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The third Winter Olympic Games open in Lake Placid, New York. They were the first games held in the US and showed the world that the US could host the games as well as European nations.

Actor, director, race car driver, and philanthropist Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

Jay Hanna “Dizzy” Dean was born on January 16, 1910, in Lucas, Arkansas.

Baseball pitcher Walter “The Big Train” Johnson was born on November 6, 1887, in Humboldt, Kansas. Johnson’s family moved to Olinda, California in 1902. 

On September 30, 1972, Roberto Clemente scored his 3,000th hit on the very last regular season at-bat of his career.

Baseball legend Theodore Samuel Williams was born on August 30, 1918, in San Diego, California. 

On July 19, 1980, the Summer Olympic Games opened in Moscow, Soviet Union.  They were the first Olympics to be held in Eastern Europe.

On July 8, 1993, the first Summer World University Games to be hosted in the US opened in Buffalo, NY. 

Olympic swimmer Helene Emma Madison was born on June 19, 1913, in Madison, Wisconsin.