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1984 Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round skates

1983 Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ

1979 Johnson brawl, Gossage sustains a sprained ligament in his left thumb

1967 June Thorburn, actress (Tom Thumb), dies in plane crash at 36

1936 Bill Wyman, England, rocker, Rolling Stones-Under My Thumb

1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Engineer's Thumb"

1883 Tom Thumb, famous small person (40"), dies of a stroke at 44

1883 Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt

1863 P. T. Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb and Mercy Lavinia Warren (New York City)

1838 Charles Stratton, General Tom Thumb, famous short person

1830 1st locomotive in U.S., "Tom Thumb," runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill


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