Actress Elke Sommer is 70 today.

  
NBA Hall Of Famer and former Portland Trail Blazer Bill Walton is 58.

 
Singer Art Garfunkel (of Simon & Garfunkel) is now 69.

This  was Waverley Country Club in 1925

Former Portland Trail Blazer Maurice Lucas has died. He was
the Starting Forward for the Blazers when they won the 1977
Championship. Lucas had been suffering from a long illness.
He was 58.

 

It was on this date in 1960 that Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)
won his first professional fight. He beat Tunney Hunsaker in
6 rounds. Hunsaker was the Police Chief of Fayetteville,West
Virginia at the time.