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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 U.S. accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks 1989 Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 minutes 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 home run in a game, one goes 502 feet 1959 USAF Captain Joe B. Jordan reaches 103,395 feet in F-104 jet fighter 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 1947 Rob Davis, born in Carshalton, England, musician, guitarist, songwriter, song 'Tiger Feet' for glam rock band Mud top record of the United Kingdom in 1974 1944 RAF Sergeant 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 1940 Clem Curtis, born in Trinidad, singer, lead vocalist for The Foundations, a British soul group, including hits, 'Baby Now That I've Found You', 'Back On My Feet Again', 'Any Old Time' 1939 Thomas McGuane, U.S., writer, Colf Feet, Tom Horn, Missouri Breaks 1937 Josh Gibson home run 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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