In 1992, Earvin Magic Johnson announced he was returning to the Los Angeles Lakers less than a year after he retired because he had the AIDS virus.

In 2003, electricity was restored in Italy after a weekend blackout put 57 million people in the dark.

In 2005, John Roberts Jr. easily won confirmation by the U.S. Senate and was sworn in as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He succeeded the late William Rehnquist.

In 2006, U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., resigned in the wake of revelations he sent inappropriate email messages to an underage former Capitol Hill page.

In 2008, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped almost 778 points, its biggest one-day point decline.

In 2009, an 8-magnitude undersea earthquake and tsunami struck Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, killing about 150 people.

In 2011, a special court in India convicted 269 police officers and others for their roles in a 1992 raid on a small village that resulted in multiple rapes and beatings.

In 2013, Pakistani officials said a car bomb they believed was set off the Taliban killed at least 43 people and injured more than 100 in Peshawar. It was the third deadly strike in the city in a week. The overall death toll for the week was well over 100.

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