Tiger Woods announced his indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage.
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British physicist Stephen Hawking won the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most profitable academic prize in the world.
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.'
Wall Street film directed by Oliver Stone starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen, was released.
A trial for Huntington's disease procured positive results.
