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2001 Tony Miles, chess player, chess Grandmaster, won matches with World Chess Champions Boris Spassky, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, achieved peak rating of 2635, January 1, 1996 dies

1984 "Yes Or No" by Go-Go's peak at #84

1972 Lee McIntyre, born in Peak Hill, Australia, golfer, T3 1995 NSW Trainee Champ

1972 Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die

1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated

1955 Tony Miles, born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, chess player, chess Grandmaster, won matches with World Chess Champions Boris Spassky, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, achieved peak rating of 2635, January 1, 1996

1950 French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal

1929 Dow Jones hits a record peak of 381.17

1921 A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado

1918 44th Preakness: Charles Peak aboard Jack Hare, Jr. wins in 1:53.4

1813 Zebulon M Pike, U.S. explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in battle at 34

1808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak

1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado)

1806 A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley, Switzerland, kills 500

1779 Zebulon Montgomery Pike, explorer, Pike's Peak


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