1956 – New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series.

 Prodigal_SOB wrote: 
hipster band name.

 ScottN wrote: 
  Back in 2003 the Cubs were in a down the wire pennant race with the Astros (I'm not making this up, it really happened)  There were a couple of radio show guys from Chicago who went to Houston sometime in the last couple weeks of the season, got tickets for themselves and their goat, and tried to go see the Astros game.  Apparently even in Huston goats still face substantial discrimination as he was denied admittance.  It was the radio jocks contention that this action transferred the goat curse to Huston.  We did win the pennant and go on to the playoffs and admittedly Bartman that year but the Astros never did recover after that.  They spent their last few of baseball being the one team the Cubs could count on to keep us out of the cellar and finally faced the unimaginable horror of being forced into the non-baseball league.  It may have worked.

 

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
And until this egregious felony to the goat is set right, the Cubs will play in futility.  What was the secret that finally got the BoSox over a similar action with the trade of Babe Ruth to The Yankess For Money? The Cubs need such an exorcism.

1996 – The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.

1945 – Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series

Hatshepsut: The Woman Who Would Be King - Kara Cooney (FB)

1869—Mohandas Gandhi is born.

1965—Satchel Paige, then aged 60, became the oldest MLB player in history by pitching three scoreless innings against BoSox for the KC A's. He did give up a hit to LF Carl Yastrzemski.

1897—William Faulkner is born.

1979 – CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.

1896—F. Scott Fitzgerald is born in Saint Paul.

1949—Bruce Springsteen is born.

2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.

1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.

1869 – Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.

1823 – Joseph Smith states he found the Golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.

1692 – The last people hanged for witchcraft in England's North American colonies takes place.

2003 – Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.

1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.