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2004 "Paul ""Red"" Adair", Oil well fire expert, Hellfighters, dies at 88

1987 Jessica McClure rescued 58 hours after falling 22' into a well shaft

1987 In Midland, Texas 1 -year-old Jessica McClure falls 22' (7m) down a well

1986 Jessica McClure, baby trapped in Texas well in 1988

1985 Exploratory well at Ranger Tx, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil

1975 T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), dies at 64

1973 President Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"

1972 Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well)

1962 Terrence Trent D'Arby, born in New York City, rock vocalist, Wishing Well

1951 Dougie Thompson, rocker, Supertramp-Bloody Well Right

1948 Jeremy Spencer, rock guitarist, Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well

1946 Bob Welch, rock vocalist and guitarist, Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well

1944 Jack L[aurence] Chalker, U.S., sci-fi author, Saga of Well World

1910 T-Bone Walker, Linden, Texas, blues guitarist, Funky Town, Well Done

1904 John Millington Synges "Well of Saints," premieres in Dublin

1902 Godfrey Kenton, actor, Well's Theater

1859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake

1819 Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive U.S. oil well

1818 John van Well, choreographer/mime (Pierrot), dies at 44

1815 1st natural gas well in U.S. is discovered



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