Born: Feb. 20, 1934Auto racer 2-time USAC-CART national champion (1968,74); 3-time winner of Indy 500 (1968,75,81); retired after 1981 season; ranks 5th on all-time CART list with 35 career wins.
(Walden Robert Cassotto)singerBorn: 5/14/1936Birthplace: Singer who began as a teen idol with the rock 'n' roll hit “Splish Splash” (1958). Darin earned popularity with older audiences with the…
black activist Born: 10/22/1936Birthplace: Dallas, Tex. Seale, with Huey Newton, founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. After serving in the Air Force, Seale attended Oakland's Merritt…
chess playerDied: January 18, 2008 (Reykajvik, Iceland) Best Known as: winner of the 1972 world chess championship against Soviet world champion A chess…
singerDied: April 25, 2007 (Los Angeles, California) Best Known as: singer of the hit "Monster Mash" Singer of the hit âMonster Mash,â one of the longest…
baseball playerBorn: 10/25/1923Birthplace: Glasgow, ScotlandDied: 8/16/2010 (Savannah, Ga.) Robert Brown Thomson came to the United States at age 2 and grew up on…
(Encyclopedia) Spassky, Boris, 1937–, Soviet chess champion. A child prodigy, he became an international master at the age of 16 and in 1955, at age 18, he became an international grand master.…
Elaine Chao Akaka, Daniel Kahikina, U.S. senator Boggs, Grace Lee, activist Cayetano, Benjamin J., governor of Hawaii Chang, Ming E., business leader, rear admiral (retired) Chao,…
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