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1986
Mike Tyson: The 20-year-old boxer becomes the youngest heavyweight champion ever by beating Trevor Berbick.
1969
First isolation of a single gene: The intestinal bacterium E. Coli is announced by Harvard scientists.
1961
First person to win the Most Valuable Player award for both major baseball leagues: Frank Robinson wins the National League MVP; he went to win it for the American League in 1966. (Source: Famous First Facts)
1955
Elvis Presley signs with RCA. He received $5,000 while his previous agent received $35,000, prompting a Columbia executive to comment "No singer is worth that much."
1950
Lowest scoring game in NBA history, the Fort Wayne Pistons beat the Minneapolis Lakers (19-18).
1927
Snowmobile: Carl J.E. Eliason of Wisconsin receives the first patent for a snow travelling vehicle.
1906
SOS: The radio distress signal is adopted as the call for help by the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
1842
First U.S. volcanic eruption for which the exact date is known: Mt. St. Helens in Washington erupts.
1967
Boris Becker, German tennis player. In 1985, at age 17, he became the youngest player to win the male Wimbledon singles title.
1961
Mariel Hemingway, American actress, Manhattan (1979), Personal Best (1982), and Star 80 (1983). She is the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway.
1958
Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress. Film: Halloween (1978), Trading Places (1983), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), and Blue Steel (1990).
1945
Barbara Anderson, actress. TV: Ironside (Eve Whitfield).
1943
Billie Jean King (Billie Jean Moffitt), American tennis champion, co-founder of WomenSports Magazine (1974). Elton John wrote Philadelphia Freedom (1975) in honor of her team the Philadelphia Freedoms. She defeated former Wimbledon men's champion Bobby Riggs in the 1973 "Battle of the Sexes."
1932
Robert Vaughn, American Emmy-winning actor. TV: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Napoleon Solo) and The A-Team (Gen. Stockwell).
1921
Rodney Dangerfield (Jacob Cohen), American comedian. Film: Caddyshack (1980) and Back to School (1986).
1911 d. 1982
Lee Patrick, American actress. Film: The Maltese Falcon (1941, Sam Spade's secretary).
1901 d. 1977
Roy Crane, American cartoonist, creator of Captain Easy (1929) and Buz Sawyer (1943).
1899 d. 1979
Walter Berndt, American cartoonist, creator of Smitty.
1869 d. 1951
André Gide, French author, winner of Nobel Prize for literature (1947). The Catholic Church placed his works on the Index of Forbidden Books (1952). Quote: The color of truth is gray.
1868 d. 1967
John Nance Garner, 32nd U.S. Vice-President (1933-41).
1992 b. 1905
Sterling Holloway, American actor, voice of Winnie the Pooh, the snake in Jungle Book, and the Cheshire Cat in Disney's Alice in Wonderland.
1992 b. 1903
Charles Brannock, American inventor. He invented (1926) the metal shoe-size measurer used in thousands of shoe stores.
1986 b. 1911
Scatman Crothers (Benjamin Crothers), American actor. TV: Chico and the Man (the garbage man).
1980 b. 1892
Mae West, American actress, "Come up and see me sometime."
1964 b. 1894
Aldous Huxley, British author. Writings: The Doors of Perception (1954, describing his psychedelic drug experiences and from which the music group The Doors took their name).
1963 b. 1917
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th U.S. President (1961-63), the youngest person elected president (43 years old). He was assassinated in Dallas.
1963 b. 1898
C.S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis), British author, Christian apologist. Books: The Allegory of Love (1936), The Screwtape Letters (1942), Out of the Silent Planet (1938), and The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56).
1956 b. 1900
Roy Edward "Dizzy" Carlyle, American baseball player. He hit the longest recorded home run (1929, 618 feet during a minor-league game). (source: Guinness Book of World Records)
1955 b. 1900
Shemp Howard (Samuel Howard), American comic actor, one of the original 3-Stooges.
1939 b. 1890
Walt Hoban, American cartoonist, created Jerry on the Job (1914).
1916 b. 1876
Jack London (John Griffith London), American author. Writings: The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1905).
1900 b. 1842
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, English composer, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame.
1896 b. 1859
George Washington Gale Ferris, American engineer, inventor of the Ferris wheel. It was constructed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. His ride was 250 feet in diameter, took 20 minutes per revolution, and had a capacity of 2,160 people.
1875 b. 1812
Henry Wilson, 18th U.S. Vice-President (1873-75), died in office making Thomas W. Ferry the acting Vice-President.
1783 b. 1721
John Hanson, American statesman, first president of U.S. Congress Assembled (1781-82). Because of this he is sometimes called the first president of the U.S.
1774 b. 1725
Baron Clive of Plassey (Robert Clive), British soldier, founder of the British Indian empire.
1718 b. ????
Blackbeard the Pirate (Edward Teach), English pirate. After serving as a privateer in the War of the Spanish Succession, he turned to a life of crime. He was killed by Lt. Robert Maynard in a hand-to-hand combat.
1316 b. 1316
John I, King of France (1316), posthumous son of King Louis X, he died a week after his birth. It is rumored that his uncle Philip either killed him or substituted him with a dead infant.
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