TODAY IN HISTORY - June 27th:

1984 - Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
988 - Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m)
2008 - Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1951 - Julia Duffy [Julia Margaret Hinds], Minneapolis, Minnesota, American actress
1975 - Tobey Maguire, American actor (Spider-Man, The Great Gatsby), born in Santa Monica, California

GOODBYE TO:

2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
2004 - George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
2012 - Don Grady [Agrati], American actor, dies from cancer at 68

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