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On this day in 1935, Walter Hagen won the Gasparilla Open by one stroke, beating Clarence Clark. It was the be the last individual title of Hagen's storied career at the age of 42. Hagen finished off finished with a pair of birdies, including a 45-foot bomb on the last, to seal the win.

On this day in 1947, the state of Prussia ceased to exist. Two years earlier, Turkey declared war on Germany. In 1836, Samuel Colt received an American patent for the Colt revolver, and on this day in 1942, a UFO flying over Los Angeles caused a blackout. Make of that what you will...

And it's Francisco Fernández Ochoa! as they say in Spain, to wrestling legend Ric Flair (b.1949), CSS lead singer, Lovefoxxx aka Luísa Hanaê Matsushita, Spanish singer, Julio Iglesias, Jr. (b.1973), not-so-funny comedian Lee Evans (b.1964) and Doug Yule (b.1947) of The Velvet Underground fame.