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1607 - Ships under the command of Capt. Christopher Newport sought shelter in Chesapeake Bay. The forced landing led to the founding of Jamestown on the James River, the first English settlement. An expedition of English colonists, including Capt. John Smith, went ashore at Cape Henry, Va., to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.
1655 - Dutch West Indies Co. denied Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam.
1777-- Sybil Ludington, age 16, rode through towns in New York and Connecticut to warn that the Redcoats were coming... the redcoats were coming to Danbury, CN. All very Paul Reverish, except Sybil completed HER ride, and SHE thus gathered enough volunteers to help beat back the British the next day. Her ride was twice the distance of Revere's. No poet immortalized (and exaggerated) her accomplishments. Revere did NOT complete his ride; two other men actually did most of the warning ride. Her hometown was renamed after her.
1785-birthday of John James Audubon, American artist and naturalist, best known for his Birds of America , born at Haiti. Died Jan 27, 1851, at New York, NY.
http://www.haleysteele.com/jjaudubon/index.cfm
1798-birthday of Jim Beckwourth, black American mountain man, born at Virginia and died in 1867(?) at Denver, Colorado Territory. Marrying a series of Indian women, Beckwourth lived with the Crow Indians for about six years. He went further west, establishing a route through the Sierras to the newly discovered gold fields of California, where he was immortalized by journalist Thomas Bonner. He later served as a guide and interpreter for US troops in the Cheyenne War of 1864. He died mysteriously during a return visit to the Crow.
http://www.beckwourth.org/
1819-One of the most popular “groups” started as Washington Lodge 1, Odd Fellows Lodge, in Baltimore, MD. It was organized by Thomas Wildey and acted under a charter obtained from the Duke of York Lodge of England. In 1821, Wildey organized the Grand Lodge of Maryland, of which he became grand master, and the Grand Lodge of the United States, of which, he became grand sire. At the time of his death in 1861, there were more than 200,000 members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 42 states.
1822-birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted, known as the "father of landscape architecture in America," Olmsted participated in the designing of Yosemite National Park, New York City's Central Park and parks for Boston, Hartford and Louisville. Born at Hartford, CT, died at Waverly, MA, Aug 28, 1903. Olmsted's home and studio, Fairsted Estate outside of Boston, is now preserved as a National Historic Site and is open to the public: 99 Warren St, Brookline, MA 02146.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr26.html
1834 - Killer frosts were reported in the Deep South. The frost was quite severe around Huntsville AL, and highlighted a backward spring in the South that year.
1865 -- John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green, Virginia.
http://www.nps.gov/foth/booth.htm
1865 - Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina. After the surrender of General Robert E. Lee's force on April 9, Johnston's army was the last hope of the Confederacy.
1882--Birthday of Jessie Redmon Fauset - U.S. black editor, teacher, and writer. JRF was probably the first black women to receive the Phi Beta Kappa. Because of her fine writing ability, W. E. B. DuBois invited her to join the NAACP staff as literary editor of its publication Crisis. Fauset then played a major role in the literary tradition of the Harlem Renaissance by encouraging young writers. Her much praised personal writings often dealt with racial prejudice. She was a high school teacher.
1895—birthday of pianist Charles “Cow Cow” Davenport, Anniston, AL
http://www.redhotjazz.com/cowcow.html
1886-blues singer Ma Rainey ( Gertrude Pridgett) born Columbus, GA. During her heyday in the 1920's, she was billed as the "Mother of the Blues" and served as a model for the more famous Bessie Smith. The best known of her 90-odd recordings is "See See Rider Blues" made in 1925 with Louis Armstrong on cornet. The song has been revived countless times by blues, jazz and rock musicians. Ma Rainey died in 1939 at the age of 53. Her life inspired the 1985 Broadway musical "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
http://www.lambda.net/~maximum/rainey.html
http://www.blueflamecafe.com/index.html
http://www.redhotjazz.com/Rainey.html
1893-birthday of Anita Loos, American author and playwright, born at Sisson, CA. She is best remembered for her book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , published in 1925. Loos, a brunette, died at New York, NY, Aug 18, 1981.
http://women.eb.com/women/articles/Loos_Anita.html
http://www.catharton.com/authors/230.htm
1908-drummer Dave Tough born Oak Park, IL.
