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2001 Ken Kesey, author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, dies at 66

2001 Tony Awards, The Producers, Proof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest revival and 42nd Street revival won major awards

1999 Two disaffected students brought guns to their high school in Columbine, Colorado and murdered twelve students, one teacher and then killed themselves

1998 President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"

1997 An abandoned building collapses on New York's 42nd St, no one hurt

1997 Sam Fuller, director/writer (Big Red One), dies at 86

1997 Bank One Senior Golf Classic

1997 Willie Forkner, biker (Wild One), dies of heart attack at 77

1996 Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship

1996 Claudette Colbert, actress (Happened One Night), dies of stroke at 93

1996 Margaret Courtenay, actress (Royal Flash, Duet for One), dies at 72

1996 For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1995 Alison Nicholas wins PING-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship

1995 Jeff King of Pirates is 16th NL player to HR twice in one inning

1995 New York Police Department and New York Transit Police merge into one organization

1994 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Barathea, Cherokee Run, Concern, Flanders, One Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country

1994 Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test

1994 Missie McGeorge wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship

1993 Donna Andrews wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship

1993 Carleton Morse, radio dramatist (One Man's Family), dies at 91

1993 West Indies defeat Australia by one run in 4th Test at Adelaide

1992 George Adams, U.S. tenor saxophonist/flautist (Changes One), dies

1992 Nancy Lopez wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship

1992 New York Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48)

1991 6,000th episode of One Life To Live

1991 Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode

1991 Ayrton Senna wins shortest Formula One race ever run (17 laps)

1991 Formal opening ceremony of International One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colo

1991 Michelle Estill wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship

1991 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping and beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal

1991 New York Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner, with the numbers 18-21-32-33-35-38

1990 Edward Binns, U.S. actor (12 Angry One), dies of heart attack at 74

1990 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Ping-Cellular One Golf Championship

1990 Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game

1990 Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million

1990 Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home

1990 No one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years

1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (18-25-26-32-42-44)

1989 Hayden Panettiere, actress, One Life to Live

1989 Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge

1989 Paul McCartney releases "This One"

1989 For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89

1989 New York Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)

1989 Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet

1988 Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released

1987 Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race

1987 Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in one season

1987 Kevin Seitzer (Kansas City Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game

1986 Trailing 5-3 with 2 out and no one on in bottom of 10th, New York rallies to win Game 6 of the World Series, 6-5, Bill Buckner misplays a ball

1986 Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz)

1986 New York Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)

1985 "One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head hits #3

1985 "My One and Only" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 767 performances

1985 Actress Judith Licht (Who's the Boss) marries Robert Desiderio (One Life to Live)

1984 Bill Raisch, one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive), dies at 79

1984 Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day

1984 Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning

1983 John K M McCaffery, TV host (One Minute Please), dies at 69

1983 AL President Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires

1983 "My One and Only" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 767 performances

1983 Islanders tie NHL record with 3 shorthanded playoff goals vs Rangers Rangers 7-Isles 6-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 2-1 lead Wayne Gretzky scores 7 goals in one Stanley Cup playoff game

1982 Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game

1982 Russell Thorson, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 72

1981 One of the great day's Test Cricket at the MCG Aust vs. WI

1981 Mariners mgr Maury Wills is suspended for 2 games after ordering Seattle's grounds crew to enlarge batter's boxes by one foot

1980 Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90

1980 John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg stage one of the greatest U.S. Open finals as 21 year old McEnroe fends off Borg to win his 2nd straight title

1980 Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours

1980 Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third, and home in one inning for Phillies

1980 NZ beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin

1979 "One Mo' Time" with Vernel Bagners premieres in New York City

1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson

1978 BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"

1978 Peggy Wood, actress (One Life to Live, Mama), dies at 86

1977 Sue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one

1977 Jim Boles, actor (Kraft Music Hall, One Man's Family), dies at 63

1977 Marjorie Gateson, actress (One Man's Family), dies at 86

1977 Bowie Kuhn suspends Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing

1976 Piper Cherokee crashes into Balt Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt

1976 Barbara Nichols, actress (Pajama Game, Loved One), dies at 46

1976 Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live, dies

1976 "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash hits #29

1975 1st broadcast of "One Day at a Time" on CBS TV

1975 NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time

1975 Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders

1974 Walter Lippmann, U.S. journalist (One of Dynasty), dies at 85

1974 Jamie Jones, singer, All 4 One

1973 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later

1973 Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died

1973 Luis Van Rooten, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 66

1972 Mayne One, rocker, Young Nation

1970 Michael B Enyaer, writer, Pilot One

1970 Reds clout 7 home runs by 6 batters, Braves counter with 3 HRs, 6 for one team and 9 different batters for two teams, all tie or set records

