1970 Birthday Kerrin Petty, Townshend Vt, cross country skier 1994 Olympics 1969 Birthday John Leclair, St. Albans VT, NHL forward, Team USA, Philadelphia 1968 Event WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting 1968 Event WVTA TV channel 41 in Windsor, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting 1967 Event WETK TV channel 33 in Burlington, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting 1965 Birthday Doug Burden, Rutland Vt, rower, Olympics-5th-88, 92, 96 1963 Birthday Cindy Gibb, Bennington Vt, actress, Search for Tomorrow, Youngblood 1963 Birthday Beth Chamberlin, Danville Vt, actress, Beth Spaulding-Guiding Light 1960 Birthday Matt Salinger, Windsor VT, actor, Captain America, Deadly Deception 1956 Birthday Patty Sheehan, Middlebury VT, LPGA golfer, 1994 U.S. Women's Open 1954 Event WCAX TV channel 3 in Burlington, VT (CBS) begins broadcasting 1951 Birthday Robert Cochran, Claremont Vt, skier, Olympics-1972 1950 Birthday Ernest Thompson, Bellows Fall Vt, actor, Sierra, Westside Medical 1932 Birthday Andrea Mead Lawrence, Rutland Vt, alpine slalom skier, 2 Gold Medals 1952 Olympics 1927 Event Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt) 1919 Event 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money 1901 Birthday Rudy Vallee, Vt, singer, Vagabond Dreams, My Time Is Your Time 1880 Birthday Ralph Edward Flanders, Barnet VT, Sen-VT 1872 Birthday Calvin Coolidge, Silent Cal, Plymouth Vt, R, 30th President, 1923-29 1830 Birthday Chester Alan Arthur, Fairfield Vt, R, 21st President, 1881-85 1823 Event 1st normal school in U.S. opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt 1811 Birthday John Humphrey Noyes, Vt, found Oneida Community, Perfectionists 1805 Birthday Joseph Smith, Jr., Sharon Vt, founder, Mormon Church 1794 Event 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published 1777 Event Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
