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1991 Event - Mike Lerch of Princeton ties NCAA record with 370 receiving yards

1970 Event - Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton

1967 Birthday - Barbara Byrne, Princeton, New Jersey, rower 1996 Olympics

1964 Event - Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton

1963 Birthday - Randy Wood, Princeton, NHL left wing for the Dallas Stars

1961 Birthday - Jon Tenney, born in Princeton, New Jersey, actor, lead role in television series, Brooklyn South, appeared in Fools Rush In, Nixon, was married to Terri Hatcher

1961 Birthday - David Leavitt, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, writer, gay literature, professor at Princeton, author of, 'The Lost Language of Cranes', 'The Body of Jonah Boyd', 'The Indian Clerk'

1960 Birthday - Lynn Jennings, Princeton, New Jersey, 5k runner

1959 Birthday - Bebe Neuwirth, Princeton, New Jersey, actress, Lilith-Cheers, Damn Yankees

1959 Birthday - Michael E Knight, Princeton, New Jersey, actor, Date with Angel, All My Child

1958 Birthday - Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Princeton, New Jersey, country vocalist, This Shirt

1951 Event - 17th Heisman Trophy Award: Dick Kazmaier, Princeton (HB)

1948 Birthday - Rod Grams, born in Princeton, Minnesota, Representative-R-Minnesota 1993 - 1995, Senator-R-Minnesota 1995 - 2001

1944 Event - U.S. aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines

1944 Birthday - Paul Lansky, born in New York, composer, electronic music, computer music language pioneer, studied with George Perle and Milton Babbitt, professor of music at Princeton University

1938 Event - Rugers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 years as Rutgers Stad dedicated

1937 Death - John Gresham Machen, Presbyterian theologian, professor, New Testament, Princeton Seminary, formed Orthodox Presbyterian Church, dies of pneumonia at age 55

1922 Event - 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale)

1920 Birthday - Earl Kim, born in Dinuba, California, Korean-American composer, professor at Princeton and Harvard, studied with Roger Sessions, Arnold Schoenberg, Ernest Bloch

1905 Event - 26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record)

1882 Event - Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton New Jersey

1881 Birthday - John Gresham Machen, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Presbyterian theologian, professor, New Testament, Princeton Seminary, formed Orthodox Presbyterian Church

1876 Event - Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association

1876 Event - 1st U.S. intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, New York; Princeton wins

1873 Event - Columbia Princeton Rutgers and Yale set rules for collegiate football

1869 Event - 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)

1862 Event - Battle of Princeton, West Virginia, ends, about 128 casualities

1844 Event - 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes

1844 Death - Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton

1844 Death - Thommas W. Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton

1777 Event - Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey

1756 Event - Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University

1746 Event - Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter













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