2012 Event At the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, screenwriter and filmmaker Michael Haneke wins the Palm D'Or for 'Love' 1997 Event Palm Beach National LPGA Pro-Am 1996 Event Howard Stern radio show premieres in West Palm Beach, Florida on WCLB 95.5 FM 1994 Event Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic 1993 Event Tammie Green wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic 1990 Event St. Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship 1988 Event Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs California 1987 Event 69th PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots 287 at PGA National Palm Beach 1983 Death William Demarest, actor (My 3 Sons), dies in Palm Springs at 91 1982 Death Shon Coco Palm, Jacobo JM Palm, Curacan composer, dies 1978 Birthday A. J. McLean, born in West Palm Beach, Florida, born Alexander James 'Alex' McLean, musician, singer, member of the Backstreet Boys, over 130 million albums sold 1975 Birthday Tifini Hale, born in Palm Springs, California, rocker, Party-Rodeo, That's Why 1974 Birthday Chris Mantilla, West Palm Beach, Florida, diver 1996 Olympics 1971 Birthday Ryan Hawblitzel, born in West Palm Beach, Florida, pitcher for the Colorado Rockies 1970 Birthday Doug Bochtler, born in West Palm Beach, Florida, pitcher for the San Diego Padres 1970 Birthday Keith Coogan, Palm Springs, actor, Adv in Babysitting, Hiding Out 1970 Birthday Keith Mitchell, born in Palm Springs, California, actor, Jeffrey-Waltons, Gun Shy 1969 Birthday Michelle McGann, West Palm Beach, Florida, golfer, 1995 Sara Lee Classic 1968 Event KMIR TV channel 36 in Palm Springs, California (NBC) begins broadcastng 1968 Event KPLM (now KESQ) TV channel 42 in Palm Springs, California (ABC) begins 1968 Event Mickey Wright wins LPGA Palm Beach County Golf Open 1964 Death Alan Ladd, actor (Shane), dies at 50 in Palm Springs California 1963 Birthday Dante Bichette, W Palm Beach FLA, outfielder for the Colorado Rockies 1962 Birthday Amy Read, Birmingham, Michigan, golfer, 1994 Healthsouth Palm Beach-15th 1962 Birthday Robby Thompson, W Palm Beach, Florida, infielder for the San Francisco Giants 1957 Birthday Jeff Hawkins, born in Huntington, New York, founder of Palm Computing, inventor of the Palm Pilot, founder of Handspring, inventor of Trio, author of, 'On Intelligence' 1955 Event WEAT (now WPEC) TV channel 12 in West Palm Beach, Florida (CBS) begins 1954 Event WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, Florida (NBC) begins broadcasting 1953 Birthday Diana Canova, West Palm Beach, Florida, actress, Corrine-Soap 1953 Event Jackie Pung wins LPGA Palm Springs Golf Open 1943 Birthday Dickey Betts, West Palm Beach, Florida, guitarist, Allman Bros-Ramblin' Man 1931 Birthday Goran J S Palm, Swedish poet and writer, Hudens Besok 1928 Event Hurricane hits West Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee Florida; 3,000 die 1926 Event Hurricane hits Miami and Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die 1924 Birthday Sieto Hoving, actor, Holiday in Havana, Palm Beach Story 1922 Birthday Jules P de Palm, Antilles writer 1903 Birthday Telesforo A. Palm, Curaeao, composer/pianist 1891 Birthday Edgar Palm, Curacao, pianist/composer 1887 Birthday Jacobo Palm, Curacaos pianist/organist 1880 Birthday Rudolf T Palm, Curacao, pianist/composer 1877 Birthday Raoul Dufy, France, Fauvist painter, Palm 1840 Death John H van de Palm, theologist/literature/speaker, dies at 77 1831 Birthday Jan G Palm, Curacao, bandmaster/choir master/composer 1792 Event Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce 1763 Birthday Johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education
