In 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride became America's first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
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Actor E. G. Marshall (1910)
Lyricist Sammy Cahn (1913)
Columnist Tom Wicker (1926)
Rock singer-composer-musician Paul McCartney (1942)
Movie reviewer Roger Ebert (1942)
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"You hear it said that fathers want their sons to be what they feel they cannot themselves be, but I tell you it also works the other way. A boy wants something very special from his father."
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Sherwood Anderson, American author and poet (1876-1941)