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2008 Death - Isaac Hayes, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, of a stroke, at 65

1998 Death - Cary Middlecoff, professional golfer with what is currently known as the PGA Tour in the 1940s, University of Mississippi's first golf All-American 1939, dies in Memphis, Tennessee at age 77

1996 Event - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Memphis, Tennessee on WMFS 92.9 FM

1995 Event - Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game vs, BC Lions

1995 Event - Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL game (vs Calgary Stampeders)

1995 Event - Memphis Mad Dogs granted CFL's 13th franchise

1987 Event - Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction

1978 Event - Memphis, Tennessee settles with striking police officers and firefighters

1978 Event - Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order

1978 Birthday - Cindy Parlow, born in Memphis, Tennessee, soccer forward 1996 Olympics

1976 Birthday - Carey Tally, born in Memphis, Tennessee, soccer midfielder, 1996 Olympics gold

1973 Event - 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76

1972 Birthday - Jeni Stephens, Memphis Tennessee, Miss America-Tennessee 1997

1972 Birthday - Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway, Memphis, NBA guard, Orlando, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics

1972 Birthday - Wendy Kaye, born in Memphis, Tennessee, playmate, July, 1991

1972 Event - Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record of 67 pts in a game

1972 Event - Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Blvd

1971 Event - 2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances

1971 Birthday - Shannen Doherty, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actress, Little House, Bev Hills 90210

1968 Birthday - Lisa Marie Presley Keough Jackson, born in Memphis, Tennessee, daughter of Elvis

1967 Event - Race riots in Memphis, Tennessee

1966 Event - Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert

1966 Birthday - Billy Zane, actor, Orlando, Memphis Belle, Millions, Titanic

1966 Birthday - Daniel J Schneider, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actor, Dennis-Head of the Class

1965 Birthday - Joe Oliver, born in Memphis, Tennessee, catcher for the Cincinnati Reds

1965 Birthday - Dana Brown, born in Memphis, Tennessee, Miss Tennessee - America, 1991-3rd

1964 Birthday - Sheila Echols, born in Memphis, Tennessee, 4x100m runner 1988 Olympics gold

1962 Birthday - Keith Lee, basketball player, Memphis State

1960 Event - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open

1959 Event - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open

1959 Birthday - Marc Cohn, singer, Walking in Memphis

1958 Birthday - Joseph Richard Sylvers, born in Memphis, Tennessee, guitarist, vocalist, member of rhythm and blues band, The Sylvers

1957 Birthday - Blair Cunningham, born in Memphis, Tennessee, rock drummer, Haircut 100

1956 Event - WKNO TV channel 10 in Memphis, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting

1956 Event - WREC (now WREG) TV channel 3 in Memphis, Tennessee (CBS) begins broadcasting

1955 Birthday - Andrew Stevens, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actor, Seduction, Boys in Company C, Fury

1955 Birthday - James Jonathan Sylvers, born in Memphis, Tennessee, keyboardist, vocalist, member of The Sylvers, a popular 1970's rhythm and blues family group

1955 Birthday - Rosanne Cash, born in Memphis, Tennessee, country singer, Seven Year Ache, I Wonder

1954 Death - Johnny Ace, Memphis rocker, accidently shot self in head at 25

1954 Birthday - Gail Stanton Memphis, Tennessee, playmate, Jun, 1978

1954 Event - Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71

1954 Event - Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio and records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"

1953 Birthday - Michael Baker, born in Memphis, Tennessee, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-43, 52, 68, 81

1953 Birthday - Deborah Allen, born in Memphis, Tennessee, country singer, Jim Stafford Show

1953 Event - WHBQ TV channel 13 in Memphis, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting

1953 Event - Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee

1953 Birthday - Rocky Burnette, born in Memphis, rock vocalist, Towing the Line

1953 Birthday - Billy Burnette, born in Memphis, Tennessee, rock guitarist, Fleetwood Mac

1952 Birthday - Mac Cone, born in Memphis, Tennessee, Canadian equestrian jumper 1996 Olympics

1952 Birthday - Larry Riley, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actor, Harry-Stir Crazy, Knots Landing

1952 Event - Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records

1951 Birthday - Olympia-Ann Sylvers, born in Memphis, Tennessee, vocalist, member of rhythm and blues band, The Sylvers

1951 Birthday - Andy Hummell, born in Memphis, Tennessee, rock bassist, Big Star

1951 Birthday - Chris Bell, born in Memphis, Tennessee, rock guitarist, Big Star

1950 Birthday - Alex Chilton, born in Memphis, Tennessee, rock guitarist and vocalist, Box Tops

1950 Birthday - Willie Hall, born in Memphis, Tennessee, rocker, drummer, played with Isaac Hayes' The Movement, member of The Bo-Keys

