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Jumping


1982 Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard

1974 Graham Bond, rocker, dies jumping under a train

1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash"

1962 Trevor Baxter, record holder for high jumping with a skateboard

1959 Armin Kogler, born in Austria, skier, 2-time winner of jumping World Cup

1946 Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League

1944 Hans van Eijk, Dutch rock guitarist, Jumping Jewels

1943 Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record

1941 Peter Michael Goetz, actor, Jumping Jack Flash, King Kong Lives

1936 1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minnesota

1928 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal)

1902 Barbara McClintock, U.S., cytogeneticist, Jumping Genes, Nobel 1983

1865 Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"


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