This Day In History
- 1809 Composer Franz Joseph Haydn died in Vienna, Austria.
- 1819 Poet Walt Whitman was born in West Hill, N.Y.
- 1859 What was the sport of baseball originally called? This is not a trick question. On this day in 1859 the Philadelphia Athletics were formally organized to play the game of Town Ball. Baseball didn’t come into being until almost 20 years later.
- 1910 The Union of South Africa was founded.
- 1913 The 17th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was declared in effect.
- 1916 British and German fleets fought the Battle of Jutland off Denmark during World War I.
- 1961 South Africa became an independent republic.
- 1962 Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel for his role in the Holocaust.
- 1970 An earthquake in Peru killed tens of thousands of people.
- 1977 The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was completed after three years of work.
- 1989 House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, dogged by questions about his ethics, announced he would resign.
- 1990 A little summer replacement TV show named "Seinfeld" debuted.
- 1991 Leaders of Angola's two warring factions signed a peace treaty, ending a 16-year civil war.
- 1994 The United States announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.
- 2000 Bandleader Tito Puente died at age 77.
- 2002 The World Cup soccer tournament opened in Asia for the first time with a match held in South Korea, which co-hosted the event with Japan.
- 2003 Olympic Park bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph was arrested outside a grocery store in Murphy, N.C.
- 1859 What was the sport of baseball originally called? This is not a trick question. On this day in 1859 the Philadelphia Athletics were formally organized to play the game of Town Ball. Baseball didn’t come into being until almost 20 years later.
- 1819 Walt Whitman (poet: Leaves of Grass, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, Passage to India, O Captain! My Captain!; died Mar 26, 1892)
- 1857 Pope Pius XI (Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti) (259th pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1922-1939]; died Feb 10, 1939)
- 1894 Fred Allen (John Florence Sullivan) (comedian: radio star: Allen’s Alley, The Fred Allen Show, The Linit Bath Club Revue; died Mar 17, 1956)
- 1898 Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (clergyman: radio ministry; author and syndicated newspaper column: The Power of Positive Thinking; died Dec 24, 1993)
- 1908 Don Ameche
- 1912 Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson (U.S. Senator from Washington; died Sep 1, 1983)
- 1923 Prince Rainer III (head of state: Monaco; married American film star, Grace Kelly)
- 1930 Clint Eastwood (Jr.)
- 1943 Sharon Gless (Emmy Award-winning actress: Cagney & Lacey)
- 1943 Joe Namath
- 1965 Brooke Shields
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