1965: A week of rioting triggered by the arrest of a black motorist in the Watts section of Los Angeles leaves 34 people dead and more than 1,000 injured. Nearly 3,800 people are arrested and damage is estimated at $40 milllion.

1977: Elvis Presley, whose singing and style revolutionized popular music in the 1950s, dies after collapsing at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tenn. He was 42. 1984: Former car maker John DeLorean is cleared of all charges against him at his drug-trafficking trial in Los Angeles.

2003: The notorious former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin dies in exile in a Saudi Arabian hospital.

Sources: Associated Press, BBC

U-T QUOTE OF THE DAY

OUR REGION, PAGE B1: “There's no one who feels worse than he does. It's very clear that he lost a partner he was attached to, and he knows it was his fault, and he takes absolute responsibility.”

– William Lansdowne, San Diego police chief, after Officer Paul Hubka was charged in the death of his canine partner, Forrest