1969 Mary McCormack, actress, Murder One, Private Parts

1969 Ijaz Ahmed, Jr., cricketer, one Test Pakistan vs. Sri Lanka 1995

1968 Ming Na-Wen, actress, ER, One Night Stand, Lien-As the World Turns

1968 Ebrahim Essop-Adam, cricketer, one ODI for Zimbabwe 1992

1968 John and Yoko's "One on One" benefit for children at MSG

1968 "One Life to Live" premieres on TV

1968 Soap opera "One Life To Live" premieres

1968 Allyn Edwards, host (One Minute Please, Mr. Citizen), dies at 53

1968 Tim Burgess, English rock vocalist, Charlatans-Only One I Know

1968 Salil Ankola, cricketer, Indian pace bowler one Test 1989

1967 Lee Krieger, actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini), dies at 48

1967 Masood Anwar, cricketer, one Test Pakistan vs. West Indies 1990

1967 Seattle awarded one of the 2 AL expansion franchise teams

1966 Pat O'Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75

1965 Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game and 6 times in one season

1965 John Stephenson, cricketer, England opening bat in one Test vs. Aust 1989

1964 Cheerio Meredith, actress (One Happy Family), dies at 74

1964 Phils bomb Reds 10-0 as both teams finish one game behind St. Louis

1964 10th time Mantle switch-hits HR in a game, one goes 502 feet

1964 Paul Taylor, cricketer, England left-arm pace bowler in one Test 1993

1964 Ajay Sharma, cricketer, Indian spin all-rounder played one Test 1988

1964 1st government report warning smoking may be hazardous to one's health

1963 Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds and his license is suspended for one year for speeding

1963 Whitney Houston, born in Newark, New Jersey, singer, One Moment in Time, Bodyguard

1963 Indians' Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona, and Larry Brown hit consecutive home runs in one inning (vs California Angels)

1963 Grant Herslov, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Wayne-Spencer, Under One Roof

1963 Gursharan Singh, cricketer, Indian batsman played one Test 1989-90

1962 Holly Gagnier, Louisiana, actress, One Life to Live

1962 Michelle Estill, born in Scottsdale, Arizona, LPGA golfer, 1991 PING-Cellular One

1962 Shahid Mahboob, cricketer, batted in one Test for Pakistan 1989

1961 Alan Wells, cricketer, England Test batsman vs. WI in one Test 1995

1961 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St. Joseph's defeats Utah 127-120 in 4 overtimes

