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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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