On this day: Sonny pulls a "Sonny"

In 1998, a week after Michael Kennedy died while skiing, Sonny Bono did the same thing. Bono had shown up in the news some starting in the mid-1960s, and moreso in the 1980s and 1990s when he moved from music to politics. Still, relevance jumped up following his death in 1998, although it's subsided some since.