TODAY IN HISTORY

In 1973, a bank robbery-turned-hostage-taking began in Stockholm, Sweden. By the time the standoff ended, the four hostages had come to empathize with their captors, a psychological condition now referred to as “Stockholm Syndrome.”

In 2000, Richard Hatch, one of 16 contestants dropped onto an isolated island off Borneo in the South China Sea, won the grand prize of $1 million U.S. in the first edition of the hit television series “Survivor.” He was convicted in 2006 for not paying taxes on the prize money.

In 2001, newspaper baron Conrad Black sold his remaining 50 per cent stake in the “National Post,” the splashy broadsheet he founded almost three years earlier, to media conglomerate Can West Global Communications Corp. He stepped down as publisher on Sept. 1.