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2012 Event - American singer and actress Whitney Houston dies suddenly at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel in California at age 48

2002 Death - Whitney Blake, actress, Hazel, dies at 77

1994 Event - 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win

1994 Event - 21st American Music Award: Whitney Houston wins

1993 Event - Last day in 1st-class cricket for Mike Whitney, NSW vs. New Zealand

1993 Birthday - Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown

1992 Event - Last day of Test Cricket for Michael Whitney

1992 Event - Singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown marry

1992 Event - Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win vs. India

1991 Event - Test Cricket debut of Mike Whitney versus England at Old Trafford

1988 Event - 15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon and Whitney Houston

1987 Event - "Didn't We Almost Have It All," by Whitney Houston hits #1

1987 Event - 14th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie and Alabama

1986 Death - Robert Sutton Whitney, composer, dies at 82

1986 Event - 3rd MTV Awards: Whitney Houston wins

1986 Event - 13th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis and C Gayle

1982 Death - John Hay Whitney, U.S. newspaper magnate, dies at 76

1980 Event - 1st-class debut of Mike Whitney, NSW vs. Qld (2-52 and 1-39)

1979 Birthday - Ashley Whitney, born in Nashville, Tennessee, 800m freestyle relay 1996 Olympics

1978 Birthday - Whitney Metzler, 400m medley swimmer, Olympics-8th-96

1975 Death - Joan Whitney Payson, owner of New York Mets, dies at 72

1973 Birthday - Whitney Post, born in Wayland, Massachusetts, rower 1996 Olympics

1972 Death - Peter Whitney, actor (Rough Riders), dies at 55

1971 Birthday - Chris Whitney, NBA guard, Washington Wizards

1971 Birthday - Whitney Hedgepeth, 100m/200m backstroke, Olympics-2 silver-96

1971 Death - Whitney M Young, Jr., leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49

1971 Death - Whitney M. Young, American Activist

1971 Death - Whitney Young, Jr., National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria

1969 Death - Claire Whitney, silent film actress (Blind Fools), dies at 79

1963 Birthday - Whitney Houston, born in Newark, New Jersey, singer, One Moment in Time, Bodyguard

1963 Death - Alfred Whitney Griswold, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963, dies of colon cancer

1961 Event - Whitney Young, Jr. named executive director of National Urban League

1959 Birthday - Michael Roy Whitney, cricket, great NSW and Aussie lefty quick 1981-92

1952 Event - Sutro Baths, San Francisco purchased by George Whitney

1952 Birthday - A. Whitney Brown, American Comedian

1952 Event - Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss

1951 Birthday - Liz Phillips, born in New Jersey, composer, sound artist, interactive artist, creates sound installations relating to live forms, has held exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, collaborated with Merce Cunningham Dance Company

1944 Birthday - Charlie Whitney, rock guitarist, Family

1940 Death - Whitney Krakower, U.S. gangster, murderrd by "Bugsy" Siegel

1930 Birthday - Grace Lee Whitney, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, actress, Yeoman Rand-Star Trek

1921 Birthday - Whitney M. Young, Jr., civil rights leader, head of Urban League

1921 Birthday - Whitney M. Young, American Activist

1906 Birthday - Alfred Whitney Griswold, born in Morristown, New Jersey, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963

1905 Birthday - John Hay Whitney, publisher, New York Herald Trib 1961-67

1904 Birthday - Robert Whitney, Newcastle-on-Tyne England, conductor, Sospiro do Roma

1903 Birthday - Joan Whitney Payson, owner, New York Mets and horse stables

1899 Birthday - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, born in Long Island, New York, founder, Pan Am Airways

1897 Birthday - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor/art benefactor

1890 Event - Newswriter George Whitney Calhoun names Green Bay team Packers

1890 Birthday - Claire Whitney, New York, silent film actress, Blind Fools, Haunted Mine

1889 Death - Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer, dies at 50

1875 Birthday - Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney, Spanish writer, Don Quixote and Celestine

1873 Event - 1st ascent of Mount Whitney, California, 14,494'

1838 Birthday - Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer

1825 Death - Eli Whitney, American Inventor

1799 Event - Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets

1794 Event - Eli Whitney patents cotton gin

1793 Event - Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin

1793 Event - Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin

1765 Birthday - Eli Whitney, inventor, Cotton Gin

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