Blissful forty ninth birthday to David “Massive Papi” Ortiz. The Dominican-American slugger spent practically his entire profession on the Boston Purple Sox the place he performed a key function in breaking the 86-year World Sequence drought. He was elected into the MLB Corridor of Fame in 2022, on the first 12 months of his eligibility. READ a few of the beautiful numbers he put up… (1975)
Upon his retirement, Ortiz ranked sixth in American League historical past with 541 residence runs, fifth in doubles (632), and ninth in RBI (1,768). Used nearly completely as a Designated Hitter, Ortiz holds many data for the place, together with for profession residence runs (485), RBI (1,569), and hits (2,192).
Together with these beautiful numbers, one wants solely comb by way of his Herculean heroics throughout the Purple Sox’s run to the 2004 World Sequence to see why Massive Papi will ceaselessly have a spot in followers’ hearts.
Within the AL Championship Sequence towards the New York Yankees, the Purple Sox shortly fell behind 0 video games to three, a deficit that had by no means been surmounted in baseball historical past. Ortiz nearly single-handedly paved the way in which for historical past, as he hit a walk-off two-run residence run towards Paul Quantrill within the twelfth inning of Recreation 4 and a walk-off single off of Esteban Loaiza within the 14th inning of Recreation 5. His heroics—particularly batting .387 with three residence runs and 11 RBI within the collection—earned him AL Championship Sequence MVP honors, the primary time a DH had ever gained that award, because the Purple Sox got here again to win in seven video games.
Within the 2004 World Sequence vs. the St. Louis Cardinals, Ortiz set the tone for the four-game sweep as he hit a three-run residence run off Woody Williams within the first inning of Recreation 1 at Fenway Park. He hit .308 within the collection with a house run and 4 RBI because the Purple Sox swept the Cardinals to finish the Curse of the Bambino by profitable their first World Sequence Championship in 86 years. General, Ortiz batted .400 within the 2004 postseason with 5 residence runs and 23 RBI.
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Murrow hosted the present, which gained 4 Emmys and in addition a Peabody Award, which honors essentially the most highly effective tales in tv and radio.
Murrow produced quite a lot of episodes of See It Now that handled the Communist witch-hunt hysteria within the U.S. Senate led by disgraced Wisconsin Republican Joseph McCarthy, bringing to gentle his bullying persecution of artists, writers, and political opponents. One of many extra notable episodes resulted in a U.S. army officer, Milo Radulovich, being acquitted, after being charged with supporting Communism.
9 months later—and following the suicide of Democratic Senator Lester Hunt, after McCarthy threatened to smear his son if he ran for re-election—the Senate voted to censure McCarthy by a vote of 67–22, making him one of many few senators ever disciplined on this trend. (1951)
And on this present day in 1307, the Swiss marksman and patriot William Inform is claimed to have efficiently shot an apple off his son’s head.
In resistance to the Habsburg Empire’s bid to rule central Switzerland, Inform refused to bow to a hat and was arrested. The story goes, he was supplied his freedom if a single crossbow shot on the apple was profitable. His blow for liberty sparked a insurrection through which he performed a number one function within the final creation of the Swiss Confederacy.
The William Inform Overture, composed by Rossini in 1829 is one in every of his best-known and most ceaselessly imitated items of music—you might realize it because the theme for the tv present, the Lone Ranger. WATCH a 1-min animated historical past under…
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Within the story, the narrator retells a narrative he heard from a bartender, in regards to the gambler Jim Smiley: “If he even seen a straddle bug begin to go anywheres, he would wager you ways lengthy it will take him to get to wherever he going to, and when you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico…”
The story was developed additional as The Celebrated Leaping Frog of Calaveras County, which was additionally the title story of Twain’s first e-book, a set of 27 tales that had been beforehand printed in newspapers and magazines. (1865)
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The Oscar-winning movie had the biggest finances ($15 million) and essentially the most large constructed units of any movie produced till then. Over 200 camels and a pair of,500 horses had been used within the capturing of the movie, with some 10,000 actors. The nine-minute chariot race scene has change into one in every of cinema’s most well-known motion sequences.
Based mostly on the e-book, Ben-Hur: A Story of the Christ, by Lew Wallace, the movie gained a document eleven Academy Awards, together with Greatest Image, Greatest Director, Greatest Actor (for Heston), Greatest Supporting Actor, and Greatest Cinematography. WATCH the scene when Judah returns and calls for the return of his household, shocking the deceitful Roman from whom he ultimately exacts revenge throughout the chariot race… (1959)
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