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1963Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds & given a 1 yr suspended license for speeding
194628th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Portland GC Portland Ore
1968Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf
199696th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
201330th MTV Awards: Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift & Bruno Mars wins
1924Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn
1968Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship
1996Laura Davies wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
1609Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers
1904james j jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1958Tim Burton, Burbank California, American film director (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands)
1930Sean Connery, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (James Bond)
1928Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (61) weds dancer and writer Olga Ivanovna
1941Jazz musician Billie Holiday (26) weds trombonist Jimmy Monroe
1962Retired general Colin Powell (25) weds audiologist Alma Johnson (24) at the First Congregational Church in Birmingham, Alabama
1870German composer Richard Wagner (57) weds Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima Liszt (32) at a Protestant church in Lucerne, Switzerland
2000"Star Trek: The Next Generation" actor Patrick Stewart (60) weds film producer Wendy Neuss (39) in Los Angeles
1749British admiral Samuel Hood (24) weds Susannah Linzee in Portsmouth, England
1688Henry Morgan, English pirate
1984Truman Capote, American author (In Cold Blood), dies of liver cancer at 59
1908Henri Becquerel [Antoine ], French physicist, dies at 55
1776David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (A Treatise of Human Nature), dies of abdominal cancer at 65
1900Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher, dies at 55
2012Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, dies from heart surgery complications at 82
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