Born On This Day:
Walter Ray Williams turns 53 today
A professional bowler. He currently holds the record for all-time standard PBA Tour career titles (47) and total PBA earnings (over $4.3 million through the 2010-11 season). He is a seven-time PBA Player of the Year winner, and won at least one PBA Tour title in 17 consecutive seasons (1993 through 2009-10); both of these feats are also PBA records. He starred in the ten-pin bowling sports documentary A League of Ordinary Gentlemen. 
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In Memoriam:
Larry Walters died 19 years ago today
Nicknamed "Lawnchair Larry" or the "Lawn Chair Pilot", was an American truck driver who took flight on July 2, 1982, in a homemade airship. Dubbed Inspiration I, the "flying machine" consisted of an ordinary patio chair with 45 helium-filled weather balloons attached to it. Walters rose to an altitude of over 15,000 feet and floated from his point of origin in San Pedro, California, into controlled airspace near Los Angeles International Airport. 
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