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1991 Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins)

1976 Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion

1972 Ton Sijbrands becomes world checker champion

1970 Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession

1962 Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's

1960 Chubby Checker's "Twist," hits #1

1960 Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1

1960 Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"

1959 "Class" by Chubby Checker peaks at #38

1952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech

1950 Stanislas Bizot, French checker player (world champ 1925), dies at 70

1948 Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player

1941 Chubby Checker, Ernest Evans, Philadelphia, rock vocalist, Twist

1936 Hank Ballard, Detroit, rocker, The Twist, pre Chubby Checker

1936 Isidore Weiss, French world checker champion, dies

1924 Piet Roozenburg, World champ checker player, 1948 . . 55

1879 Stanislas Bizot, French world checker champion, 1925


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