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In 2007, Kobe Bryant becomes the fourth player in NBA history to score at least 50 points in three straight games.
In 1959, Oscar Robertson scored the first triple-double in the NCAA tournament's Final Four history. See more sports moments from this date.
In 2006, the social media website Twitter was established with the sending of the first “tweet” by co-founder Jack Dorsey, who wrote: “just setting up my twttr.”
In 1969, John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.
In 2016, Dallas Seavey won his third straight Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in a record time of 8 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes, 16 seconds.
In 1781, the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by Sir William Herschel.
In 1980, a Chicago jury found John Wayne Gacy Jr. guilty of the murders of 33 men and boys. The next day, Gacy was sentenced to death; he was executed in May 1994.
In 2020, the World Health Organization declared that the global coronavirus crisis was now a pandemic.
In 1911, President William Howard Taft ordered 20,000 troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution.
In 1963, country music performers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins along with pilot Randy Hughes died when their plane crashed near Camden, Tennessee.
Here are some of the notable people celebrating birthdays today, including Adriana Barraza, Karolina Wydra, Charlie Reid, Michael Irvin, Paul Blackthorne and Talia Balsam.
In 1968, Joe Frazier wins the vacant New York world heavyweight title with an 11th-round TKO of Buster Mathis at Madison Square Garden.
In 1932, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey.
In 1932, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey.
Here are some of the notable people celebrating birthdays today, including Aroldis Chapman, Bernadette Peters, Gilbert Gottfried, Jason Aldean, Madisen Beaty and Tasha Smith.
In 1966, Richard Petty won the rain-shortened Daytona 500 by more than a lap at a speed of 160.927 mph.
Here are some of the notable people celebrating birthdays today, including James Worthy, Barbara Babcock, Chelsea Clinton, Johnny Van Zant, Lindsey Morgan, Noah Emmerich and Timothy Spall.
In 1967, Mario Andretti, better known for his accomplishments in open-wheel and USAC competition, wins the Daytona 500 pulling away from 1965 champion Fred Lorenzen in the closing laps. It’s Andretti’s his first and only NASCAR Grand National event.
In 1998, a jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit brought by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey’s talk show for a price fall after a segment on food safety that included a discussion about mad cow disease.
Here are some of the notable people celebrating birthdays today, including Corinne Bailey Rae, Erykah Badu, Greg Rikaart, Mark Dacascos, Maz Jobrani, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Teresa Palmer.
Here are some of the notable people celebrating birthdays today, including Aziz Ansari, Ed “Too Tall” Jones, Fred Biletnikoff, Josh Gad, Michael Wilton and Niecy Nash.
Here are some of the notable people celebrating birthdays today, including Drew Barrymore, Julius Erving, James Blunt, Tom Higgenson, Lea Salonga, Kyle MacLachlan and Bill Frist.
In 2018, the U.S. women’s hockey team ends a 20-year gold medal drought by beating archrival Canada 3-2 in a shootout thriller at the Pyeongchang Olympics. Canada had won the last four Olympic gold medals.
Here are some of the notable people celebrating birthdays today, including Anthony Daniels, Aunjanue Ellis, Charlotte Church, Corbin Bleu, Jordan Peele, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Tad Kinchla.
In 2014, Mikaela Shiffrin becomes the youngest Olympic slalom gold medalist. The 18-year-old American is 0.53 seconds faster than Austria’s Marlies Schild. See more sports moments from this date: