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Happy birthday to Terrance Gore, and a mighty host of others.
Today in baseball history, in 1933 – Jimmie Foxx hits three home runs in his first three at-bats as the Philadelphia Athletics outscore the New York Yankees, 14-10. Foxx had homered his last time up the previous day to give him four consecutive home runs, and other stories as well.
Today in baseball history
:- 1961 – The Milwaukee Braves set a major-league record with four consecutive home runs in the 7th inning against Cincinnati. Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron hit back-to-back home runs off starter Jim Maloney; Joe Adcock greets reliever Marshall Bridges with another home run, and Frank Thomas sets the record.
- 1968 – Howie Bedell‘s sacrifice fly in the 5th inning ends Don Drysdale‘s record streak of 58 consecutive scoreless innings. The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 5-3.
- 1977 – Nolan Ryan notches his fourth career 19-strikeout game, pitching the first 10 innings of a game against Toronto.
- 1992 – Yankees pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for the seventh time.
Cubs Birthdays: Terrance Gore*, Tim Donahue, Tom Lee.
Today in history:
- 452 – Attila the Hun invades Italy.
- 1789 – James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives.
- 1824 – Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec.
- 1869 – Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago patents the first vacuum cleaner, calling it a “sweeping machine”.
- 1949 – Secker & Warburg publishes George Orwell‘s seminal novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, set in the totalitarian state of Oceania.
- 1968 – James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., captured.
- 1976 – Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks.
- 2002 – British-Canadian Lennox Lewis retains boxing’s WBC Heavyweight title with eighth-round knockout of American Mike Tyson at The Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 2013 – Patrick Kane scores a playoff hat-trick against the Los Angeles Kings in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals.
- 2021 National Geographic announces it is officially recognizing the South Ocean as the world’s fifth ocean.
Today in music history:
- 1964 – “The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)”, recorded by 1960s American pop singers, Jan and Dean, is released.
- 1968 – Gary Puckett and Union Gap release “Lady Will Power.”
- 1968 – Rolling Stones release “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.”
- 1969 – Guitarist Brian Jones is asked to leave the Rolling Stones, replaced by Mick Taylor.
- 1974 -Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits progressive rock group “Yes” (for the first time).
- 1979 – Wings release “Back to the Egg” album.
*pictured.
