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Coventry


1987 A pair in Coventry, England ties world record for longest singles tennis match at 80 hours 21 minutes

1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor and Coventry were hit in Falkland war

1981 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament

1980 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament

1979 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament

1978 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament

1977 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament

1976 Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic

1973 KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens New York)

1967 Debee Ashby, born in Coventry, England, topless model, There's Girl in My Soup

1963 Laura Davies, Coventry England, LPGA golfer, 1989 Lady Keystone Open

1959 Martin Atkins, born in Coventry, England, Martin Clive Atkins, rocker, musician, worked with post-punk, industrial group Public Image Ltd., Ministry

1955 Hazel O'Connor, Coventry, England, singer and actress, Breaking Glass

1952 Robert Ainsworth, born in Coventry, England, Robert William Ainsworth, politician, Labor Party, 2009, assumed roles of Secretary of State for Defense, since 1992, serves as a Member of Parliament for Coventry North East

1944 Robert Iliffe, English publisher, Coventry Evening Telegraph

1940 During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England

1932 Billie Whitelaw, born in Coventry, England, actress, Omen, Adding Machine

1930 Simon Barrington-Ward, born in England, educated at Eton College, Cambridge, 7th Bishop of Coventry in the Church of England, 1985 - 1997, Bishop with pastoral care, University of Cambridge

1925 51st Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Coventry wins in 1:59

1922 Philip Larkin, born in Coventry, England, writer, North Ship, Jill

1908 Lord Iliffe, English publisher, Coventry Evening Telegraph/Autocar

1897 Dennis King, Coventry England, comedian, Devil's Brother

1847 Ellen Alice Terry, Coventry Engl, actress/director, Imperial Theatre

1823 Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, English poet

1678 Lady Godiva rode naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes

1649 Margaret Coventry, 1st English earl of Shaftesbury, dies


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