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On this day, in 1996, Dottie Pepper won the Safeway LPGA Golf Championship with a 14-under par, two stroke victory over Chris Johnson.

Dottie Pepper was born in 1965 in New York and joined the LPGA Tour in 1988. She won 17 times on the Tour between 1989 and 2000, including two majors. Dottie competed in the Solheim Cup six times, memorably causing a furore in the 1998 event at Muirfield by whipping the crowd into a frenzy just as Marie Laure de Lorenzi was about to make a crucial chip. She retired in 2004 following injury problems.

Also on this day, in 1504, Michelangelo's David was unveiled in Florence. A masterpiece of Renissance sculpture, its greatest moment came in the early 1990's when it was the subject of an episode of The Simpsons.

Meanwhile, in 1888, the first ever football league matches were played. Confusion reigned as it was all black and white in them days and no one could tell who was on whose team.

And it's Daler Nazarov! As they say in Tajikstan, to; Pink themed singer...Pink (28), The Office's Martin 'Tim' Freeman (36) and evergreen Welsh footballer, Gary Speed (38). It would also have been Peter Seller's 82nd birthday today had he not died of a heart attack in 1980.