1998 Death Zevulun Hammer, Vice Prime Minister of Israel, dies 1994 Death Barbara Hammer Avedon, scriptwriter, dies at 69 1991 Event 18th American Music Award: M C Hammer and Janet Jackson 1990 Death Armand Hammer, CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92 1988 Event "Sledge Hammer!" last aires on ABC-TV 1986 Event Armand Hammer returns to U.S. with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb 1984 Event Yuri Sedykh of U.S.S.R. throws hammer a record 86.33 m 1967 Birthday Sean Carlin, Australian hammer thrower, Olympics-8-1992, 96 1963 Event Peter, Paul and Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer) 1962 Event Peter, Paul and Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer" 1962 Birthday M C Hammer, Stanley Kirk Burrell, born in Oakland California, rapper, Hammer Time 1961 Birthday Lance Earl Deal, Riverton Wyoming, hammer thrower, 1996 Olympics silver 1948 Birthday Jan Hammer, composer, Escape from TV, Miami Vice 1944 Birthday Charles Jay Hammer, actor, Fletcher Reade-Guiding Light 1944 Birthday David Rasche, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Sledge Hammer 1941 Birthday Stacy Keach, Savannah, Georgia, actor, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer 1938 Birthday Fred "Hammer" Williamson, born in Gary, Indiana, NFLer, Chiefs 1937 Birthday Trini Lopez, Trinidad, singer/guitarist, If I Had a Hammer 1925 Birthday Barbara Hammer Avedon, scriptwriter 1917 Birthday Imry Nemeth, Hungary, hammer thrower 1948 Olympics gold 1898 Birthday Armand Hammer, New York City, millionaire industrialist, Occidental Petroleum 1894 Event Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit 1892 Event Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer
