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2000 Beah Richards, actress, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, dies at 74

1996 New York Yankees set record by coming back from 6-0 in World Series game to beat Atlanta Braves 8-6, also set record of 7th straight road win

1992 Mike Frankovich, U.S. producer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies

1990 Hope Sansberry, actress (Rats are Coming), dies at 94

1987 James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism), dies at 81

1980 Paul McCartney releases "Coming Up"

1973 Cecil Kellaway, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies at 78

1971 Stevie Wonder releases "Where I'm Coming From"

1966 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"

1965 Sidney Marion, actor (Outlaws is Coming, Quicksand), dies at 64

1955 Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, born in Hokkaido, Japan, sumo wrestler, 58th yokozuna, greatest, highest ranked sumo in recent times, won 31 tournament championships, coming in second to Taiho, noted as lightest yokozuna since Tochinoumi in the 1960's, head coach for Kokonoe stable

1955 Arsenio Hall, comedian, Alan Thicke, Arsenio, Coming to America

1947 Laura Nyro, Bronx, singer and songwriter, Eli's Coming, Stoney End

1945 Katharine Houghton, born in Hartford, actress, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

1941 Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout

1939 John Amos, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Good Times, Coming to America

1939 Luther Allison, Mayflower, Arkansas, rock guitarist, Bad News is Coming

1938 Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message "No war coming"

1936 Bruce Dern, Winnetka, Illinois, actor, Coming Home, Silent Running, Tatoo

1935 Phyllis Newman, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, actress, Coming of Age, TW3

1935 Tony Campolo, born in America, pastor, speaker, author, promotes evangelical reform, leader, 'Red Letter Christian' movement, focusing on Christ's teachings, wrote, 'A Reasonable Faith', known for famous sermon, 'It's Friday, But Sunday's Coming!'

1932 Johnny Cash, born in Kingsland, Arkansas, country singer, I Hear the Train Coming

1932 Charlie Conacher becomes 1st Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game, 1st coming at 7 seconds of game

1924 Theodore Bikel, Austrian/US folk singer and actor, Russians Are Coming

1920 Hubert Lampo, Flemish writer/essayist, Coming of Joachim Stiller

1912 Socialist International rejects that world war is coming

1905 James Burnham, philosopher, Coming Defeat of Communism

1901 Margaret Mead, born in Philadelphia, anthropologist, Coming of Age in Samoa

1775 Paul Revere and William Dawes warn "British are coming!"

1735 Paul Revere, silversmith and U.S. patriot, 'The British are coming'


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