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1982 Larry Walters using lawn chair and 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000'
1974 Katie Kauffman, West Lawn, Pennsylvania, field hockey midfielder 1996 Olympics 1972 Bryan Rekar, born in Oak Lawn, Illinois, pitcher for the Colorado Rockies 1971 Chris Lipuma, born in Oak Lawn, NHL defenseman, Tampa Bay Lightning 1937 Tom Paxton, Chicago, folk singer and songwriter, Forest Lawn 1927 Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for U.S. Lawn Tennis Association title 1923 Bill Tilden wins U.S. Lawn Tennis Open 1910 Hazel Hotchkiss wins U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championship 1899 Lawn mower patented 1889 1st American International pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI) 1886 Carr Baker Neel and Samuel Neel win U.S. Lawn Tennis Association doubles 1881 U.S. Nation Lawn Tennis Association removes "Nation" from name 1881 U.S. Nation Lawn Tennis Association forms 1878 1st Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn 1877 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn 1874 Game of lawn tennis introduced 1874 Major Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis) 1830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever |
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