http://www.angelfire.com/mac/keepitlive/drummers/Tough/tough.htm
http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Dave%20Tough.html
1914--Author Bernard Malamud born Brooklyn, New York, best known for The Fixer and the baseball novel The Natural. Died 1986.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Bernard_Malamud.htm
http://www.emanuelnyc.org/bulletin/archive/35.html
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/bernard_malamud.htm
1920—Birthday of platinum blonde singer , Peggy Lee, one of the great U.S. jazz singers, stylists, and composers, born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota. Some of her best known renditions "Why Don't You Do Right," "Fever," “Big Spender,” “Manana,” "Is That All There Is?" She sued Disney corporation for just compensation for her work on the movie The Lady and the Tramp for which she got only $3,500 for composing or co-composing all of the music, as well as playing four of the major roles, and singing three of the hits. She signed the contract before videos came into existence and the case became celebrated for revealing film studio's inventive bookkeeping methods that kept films from showing a profit even though it wa one of the highest grossing movies of the period. The courts awarded her $3.8 million. The film grossed $160 million with another $72 million from the videos. Michael Eisner, the new president of Disney who collected up to 582 million dollars a year in salaries and bonuses fought the Lee suit through the courts. Lee was 70 when the verdict was rendered but Eisner continued with an appeal. She died January 21, 2002.
http://www.peggylee.com/biography/bio_curbio.html
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498007/
1921- flutist Jimmy Giuffre Birthday
http://users.bestweb.net/~msnyder/clarinet/giuffre.htm
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/REVIEWS/R1299_27.HTM
http://www.mosaicrecords.com/DisplaySelectionDetail.asp?SelectionId=31
http://www.retards.org/jazz/giuffre/
( listen to the “Train and the River”)
1921-birthday of pianist Dave “Fat Man” Williams, New Orleans, LA
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/artist/glance/-/50054/
ref=m_art_dp/103-6620160-9563023
1921-birthdayof alto saxophonist Preston Love, Omaha, NE.
http://www.nebrocks.org/preston.htm
1922—birthday of pianist Dorothy Donegan, Chicago, IL
http://www.iaje.org/bio.asp?ArtistID=29
http://www.jazzhouse.org/library/index.php3?read=dobie4
http://www.jazzhall.org/jazz.cgi?@DONEGAND
http://elvispelvis.com/ddonegan.htm
1924-sax player Teddy Edwards born, Jackson, MS
http://home.earthlink.net/~tededge/
http://home.earthlink.net/~tededge/Biography.htm
1924-birthday of tenor saxophonist Teddy Edwards, Jackson, MS
http://www.jevivent.com/teddyE.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~tededge/
http://www.batnet.com/portrayals/teddy.html
1931 - NBC radio presented "Lum and Abner" for the first time. The popular program continued for 24 years on the air, not all of them on NBC. In fact, all four networks (CBS, ABC, Mutual and NBC) carried the program for a period of time. "Lum and Abner" hailed from the fictitious town of Pine Ridge. Fictitious, that is, before 1936, when Waters, Arkansas, changed its name to Pine Ridge
http://home.inu.net/stemple/
http://www.lum-abner.com/
1931 -- Baseball's Lou Gehrig hits a home run but is called out for passing a runner; the mistake costs him the American League home run crown — he and Babe Ruth end up tied for the season.
1932 - The Texaco fire chief, Ed Wynn, was heard on radio's "Texaco Star Theater" for the first time. Wynn, a popular vaudeville performer, demanded a live audience to react to his humor if he was to make the switch to radio. The network consented and Wynn became radio's first true superstar. He would later make the switch to TV.
http://timstvshowcase.com/edwynn.html
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Wynn,+Ed
http://members.aol.com/TampaChatr/colgatecomedyhour.html
http://www.shokus.com/wynn.html
1937 - During the Spanish Civil War, the German military tests its powerful new air force, the Luftwaffe, and the principles of Blitzkrieg, on the Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain. Although the independence-minded Basque region opposed General Francisco Franco's Nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil War, Guernica itself was a small rural city of only 5,000 inhabitants that declared nonbelligerence in the conflict. With Franco's approval, the cutting-edge German aircraft began their unprovoked attack at 4:30 p.m., the busiest hour of the market day in Guernica. For three hours, the German planes poured down a continuous and unopposed rain of bombs and gunfire on the town and surrounding countryside. One-third of Guernica's 5,000 inhabitants were killed or wounded, and fires engulfed the city and burned for days. The indiscriminate killing of civilians at Guernica aroused world opinion and became a symbol of fascist brutality. Unfortunately, by 1942, all major participants in World War II had adopted the bombing innovations developed by the Nazis at Guernica, and by the war's end, in 1945, millions of innocent civilians had perished under Allied and Axis air raids.
