Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr.
Hall of Fame shortstop and third baseman who played his entire 21-year career
with the Baltimore Orioles and earned the nickname Iron Man after setting the
MLB record for most consecutive games played with 2,632.
He was a 19-time All-Star, 2-time American League MVP, 2-time Gold Glove
winner, and League MVP, 2-time Gold Glove winner, and 8-time Silver Slugger
winner. His father and grandfather both played for the Orioles.
The hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev ended on
this day in 1991. The uprising that led to the collapse was led by Russian
federation President Boris Yeltsin.
Boris Yeltsin (left) and Mikhail Gorbachev.
It was on this day in 1940.
Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein)
(November 7, 1879 – August 21, 1940)
Nat Turner, a former slave, led a violent insurrection in Virginia on
this day in 1831. He was later executed.
Hawaii became the 50th state on this day in 1959. United States
President Eisenhower (seated/center) also issued the order for
the 50 star flag.
William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984)
Count Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and
composer who introduced several generations of listeners to the Big
Band sound and left an influential catalog.
Kenneth Ray Rogers is 79 years old today.
Kenny Rogers has sold more than 100 million albums over the course of his
career. His 1970s albums The Gambler and Kenny went 5x Platinum and 3x
Platinum, respectively. In 2013, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall
of Fame. He joined his first band,The Scholars, in the mid-1950s, but the band
dissolved after their frontman left to go solo.
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The Mongol conqueror Ghengis Khan died on this day in 1227.
Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
on this day in 1920. The Amendment guaranteed the right of all
American women to vote.
On this day in 1963, James Meredith graduated from the University
of Mississippi. He was the first black man to accomplish this feat.
October 2015.
James Howard Meredith turned 84 in June.
Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker
(August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972)
Hall of Fame MLB outfielder Roberto Clemente played for the Pittsburgh
Pirates from 1955 to 1972. He was named National League MVP in 1966
and was a 2-time World Series Champion, winning World Series MVP
honors in 1971. He died tragically in a 1972 plane crash while flying to
Nicaragua to tend to earthquake victims. Clemente would deliver milk
cans in order to help make ends meet while growing up.
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Robert Redford in The Twilight Zone episode “Nothing in The Dark”
(1959).
Charles Robert Redford Jr. is 81 years old today.
Actor and director Robert Redford founded the Sundance Film Festival. He starred
in classic films such as All the President’s Men (1976), The Sting (1973), and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) . His 1980 directorial debut, Ordinary People, received the Academy Award for Best Picture and earned him the Academy Award
for Best Director.
American Graffiti premiered on August 2 at the Locarno International Film
Festival in Switzerland and was released on August 11, 1973 in the U.S. The
George Lucas film received widespread critical acclaim and was nominated
for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
A young Harrison Ford is among the cast members of this coming-
of-age comedy/drama film.
Harrison Ford turned 75 July 13.
At age 21.
Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017)
(FoxNews) – It was learned today, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor
Sam Shepard, died at his Kentucky home Thursday, July 27th.
A family spokesperson said the Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author
whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in
the American West, died from complications related to Lou Gehrig’s disease,
or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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