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deke \ deek \ , verb;
- Ice Hockey . to deceive (an opponent) by a fake. noun:
- Ice Hockey . a fake or feint intended to deceive a defensive player, often drawing that player out of position.
Origin: Deke originally was a Canadian English term. It's a shortening of decoy that arose in the 1950s.
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Holiday
History
- World Penguin Day
History
- guillotine: highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier was beheaded in France's first public execution-by-guillotine (1792)
- Suez Canal: ground was broken on the waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea (1859)
- license plates: were required on cars in New York State — the first time in the US (1901)
- United Nations: delegates met in San Francisco to organize the international body (1945)
- double helix: in the magazine Nature, Francis Crick and James D. Watson published their "Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid," which described the structure of DNA (1953)
Birthdays
- Oliver Cromwell 1599 - English military and political leader
- Guglielmo Marconi 1874 - Italian inventor (radio telegraph system)
- Edward R. Murrow 1908 - American broadcast journalist
- Earl Bostic 1913 - Musician
- Sal Franzella 1915 - Musician
- Jerry Barber 1916 - Golfer
- Ella Fitzgerald 1918 - Vocalist, known as "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella"
Robert Q. Lewis 1920 - Radio and television personality, game show host, actor- Albert King 1923 - Musician
- Anita Bjorak 1923 - Actress
- Melissa Hayden 1923 - Dancer
- Vassar Clements 1928 - Musician
- Paul Mazursky 1930 - Actor, director
- Willis "Gator" Jackson 1932 - Saxaphonist
- Meadowlark Lemon 1932 - Basketball player, Harlem Globetrotters
- Jerry Leiber 1933 - Songwriter
- Anthony Lukas 1933 - Journalist, author
- Al Pacino 1940 - Actor
- Stu Cook 1945 - Musician (CCR)
- Bjorn Ulvaeus 1945 - Musician (Abba)
- Talia Shire 1946 - Actress ("The Godfather", "Rocky" film series)
- Jeffrey De Munn 1947 - Actor ("The Green Mile", "The Shawshank Redemption")
- Michael Brown 1949 - Musician (The Left Banke)
- Hank Azaria 1964 - Actor
- Andy Bell 1964 - Musician (Erasure)
- James Barbour 1965 - Actor, singer ("A Tale of Two Cities")
- Eric Avery 1965 - Musician (Jane's Addiction)
- Jane Clayson 1967 - Television host, journalist, author
- Renée Zellweger 1969 - Actress
- Jason Lee 1970 - Actor ("My Name is Earl")
- Emily Bergl 1975 - Actress ("The Rage: Carrie 2")
- Tim Duncan 1976 - Basketball player
- Sara Paxton 1988 - Actress
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