SANDY KOZEL

Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021)

On April 23, 1954, Hank Aaron knocked out the first home run
of his Major League Baseball career. Twenty years later, Aaron
becomes baseball’s new home run king when he broke Babe
Ruth’s long-standing record of 714 career homers.

A native of Mobile, Alabama, Aaron  began his professional
baseball career in 1952 in the Negro League and joined the
Milwaukee Braves of the major leagues in 1954, eight years
after Jackie Robinson had integrated baseball. Aaron,
nicknamed "Hammer", was the last Negro League player
to compete in the majors.

CAMILLE
BOHANNON

Sir George Ivan Morrison is 77 years old today.

Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-
songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose
recording career spans six decades. He has
won two Grammy Awards.

James Riddle Hoffa
(born February 14, 1913 – disappeared July 30, 1975)
(declared dead July 30, 1982)

Six months after the congress of the Republic of Texas accepted
U.S. annexation of the territory, Texas was admitted into the
United States as the 28th state.

Debating Texas Annexation.

On the morning of July 31, 1975, James Riddle Hoffa, one of
the most influential American labor leaders of the 20th century,
was officially reported missing after he failed to return home
the previous night. Though he is popularly believed to have
been the victim of a Mafia hit, conclusive evidence was never
found and Hoffa’s fate remains a mystery to this day.