1993 Event Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs 1992 Death Mark Heard, Christian musician, dies at 41 of a heart attack 1989 Event Lewis/Everett/Burrell/Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38) 1986 Event NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated 1967 Event Gladys Knight and Pips releases "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" 1961 Event FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard 1959 Event Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles) 1950 Death Lew Lehr, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), dies at 54 1947 Event British transfer Heard and McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia 1946 Birthday Carmine Appice, musician, Have You Heard, Keep on Rolling 1945 Birthday John Heard, actor, Cat People, Cutter's Way, CHUD 1944 Birthday John Heard, actor, Pelican Brief, CHUD, Radio Flyer, Big 1943 Event Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio 1940 Event "Double or Nothing," a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Net 1939 Event Final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard on radio 1936 Event "Green Hornet" radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit 1935 Event Bob Hope 1st heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue" 1934 Event "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show 1932 Event "Adv of Charlie Chan" 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network 1908 Birthday Cal Tinney, Oklahoma, comedian, Stop Me If You Heard This One 1895 Birthday Lew Lehr, Philadelphia, comedian, Stop Me if I heard this One 1895 Event William Heard, AME minister and educator, named minister to Liberia 1892 Birthday Ernst van Raalte, lawyer, Seen, heard... wrote 1879 Event 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood) 1775 Event Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"