Famous Birthday
On this day in 1959, John McEnroe, American tennis player who established himself as a leading competitor in the late 1970s and the ’80s. He also was noted for his poor behaviour on court, which resulted in a number of fines and suspensions and, on January 21, 1990, in his default at the Australian Open, was born in Wiesbaden, West Germany [now in Germany]). Source: Britannica.