1991 Event Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins) 1976 Event Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion 1972 Event Ton Sijbrands becomes world checker champion 1970 Event Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession 1962 Event Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's 1960 Event Chubby Checker's "Twist," hits #1 1960 Event Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1 1960 Event Chubby Checker releases "The Twist" 1959 Event "Class" by Chubby Checker peaks at #38 1952 Event Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech 1950 Death Stanislas Bizot, French checker player (world champ 1925), dies at 70 1948 Event Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player 1941 Birthday Chubby Checker, Ernest Evans, Philadelphia, rock vocalist, Twist 1936 Birthday Hank Ballard, Detroit, rocker, The Twist, pre Chubby Checker 1936 Death Isidore Weiss, French world checker champion, dies 1924 Birthday Piet Roozenburg, World champ checker player, 1948 . . 55 1879 Birthday Stanislas Bizot, French world checker champion, 1925
