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1992 Actress Peg Phillips (Northern Exposure), falls and breaks 3 fingers

1992 Tom Seaver, R Fingers, Hal Newhouser, and B McGowan enter Hall of Fame

1992 Jeff Reardon breaks Rollie Fingers' save record with #342

1992 Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame

1988 Braves Bruce Sutter joins Fingers and Gossage to save 300 games

1985 Brewers release 39-year-old pitcher Rollie Fingers

1982 Rollie Fingers (Brewers) becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300

1981 Rollie Fingers is 1st relief pitcher to win AL MVP

1981 Brewers reliever Rollie Fingers wins AL Cy Young Award

1976 1st mass-market free-agent reentry draft, Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi, Gullett, Tenace, Fingers, Baylor, Grich and McCovey, available

1976 Bowie Kuhn voids A's sales, totaling $35 million, of Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers to Red Sox, and Vida Blue to Yankees

1975 Oakland A's Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Linblad and Rollie Fingers, no-hits California Angels 5-0

1956 Johnny Fingers, rocker, Boomtown Rats

1955 Walter Hampden, actor (Sabrina, 5 Fingers, Vagabond King), dies at 75

1954 Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda, Bx, New York, Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It

1951 Tisa Farrow, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Zombie, Fingers, Grim Reaper

1951 Gwen Welles, born in New York City, actress, Desert Hearts, Sticky Fingers

1946 Rollie Fingers, relief pitcher, Oakland Athletics, MVP/Cy Young-1981

1931 Lucianna Paluzzi, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Five Fingers, Thunderball

1904 Peter Lorre, Hungarian American, actor, M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers

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

1872 "3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village


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