1966 Event Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator" 1941 Birthday Robert Forster, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Lady in Red, Alligator 1905 Birthday Jean-Rene Lacoste, born in France, U.S. Open, 1926, alligator shirt designer 1890 Event Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny 1843 Event An alligator falls from sky during a Charleston South Carolina thunderstorm
