Rescuers reach the Donner Party, Edison patents the phonograph, the Soviet Union launches the Mir space station, and Fidel Castro resigns as Cuban president, all on this day.
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1981: George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" of The Chiffons' song "He's So Fine" in his own song "My Sweet Lord."