2002 Roone Arledge, TV innovator, crated NFL Monday Night Football, dies at 71
1995 Howard Cosell, sportscaster (Monday Night Football), dies at 77
1989 1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his Los Angeles Raiders beat New York Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
1988 1st Monday Night NFL game in Indianapolis, Colts beat Denver 55-23
1987 "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4 times previous record
1985 Bob Prince, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball), dies at 68
1984 Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football
1979 1st Monday night game from New York City, Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stad)
1977 Cubs trade outfielder Rick Monday to Dodgers for Bill Buckner
1976 Cub centerfielder Rick Monday rescues U.S. flag from 2 fans trying to set it on fire
1970 "Monday Night Football" premieres on ABC - Browns 31, Jets 21
1966 Mamas and Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"
1966 Mamas and Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
1965 A's draft Rick Monday #1
1962 Ted Husing, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights), dies at 60
1961 Kenny Monday, Tulsa Oklahoma, 163 lbs freestyles wrestler, Oly-88, 92, 96
1956 Barney Sumner, rock guitarist and vocalist, New Order-Blue Monday
1949 Dan Dierdorf, NFLer, sportscaster, Monday Night Football
1949 Jim Lampley, born in Hendersonville, North Carolina, newscaster, Monday Night Baseball
1947 Steve Stone, born in Cleveland, Ohio, sportscaster, Monday Night Baseball
1946 Tommy Lee Jones, actor, Executioner's Song, Bloody Monday, Fugitive
1945 Al Michaels, Brooklyn, sportscaster, ABC Monday Night Baseball/Football
1943 "Mama" Cass Elliot, actress, Mamas and Papas-Monday Monday
1940 Joe Flaherty, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, comedian, SCTV, Blue Monday
1938 Don Meredith, born in Mount Vernon, Texas, NFL QB, Cowboys, and Monday Night Football
1928 Keith Jackson, Carrolton, Georgia, sportscaster, ABC Monday Night Football
1927 Jim Simpson, Washington D.C., sportscaster, Monday Night Baseball
1926 Belgium's "black monday," franc falls
1924 Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Buenos Aires, director, Monday's Child
1923 Chris Schenkel, Biuppus, Indiana, sportscaster, Monday Night Fights
1923 Jan Sterling, born in New York City, actress, 1st Monday in October, HS Confidential
1918 Howard Cosell, born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sportscaster, Monday Night Football
1911 Ronald Neame, director, 1st Monday in Oct, Poseidon Adventure
1901 Ted Husing, New York City, sportscaster, Monday Night Fights
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