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2006Al Michaels joins NBC's "Sunday Night Football" broadcast with Johh Madden
1947Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia
1950Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists
1825House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president
1943FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
1997Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr Pepper National Pro-Am
1985Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks
1940Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1980Rick Barry, Houston, is 1st in NBA to score 8 3-pointers in a game
1861Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of the Confederate States of America (US Civil War)
1970Glenn McGrath, cricketer (NSW & Australian fast bowler 1993-)
1923Brendan Behan, Dublin Ireland, author/poet (Hostage)
1943Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
1773William Henry Harrison, Charles City Virginia, 9th President of the United States (March 4-April 4, 1841)
1957Actor Richard Harris (26) weds socialite Elizabeth Rees (20)
1989NBA power forward Charles Barkley (26) weds legal aide Maureen Blumhardt in Elkton, Maryland
1864Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Clift Bacon
1991Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (42) weds equestrian Madeleine Gurdon (28) in Westminster, London
1906Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio
1881Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), dies at 59
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