CAMILLE BOHANNON

Sir George Ivan Morrison is a singer-songwriter and musician
from Northern Ireland whose recording career spans seven
decades. He’s 79 years old today.

TIM MAGUIRE

Melvin James Brooks (Kaminsky) is a actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright. He’s 98 today.

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Muhammad Ali, the reigning world heavyweight boxing champion, entered the combative ring of politics and culture by refusing to
serve in the United States military at the height of the Vietnam
War on this day in history, April 28, 1967.

"I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong," Ali famously said the
year before, the exact quote the source of some dispute, in a
battle that made it all the way to the United States Supreme
Court. The Vietnam War was at its heights at the time.
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Ali was convicted and given five years in prison for refusing induction in to the United States draft as mandated by the Selective Service Act.

On April 11, 1921, KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcasts the first
live sporting event on the radio, a boxing match between
Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee. Pittsburgh Daily Post
sports editor Florent Gibson calls the event, about four
months before KDKA’s Harold Arlin announces the first
Major League Baseball game broadcast on radio.

Young Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, knocked
out opponent Sonny Liston for his first world title in boxing
on this day in history, Feb. 25, 1964.

According to History.com, twenty-two-year-old Clay achieved
the unthinkable by dethroning Liston, who was then the world
heavyweight boxing champion.

Ali beat the steep odds by winning the fight in a seventh-round
technical knockout.