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1996 Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas and Alabama)

1995 Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados, dies at 79

1995 Dame Pattie Maie Menzies, Australian, dies at 96

1995 Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies

1990 Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss writer (Besuch der alten Dame), dies at 69

1990 Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC)

1989 Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship

1987 53rd Heisman Trophy Award: Tim Brown, Notre Dame (WR)

1986 James H "Jim" Crowley, U.S. football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83

1983 Notre Dame's Gil Fenerty rushes for 337 yards and 6 touchdowns

1981 Georgia beats Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl for college football title

1975 Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor, dies in fire at 72

1974 Notre Dame beats UCLA, ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak

1973 40th Sugar Bowl: Notre Dame 24 beats Alabama 23

1973 Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died

1973 Frank Leahy, football coach (Notre Dame), dies at 64

1971 UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row

1967 Intrepid (U.S.) beats Dame Pattie (Australia) in 21st America's Cup

1964 30th Heisman Trophy Award: John Huarte, Notre Dame (quarterback)

1962 Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63

1959 AFL's 1st draft - New York Titans choice George Izo, quarterback, Notre Dame

1957 Okla's NCAA win streak ends at 47 after losing to Notre Dame 7-0

1956 22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (quarterback)

1956 Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Der Besuch der Alten Dame," premieres in Zurich

1953 19th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lattner, Notre Dame (HB)

1949 15th Heisman Trophy Award: Leon Hart, Notre Dame (E)

1947 13th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lujack, Notre Dame (quarterback)

1947 "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" closes at Century Theater New York City after 60 performances

1946 "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" opens at Century Theater New York City for 60 performances

1945 College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0

1944 France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame

1943 9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (quarterback)

1936 Marion Roe, born in London, Dame Marion Audrey Roe, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Broxbourne from 1983 until 2005

1936 Dame Clara Butt, alto singer (Country of Hope and Glory), dies at 62

1934 Dame Anne Poole, chief nursing officer, Department of Health

1934 Barry Humphries, Australia TV host, Dame Edna Everage

1930 New York Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game

1928 Notre Dame finally lost a football game after nearly 25 years

1927 Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green

1924 Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, New York Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen)

1923 Ara Parseghian, football coach, Northwestern, Notre Dame

1917 Theodore Hesburgh, Syracuse, New York, president, Notre Dame

1916 Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados

1914 Dame Alicia Markova, ballerina, Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1925-32

1913 Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively

1910 Dame Markova, Alicia Lilian Alice Marks, London, ballerina

1908 Frank Leahy, O'Neill Nebraska, football coach, Notre Dame

1903 Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, crystallographer, 1st woman in Royal Society

1902 Opera "Hunchback of Notre Dame," premieres in Monte Carlo

1901 Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast

1899 Pattie Maie Menzies, Australian dame

1895 George "The Gipper" Gipp, football star, Notre Dame

1891 Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Britian, actress, Cleopatra

1888 Knute Rockne, Norwegian/U.S. football player and coach, Notre Dame

1887 Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan

1879 Walter Hampden, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Five Fingers, Hunchback of Notre Dame

1878 Ernest Torrence, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, actor, Hunchback of Notre Dame

1872 W T van der Kouwen-ten Cate, Hague's Dame, murdered by Henry Jut

1862 Georges Feydeau, French playwright, La Dame de Chez Maxim's

1852 Alexandre Dumas Jr's "Le Dame aux Camelias," premieres in Paris

1845 Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle, dr, found Notre Dame Hosp Montreal

1844 University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana

1812 Paul Abadie, French master builder, renovated Notre Dame

1802 Victor Hugo, born in France, author, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables

1789 Armand-Louis Couperin, French composer/organist (Notre Dame), dies at 63

1725 Armand-Louis Couperin, Paris, France, organist/composer, Notre Dame


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