2015 Event New Zealand professional golfer Lydia Ko, age 17, becomes the youngest No. 1 ranked golfer in the world, beating the record set by Tiger Woods in 1997 at age 21 2012 Event Lydia Ko, a 15-year old amateur golfer, wins the Canadian Women's Open; she is the youngest winner ever on the LPGA Tour and first amateur to win since JoAnne Carner in 1969 2008 Death Charlton Heston, dies at 84, at his home in Beverly Hills, California, with Lydia, his wife of 64 years, by his side 1996 Death Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer, dies at 88 1991 Death Lydia Hodson Copeland, America's, Jr. Miss (1972), dies at 37 1990 Death Hans Jaray, actor (Lydia, Fedora), dies 1984 Event Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America 1979 Birthday Lydia Jane Lipscombe, Christchurch New Zealand, breastroker 1996 Olympics 1963 Birthday Lydia Czuckermann-Hatuel, Israel, Women's foil fencer, 1996 Olympics 1962 Birthday Lydia Cheng, New York City, Ms Big Apple bodybuilder, 1982, Pumping Iron 2 1961 Death Alan Marshal, actor (Lydia, Irene, Exile Express), dies at 52 1959 Birthday Lydia Lunch, U.S. singer/poet, Teenage Jesus, Jerks 1958 Birthday Lydia Cornell, born in El Paso, Texas, actress, Sara Rush-Too Close for Comfort 1944 Event Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke 1939 Birthday Lydia Skoblikova, U.S.S.R., speed skater, Olympics-6 gold-1960, 64 1920 Birthday Lydia Wideman, Finland, 10K cross country skier 1952 Olympics gold 1909 Birthday Alan Marshal, born in Sydney, Australia, actor, White Cliffs of Dover, Lydia 1907 Birthday Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer 1905 Birthday H[erbert] E[rnest] Bates, novelist, Feast for July, Love for Lydia 1883 Death Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies 1802 Birthday Lydia Maria Child, U.S., author/abolitionist, Juvenile Miscellany 1791 Birthday Lydia Sigourney, U.S., religious author, How to Be Happy 585 Event War between Lydia and Media ended by solar eclipse
