Tiger Woods announced his indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage.
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Indiana became the 19th state to join the United States of America.
Time magazine called Susan Sontag 'one of Manhattan's brightest intellectuals' in a review of her groundbreaking essay 'Notes on Camp.'
A trial for Huntington's disease procured positive results.
Wall Street film directed by Oliver Stone starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen, was released.
The first yacht race across the Atlantic Ocean began.