This Day In History

1465
-- French King Louis XI signs a peace agreement with Charles the Stout

1857
-- City of Anaheim CA founded - and no playoff baseball game was played there that day either

1880
-- First ballpoint pen patented by Alonzo T. Cross

1882
-- Outlaw Frank James surrenders in Missouri six months after the death of his brother Jesse James

1907
-- Philadelphia A's pitcher Rube Vickers no-hits the Washington Senators in a 5 inning game

1921
-- The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time

1924
-- First appearance in the NYC Daily News of the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie"

1954
-- Hurricane Hazel hits the east coast of the United States

1962
-- The Beatles release their first hit in England "Love Me Do"

1966
-- A sodium cooling system malfunction causes a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi nuclear power demonstration plant near Detroit, Michigan.  Radiation is contained (entire story detailed in the book "We Almost Lost Detroit")

1969
-- "Monty Python's Flying Circus" begins its run on the BBC

1983
-- Polish anti-communist union leader Lech Walesa wins the Nobel Peace Prize

2001
-- Barry Bonds hits his HGH aided 71st and 72nd Home Runs to break Mark McGwire's androstene aided record of 71 Home Runs

2004
-- Howard Stern announces he's leaving over the air radio for satellite radio company Sirius

2008
--Dow Jones Industrial Averages drop 700 points signaling the beginning of the economic downturn/recession

2012
-- The Rangers two year AL Dynasty ends.

--- Marla

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