1961 Australia beat WI 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever

1960 Fiona Hutchison, born in Miami, Florida, actress, One Life to Live, Guiding Light

1959 Missie McGeorge, Pueblo CO, LPGA golfer, 1994 PING-Cellular One

1959 "Plan 9 From Outer Space," one of the worse films ever, premieres

1959 Shelley Burch, born in Tucson, Arizona, actress, One Life to Live, Identity Crisis

1959 Leonard Spigelgass' "Majority of One," premieres in New York City

1959 Anthony LaPaglia, actor, Murder One

1958 Michelle Bauer, California, actress, One Million Heels BC

1958 "Studio One," TV Anthology Drama last airs on CBS-TV

1958 Perez Prado "Mambo King," receives one of the 1st gold records

1958 Klaus Meine, rocker, Scorpions-No One Like You

1958 Julian Sands, actor, One Night Stand

1957 Rohan Jayasekera, cricketer, one Test Sri Lanka vs. Pakistan 1982

1957 Frederick Burton, actor (One Way Passage), dies at 86

1957 Melvin Edward Mays, one of FBI's most wanted

1957 Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher

1956 Gerhard Alexander, actor (One Zomerzotheid), dies at 49

1956 Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One

1956 Laura Thorne, chef, named one of 10 best American chefs

1956 Nathan Lane, born in Jersey, New Jersey, actor, One of the Boys, Frankie and Johnnie

1956 Paul Parker, cricketer, one Test England vs. Australia 1981

1955 Wyllis Cooper, TV narrator (Volume One), dies at 56

1955 Ian Callen, cricketer, one Test Australia vs. India 1978, six wickets

1955 Columbia U scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years

1955 Robby Benson, born in Dallas, Texas, actor, One on One, Running Brave, Chosen

1954 Air Force One, 1st U.S. Presidential airplane, christened

1954 Imtiaz Ali, cricketer, brother of Inshan One Test WI vs. India 1976

1954 Lance Hoppens, rocker, Orleans-Still the One, Dance With Me

1954 Alan Butcher, cricketer, one Test England vs. India, scored 14 and 20

1953 Michael Zaslow, Inglewood California, actor, One Life to Live, Guiding Light

1952 Elayne Boosler, born in Brooklyn, New York, comedienne, Broadway Baby, Party of One

1952 Nelson Piquet, auto racer, 3-time Formula One champ, 1981, '83, '87

1952 Paul Hibbert, cricketer, one Test Aust vs. India 1977, scored 13 and 2

1952 84th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard One Count wins in 2:30.2

1952 Veronica "Randy" Crawford, U.S. vocalist, One Day I'll Fly Away

1952 Australia beat West Indies by one wicket at the MCG, last stand 38

1951 Azmat Rana, cricketer, one Test for Pakistan against Australia 1980

1951 Gerald Anthony, actor, Marco Dane-General Hospital, One Life to Live

1951 Kim Zimmer, Michigan, actress, Guiding Light, Doctors, One Life to Live

1951 Larry Hoppens, rocker, Orleans-Still the One, Dance With Me

1950 For a record 6th time, New York Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 home runs in one game

1950 Lew Lehr, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), dies at 54

1950 Shahid Israr, Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper, in one Test vs. NZ 1976

1949 "One Man's Family" premieres on TV

1948 Bo Rucker, born in Tampa, Florida, actor, Superman, Soup for One, Lock Up

1948 Australia scores 721 runs in one day vs. Essex, world record

1947 Jeff Moss, cricketer, one Test Australia vs. Pakistan 1979

1947 Ashley Woodcock, cricketer, one Test Aust vs. NZ 1974, only knock 27

1947 Grace Moore, soprano/actress (One Night of Love), dies at 45

1946 Jacqueline Courtney, New Jersey, actress, Another World, One Life to Live

1946 Tony Howard, cricketer, WI off-spinner one Test vs. NZ 1972

1946 Countee Cullen, U.S. poet (Black Christ, One Way to Heaven), dies at 42

1945 Catherine Burns, New York City, actress, Last Summer, One Life to Live, Catcher

1945 Ajit Manohar Pai, cricketer, one Test India vs. NZ 1969

1945 No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame

1944 German field marshal von Kluge vanishes for one day

1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down

1944 Ross Duncan, cricketer, one Test Australia vs. England 1971, 0-30

1943 Roelof den Ambtman, Dutch actor and director, One Evening at Eva

1943 Weill/Perelman/Nash' musical "One Touch of Venus," premieres in New York City

1943 Maceo Parker, U.S. tenor saxophonist, King's One, Mo' Roots

1943 Kenneth Kelley, U.S. singer, Manhattans, One Life to Live

1942 Patricia Elliot, born in Gunnison, Colorado, actress, Renee-Empire, One Life to Live

1942 Patrick Michael Mitchell, born in Ottawa, one of FBI's most wanted

1942 Bobby Rydell, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, rock singer, Wild One, Bye Bye Birdie

1942 Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"

1941 Peter Truscott, cricketer, one Test NZ vs. Pakistan 1965, 3 and 26

1940 Sam Waterson, Cambridge Massachusetts, actor, Capricorn One, Heaven's Gate

1940 George Reinholt, Philadelphia, actor, Steve-Another World, One Life to Live

1940 Walter Connolly, actor (It Happened One Night, Good Earth), dies at 53

1940 Erapalli Prasanna, cricketer, one of India's big four spinners

1940 Leslie Isben Rogge, one of FBI's most wanted

1939 Terry Dill, Forth Worth, Texas, PGA golfer, 1992 Bank One Senior Classic

1938 Rives McBee, Denton, Texas, PGA golfer, 1989 RJR Bank One Classic

1938 Glen Hall, cricket leg-spinner, South African in one Test vs. England 1964

1938 Phillies Harold Kelleher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are NL records off one hurler in a single inning

1938 Charles Siebert, born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, actor, One Day at A Time, Trapper John

1937 Rajinder Pal, cricketer, pace bowler in one Test India vs. Eng, 0-22

1937 Jack Nicholson, born in New Jersey, actor, One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest, Shining

1937 Clarence "Frogman" Henry, musician, You Always Hurt the One You Love

1937 All but one senior fouls out of a scrimmage game between seniors and sophomores, but he holds on to win the game 35-32

