Fran Capo currently holds the Guinness record as the fastest talking woman in the world — 603.32 words in 54.2 seconds. Here she demonstrates her talent as well as the frenetic personality that unsurprisingly accompanies her unique skills…
Johnny Cash took only one music lesson, after which his teacher told him, “Always do it your way.”
In the traditional aboriginal Canadian version of Lacrosse, each team consisted of about 100 to 1,000 men on a field that stretched from about 500 meters to 3 kilometers long. These lacrosse games lasted from sunup to sundown for two to three days straight.
1843 - Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy
1874 - Ontario Agricultural College founded
1917 - The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1957 - US Surgeon Gen Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
1987 - 1st time in 20 years a delegation from USSR lands in Israel
1992 - Betsy King wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
1803 - Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841)
1905 - John C F, son of English King George V
1929 - Pavle Merku, composer
1962 - Julio César Chávez, Mexican boxer
1964 - Judi Evans Luciano, Montebello, actress (Paulina Cory-Another World)
1970 - Marsha Guialdo, San Juan Trinidad, 100m hurdler
1545 - Maria Manuela van Portugal, niece of Spanish king Philip II, dies
1973 - Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Wolfman), dies after long illness at 66
1979 - Minnie Ripperton, [Andrea Davis], singer (Lovin' You), dies at 30
1994 - Henk Terlingen, radio/TV-host (Sport in Image), dies at 52
1995 - Michael Clegg, naturalist/broadcaster, dies at 62
1998 - Serge Lemoyne, French Canadian artist (b. 1941)
