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1998 Kwame Ture, activist, "born as Stokely Carmichael, he led a number of black organizations", dies at 57

1997 Minnesota Twins retire Kirby Puckett's uniform number

1996 Texas Rangers retire their 1st number, Nolan Ryan's #34

1993 Joyce Carey, [Lawrence], English actress (Number 27), dies at 94

1993 New York Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31

1992 Denis Potvin's #5 becomes 1st number retired by New York Islanders

1988 Just 1 day after 8/8/88 New York's daily number is 888

1988 Greatest number of participants, 31,678, on a bicycle tour, London

1986 Billy Martin Day, his uniform number 1 retired

1985 "Don't Lose My Number" by Phil Collins peaks at #4

1979 John Stuart, actor (Number 17), dies at 81

1979 New York Knicks retire 2nd number, # 10, Walt Frazier

1976 New York Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed

1974 Steely Dan releases "Rikki Don't Lose that Number"

1973 Roberto Clemente Day, Pirates retire his number

1970 New York Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 (BTG was there)

1960 White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number

1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)

1937 Britian begins using an emergency phone number (999)

1917 Phyllis Diller, born in Lima, Ohio, comedienne, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number

1911 Cy Young beats Pitts 1-0 for his final career victory, number 511

1898 John Stuart, Edinburgh Scotland, actor, Number 17

1893 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted 1st performance of "Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique"

1877 Godfrey H Hardy, England, number theorist

1869 Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9

1850 Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized

1805 Peter G L Dirichlet, Germany, number theorist/analysist

1648 Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (Number of Mersenne), dies at 59


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