ending nearly 50 years of rule by his brother, Fidel.

2010 – A Los Angeles coroner determined that the drugs found in actress Brittany Murphy’s system were those to treat a cold or respiratory infection. The actress was found dead in her Hollywood Hills home on December 20

2014 - Amanda Bynes' attorney entered a no-contest plea on her behalf to a charge of reckless driving in connection with an April 2012 incident in which the actress crashed into a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy's cruiser. She was sentenced to three years' probation, among other things.