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2002 Damon Knight, science fiction writer/editor/teacher, To Serve Man, dies at 79

1997 Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (U.S. Open)

1993 James Donald, actor (In Which We Serve, Way Ahead), dies at 76

1979 Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his bullet serve and upsets top-seeded Bjorn Borg in U.S. Tennis Open quarterfinals

1976 Mark Philippoussis, Australia, tennis star, 140 MPH serve

1954 Charles Mahoney becomes 1st U.S. black to serve as a full United Nations delegate

1948 Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress

1942 U.S. Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve

1927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)

1907 Bernard Miles, British actor, In Which We Serve, Mermaid Theatre

1884 William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected"

1876 Nellie Taylor Ross, 1st woman to serve as a Governor, Wyoming, 1925-27

1215 English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country



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