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1991 Death - James McCallion, actor (PT 109, Big Combo), dies at 72

1987 Event - Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 pt loss)

1985 Event - Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39

1970 Event - 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (U.S. Open) (9 pt sudden death)

1966 Birthday - James "Rachel" Bolan, Pt Pleasant, New Jersey, rocker, Skid Row-Psycho Love

1955 Event - Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt

1950 Birthday - Richard Dean Anderson, Minneapolis, actor, MacGyver, Emerald Pt NAS

1925 Birthday - Julie Harris, Grosse Pt, Michigan, actress, Bell Jar, East of Eden

1886 Event - 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC

1882 Event - Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo

1881 Event - Greatest Show On Earth was formed by PT Barnum and James A Bailey

1869 Event - Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinental RR

1865 Event - PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport

1853 Event - 1st electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos)

1780 Event - British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Pt

1580 Birthday - Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Belgian chemist, found boiling pt temp









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