1938-birthday of singer/guitarist Duane Eddy, Chicago, IL. Scores of young musicians took up the guitar after hearing his distinctive "twangy" sound, which came from playing the melody on the bass string of his instrument. Beginning in 1958, he had 25 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Among the most popular were "Rebel Rouser," "Because They're Young" and "Dance With the Guitar Man," all three of which sold more than a million copies. Duane Eddy had not had a record on the charts in North America since 1964, but in 1986 he returned as a guest artist on the Art of Noise's Grammy-Award-winning hit, "Peter Gunn." Eddy had first recorded, and had a hit with the TV theme, in 1960. His sound influenced countless rock guitarists, and opened the door to the electric guitar-dominated bands of the '60s and '70s
http://www.history-of-rock.com/duane_eddy.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~Tony50/deddy-1.html
http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/artists/e/eddy1000.htm
1941-the Chicago Cubs became the first major league team to install an organ in their ballpark. Roy Nelson played a pre-game program.
1942-birthday of singer Bobby Rydell, Philadelphia, PA. (real name is Robert Lewis Ridarelli), . At the age of eight he won an amateur contest run by bandleader Paul Whiteman, and it was Whiteman who gave him his stage name. He was just 17 when he had his first of two dozen chart records, "Kissin' Time," in 1959. Rydell's other hits included "Wild One" and "Volare." He starred in the movie "Bye Bye Birdie" in 1963.
1944-Montgomery Ward Chairman Sewell Avery was physically removed from his office when federal troops seized Ward's Chicago offices after the company refused to obey President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order to recognize a CIO union. Government control ended May 9, shortly before the National Labor Relations Board announced the United Mail Order Warehouse and Retail Employees Union had won an election to represent the company's workers.
1947---Birthday of Donna de Varona - U.S. swimmer, holder of 37 national swimming titles and two Olympic gold medals. She set a number of world records. Considered one of the finest exponents of the difficult 400-medley races that combined backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke, and freestyle, the Olympics did not hold the event for the women, just the men before 1964. She has been a battler for equal rights for women athletes. Verona cofounded and served as president of the Women's Sports Foundation.
1951-Birthday of Sally Ride, the first U.S. astronaut into space who was also a woman. She was a crew member of the 7th and 13th space missions in 1983 and 1984. Ride holds a Ph.D. in physics. As part of the commission investigating the 1986 Challenger disaster, she declared the shuttle to be unsafe and refused to go back into space until after it was radically redesigned, claiming other astronauts felt the same way. It was redesigned but she was never given another space flight. After writing a report advocating the establishment of a lunar base, she became head of the Space Institute of the University of California (San Diego) in 1989.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html
1951--DUKE, RAY E. Medal of Honor
Rank and organization: Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, Company C, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Mugok, Korea, 26 April 1951. Entered service at: Whitwell (Marion County), Tenn. Born: 9 May 1923, Whitwell, Tenn. G.O. No.: 20, 19 March 1954. Citation: Sfc. Duke, a member of Company C, distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and outstanding courage above and beyond the call of duty in action against the enemy. Upon learning that several of his men were isolated and heavily engaged in an area yielded by his platoon when ordered to withdraw, he led a small force in a daring assault which recovered the position and the beleaguered men. Another enemy attack in strength resulted in numerous casualties but Sfc. Duke, although wounded by mortar fragments, calmly moved along his platoon line to coordinate fields of fire and to urge his men to hold firm in the bitter encounter. Wounded a second time he received first aid and returned to his position. When the enemy again attacked shortly after dawn, despite his wounds, Sfc. Duke repeatedly braved withering fire to insure maximum defense of each position. Threatened with annihilation and with mounting casualties, the platoon was again ordered to withdraw when Sfc. Duke was wounded a third time in both legs and was unable to walk. Realizing that he was impeding the progress of 2 comrades who were carrying him from the hill, he urged them to leave him and seek safety. He was last seen pouring devastating fire into the ranks of the onrushing assailants. The consummate courage, superb leadership, and heroic actions of Sfc. Duke, displayed during intensive action against overwhelming odds, reflect the highest credit upon himself, the infantry, and the U.S. Army.
1952 - Air Force Major William H. Wescott, 51st Fighter-Interceptor Wing, scored his fifth aerial victory to become the 12th ace of the Korean War. His F-86 Sabre "Lady Francis/Michigan Center" was also used by Colonel "Gabby" Gabreski for one of his victories.
