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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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