Donald Newcombe(June 14, 1926 – February 19, 2019), nicknamed Newk.
(Fox News) – According to a team statement, Dodgers great Don Newcombe passed away Tuesday after a lengthy illness.
Newcombe was the first winner of the Cy Young award in 1956 and also won MVP and Rookie of the Year awards.
The team called Newcombe “one of the greatest pitchers in Dodger history and one of the franchise’s final links to Brooklyn and the days of Roy Campanella and Jackie Robinson.”
In a debate between candidates for vice president of the United States, Democratic Lloyd Bentsen (left) told Republican Dan Quayle (right), "You’re no Jack Kennedy."
The Los Angeles Dodgers were winning 2-1 and Barry Bonds had four-hundred ninety-nine career home runs. Then in the bottom of the eighth inning, Bonds (above) hit a 2-0 fastball from reliever Terry Adams into McCovey Cove giving the Giants a 3-2 lead, an eventual victory, and a spectacular five-hundredth career home run.
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.
Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith retired with an NFL record 18,355 rushing yards. He was selected to eight Pro Bowls, led the NFL in rushing four seasons, and won three Super Bowl Championships. After retirement, he won the third season of Dancing with the Stars with Cheryl Burke. He rushed for over 100 yards in 45 of the 49 games that he started in for his high school football team. Emmitt Smith spent his last two NFL seasons with the Arizona Cardinals and he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010.