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1996 Death - Clay Jones, horticulturalist, broadcaster, Chairman of the program Gardener's Question Time on BBC Radio 4, voted tenth alongside Carol Klein as the nation's all-time favorite gardener, dies at 72
1994 Death - James Clay, saxophonist, flutist, hard bop jazz music genre, style influenced by Sonny Rollins, dies at 59 in Dallas, Texas 1992 Event - Andrew "Dice" Clay marries his longtime live-in lover Trinie 1990 Event - Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall Show 1990 Event - 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts) 1990 Event - Nora Dunn and Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting 1983 Event - Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour 1982 Event - Andrew "Dice" Clay and George Wendt appear in "Trick or Treatment" 1979 Event - Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end 1978 Birthday - Clay Aiken, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, singer, appeared on 'American Idol' television show, debut album, 'Measure of a Man' went multi-platinum 1978 Death - Lucius D. Clay, general and Governor U.S. zone W-Germany (airlift), dies at 80 1977 Event - Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2 1975 Event - Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC 1973 Birthday - Bill Clay, Yokosuka Japan, U.S. sprint cyclist 1996 Olympics 1973 Birthday - Clay Williams, WLAF OL for the Amsterdam Admirals 1973 Birthday - Clay Williams, OL for the Indianapolis Colts 1972 Birthday - Clay Shiver, corner for the Dallas Cowboys 1971 Event - Marine clay under houses liquefies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Quebec) 1970 Birthday - Willie Clay, NFL safety, Detroit Lions 1970 Event - Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for 8 inn, but is lifted for a pinch hitter, Reliever Jack Baldschun gives up 3 hits and Padres lose, 3-0 1967 Event - Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader 1967 Event - Mohammed Ali, Cassius Clay, sentenced to 5 years 1967 Event - Heavyweight Cassius Clay beats Ernie Terrell in Houston 1966 Event - Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London 1966 Event - Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Henry Cooper in London 1966 Birthday - Andrea Temesvari, born in Budapest, Hungary, tennis star, 1985 U.S. Clay Courts 1965 Event - Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas 1964 Event - Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali 1964 Event - Cassius Clay TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for heavyweight boxing title 1964 Event - Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston for the heavyweight boxing title 1961 Birthday - Clay O'Brien, Ray, Arizona, actor, Weedy-Cowboys 1960 Event - Cassius Clay wins 1st battle as professional boxer 1960 Event - Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal 1957 Birthday - Andrew "Dice" Clay, Silverstien, comedian, Adv of Ford Fairlane 1956 Event - Black students enter Clay Kentucky elementary school 1956 Event - Black students enter and are barred from Clay Kentucky elementary school 1956 Birthday - Clay Matthews, NFL linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons 1942 Birthday - Otis Clay, U.S. gospel/R&B-singer, That's how it is 1939 Birthday - E. Clay Shaw, Jr., born in Miami, Florida, Representative-R-Florida 1981 - 2007 1936 Birthday - Trevor Clay, General-Secretary, Royal College of Nursing 1935 Birthday - James Clay, born in Dallas, Texas, saxophonist, flutist, hard bop jazz music genre, style influenced by Sonny Rollins 1931 Birthday - Bill Clay, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Representative-D-Missouri 1969 - 2001 1930 Death - Henry Clay Folger, Jr., CEO (Folger Shakespeare Library), dies at 72 1928 Birthday - Clay Felker, St. Louis, journalist, New York Herald Tribune, Esquire 1923 Birthday - Clay Jones, born in England, horticulturalist, broadcaster, Chairman of the program Gardener's Question Time on BBC Radio 4, voted tenth alongside Carol Klein as the nation's all-time favorite gardener 1922 Event - Annie Oakley sets record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row 1920 Birthday - Richard Quine, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor and director, Clay Pigeon 1919 Death - Henry Clay Frick, built largest coke and steel operation, dies at 69 1915 Birthday - Clay Warnick, born in Tacoma, Washington, choral director, Jimmie Rodgers Show 1908 Event - Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay and Montgomery 1897 Birthday - Lucius du Bignon Clay, U.S., general, WW II, gov, West Germany 1893 Event - Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway) 1884 Death - Henry Clay Work, composer, dies at 51 1882 Birthday - Jacob Clay, Dutch philospher/phyicist, Mesones 1880 Event - Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters 1873 Event - Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street 1873 Event - 1st trial run of San Francisco cable car, Clay Street between Kearny and Jones 1873 Event - Construction begins on Clay St. (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad 1868 Birthday - Obe Postma, Frisian poet/geography/historian, Frisian Clay Farm 1864 Death - James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 34 1857 Birthday - Henry Clay Folger, Jr., U.S., businessman/Shakespeare fan 1852 Death - Henry Clay, the great compromiser, dies at 75 1850 Event - Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to U.S. Senate 1849 Birthday - Henry Clay Frick, Penn, built world's largest coke and steel operation 1848 Event - Post office at Clay and Pike opens 1844 Event - Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate 1839 Event - Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president" 1832 Birthday - Henry Clay Work, composer 1829 Birthday - James Clay Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday - Green Clay Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Event - Jackson, WH Crawford and H Clay Adams eventually declared president 1816 Birthday - Clement Claiborne Clay, MC, Confederacy 1810 Birthday - Cassius Marcellus Clay, Major General Union volunteers 1777 Birthday - Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser, U.S. politician |
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