1980 Birthday Margot Contois, Marquette, Michigan, dance skater, & Robert Peal 1977 Event 39th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Marquette beats North Carolina 67-59 1974 Event 36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Marquette 76-64 1973 Event WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting 1967 Birthday Wendel Suckow, born in Marquette, Michigan, luger 1994 Olympics 1965 Birthday Mike Bordick, born in Marquette, Michigan, infielder for the Oakland A's 1956 Event WLUC TV channel 6 in Marquette, MI (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 1932 Birthday Robert William Davis, born in Marquette, Michigan, Representative-R-Michigan 1979 - 1993 1931 Birthday Al McGuire, U.S., basketball coach, Marquette 1675 Death Jacques Marquette jesuit/missionaries (Chicago), dies at 37 1674 Event Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago 1673 Event Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi 1637 Birthday Jacques Marquette, jesuit/missionary founder, Chicago
