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Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron is 82 today.

The Sporting News ranked the "Hammer" fifth on its "100 Greatest Baseball
Players" list. After learning to play by hitting bottle caps with sticks he found
in the street, Aaron led his high school team to the Mobile Negro High School
Championship two consecutive years.

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)

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Oprah Gail Winfrey is 62 today.

Winfrey was crowned Miss Black Tennessee while in college and began
co-anchoring the evening news when she was nineteen. She became
the world’s first female black billionaire and the richest self-made
American woman. She had a net worth of $2.9 billion in 2013.

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The crew of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster.

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Douglas MacArthur
(January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964)
 

           

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