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2003 Death - Willie Shoemaker, jockey, dies at 72

1997 Death - Eddie Arcaro, jockey (won 2 Triple Crowns), dies at 81

1996 Death - Peter Aldersley, actor/disc jockey, dies at 72

1996 Death - Aubrey Brabazon, jockey/trainer, dies at 76

1995 Death - Stuart Henry, disc jockey, dies at 53

1995 Death - Wolfman Jack, disc jockey (Midnight Special), dies at 57

1995 Death - Kenny Everett, disc Jockey, dies at 50

1992 Event - Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races

1991 Event - Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races

1991 Death - Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43

1991 Event - Jockey, Bill Shoemaker, paralyzed in a car accident

1991 Death - Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at 46 of a heart attack

1990 Event - Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race

1989 Event - Jockey Kent Desormeaux sets record with 598 wins in a year

1989 Event - 5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez)

1989 Event - Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days

1989 Event - Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days

1988 Death - Mike Venezia, jockey, dies in 5th-race fall at Belmont Race Track, New York

1988 Event - Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories)

1987 Event - 1st jockey to win 9 races in 1 day (Chris Antley at Belmont)

1987 Event - Angel Cordero, Jr. becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races

1985 Event - Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M

1985 Event - Laffit Pincay, Jr. becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million

1985 Event - Bill (Willie) Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million

1981 Event - Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey

1976 Event - Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race

1973 Event - Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year

1973 Event - Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners

1973 Birthday - Mark Larsen, born in Denmark, jockey, rode "Vetrotex" to victory in his first Danish Derby, son of Ole Larsen

1973 Event - Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race

1970 Event - Jockey Willie Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033 win

1970 Event - 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)

1969 Event - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct

1969 Event - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major U.S. track

1969 Event - Diana Crump becomes 1st U.S. woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah

1969 Event - Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major U.S. racetrack (Hialeah)

1969 Event - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America

1968 Death - Earl Sande, U.S. jockey (Kentucky Derby), dies at 69

1966 Event - Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)

1964 Birthday - Adam Curry, born in Arlington, Virginia, broadcast personality, video jockey, a pioneer of podcasting, nicknamed the 'Podfather'

1964 Birthday - Alex Solis, born in Panama City, Panama, jockey, in the Calder Race Course Hall of Fame, over 4,500 career wins

1964 Birthday - Ron Warren, Jr., jockey, Bay Meadows

1964 Birthday - Richard Dunwoody, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, British jockey in National Hunt Racing, won King George VI Chase four times on the famous grey Desert Orchid in 1989 and 1990

1963 Birthday - Julie Krone, born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, jockey, 1st female to win Belmont-93

1962 Event - Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races

1962 Birthday - Nancy Hogshead, born in Iowa City, swimmer 1984 Olympics gold model, jockey

1962 Event - Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)

1961 Birthday - Walter Swimburn, Irish jockey, Derby 1981

1961 Birthday - Steven Cauthen, jockey, 1978 Kentucky Derby-Affirmed

1958 Event - Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X

1958 Event - Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner

1957 Birthday - Randy Romero, Garden City, New York, jockey, Breeder's Cup 1987-89

1957 Event - Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory

1957 Event - Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win

1955 Event - E. Arcaro, E. Sande and G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame

1954 Birthday - Mike Eruzione, Winthrop Massachusetts, jockey player, Gold Medal 1980 Olympics

1954 Event - Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins

1952 Birthday - John Francome, born in Swindon, England, jockey, National Hunt Champion Jockey seven times, apprenticed with Fred Winter, presenter for horseracing broadcasts on Channel 4

1952 Event - Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners

1952 Birthday - Jonjo O'Neill, born in Castletownroche, Ireland, racehorse trainer, former jockey, won British Champion Jockey title, Cheltenham Gold Cup

1949 Event - Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany, California

1949 Birthday - Paul Gambaccini, British disc jockey

1948 Birthday - Jorge Velasquez, jockey, Kentucky Derby-1981, Preakness-1981

1947 Birthday - Simon Bates, born in Birmingham, English, UK disc jockey, worked at BBC Radio 1 1976 - 1993, and Classic FM

1947 Birthday - Earlie Fires, jockey, Hialeah Park

1946 Birthday - Laffit Pincay, Jr., jockey, Kentucky Derby 1984, Belmont 1982 - 1984, Swale

1945 Birthday - Jim Palmer, New York City, Oriole pitcher/sportscaster/jockey underwear salesman

1944 Birthday - Robyn Smith Astaire, jockey/wife of Fred Astaire

1942 Birthday - Stuart Henry, British disc jockey

1941 Event - 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico

1940 Birthday - Jerry Lambert, jockey, rode Native Diver

1940 Birthday - Don Imus, radio disc jockey, WNBC

1940 Birthday - Braulio Baeza, jockey, National Horse Racing Hall of Famer

1937 Birthday - Stan Mellor, British racehorse trainer and jockey

1936 Birthday - Gary Owens, Mitchell, South Dakota, disc jockey/TV host, Laugh, Indiana, Gong Show

1936 Event - Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead after a fall. His wife fainted when he returned to track

1935 Birthday - Lester Piggott, British jockey, 11 time champ

1931 Birthday - Willie Shoemaker, jockey, won 8,833 of 40,350 starts

1930 Event - Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day

1928 Birthday - Brian Matthew, British disc jockey

1924 Birthday - Peter Aldersley, actor/disc jockey

1920 Birthday - Dick Francis, Wales, jockey/detective writer, Whip Hand, High Stakes

1920 Birthday - Aubrey Brabazon, jockey/trainer

1918 Event - Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse and burn, killing 604

1916 Birthday - Eddie Arcaro, jockey, 1958 Racing Hall of Fame, 2 triple crowns

1907 Birthday - Johnny Longden, jockey/trainer, 1958 Racing Hall of Fame

1904 Birthday - Gordon Richards, British jockey, winner of 4,870 races

1898 Birthday - Earl Sande, jockey, Hall of Famer

1896 Death - Isaac Murphy, jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%), dies at 35

1886 Death - Frederick J "Fred" Archer, English jockey, commits suicide at 29

1874 Birthday - James, Tod, Sloan, jockey, created monkey crouch riding style

1861 Birthday - Isaac Murphy, U.S. jockey, won 628 races

1857 Birthday - Fred[erick J] Archer, English jockey, won 5 Derbys

1853 Birthday - August Belmont, Jr., breeder, Man 'O War, founder, New York Jockey Club

1804 Event - Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England)

1734 Event - 1st Jockey Club forms in South Carolina

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