1960 – High-school basketball sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points
1960 – Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on 23rd ballot
1962 – Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker’s “Twist” is impure and bans it from all Catholic schools
1974 – Bülent Ecevit becomes Prime Minister of Turkey for the 1st time
1993 – West Indies defeat Australia by one run in 4th Test at Adelaide
2014 – NFL Pro Bowl: Team Rice beats Team Sanders 22-21
1908 – Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)
1930 – A N Solomons, chairman (Singer and Friedlander)
1936 – Sal Buscema, American comic book artist
1948 – Corky Laing, rocker (Mountain)
1954 – Kim Hughes, cricketer (brilliant Australian batsman 1977-84)
1968 – Ravi Teja, Tollywood film actor
1630 – Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)
1850 – Francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies
1993 – Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (large iron sculptures), dies at 80
1998 – S P Leary, Texan Blues drummer (Muddy Waters), dies at 67
2006 – Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (b. 1920)
2016 – Colin Vearncombe, English singer-songwriter (Black-Wonderful Like), dies after a road accident at 53