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Honus Wagner (1874)
Alain Prost (1955)
Eddie Murphy (1956)

February 24, 1990:
Tony Conigliaro, forrmer Boston Red Sox baseball player dies of kidney failure at age 45. He was the youngest player to win a homer title and to hit 100 home runs. A near-fatal, vision-damaging beaning by the Angels' Jack Hamilton in 1967 that hurt his Hall of Fame chances, he hit 36 homers in 1970, his last productive season. In 1982, he suffered a heart attack which left him incapacitated.

February 24, 1982:
Edmonton's 21 year old center Wayne Gretzky breaks Phil Esposito's single-season NHL scoring record against the Buffalo Sabres in Buffalo. Espositio scrored 76 goals in 78 games for Boston in 1970-71. Gretzky scores three goals in the game, all in the final seven minutes. He ends the season with an awesome total of 92 goals. Experts call this the equivalent to a 70 home run season.