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2003 China sends Yang Liwei into orbit, the third country to have successfully sent a person into space

1999 Pete Conrad, "astronaut, businessman", third man to walk on the moon, dies at 69

1996 Padres third baseman Ken Caminiti is 4th unanimous winner of NL MVP

1996 1st competitive game played on turf in Holland (in third grade)

1996 Mark Waugh scores 110 vs. NZ for his third century of the World Cup

1991 Arno Breker, German sculptor (Third Reich), dies at 90

1989 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs

1985 Laffit Pincay, Jr. is third to ride 6,000th winners at Santa Anita

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

1979 Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI)

1960 Riot curtails third days play at Port-Of-Spain WI vs. England

1960 Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating

1958 U.S. Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"

1933 Margaret Laird, Commissioner, Third Church Estates

1928 Alvin Toffler, author, Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave

1922 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens, on Third Avenue New York City

1864 Battle at Ezra Chapel (Church), Georgia [Hood's Third Sortie]



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