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Figure Skater Nancy Kerrigan Is Attacked (1994)
Shortly before the 1994 Winter Olympics, Kerrigan was clubbed in the knee in an attack that had been planned by the ex-husband of Tonya Harding, one of Kerrigan's rivals for a place on the US Olympic team. Footage of Kerrigan's reaction to the attack was replayed heavily on television, and the story became a media sensation. Despite the injury, Kerrigan won an Olympic silver medal. Harding also performed, but poorly.

Anyone remember Joe Kapp's 449 yard, seven touchdown pass performance in a 52-14 victory from September 28, 1969 against the Colts? Long before the NFL's modern aerial circus, Minnesota's journeyman quarterback lit up Baltimore in an era when defenders could basically mug receivers all the way down the field. Early and often, Kapp spread the ball around and kept the previous year's Super Bowl runner-up on its heels. Gene Washington was the main beneficiary, channeling a pre-Randy Moss with TD scores from 83 and 42 yards. Dave Osborn, Bob Grim, Kent Kramer, John Beasley, and Jim Lindsey also crashed the party with Kapp's cold-blooded connections. Kapp's fireworks that autumn afternoon places him in rarified company--only six other QBs in history have matched the feat. Mighty impressive indeed!😈SKOL VIKINGS!

Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon — which continues to be the record-holder as the album with the most weeks on the Billboard 200 chart — is nearing a milestone 1,000th week on the tally. On the chart dated Jan. 10, the set nabs its 996th nonconsecutive week on the list, as it falls from No. 114 to No. 167.

Those 996 nonconsecutive weeks would be the equivalent of more than 229 months, or more than 19 years, in total.

The Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular weekly basis in March of 1956. The Dark Side of the Moon became the longest-charted album in the history of the list in 1983 and has held the title ever since.


The Dark Side of the Moon was released in 1973, hit No. 1 for one week that April, and contains the band’s first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, “Money,” which reached No. 13. Dark Side became the longest-charted album on the Billboard 200 on the chart dated Oct. 29, 1983. That week, it captured its 491st week on the list, surpassing Johnny Mathis’ long-standing record of 490 weeks with Johnny’s Greatest Hits.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).

The Dark Side of the Moon had a near-constant presence on the Billboard 200 from its debut on the chart on March 17, 1973, through the Oct. 8, 1988, chart. During that 813-week span, the album spent 741 weeks on the list. After the Oct. 8, 1988, chart, the album would depart the ranking until it returned on the Dec. 12, 2009-dated chart, when rules were updated to allow older albums (termed “catalog”) to chart again. From 1991 through the end of 2009, catalog albums were largely disallowed from charting, and the survey included only then-current and recently-released albums.

The albums with the second-and-third-most weeks on the Billboard 200 are Bob Marley and The Wailers’ Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and The Wailers (920 weeks) and Journey’s Greatest Hits (890 weeks). Legend was released in 1984 and spent 113 weeks on the chart in 1984-91, before returning in 2009 after rules changed to allow catalog albums to chart again. Journey’s Greatest Hits was released in 1988 and spent 92 weeks on the chart in 1988-90, returning in 2009. Both have been on the chart almost constantly since their return at the end of 2009.