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1982 Event - Larry Walters using lawn chair and 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000'

1974 Birthday - Katie Kauffman, West Lawn, Pennsylvania, field hockey midfielder 1996 Olympics

1972 Birthday - Bryan Rekar, born in Oak Lawn, Illinois, pitcher for the Colorado Rockies

1971 Birthday - Chris Lipuma, born in Oak Lawn, NHL defenseman, Tampa Bay Lightning

1937 Birthday - Tom Paxton, Chicago, folk singer and songwriter, Forest Lawn

1927 Event - Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for U.S. Lawn Tennis Association title

1923 Event - Bill Tilden wins U.S. Lawn Tennis Open

1910 Event - Hazel Hotchkiss wins U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championship

1899 Event - Lawn mower patented

1889 Event - 1st American International pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)

1886 Event - Carr Baker Neel and Samuel Neel win U.S. Lawn Tennis Association doubles

1881 Event - U.S. Nation Lawn Tennis Association removes "Nation" from name

1881 Event - U.S. Nation Lawn Tennis Association forms

1878 Event - 1st Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn

1877 Event - 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn

1874 Event - Game of lawn tennis introduced

1874 Event - Major Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)

1830 Event - Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever









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