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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, Gold Medal 1988 Olympics, Silver Medal 1992 Olympics

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 quarterback, 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

1917 John Stokes, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, member of the Conservative Monday Club, Primrose League

1911 Ronald Neame, director, 1st Monday in Oct, Poseidon Adventure

1901 Ted Husing, New York City, sportscaster, Monday Night Fights


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