Oct. 26, 2002.

Fresh off her “American Idol” triumph, Kelly Clarkson and her debut single, “A Moment Like This” had just finished a run atop the Billboard Music Charts; 100,000 people flocked to Washington, D.C., to decry the one-year anniversary of the PATRIOT Act signing and the possibility of war in Iraq; and by scoring three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning, the Anaheim Angels beat preBALCO Barry Bonds and his San Francisco Giants to force a World Series game 7.