1937 Grahame Chevalier, cricketer, one Test for South Africa 1970, 0 and 0*, 5-100

1937 Doris Troy, [Payne], U.S. soul singer and songwriter, Just One Kiss

1936 Keith Slater, cricketer, one Test for Australia 1958-59 series

1935 Rohan Kanhai, cricketer, one of West Indies' finest batsmen

1935 Ken Kesey, author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1935 Jim Dale, born in Rothwell, England, Broadway actor, Barnum, My One and Only

1935 Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour

1934 Derek Richardson, cricketer, played one innings for England 1957

1934 Arvind Apte, cricketer, brother of Madhav Scored 8 and 7 in one Test

1934 Louise Fletcher, Birmingham, Alabama, actress, One Flew over Cuckoo's Nest

1934 Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game

1934 Al Freeman, Jr., born in Texas, actor, One Life to Live, My Sweet Charlie

1934 "It Happened One Night," opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall

1933 Bruce Morrison, cricketer, one Test NZ vs. England 1963

1933 Johnny Unitas, NFL QB, Baltimore Colts, San Diego, one of the greats

1933 Joan Hackett, born in New York, actress, Will Penny, One Stone Pony

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

1932 Lou Gehrig plays 1,103rd successive game in a New York uniform, equaling Joe Sewell's record with one team (Cleveland)

1932 1st broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC-radio

1931 Thurston Harris, born in Indianapolis, vocalist, Little Bitty Pretty One

1931 Johan Fleerackers, Flemish vice-president of Dutch One

1930 C T Patankar, cricketer, kept wicket in one Test India vs. NZ 1955-56

1930 Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week

1930 Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"

1929 John Rutherford, cricketer, one Test for Australia 1956

1929 Leslie Wight, cricketer, one Test WI vs. India 1953, scored 21

1929 Ulla Jacobson, Swedish actress, One Summer of Happiness

1929 "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears

1928 Everton Weekes, cricketer, one of the 3 W's

1927 Michael Frederick, cricketer, one Test WI vs. England 1954, scored 0 and 30

1926 Clyde Walcott, cricketer, one of the three W's, later ICC chairman

1925 Alistair Taylor, cricketer, one Test as opening bat for South Africa 1956

1924 Roy Miller, cricketer, WI all-rounder in one Test 1953, 23 and 0-28

1924 Frank Worrell, cricketer, one of the three W's, inspiring WI captain

1924 Fred Fisher, cricketer, one Test for NZ vs. SA 1953

1924 V N Swamy, cricketer, one Test India vs. NZ 1955, DNB, 0-45

1924 Norman Marshall, cricketer, brother of Roy, one Test for WI 1955

1923 Margaret Courtenay, actress, Royal Flash, Duet for One

1923 Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours)

