A notorious pirate is captured and killed, RCA Victor buys Elvis' contract from Sun Records, the nation mourns a president, The Beatles release "The White Album," and "Toy Story" premieres, all on this day.
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1998: The TV news magazine "60 Minutes" airs a tape of Jack Kevorkian giving lethal drugs in a September 1998 assisted suicide of a terminally ill patient. Kevorkian would later be sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder for the incident, but would be paroled for good behavior on June 1, 2007, after serving eight years and two-and-a-half months in prison.