RETIRED BOXING CHAMP IS 69 TODAY

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Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.) is a former boxer and three-time World Heavyweight Champion, who is widely considered one of the greatest heavyweight championship boxers. As an amateur, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. After turning professional, he went on to become the first boxer to win the lineal Heavyweight Championship three times.

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COMEDIAN JIM CARREY IS 49 TODAY

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Jim Carrey began his career in stand-up comedy in 1979. After
meeting Damon Wayans he landed a role on the sketch comedy
In Living Color. The series ran on the Fox Network from 1990 to1994.

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           Jim Carrey in one of his various roles on the  show

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FORMER RACE CAR DRIVER A.J. FOYT IS 76

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A. J. (Anthony Joseph) Foyt is the first driver to win the Indianapolis 500 four
times. In 1960 he scored his first professional victory in a U.S. Automobile
Club (USAC) midget car race in Kansas City, Mo.
 Foyt has been inducted
into numerous motorsports halls of fame. Since his retirement from
active racing, he has owned A. J. Foyt Enterprises, which has teams
in CART, IRL, and NASCAR.
  

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           A .J. Foyt behind the wheel of his winning midget race car in 1960

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HORROR-MEISTER JOHN CARPENTER IS 63 TODAY

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John Carpenter, film director, screenwriter, producer, and composer
is
most associated with horror and science fiction films such as his
1978 big hit, Halloween that helped give birth to the slasher film. The
theme from this classic is one of the most recognizable to this day. 

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THE THING (1982) is a remake ot the 1951 Howard Hawks film,
The Thing From Another World.

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JAMES EARL JONES HAS TURNED 80

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James Earl Jones, a multi-award-winning actor of stage and
screen is best known for providing his deep voice for Darth 
Vader in the Star Wars franchise. His first big role was the
part of boxer Jack Jefferson in the film version of the
Broadway play The Great White Hope, 1967.

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James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope

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Jones as B-52 bombardier Lt. Zogg in Dr. Strangelove

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