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1997 Event - 79th PGA Championship: Davis Love III shoots a 269 at Winged Foot GC

1997 Event - 4-1, Mark McGwire his a 538 foot home run

1989 Death - Ray McAnally, actor (My Left Foot, Empire State), dies in Dublin at 63

1984 Event - 84th U.S. Golf Open: Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a 276 at Winged Foot Golf Club New York

1981 Event - Mariners manager Maury Wills is suspended for 2 games after ordering Seattle's grounds crew to enlarge batter's boxes by one foot

1980 Event - Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours

1977 Death - Allison Hayes, actress (Attack of 50 Foot Woman), dies at 47

1974 Event - 74th U.S. Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 287 at Winged Foot Golf Club New York

1965 Event - 630 foot high Gateway Arch completed in St. Louis

1959 Event - 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis

1959 Event - 59th U.S. Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot Golf Club New York

1958 Birthday - Daniel Day-Lewis, born in England, actor, Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot

1946 Event - Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck's right foot is amputated

1945 Birthday - Brenda Fricker, Dublin Ireland, actress, My Left Foot

1944 Event - Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory

1941 Event - H Martin/R Blanes musical "Best Foot Forward," premieres in New York City

1933 Event - 112 foot ocean wave observed near Manila

1932 Birthday - Christy Brown, born in Dublin, novelist, My Left Foot, Down All the Days

1930 Event - University of California dedicates $1,500 to research on prevention and cure of athlete's foot

1930 Birthday - Allison Hayes, Washington, actress, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

1929 Event - New York to San Francisco foot race ends (2 months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde

1929 Event - 33rd U.S. Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY

1926 Event - "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Gene Austin hits #1

1926 Birthday - Ray McAnally, born in Ireland, actor, My Left Foot, Empire State, Sicilian

1913 Birthday - Michael Foot, born Plymouth, England, born Michael Mackintosh Foot, writer, politician, Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition

1907 Event - Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Foot Ball

1898 Event - San Francisco Ferry Building at foot of Market St. opens

1897 Event - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot"

1890 Death - Big Foot, Sioux indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee

1886 Birthday - Ronald Firbank, London, novelist, Flower Beneath the Foot

1884 Event - Montreal Foot Ball Club (QFRU) defeats Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) 30-0 in 1st CRFU Championship game

1872 Event - Montreal Foot Ball Club 1st game playing Quebec City to 0-0 tie

1869 Event - Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club plays its 1st game

1869 Event - Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms

1820 Event - Antarctica discovered by Nathaniel B. Palmer on the 'Hero', a 47 foot sloop

1737 Event - 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)

1667 Death - Paul Foot, lawyer/historian, dies at 48













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