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2000 Frank Wills, often unemployed security guard, he the Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate Building had been burgled in June 1972, dies at 52
1998 Helen Wills Moody Roark, tennis ace (31 Grand Slams), dies at 92 1981 Mariners manager Maury Wills is fired and replaced by Rene Lachemann 1981 Mariners manager Maury Wills is suspended for 2 games after ordering Seattle's grounds crew to enlarge batter's boxes by one foot 1980 Seattle Mariners replace manager Darrell Johnson with Maury Wills 1979 Salli Wills, Australia, gymnast 1996 Olympics 1978 Chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), dies at 75 1977 Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2 1975 Bob Wills, actor (Lone Prairie), dies at 69 1973 Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship 1967 Elexa Wills/Orrange, Orange Texas, long jumper/triple jumper 1963 Beverly Wills, actress (Beverly-I Married Joan), dies at 29 1962 Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills is named NL's MVP 1962 Los Angeles Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to steal 100 bases (en route to 104) 1962 Los Angeles Dodger Maury Wills steals record setting #97 on his way to 104 1962 Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down 1962 All star MVP: Maury Wills (Los Angeles Dodgers) 1935 Susan Brownmiller, Brooklyn, feminist author, Against Our Wills 1932 Maury Wills, baseball shortstop, Los Angeles Dodgers, NL MVP 1962 1929 43rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (64 62) 1928 John Wills, lord-lt of Avon England 1927 41st U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64) 1926 Arthur Wills, born in England, composer, professor at Royal Academy of Music in London, Director of Music at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England, composed music for the organ and secular music based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 1926 Tennis star Suzanne Lenglen beats Helen Wills in their only match 1926 Suzanne Lenglen defeats Helen Wills in Tennis at Cannes France 1925 39th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats K McKane (36 60 62) 1924 38th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (61 63) 1923 37th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61) 1922 36th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (63 61) 1906 Bob Wills, born in Texas, actor, Lone Prairie, Tornado in the Saddle 1903 Chill Wills, born in Seagoville, Texas, actor, Fronteir Circus, Rounders 1892 Donald Wills Douglas, U.S., aircraft pioneer, McConnell Douglas 1854 Oscar Wilde, Fingal O'Flahertie Wills, Dublin, Pic of Dorian Gray |
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