MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2015: American baseball player, manager, and coach Yogi Berra, who won a record 10 World Series while a catcher with the New York Yankees and was known for his unintentionally amusing non sequiters, died at age 90. [Take our baseball quiz.]

2002: Hundreds of thousands of rural protesters converged on London to demonstrate in favour of foxhunting, which two years later the House of Commons banned in England and Wales. [ Sort fact from fiction in our English culture and customs quiz.]

1999: The dramatic series The West Wing, which was created by Aaron Sorkin, debuted on American television; it enjoyed high ratings with its depiction of the inner workings of the administration of a fictional U.S. president. [ Test your knowledge of pop culture.]

1994: The first episode of Friends aired on NBC, and the show became one of the most popular sitcoms in the United States. [Read about 10 of the best American sitcoms, including Friends.]

1958: Italian opera tenor Andrea Bocelli, who was noted for his unique blend of opera and pop music, was born. [Test your knowledge of opera.]

1922: Chinese-born American theoretical physicist Chen Ning Yang, corecipient with Tsung-Dao Lee of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957, was born. [ Take our quiz about the Nobel Prize.]