1950 Birthday - Linda Thompson, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actress, Hee Haw

1950 Birthday - Cybill Shepherd, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actress, Moonlighting, Last Picture Show

1949 Birthday - Michael Beck, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actor, Hans Helms-Holocaust

1948 Event - WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting

1948 Birthday - Kathy Bates, born in Memphis, Tennessee, academy award winning actress, Misery

1948 Birthday - William Sanderson, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actor, Larry-Newhart, Blade Runner

1947 Birthday - Gary Talley, born in Memphis, Tennessee, rock guitarist, Box Tops

1947 Death - Jean-Franeois Capart, Belgian egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86

1947 Birthday - Jeannie Wilson, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actress, Simon and Simon, Stir Crazy

1945 Birthday - Harold Ford, Sr., born in Memphis, Tennessee, Representative-D-Tennessee 1975 - 1997

1945 Birthday - Larry Combest, born in Memphis, Texas, Representative-R-Texas 1985 - 2003

1942 Birthday - Paul Warfield, NFL/WFL wide receiver, Cleveland, Miami, Memphis

1942 Birthday - Olivia Cole, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actress, Roots, Szysznyk

1942 Birthday - Isaac Hayes, born in Memphis, Tennessee, singer, songwriter, musician, producer, actor, Academy-Award winner

1942 Birthday - Aretha Franklin, born in Memphis, Tennessee, Respect

1941 Birthday - Maurice White, born in Memphis, Tennessee, nicknamed Reese, rocker, singer, songwriter, record producer, founded band Earth, Wind and Fire

1941 Birthday - Daniel Pinkwater, born in Memphis, Tennessee, author, children's books, critic, commentator, National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Saturday

1941 Birthday - Joe Bauer, born in Memphis, Tennessee, rock drummer, Youngbloods

1939 Birthday - George Hamilton, born in Memphis, Tennessee, Love at 1st Bite, Where the Boys Are

1937 Birthday - Morgan Freeman, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actor, Driving Mrs. Daisy, Glory

1937 Birthday - Dave Hill, born in Jackson, Michigan, PGA golfer, 1967 Memphis

1937 Birthday - Jon Hassell, born in Memphis, Tennessee, composer, played the trumpet, PhD in musicology, known for influencing world music scene with unique electronic manipulation of trumpet sounds

1936 Birthday - Jim Sasser, born in Memphis, Tennessee, Senator-D-Tennessee, 1977 - 1995

1936 Birthday - Lane Smith, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actor, Perry White-Lois and Clark

1935 Birthday - Al Jackson, Jr., born in Memphis, Tennessee, drummer, Booker T and MGs-Chinese Checkers

1934 Birthday - Amos "Junior" Wells, born in Memphis, Tennessee, blues singer, In My Younger Days

1934 Birthday - John S Bull, Memphis Tennessee, astronaut

1934 Birthday - Johnny Burnette, born in Memphis, guitarist, Trains Kept A-Rollin, You're 16

1934 Birthday - King Curtis, Curtis Ousley, U.S. vocalist, Memphis Soul Stew

1934 Birthday - William Vollie Alexander, Jr., born in Memphis, Tennessee, Representative-D-Arkansas 1969 - 1993

1933 Birthday - Barbara Carson, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actress, Comedy Tonight, Carter Country

1932 Birthday - Dorsey Burnette, Memphis, rocker, Tall Oak Tree, Hey Little One

1929 Birthday - Johnny Ace, born in Memphis, Tennessee, born John Marshall Alexander, Jr., singer, member of the B.B. King band, signed to Duke Records, toured with Willa Mae "Big Mama" Thornton

1927 Birthday - Anita Kerr, born in Memphis, Tennessee, singer, Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

1926 Birthday - Bill Black, born in Memphis, Tennessee, musician, rocker, bassist for Elvis Pressley, played for "Heartbreak Hotel", "Mystery Train", "Hound Dog", "Jailhouse Rock"

1923 Event - WMC-AM in Memphis Tennessee begins radio transmissions

1916 Birthday - Memphis Slim, rocker

1914 Birthday - Snooky Lanson, born in Memphis, Tennessee, singer, Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee

1912 Event - W C Handy publishes "Memphis Blues" 1st Blues Song, 1912

1905 Event - 1st published blues composition forms sale, WC Handy Memphis Blues

1902 Birthday - Ruby Dandridge, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actress in Father of the Bride

1900 Birthday - Memphis Minnie, rocker

1886 Event - George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon

1880 Event - 1st U.S. sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis

1877 Death - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 56

1864 Event - General-major Nathan Bedford Forrests assault on Memphis, Tennessee

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