It was on this date in 1790 that the Supreme Court of the United States convened for its first session in New York City with Chief Justice John Jay presiding. The court originally had only six members.

How long has car insurance been around? Since 1898, when, on this date, the Travelers Insurance Co. issued the first car insurance policy. It protected one's motor vehicle against accidents with horses.

A red-letter date in the eventual end of apartheid in South Africa: in 1991, South African President F.W. De Klerk announced he would seek repeal of key laws on which the government's system of racial discrimination was based.

One of the principles in the knee-bashing attack on U.S. figure skater Nancy Kerrigan pleaded guilty on this date in 1994. Jeff Gillooly was the former husband of Kerrigan's rival, Tonya Harding. The month before, she'd won the women's crown in the U.S Figure Skating Championships after the injured Kerrigan was unable to perform. However, officials sent both Harding and Kerrigan to the winter Olympics - and Kerrigan won the silver medal. Harding later admitted knowing in advance about the plot against Kerrigan and was banned from competitive skating for life.

And it was on this date in 1964 that the governor of Indiana declared "Louie, Louie" by the Kingsmen to be pornographic -- even though he admitted he couldn't understand the song's lyrics. But he said the song "made his ears tingle."

We now return you to the present, already in progress.