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1998 Zevulun Hammer, Vice Prime Minister of Israel, dies

1994 Barbara Hammer Avedon, scriptwriter, dies at 69

1991 18th American Music Award: M C Hammer and Janet Jackson

1990 Armand Hammer, CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92

1988 "Sledge Hammer!" last aires on ABC-TV

1986 Armand Hammer returns to U.S. with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb

1984 Yuri Sedykh of U.S.S.R. throws hammer a record 86.33 m

1967 Sean Carlin, Australian hammer thrower, Olympics-8-1992, 96

1963 Peter, Paul and Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)

1962 Peter, Paul and Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"

1962 M C Hammer, Stanley Kirk Burrell, born in Oakland California, rapper, Hammer Time

1961 Lance Earl Deal, Riverton Wyoming, hammer thrower, 1996 Olympics silver

1948 Jan Hammer, composer, Escape from TV, Miami Vice

1944 Charles Jay Hammer, actor, Fletcher Reade-Guiding Light

1944 David Rasche, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Sledge Hammer

1941 Stacy Keach, Savannah, Georgia, actor, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

1938 Fred "Hammer" Williamson, born in Gary, Indiana, NFLer, Chiefs

1937 Trini Lopez, Trinidad, singer/guitarist, If I Had a Hammer

1925 Barbara Hammer Avedon, scriptwriter

1917 Imry Nemeth, Hungary, hammer thrower 1948 Olympics gold

1898 Armand Hammer, New York City, millionaire industrialist, Occidental Petroleum

1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit

1892 Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer


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