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1987 Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title

1983 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of U.S.S.R. jerks a record 261 kg

1971 Doug Weight, Warren, Michigan, NHL center, Edmonton Oilers, Team USA 98

1967 Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgaria, Turkish weight lifter, Oly-gold-1988

1963 David Moore, U.S. feather weight boxer, dies at 29

1956 Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB

1954 Peter B Cortese of U.S. achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania

1948 Norair Nurikian, Bulgari, bantam weight, Olympics gold 1972, 76

1946 Weight Watchers forms

1945 Aleksey Vakhonin, U.S.S.R., bantam weight, Olympics gold 1964

1928 Theodore Richards, U.S. chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies

1923 Jean Nidetch, born in Brooklyn, nutritionist founder, Weight Watchers

1907 Proclamation sets fineness and weight of silver and bronze coins of Canada

1890 George Dixon becomes 1st black boxing champ (Bantam weight)

1848 Freiherr Jons J Berzelius, Swedish chemist (atomic weight), dies at 68

1779 Freiherr Jons J Berzelius, Swedish chemist, atomic weight



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