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19945th Billboard Music Awards: Ace of Base & Mariah Carey win
1929Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament
1877Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph (gramophone) to the editors of "Scientific American"
1939Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1993Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery
1808James Madison elected 4th US President and George Clinton Vice-President
1975Pat Bradley wins Colgate-Far East Ladies Tournament Golf Tournament
1929Bradman scores 124 for Woodfull's XI against Ryder's XI 166 mins
1990Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
1988Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
1761Madame [Marie Grosholtz] Tussaud, Strasbourg, France, created wax museum, (d. 1850)
1956Larry Bird, West Baden, Indiana, NBA star (Boston Celtics, 12-time NBA All Star)
1947Johnny Bench, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, MLB catcher (Reds)
1928Noam Chomsky, linguist (founded transformational grammar)
1929Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (52) weds Andrée Joséphine Carron in Aix-les-Bains, France
2003Queen of hip-hop soul, Mary Jane Blige (32) weds record producer Kendu Isaacs in Bergen County, New Jersey
1902Thomas Nast, US political cartoonist, dies aged 62
1970Rube Goldberg, US cartoonist (Mike & Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87
2011Harry Morgan, American actor (Colonel Potter-M*A*S*H) dies at 96
43 BCCicero, Roman politician and orator, killed as part of the proscriptions at 63
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