1999 The London Eye, the world's largest Ferris wheel, opens by the banks of the Thames
1989 Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live
1986 Patricia Wheel, actress (Christine-Woman to Remember), dies at 42
1975 "Wheel Of Fortune," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft
1957 Vanna White, [Rosich], N Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, TV host, Wheel of Fortune
1955 Rolf Benirschke, Boston, NFL place kicker/TV host, Wheel of Fortune
1954 Bob Goen, TV host, Wheel of Fortune, Entertainment Tonight
1947 Jonathan Kaplan, Paris, France, director, Heart Like a Wheel
1947 Saskia, [Trudy van den Berg], singer, S and Serge, Spinning Wheel
1946 Pat Sajak, Chicago, TV host, Wheel of Fortune, Pat Sajak Show
1946 Bonnie Bedelia, [Culkin], New York City, actress, Die Hard, Heart Like a Wheel
1943 Charles Winfield, Penn, rocker, Blood Sweat and Tears-Spinning Wheel
1927 Isadora Duncan, dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel
1927 [Herman] Junior Parker, rocker, Driving Wheel, In the Dark
1919 Bernard Drukker, Dutch organist/pianist/orch leader, Devil's Wheel
1913 Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim
1908 New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia) begins in New York City George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
1896 George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor (Ferris wheel), dies
1893 1st Ferris wheel premieres, Chicago's Columbian Exposition
1859 George Washington Gale Ferris, engineer/inventor, Ferris Wheel
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