2012 Event A Beijing court announces it will hear artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, held and gagged on tax evasion charges by the People's Republic of China 2004 Event Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Cara Black and Rennae Stubbs beat Ai Sugiyama and Liezel Huber 2003 Event Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Kim Clijsters and Ai Sugiyama beat Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suarez 2001 Event Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs beat Kim Clijsters and Ai Sugiyama 2000 Event Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Julie Halard-Decugis and Ai Sugiyama beat Venus Williams and Serena Williams 1996 Death Ai Qing, modern Chinese poet, dies at 86 1989 Event Pat Bradley wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic 1988 Event Nancy Lopez wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic 1975 Birthday Ai Sugiyama, born in Tokyo, Japan, tennis star 1961 Death Blaise Cendrars, Swiss/French poet (J'ai tue), dies at 73 1910 Birthday Ai Qing, born in Eastern China, modern Chinese poet, original name Jiang Zheng Han, influenced by Kant and Hegel, modern poet Mayakovsky and Belgian poet Verhaeren 1859 Birthday Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general/president/dictator 976 Death T'ai tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty, dies
