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1996 Clay Jones, gardener, dies at 72

1995 James Clay, saxophonist, dies at 59

1992 Andrew "Dice" Clay marries his longtime live-in lover Trinie

1990 Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall Show

1990 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts)

1990 Nora Dunn and Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting

1983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour

1982 Andrew "Dice" Clay and George Wendt appear in "Trick or Treatment"

1979 Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end

1978 Clay Aiken, American Musician

1978 Lucius D Clay, gen/gov U.S. zone W-Germany (airlift), dies at 80

1977 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 Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC

1973 Bill Clay, Yokosuka Japan, U.S. sprint cyclist 1996 Olympics

1973 Clay Williams, WLAF OL for the Amsterdam Admirals

1973 Clay Williams, OL for the Indianapolis Colts

1972 Clay Shiver, corner for the Dallas Cowboys

1971 Marine clay under houses liquefies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Quebec)

1970 Willie Clay, NFL safety, Detroit Lions

1970 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 Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader

1967 Mohammed Ali, Cassius Clay, sentenced to 5 years

1967 Heavyweight Cassius Clay beats Ernie Terrell in Houston

1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London

1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Henry Cooper in London

1966 Andrea Temesvari, born in Budapest, Hungary, tennis star, 1985 U.S. Clay Courts

1965 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas

1964 Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali

1964 Cassius Clay TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for heavyweight boxing title

1964 Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston for the heavyweight boxing title

1961 Clay O'Brien, Ray, Arizona, actor, Weedy-Cowboys

1960 Cassius Clay wins 1st battle as professional boxer

1960 Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal

1957 Andrew "Dice" Clay, [Silverstien], comedian, Adv of Ford Fairlane

1956 Black students enter Clay Kentucky elementary school

1956 Black students enter and are barred from Clay Kentucky elementary school

1956 Clay Matthews, NFL linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons

1942 Otis Clay, U.S. gospel/R&B-singer, That's how it is

1942 Muhammad Ali, heavyweight champ boxer, 1964-7 74-8

1939 E Clay Shaw, Jr., Rep-R-FL, 1981-

1936 Trevor Clay, Gen-Sec, Royal College of Nursing

1935 James Clay, saxophonist

1931 William L [Bill] Clay, Rep-D-MO, 1969-

1930 Henry Clay Folger Jr, CEO (Folger Shakespeare Library), dies at 72

1928 Clay Felker, St. Louis, journalist, New York Herald Tribune, Esquire

1923 Clay Jones, gardener

1922 Annie Oakley sets record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row

1920 Richard Quine, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor and director, Clay Pigeon

1919 Henry Clay Frick, built largest coke and steel operation, dies at 69

1915 Clay Warnick, born in Tacoma, Washington, choral director, Jimmie Rodgers Show

1908 Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay and Montgomery

1897 Lucius du Bignon Clay, U.S., general, WW II, /gov, West Germany

1893 Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)

1884 Henry Clay Work, composer, dies at 51

1882 Jacob Clay, Dutch philospher/phyicist, Mesones

1880 Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters

1873 Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street

1873 1st trial run of San Francisco cable car, Clay Street between Kearny and Jones

1873 Construction begins on Clay St. (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad

1868 Obe Postma, Frisian poet/geography/historian, Frisian Clay Farm

1864 James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union brig-general, dies in battle at 34

1857 Henry Clay Folger, Jr., U.S., businessman/Shakespeare fan

1852 Henry Clay, the great compromiser, dies at 75

1850 Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to U.S. Senate

1849 Henry Clay Frick, Penn, built world's largest coke and steel operation

1848 Post office at Clay and Pike opens

1844 Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate

1839 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"

1832 Henry Clay Work, composer

1829 James Clay Rice, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1864

1826 Green Clay Smith, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1895

1824 Jackson, WH Crawford and H Clay Adams eventually declared president

1816 Clement Claiborne Clay, MC, Confederacy, died in 1882

1810 Cassius Marcellus Clay, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1903

1777 Henry Clay, [the Great Compromiser], U.S. politician



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