Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige (July 7, 1906 – June 8, 1982)
Satchel Paige, longtime Negro League star, made his Major
League debut with the Cleveland Indians, the oldest rookie
in history. “Age is a question of mind over matter,” he says.
“If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”
On May 30, 1911, Ray Harroun drove his single-seater Marmon
Wasp to victory in the inaugural Indianapolis 500, now one of
the world’s most famous motor racing competitions.
The Indiana automobile dealer Carl Fisher first proposed building
a private auto testing facility in 1906, in order to address car manufacturers’ inability to test potential top speeds of new cars
due to the poorly developed state of the public roadways.
The result was the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, built on 328
acres of farmland five miles northwest of downtown Indianapolis.
By the mid-1920s, the Indy 500 had become what it is today–a
high-paying event for the world’s most expensive cars.
Carl Graham Fisher
(January 12, 1874 – July 15, 1939)
Ray Harroun takes the checkered flag.
Ray Harroun ( 1879 – 1968)
On May 8, 1963, with the American release of Dr. No, North
American moviegoers get their first look down the barrel
of a gun—at the super-spy James Bond (codename: 007),
the immortal character created by Ian Fleming in his now-
famous series of novels and portrayed onscreen by the
relatively unknown Scottish actor Sean Connery.
Sean Connery and Ursula Andress.
Joseph Wiseman as Dr. No.
Sir Thomas Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020)
SANDY KOZEL
DiMaggio’s major-league debut came on May 3,
1936, in a game at Yankee Stadium against the
St. Louis Browns.
DiMaggio played 64 games in left field, 54 in
center field, and 20 in right field in 1936 before
taking over as the full-time center fielder in 1937.
DiMaggio struck out 39 times in 1936, the highest
season total of his career, during which he struck
out only 369 times in 6,821 at-bats.
DAVID MELENDY
With the world anxiously watching, Apollo 13, a U.S. lunar
spacecraft that suffered a severe malfunction on its journey
to the moon, safely returned to Earth on April 17, 1970.
On April 11, the third manned lunar landing mission was
launched from Florida, carrying astronauts James A. Lovell,
John L. Swigert and Fred W. Haise.
The mission was headed for a landing on the Fra Mauro
highlands of the moon. However, two days into the mission,
disaster struck 200,000 miles from Earth when oxygen tank
No. 2 blew up in the spacecraft.
Swigert reported to mission control on Earth, “Houston, we’ve
had a problem here,” and it was discovered that the normal
supply of oxygen, electricity, light and water had been disrupted.