1921 Gene Saks, New York, actor and director, One and Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave

1919 Keith Miller, cricketer, one of Australia's best ever all-rounders

1919 John Harry, cricket wicketkeeper (Aust one Test 1895, one catch), dies

1919 Babe Ruth's 29th HR is 1st of year in Washington (1st in every park in league in one season)

1919 Edmund Hillary, NZ, one of 1st 2 men to scale Mt Everest

1919 Lee Krieger, born in Maryland, actor, Clambake, One Way Wahini

1919 Charles Palmer, cricketer, one Test 1955, later MCC president

1919 Norman F Simpson, British playwright, One Way Pendulum

1919 Carole Landis, Fairchild WI, actress, One Million BC, Topper Returns

1918 Isabel Dean, Engl, actress, 5 Days one Summer, Virgin Island, Ransom

1918 Suzanne Flon, Paris, France, actress, One Deadly Summer, Moulin Rouge

1917 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st U.S. shot in WW I

1917 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ

1917 Roy Scott, cricketer, one Test NZ vs. England 1947, 18, 1-74

1916 Cleveland Indians experiment with #s on their jerseys (one game)

1916 Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live

1916 Alec Coxon, cricketer, England pace bowler in one Test, 2-90 and 1-82

1915 Fred Freer, cricketer, Australian pace bowler played one Test in 1946

1915 George Mudie, cricketer, WI all-rounder in one Test 1935, 5 and 3-40

1915 Dennis Brookes, cricketer, one Test England vs. WI 1948, scored 10 and 7

1914 Barbara Ward, economist/writer, Only One Earth

1913 John K M McCaffery, Moscow Idaho, TV host, One Minute Please

1913 MacDonald Carey, born in Sioux City, Iowa, actor, One Life to Live, Dream Girl

1913 Dicky Fuller, cricketer, one Test WI vs. England 1935, 1, 0-12

1911 Norman Oldfield, cricketer, Engl batsman one Test vs. WI 1939, 80 and 19

1909 Armand H F Boni, the Good One, Flemish poet/writer

1909 John Cochrane, South African cricket pace bowler, one Test 1931

1909 Gerald Bond, cricketer, one Test South Africa vs. England 1938, 0 and 0-16

1908 Cal Tinney, Oklahoma, comedian, Stop Me If You Heard This One

1908 England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG

1907 Miran Bux, cricketer, his one season of Test and 1st-class play 1954-55

1906 Luis Van Rooten, Mexico City Mexico, actor, One Man's Family

1906 Betty Bronson, Trenton, New Jersey, actress, Evel Knievel, One Stolen Night

1906 Sidney Kingsley, U.S. playwright, One in White, Darkness at Noon

1906 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile

1906 South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win

1905 Bill Raisch, one armed actor, Fred Johnson-Fugitive

1904 World's 1st subway, IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens in New York City, subway/bus fare is set at one nickel (Brooklyn bridge-145 and Bdwy)

1903 Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 and 5-3

1903 Walter Hammond, cricketer, one of the greatest of English batsman

1902 England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory

1902 Australia won the one and only Test Cricket played at Sheffield

1902 Erwin Harvey becomes 1st Cleveland ballplayer (Cleveland Bronchos) to have six hits in one game

1902 L P Jai, cricketer, one Test India vs. England 1934, scored 19 and 0

1901 Grace Moore, U.S., soprano, One Night to Live

1901 In last of 9th, Detroit Tigers, trailing by 13-4, score 10 runs to win one of greatest comebacks in baseball (1st game in Detroit)

1900 Start of the one and only olympic cricket match, in Paris

1899 Wyllis Cooper, Pekin, Illinois, TV narrator, Volume One

1898 Robert Keith, Fowler, Indiana, actor, Battle Circus, Branded, Wild One

1897 Dalton Parry Conyngham, cricketer, one Test South Africa vs. England 1923

1895 Lew Lehr, Philadelphia, comedian, Stop Me if I heard this One

1895 England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2

1895 Izak Buys, cricketer, one Test for South Africa 1922, 0 and 4*, 0-52

1894 Day One 1st Test Cricket Aus vs. Eng Aust 5-346 (Giffen 161, Gregory 85)

1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st U.S. autos at 6 MPH

1892 Roy Park, cricketer, one Test Aust vs. Eng 1920, out 1st ball

1892 John MacBryan, cricketer, one Test Eng vs. South Africa 1924 DNBat, DNbowl

1892 Wendell Wilkie, presidential candidate, R-1940, /author, One World

1892 Peggy Wood, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, One Life to Live, Mama

1891 Marjorie Gateson, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, One Man's Family

1890 Marc Connelly, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, playwright, One Minute Please

1883 Harold Baumgartner, cricketer, one Test South Africa vs. England 1913

1876 Frank Cavanagh, one of football's coaching greats

1874 J H "Biddy" Anderson, cricketer, one Test South Africa vs. Australia 1902

1871 Frederick Burton, Indiana, actor, One Way Passage

1868 By one vote, Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson

1868 J F "Flooi" Du Toit, cricketer, one Test South Africa 1892

1865 Godfrey Cripps, cricketer, one Test South Africa vs. England 1892, 18 and 3

1864 Louis Van Deyssel, writer, Small Republic, One Love

1861 At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel Navy is cast

1859 George Giffen, cricketer, one of Australia's greatest all-rounders

1857 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of 1st U.S. autos

1852 Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal Canada and no one die

1843 Edvard Hagerup Grieg, born in Bergen, Norway, composer, Bewitched One

1834 Delmonico's, one of New York's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee and half a pie for 12 cents

1755 Nathan Hale, hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his country

1670 August II, the Strong One, King of Poland, 355 children

1387 Charles, The Angry One, king of Navarra, 1349-87

1345 Ferdinand I, the wise one, king of Portugal, built navy

1333 Wladyslaw IV, the Short One/Great, duke/king of Poland, dies

1155 Alfonso VIII, the Noble One, king of Castilia

1122 Floris II, the fat one, count of Holland, dies

1108 Louis VI, "the Fat One," King of France, crowned

888 Charles III, the Fat One, King of Franconia/Roman emperor, dies



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