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2005 The Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for people who committed crimes before age 18

1998 John Glenn returns to space at the age of 77 as a payload specialist on the Discovery

1997 At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history

1996 Hasan Raza makes Test Cricket debut for Pakistan age 14 years 238 days

1996 1st full ODI for the Netherlands, vs. NZ, cricket World Cup Nolan Clarke makes ODI debut for Netherlands at age 47

1995 Chuck Greenberg, new age musician (Shadowfax), dies at 45

1994 Gas explosion at old age home in Milan, 27 killed

1993 George "Spanky" McFarland, child actor (Our Gang), dies at age 65

1991 Helene Heigh, actress (Undercover Woman, Teen Age Thunder), dies at 86

1991 Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18

1989 Aileen Pringle, actress (Age of Consent, Convicted, Night Parade), dies

1989 Tendulkar scores a Test Cricket fifty age 16 years 214 days, a record

1989 Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak vs. NZ age 16 years 189 days

1987 Astrological Harmonic Convergence - Dawn of New Age

1985 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Aust, Sharjah)

1985 1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica vs. Barbados

1984 Test Cricket debut of David Boon age 23 and Bob Holland age 38 (v WI)

1983 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel

1983 India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket

1982 Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts Saturday Night Live

1982 Hasan Raza, cricketer, Test cricketer at the age of 14

1980 Rachael Roberts, actress (This Sporting Life), dies at age 53

1980 Jesse Owens, (Oly-gold-36), dies at the age of 66

1976 Javed Miandad, 206 vs. NZ, age 19 years 141 days (29 fours 1 six)

1975 Modoc, the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal)

1975 One-day international cricket debut, Javed Miandad age 17 years 364 days

1975 Atta-ur-Rehman, cricketer, Pakistani quickie, debut vs. Engl1992 age 17

1974 Arline Judge, actress (Age of Consent), dies at 61

1973 M T Ghani scores 104 on FC debut for Commerce Bank (Pak) age 44

1971 26th amendment certified, reduces voting age to 18

1971 Ohio becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th amendment

1971 Wang Yang, youngest Olympic record breaker at age 17 1988 Olympics

1971 Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18

1970 President Nixon signs 26th amendment, voting age lowered to 18

1970 U.S. lowers voting age from 21 to 18

1962 Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket vs. WI age 21 years 77 days

1960 Paul Humphreys, rock synthesizer, OMD-Crush, Pacific Age

1960 John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years

1959 Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad vs. WI age 15 years 124 days

1955 Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13

1954 Yanni, new age musician, Live at the Acropolis, Sand Dance

1954 Jack Blades, rock bassist, Damn Yankees-Coming of Age, Night Ranger

1953 Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet

1952 John Tesh, born in Garden City, New York, New age pianist/TV host, ET

1950 Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety," premieres in New York City

1948 Albert Innaurato, Philadelphia, playwright/director, Age in Soho

1947 Josh Gibson, Negro League slugger, dies of a brain tumor at age 35

1946 Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities

1946 Bob Holland, cricketer, Australian leg-spinner at age 38

1946 Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M. Schlesinger (Age of Jackson)

1945 Tandy Cronyn, actress, Twisted, Guardian, Age Old Friends

1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided

1942 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18

1941 All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star

1938 Vijay Mehra, cricketer, Indian Test batsman from age 17

1935 H B "Jock" Cameron, South Africa cricket capt (v England 1935, age 30), dies

1935 Phyllis Newman, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, actress, Coming of Age, TW3

1935 John Gross, author, Age of Kipling, Dickens and 20th Century

1934 Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days

1933 Washington Senator coach Nick Altrock plays in a game at age 57

1932 Queensland all out 74 vs. Victoria, Ironmonger (age 50) 7-13

1928 England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21

1928 Christopher Hornsrud chosen PM of Norway at age 101

1927 David Hobman, director, Age Concern England

1923 1st old age pension plans in U.S. established by Montana and Nevada

1920 Belgium starts paying old age pensions

1914 Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66 He made 69

1912 Arline Judge, actress, Girls in Chains, Mad Wednesday, Age of Consent

1908 Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's Last Emperor at age 3

1901 Margaret Mead, born in Philadelphia, anthropologist, Coming of Age in Samoa

1886 Teiichi Igarashi, Japan, climed Mt Fuji at age 99

1884 T Thomas Fortune starts New York Freeman (New York Age) newspaper

1882 Don Blackie, cricketer, Australian off-spinner in 1928-29 yes, age 46

1879 Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track and field record pole-vaulting 11' 2" at age 17 years and 198 days

1878 Friedrich August von Alberti, geologist (Triasic Age), dies at 83

1871 Tom Hayward, cricketer, great England batsman of the Golden Age

1870 Lionel Palairet, cricketer, elegant England bat in the Golden Age

1865 Shigechiyo Izumi, achieved oldest authenticated age, 120 y 237 d

1847 Godefroid Kurth, Belg historian, La cite de Liege au moyen age

1809 Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72

1795 Friedrich [August] von Alberti, German geologist, Triasic Age

1737 Thomas Paine, political essayist, Common Sense, Age of Reason

1676 King Carlos II of Spain becomes of age (at 15)

1651 King Louis XIV of France (13) declarer of full age

1581 James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, gave age to Earth based on bible

1380 King Charles VI of France crowned at age 12



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