1976 Birthday Chester Bennington, American Musician 1963 Birthday Cindy Gibb, Bennington Vt, actress, Search for Tomorrow, Youngblood 1960 Birthday Bret Erickson, Bennington Nebraska, U.S. trap 1996 Olympics 1956 Event Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103 1926 Birthday Carleton Carpenter, born in Bennington, Vermont, actor, Up Periscope, Summer Stock 1777 Event Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
