(1983) Gordon Sumner on his nickname -  which came at the age of 17 by a player who worked with him in a jazz band:  “I used to wear this outrageous black-and-yellow sweater. This trombone player thought I looked like a wasp. So he started to call me sting. The trumpet player called me Sting the next night, and then the drummer did it. Soon the whole band was calling me Sting. It really caught on after that.”

A Denver jury awards $5.9 million to Willow Lynn Cramlet who sued Phil Donahue’s production company for refusing to divulge the whereabouts of her former husband and her young son after Donahue interviewed the man about child snatching. A spokesman for the production company, Multimedia, said they were shocked. Members of Donahue’s staff disguised her former husband, Wayne Anderson so that he would not be recognized on the show, arranged a hotel room for him under an alias, mutilated his airplane ticket to eliminate the name of the city he came from, cared for him during the taping and laundered through a staff member’s personal bank account for expense money for Anderson. Cramlet saw the show, and despite the disguise, recognized him.