Former world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali has pneumonia . The illness was discovered quickly , Ali 's spokesman says . He is expected to be out of the hospital soon , the spokesman says . - Born: - John Lennon, English singer-songwriter, in Liverpool (d. 1980) - Died: - William F. Buckley, American journalist and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York since 1945 (b. 1901)
Former world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali has pneumonia . The illness was discovered quickly , Ali 's spokesman says . He is expected to be out of the hospital soon , the spokesman says . Ali became heavyweight world champion for the first time in 1964 .