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1994: major league baseball players strike as owners want to put limits on pay. the world series ...

The 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike was the eighth and
longest
work stoppage in baseball history, as well as the fourth
in-season work stoppage in 22 years. The strike began on
August 12, 1994, and resulted in the remainder of
that season,
including the
postseason and the World Series, being canceled.

This was the first time in ninety years, since 1904, that a World
Series was not played. The strike was suspended on April 2,
1995, after 232 days, making it the longest such stoppage in
MLB history and the longest work stoppage in major league.

1994 MLB Strike. What and Why It Happened. - YouTube

Impact of 1994 Baseball Strike Still Lingers

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY IN 1939

Germany Between the Wars timeline | Timetoast timelines

On September 3, 1939, in response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland,
Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war
on Germany.

The first casualty of that declaration was not German—but the
British ocean liner Athenia, which was sunk by a German U-30
submarine that had assumed the liner was armed and belligerent.

There were more than 1,100 passengers on board, 112 of whom
lost their lives. Of those, 28 were Americans, but
President
Roosevelt
was unfazed by the tragedy, declaring that no one
was to “thoughtlessly or falsely talk of America sending its
armies to European fields.” The United States would remain
neutral.

FDR Addresses Congress - March 4, 1939 - Past Daily: News, History, Music And An Enormous Sound ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)

Wreck of U-boat's first WW2 kill - liner Athenia - 'discovered' in the Atlantic | Royal Navy
British ocean liner SS Athenia was sunk when a torpedo
from the German submarine U-30 sank her in the Western Approaches.

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THE 50TH STATE ADDED ON THIS DAY

Greetings and Aloha from Hawaii, The 50th State - Large Le… | Flickr

The modern United States received its crowning star when
President
Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation
admitting (Native spelling: Hawai‘i) into the Union as the
50th state on this day in 1959.

The president also issued an order for an American flag
featuring 50 stars arranged in staggered rows: five six-
star rows and four five-star rows. The new flag became
official July 4, 1960.

Aug. 21, 1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th state - Newspapers.com

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The Voyager 2 aboard Titan III-Centaur launch vehicle lifted off on August 20, 1977. The Voyager ...
Voyager 2 launched by a Titan-Centaur rocket.

Contemporary newspaper coverage of Voyager (2) | The Planetary Society

Daily Visual 20.08.15: Voyager 2 and the Golden Record

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RESIGNATION ANNOUNCED BY NIXON

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In an evening televised address on August 8, 1974, President
Richard M. Nixon announced his intention to become the
first president in American history to resign.

With impeachment proceedings underway against him for his involvement in the Watergate affair, Nixon was finally bowing
to pressure from the public and Congress to leave the
White
House
. 

“By taking this action,” he said in a solemn address from the
Oval Office, “I hope that I will have hastened the start of the
process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.”

RICHARD NIXON / Oregonian 1974 08 09 NIXON RESIGNS PRESIDENCY issue | eBay

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