On this date in . . .

1948: Florence Hubbard of Chicago won $22,000 in prizes for identifying Jack Benny as "The Walking Man." The l0-week radio promotion raised $1.5-million for the American Heart Association.

1955: A new comedienne made her San Francisco debut at the Purple Onion club. Phyllis Diller was 37 years old.

1959: The Drifters recorded "There Goes My Baby."

1960: The U.S. announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.

1964: The Elvis Presley film "Kissin' Cousins" premiered.

1967: Singer Nelson Eddy died in Miami Beach after suffering a stroke on stage at the Sans Souci Hotel. He made 19 movies including "Naughty Marietta," "I Married An Angel," and the 1943 "Phantom of the Opera."

1976: Britain's EMI Records re-released all 22 Beatles singles plus "Yesterday," which had never been released on a 45 in Britain. All 23 singles entered the British music charts at the same time.

1978: In London the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences paid $10,505 for the skull of philosopher-theologian Emanuel Swedenborg, who died in 1772. It’s history’s most expensive skull (Guinness).

1982: Willie Nelson's "Always On My Mind" entered the pop chart at #88, went on to #5, and won a Grammy as Country Song of the Year. It had been recorded ten years earlier by Elvis Presley.

1986: Hollywood’s Timothy Hutton and Debra Winger were married.

1992: The last episode of "The Cosby Show" aired after eight seasons.

1993: In Maidstone, England, 33 cows were accidentally electrocuted by a faulty milking machine.

1997: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site: royal.gov.uk/

1999: Police in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, arrested a man they say robbed a bank with a taxi waiting outside. The cab driver became suspicious after the man was inside the bank only about a minute, then gave the driver a $50 bill for the $8.00 fare and told him to keep the change.

2002: Brazilian weight-training instructor Edmar Freitas finished sweating his way through 111,000 sit-ups in 24 hours to claim a world record. The previous record, 103,000 sit-ups in 24 hours, was by American Bill Evans. Freitas, who carried out the feat on a stage mounted along a busy street in Curitiba, ate an energy bar and drank coconut milk every hour and was allowed a five minute break every four hours. He averaged about 77 sit-ups a minute.