Birth of Rogers Hornsby
Baseball player Rogers Hornsby, Sr., was born on April 27, 1896, in Winters, Texas.
Baseball player Rogers Hornsby, Sr., was born on April 27, 1896, in Winters, Texas.
On March 18, 1892, Canada’s Lord Stanley of Preston announced he would donate a silver challenge cup to be awarded to the nation’s best hockey team.
US General Omar Nelson Bradley was born on February 12, 1893, in Clark, Missouri.
On December 26, 1919, Babe Ruth was sold by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees, ushering in the long-standing superstitious Curse of the Bambino.
On July 20, 1968, Eunice Kennedy Shriver held the first International Special Olympic Games in Chicago, Illinois.
On July 19, 1996, the OLYMPHILEX stamp show opened in Atlanta, Georgia.
Baseball player Ty Cobb got his 4,000th hit, a first in the sport’s history, on July 18, 1927.
Leslie Lynch King Jr., better known as Gerald Rudolph Ford, was born on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska.
On July 6, 1933, the first All-Star game was played at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois.