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1992

Jerry Rice breaks the record for most career touchdowns

Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers caught his 101st career touchdown reception, breaking the record for most career touchdowns previously held by Steve Largent. Rice became a star wide receiver for the 49ers, a team that would dominate professional football throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s.

1976

Kitty O'Neil sets a record for land speed by a female driver

In 1976 in southeastern Oregon's Alvord Desert, O'Neil set the land-speed record for female drivers. She piloted a hydrogen peroxide powered three-wheeled rocket car built by Bill Fredrick called the “SMI Motivator”. It reached an average speed of 512.710 mph, with a peak speed of 621 miles per hour.

1955

Baseball Hall of Famer Honus Wagner dies

Johannes Peter Wagner was a German-American baseball shortstop who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1897 to 1917, almost entirely for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He died at the age of 81, and he is buried at Jefferson Memorial Cemetery in the South Hills area of Pittsburgh.

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