1997 Death Jermaine Stewart, singer, soul, pop, funk-rock genres, known for Billboard hit 'The Word is Out', dies liver cancer in Homewood, Illinois, at age 39 1991 Death Francois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), dies in Philadelphia 1991 Event Jermaine Jackson releases "Word to the Badd!!" anti Michael song 1989 Event Dan Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon 1978 Birthday Wes Bentley, born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, actor, films include 'Beloved', 'American Beauty', 'The Last Word' 1974 Event Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2 months 1972 Birthday Sandrine Holt, born in London, England, actress, model, appeared in '24' as Evelyn Martin and 'The L Word' television series 1970 Event Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC coml reference ban 1959 Birthday Jermaine Stewart, born in Columbus, Ohio, singer, soul, pop, funk-rock genres, known for Billboard hit 'The Word is Out' 1957 Birthday Danny Heep, born in San Antonio, Texas, Daniel William Heep, athlete, baseball player, outfielder, coach, played for Houston Astros, played in two World Series, 1986 with New York Mets, 1988 with Los Angeles Dodgers, head coach for University of the Incarnate Word, Texas 1952 Event Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word 1944 Birthday Herbert "Tubo" Rhoad, U.S. singer, Persuasions-Spread the Word 1941 Birthday Florinda Bolkan, Ceara Brazil, actress, Damned, Last Valley, Word 1930 Event Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it," premieres in New York City 1922 Event Queen Wilhelmina's takes Dutch throne with 119 word speech 1920 Birthday David Waller, actor, Shadowlands, Work is a 4 Letter Word 1920 Birthday Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet, Misery of the Word 1909 Event Word received, Admiral Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier 1904 Birthday Gerarda "Meik" Rueter, Dutch, sculptress, if that word exists 1900 Event 1st know occurrence of word "hillbillie" (New York Journal) 1890 Birthday Karel Capek, Czechoslovakia, writer, R U R, ; coined the word "robot" 1646 Event Mass uses death penalty for denying that Saint Copybook is God's word 1611 Event Word "telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi) 1308 Death Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher (coined the word dunce), dies at 42 1 Event Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word
