On This Day.....

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1968 - The 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Mexico, were officially opened.

1968 - Australian actor Hugh Jackman was born.

1968 - Equatorial Guinea declares its independence from Spain.

 

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1968 - Didier Deschamps, captain of the 1998 FIFA World Cup- and the 2000 UEFA European Championship-winning France teams, was born.

1996 - Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee was charged with attacking a cameraman that was trying to take pictures of him and his wife Pamela Anderson-Lee.

 

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1968 - During the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, 200m runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos were kicked out of the United States team for performing a Black Power salute (one fist raised) during the medal presentation.

1970 - Mehmet Scholl, winner of the 1996 U.E.F.A. European Championship with Germany, was born.

 

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1958 - Danish-American actor Viggo Mortensen was born.

1961 - Welsh footballing great Ian Rush was born.

1977 - A plane carrying the band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with his wife, backup singer Cassie Gaines, the assistant road manager, pilot and co-pilot.

 

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1964 - Zambia, as Northern Rhodesia it was known then, declares its independence from the United Kingdom.

1964 - The 1964 Olympic Games were officially closed. The United States wins a total of 90 medals - 36 gold, 26 silver, 28 bronze.

1985 - English footballer Wayne Rooney was born.

 

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1967 - Former Velvet Revolver singer Scott Richard Kline a.k.a. Scott Weiland was born.

1968 - The 1968 Olympic Games were declared closed. The United States returned home with a total of 107 medals (45 gold, 28 silver, 34 bronze).

1991 - Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.

 

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I'm a couple of hours late on this one:
1960 - Diego Armando Maradona, winner of the 1979 F.I.F.A. U-20 World Cup and the 1986 F.I.F.A. World Cup with Argentina, was born.

1970 - Salvatore "Tory" Belleci of the Mythbusters was born.

 

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1971 - Luís Figo, winner of the 1989 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and the 1991 FIFA U-20 World Cup with Portugal, was born.

1978 - Boston played its first show in Boston, Massachusetts.

 

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1959 - Canadian singer and photographer Bryan Adams was born.

1980 - German footballer Christoph Metzelder was born.

 

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1986 - Metallica performed their first live concert with Jason Newstead.

2005 - The original "Guitar Hero" game was released in North America.

 

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1974 - American actor of Italian-German extraction Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born.

1975 - Angola declares its independence from Portugal.

1983 - German footballer Philipp Lahm was born.

 

[afraidtoshooteddie]

Didn't something else happen today too? :?

 

[Frenchy]

Didn't something else happen today too? :?

end of WWI 8)

 

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1966 - Rammstein keyboardist Christian 'Flake' Lorenz was born.

1974 - English footballer Paul Aaron Scholes was born.

 

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1974 - English footballer Paul Aaron Scholes was born.

:| .oO(Ginger Tosser)

 

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1962 - Metallica guitarist Kirk Lee Hammett was born.

1963 - Peter Schmeichel, captain of Denmark's 1992 U.E.F.A. European Championship-winning team, was born.

 

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1943 - Lebanon gains independence from France.

1956 - The 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, were opened.

1976 - German footballer Torsten Frings was born.

 

[afraidtoshooteddie]

1991 - Eric Carr (KISS drummer) died of cancer at 41. :cross: & Freddie Mercury of Queen died of AIDS complications at the age of 45.
:cross:

 

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1975 - Suriname gains independence from Holland.

1981 - Xabier Alonso Olano a.k.a. Xabi, winner of this year's UEFA European Championship with Spain, was born.

 

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1951 - Former Boston guitarist Barry Goudreau was born.

1953 - During the Korean War, North Korean and Chinese troops force their United Nations adversaries to retreat from North Korea.

1973 - Welsh footballer Ryan Joseph Giggs was born.