1626: Dutch colonist Paul Minuit buys Manhattan for $24 in trinkets, beginning a centuries'-long tradition of New York real estate swindles.
1950: Liz Taylor's first marriage (to Conrad Hilton Jr.).
1994: Bobcat Goldthwait sets fire to The Tonight Show couch; later claims he unintentionally dropped a match on the exact spot Ed McMahon had been farting into for 30 years.
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