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2003
Kellie Waymire, actress, Six Feet Under, dies at 35
1994
Cbox is 39'115 long, 20'85 wide, and 8' high in Jacksonville, Florida Largest popcorn container is 6,619.76 cubic feet full of popped corn
1991
Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude
1990
US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks
1989
Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 mins in Nepal at 21,030 feet
1989
Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet
1987
National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)
1986
NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance)
1967
Phillip and Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
1967
Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
1964
10th time Mantle switch-hits HR in a game, one goes 502 feet
1958
Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain
1958
Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line
1950
Indians' Luke Easter hits longest ball in Cleveland Stadium history, 477 feet, into upper deck, Section 4
1945
Mike Corby, born in London, guitarist, Babys-Back on My Feet Again
1944
RAF Sgt Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute
1943
Richard T Ely, U.S. economist (Ground under our feet), dies
1939
Thomas McGuane, U.S., writer, Colf Feet, Tom Horn, Missouri Breaks
1937
Josh Gibson HR's just 2 feet below rim of Yankee Stadium, 580' drive
1935
Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over SD
1933
2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
1927
Hermann Gorner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with soles of his feet
1927
1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
1923
Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City
1919
Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast
1902
China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet
1901
Cornelis J Kelk, Dutch writer, Dance of Young Feet
1310
Shoes were made for both right and left feet
783
Bertha "with the great feet", wife of French king Pippin III, dies
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