Golf Central

On this day in 1967, Charlie Sifford, the first black player to gain full PGA playing rights, captured his first PGA Tour title by winning the Greater Hartford Open. A victim of the PGA’s ‘caucasian-only clause’ in its constitution, Sifford endured death threats, intimidation and discrimination in his bid to overturn the ruling.

Even Tiger Woods has paid tribute to Sifford. “If it wasn’t for Charlie,” he once said, “we wouldn’t be here.”

This is also the day that in 1940 the exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky (above) is wounded in his home in Mexico City when KGB agent Ramon Mercader sneeks up behind him and drives an ice pick into his skull.

Serves him right for having a goatee, if you ask us. Find out what happened to him tomorrow. Here’s a clue: It’s not a happy ending…

It’s Jorge Burrachaga! as they say in Tierra del Fuego to walking fashion Duffy Waldorf (46), rap genius KRS-1 (43) and the living legend that is Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant (60). Had he not passed away last week, funkster Isaac Hayes would have been 66 today...