Historical Events
1948 - Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff
1959 - "Whoop-Up" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 56 performances
1969 - Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah)
1985 - NY Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals
1987 - "Ronnies Rap" by Ron and DC Crew peaks at #93
1988 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-6
Famous Birthdays
1707 - Carl August Thielo, composer
1833 - Ricardo Palma, Peru, writer/poet (Tradiciones Peruanas)
1871 - Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer
1920 - Oscar Brand, Winnipeg Canada, folk vocalist (Draw Me a Laugh)
1973 - Kristin Godridge, Traralgon Aust, tennis star (1993 Futures-Singapore)
1979 - Jon Leicester, American baseball player
Famous Deaths
1871 - Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway and Sons) (b. 1797)
1940 - Francis Ford, cricketer (5 Tests for England v Australia 1894-95), dies
1967 - Henry Morgenthau, US minster of Finance (devaluate dollar), dies at 74
1988 - Lin[wood V] Carter, US, sci-fi writer (Lost World of Time), dies at 57
1996 - Phillip Davidson, US Army general (b. 1915)
2012 - Phil Bruns, American actor and writer, dies of natural causes at 80
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