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.
SANDY KOZEL
The Mount Vesuvius eruption killed approximately 20,000 people
and much of the area was buried in volcanic ash.
It happened on this day in 1814.
On this day in 2006.
The planet Pluto was reclassified as a "dwarf planet" by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Pluto’s status was changed due to the IAU’s
new rules for an object qualifying as a planet. Pluto met two of the three
rules because it orbits the sun and is large enough to assume a nearly
round shape. However, since Pluto has an oblong orbit and overlaps the
orbit of Neptune it disqualified Pluto as a planet.
On this day in 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly
across the U.S. non-stop. The trip from Los Angeles, CA to Newark,
NJ, took about 19 hours in her Lockheed Vega (above).
Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Model 5B Vega, NR7952, on display at
the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum.
On this day in 1989, Pete Rose, the manager of the Cincinnati Reds,
was banned from baseball for life after being accused of gambling
on baseball.
Former Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose at the start of a
news conference at Riverfront Stadium after being given his
lifetime suspension from baseball.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
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.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
Elvis Presley died at the age of 42 in Memphis, TN. of coronary
arrhythmia on this day in 1977.
The Graceland viewing of Elvis.
It was on this day in 1948.
George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948)
Sports Illustrated was published for the first time on this day in
1954. It was claimed that 250,000 subscriptions had been sold
before the first issue came off of the presses.
Known as “The Queen of Pop", Madonna Louise Ciccone is 59 years
young today.
Madonna grew up in an Italian-American household and was a straight A
student, as well as a cheerleader, in high school. After earning a degree
from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, she
moved to New York City to pursue dance.
SANDY KOZEL
On this day in 1961, Berlin was divided by a barbed wire fence to halt the flight
of refugees. Two days later work on the Berlin Wall began.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016)
Infamous Cuban dictator and revolutionary Fidel Castro came to power in
1959 and served as his country’s Prime Minister until 1976 and its President
from 1976 to 2008.
Present day Mexico City was captured by Spanish conqueror
Hernando Cortez from the Aztec Indians on this day in 1521.
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980)
Iconic director Alfred Hitchcock is known as The Master of Suspense
for his classic films such as Psycho (1960), Rear Window (1954), North
by Northwest (1959), Vertigo (1958), and The Birds ( 1965). As one of
the most influential filmmakers of all-time, he directed over 50 feature
films.
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William Bendix from “Lifeboat”. Hitchcock’s obligatory cameo is
shown in a newspaper ad showing his dramatic weight loss from
dieting.
On this day in 1995.
This 1952 Mickey Mantle Topps "rookie" is
the most valuable post-war card.
