On today, in Sport 2 of the 1909 World Collection, Ty Cobb stole dwelling base. The main points round this well-known of all capers are what make it so. Shedding Sport 1 to the Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tiger’s star and all-time nice Ty Cobb was sitting on third base on the prime of the second in Sport 2, his group having already behind by two runs. A reliever had are available named Victor Willis, a large of a person, who Cobb seen was paying far an excessive amount of consideration to the batter, giving Cobb the area he wanted to steal dwelling earlier than Willis got here to his senses. READ extra in regards to the circumstances… (1909)
By his personal assertion, Cobb was not the quickest runner. Nonetheless, he was the neatest and most aggressive, resulting in him maintain the MLB all-time document for dwelling base steals at 54 in his profession. He studied pitcher’s deliveries always and developed the fall-away slide and a few six different sliding maneuvers to foil the basemen. He additionally led the opposition into traps, and feigned accidents to mislead the protection.
All of this was buttressed by his means to use psychology to any given state of affairs which gave him the sting on the opposition. For example of this, the Society for American Baseball Analysis cites the steal of dwelling within the 1909 World Collection in opposition to the Pirates.
Cobb stole second, third, and residential in the identical inning on three separate events. The primary time was July 22, 1909, in opposition to the Pink Sox, the second was July 12, 1911, in opposition to the A’s, and lastly on July 4, 1912, in opposition to the Browns.
MORE Good Information on this Day:
- Ecuador – Guayaquil’s Independence Day from Spain (1820)
- The Washington Monument formally opened to the general public—at 555 ft tall, with 893 steps to the highest, it was the tallest constructing on the earth, and folks flocked to it (1888)
- Uganda, impartial from Britain, grew to become a republic (1962)
- Comfortable forty eighth birthday to Sean Ono Lennon, the musician and actor who was born on the identical day as his well-known father, John Lennon (1975)
- Different musicians born on today: John Entwistle, bass participant for The Who, and Jamaica’s Peter Tosh (1944)
- 70,000 protesters march in Leipzig to demand the legalization of opposition teams and democratic reforms in East Germany (1989)
- Democratic presidential elections had been held in Afghanistan for the primary time (2004)
588 years in the past, the Hangul alphabet was first printed within the Joseon Dynasty. It solidified elevated literacy by serving as a complement (or different) to the logographic Sino-Korean Hanja, which had been utilized by Koreans since earlier than the Widespread Period. The Korean alphabet was designed by King Sejong, maybe Korea’s best monarch, so that individuals with little schooling might study to learn and write. A preferred saying in regards to the alphabet is, “A clever man can acquaint himself with them earlier than the morning is over; even a silly man can study them within the area of ten days.”
As with almost each East Asian tradition that bordered China, the early institution of the Chinese language writing system deeply influenced Korea, because it did for Manchuria, Mongolia, Japan, and southern China. Nonetheless by the peak of Korean energy within the Center Ages, King Sejong felt the variety of Classical Chinese language characters in use was merely an excessive amount of for the frequent individual, and so developed a “featural alphabet” that wouldn’t stray too removed from what most individuals used, however launched vowel and fixed items which stack on prime of one another to be learn as a single syllable.
Hangul is now the official writing system all through Korea, each North and South. It’s a co-official writing system within the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County in Jilin Province, China. (1446)
53 years in the past right this moment Rod Stewart went to No.1 on the singles chart with Maggie Might. From his album Each Image Tells a Story, it was first launched as a B facet, however grew to become one of the vital memorable songs of the late twentieth Century, topping the chart within the US, UK, Canada and Australia.
The hit, written about an older lady Stewart connected with within the 60s, was recorded in simply two takes and famously featured a mandolin (and Ronnie Wooden on guitar). Regardless of document firm executives not liking the tune a lot, it single-handedly launched Stewart’s profession. WATCH his (and Ronnie’s) 1993 unplugged efficiency… (1971)
And, on today 14 years in the past, Chile’s 33 trapped miners cheered and embraced one another within the darkness as a drill punched into the underground chamber the place they’d been caught for an agonizing 66 days whereas the world got here collectively to engineer a rescue. (2010)
And on today in 2006, the ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital landed for the primary time in Vietnam. 
The DC-10 wide-body plane had been transformed into an ophthalmic surgical heart for docs to offer sight to the poor. Throughout its first quarter century— from 1982 when ORBIS took off on its first sight-saving mission—greater than three million folks have acquired medical remedy.
Comfortable 76th Birthday to Jackson Browne, the singer-songwriter-musician who has offered over 18 million LPs within the U.S. alone. Starting within the Nineteen Seventies, hits like These Days, The Pretender, Working on Empty, Fountain of Sorrow, Physician My Eyes, and Take It Straightforward have been counted among the many most sincere and emotionally highly effective of a technology.
Final 12 months, Browne grew to become the primary artist to obtain the Gandhi Peace Award for his “extraordinary contributions to the inseparable causes of world peace, environmental concord, and social justice.” Awarded yearly together with a money prize since 1960, the Gandhi Peace Award medallion is solid from “peace bronze” composed of metals salvaged from the management techniques of U.S. nuclear missiles.
Currently, Jackson has turned his consideration to the seas as a founding member of the advocacy group Ocean Elders, together with Sir Richard Branson and James Cameron. Amongst his quite a few different awards for public service, Browne acquired the NARM Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award. Bruce Springsteen inducted Browne into the Rock Corridor of Fame in 2004. (1948)
And, 84 years in the past right this moment, John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England. As a performer, author, or co-writer, Lennon had 25 number-one singles on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart—each with the Beatles and as a solo act. Double Fantasy, his best-selling solo album, received the Grammy for Album of the 12 months one 12 months after his demise in 1980 at age 40.
To rejoice the day, Paul McCartney, Alec Baldwin, and Sean Lennon, son of the well-known Beatle, took over SiriusXM’s Beatles Channel. Sean, because the DJ, performed his favourite songs by his father, together with Think about, whereas remembering his favourite childhood reminiscences.
A two-part radio documentary hosted by Sean Lennon in 2020, featured conversations along with his brother Julian Lennon, McCartney, and his godfather Elton John. Billed as “a celebratory, musical, household portrait” on BBC. It was the primary time Paul and the youthful Lennon talked publicly in regards to the legendary Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership.
“It’s beautiful to think about him at 80,” McCartney instructed Baldwin on SiriusXM. “I feel he can be very literate. I feel he can be writing—not essentially simply music ’trigger he was beginning to get into (writing), he did a few little books.” CHECK OUT the interview snippet… (1940)
And, 39 years in the past, marking what would have been Lennon’s forty fifth birthday, Yoko Ono formally opened a three-acre backyard in New York’s Central Park—throughout the road from the residence constructing the place Lennon was shot.
Dubbed Strawberry Fields, she funded the memorial with a $1Mil donation and had it planted with timber, flora, and flowers gathered from internationally. A big, spherical mosaic on the pedestrian walkway is emblazoned with one phrase: Think about. (1985)
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