1954-ESTOCIN, MICHAEL J. Medal of Honor
Rank and organization. Captain (then Lt. Cmdr.), U.S. Navy, Attack Squadron 192, USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14). Place and date: Haiphong, North Vietnam, 20 and 26 April 1967. Entered service at: Akron Ohio, 2() July 1954. Born: 27 April 1931, Turtle Creek, Pa. Citation. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty on 20 and 26 April 1967 as a pilot in Attack Squadron 192, embarked in USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14). Leading a 3-plane group of aircraft in support of a coordinated strike against two thermal power plants in Haiphong, North Vietnam, on 20 April 1967, Capt. Estocin provided continuous warnings to the strike group leaders of the surface-to-air missile (SAM) threats, and personally neutralized 3 SAM sites. Although his aircraft was severely damaged by an exploding missile, he reentered the target area and relentlessly prosecuted a SHRIKE attack in the face of intense antiaircraft fire. With less than 5 minutes of fuel remaining he departed the target area and commenced in-flight refueling which continued for over 100 miles. Three miles aft of Ticonderoga, and without enough fuel for a second approach, he disengaged from the tanker and executed a precise approach to a fiery arrested landing. On 26 April 1967, in support of a coordinated strike against the vital fuel facilities in Haiphong, he led an attack on a threatening SAM site, during which his aircraft was seriously damaged by an exploding SAM; nevertheless, he regained control of his burning aircraft and courageously launched his SHRIKE missiles before departing the area. By his inspiring courage and unswerving devotion to duty in the face of grave personal danger, Captain Estocin upheld the highest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.
1956---Top Hits
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The Poor People of Paris - Les Baxter
Ivory Tower - Cathy Carr
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1959--- Yomiuri Giant Sadaharu Oh hits the first of his homers in Japan.
1961-Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his first home run of the season against Paul Foytrack of the Detroit Tigers. Maris went onto hit 60more homers, breaking Babe Ruth's record for the most home runs in a season.
http://www.ndrogermaris.com/
1962-Ranger IV impacted the moon at 5,963 miles per hour. It was launched on April23fromthe Atlantic Missile Range, Cape Canaveral and traveled an estimated 229,541 miles.
http://www.friends-partners.org/mwade/craft/raner345.htm
1964---Top Hits
Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles
Twist and Shout - The Beatles
Do You Want to Know a Secret - The Beatles
Understand Your Man - Johnny Cash
1965-in the third round of the NBA draft, the New York Knicks selected Dick Van Arsdale. With the next pick, the Detroit Pistons drafted Dick's twin brother, Tom. Both went on to distinguished careers.
1967-Mama Cass Elliot gives birth to a daughter she names Owen Vanessa. She never told anyone who the father is.
1968--LEE, MILTON A. Medal of Honor
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company B, 2d Battalion, 502d Infantry, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile). place and date: Near Phu Bai, Thua Thien province, Republic of Vietnam, 26 April 1968. Entered service at: San Antonio, Tex. Born: 28 February 1949, Shreveport, La. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Pfc. Lee distinguished himself near the city of Phu Bai in the province of Thua Thien. Pfc. Lee was serving as the radio telephone operator with the 3d platoon, Company B. As lead element for the company, the 3d platoon received intense surprise hostile fire from a force of North Vietnamese Army regulars in well-concealed bunkers. With 50 percent casualties, the platoon maneuvered to a position of cover to treat their wounded and reorganize, while Pfc. Lee moved through the heavy enemy fire giving lifesaving first aid to his wounded comrades. During the subsequent assault on the enemy defensive positions, Pfc. Lee continuously kept close radio contact with the company commander, relaying precise and understandable orders to his platoon leader. While advancing with the front rank toward the objective, Pfc. Lee observed 4 North Vietnamese soldiers with automatic weapons and a rocket launcher Lying in wait for the lead element of the platoon. As the element moved forward, unaware of the concealed danger, Pfc. Lee immediately and with utter disregard for his own personal safety, passed his radio to another soldier and charged through the murderous fire. Without hesitation he continued his assault, overrunning the enemy position, killing all occupants and capturing 4 automatic weapons and a rocket launcher. Pfc. Lee continued his 1-man assault on the second position through a heavy barrage of enemy automatic weapons fire. Grievously wounded, he continued to press the attack, crawling forward into a firing position and delivering accurate covering fire to enable his platoon to maneuver and destroy the position. Not until the position was overrun did Pfc. Lee falter in his steady volume of fire and succumb to his wounds. Pfc. Lee's heroic actions saved the lives of the lead element and were instrumental in the destruction of the key position of the enemy defense. Pfc. Lee's gallantry at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit on himself, the 502d Infantry, and the U.S. Army.
1969, the Beatles entered the British charts with "Get Back." It had been recorded on the roof of the Apple Records building in London.
1971 - The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. These figures were a direct result of President Richard Nixon's new "Vietnamization" strategy, which he had announced at the Midway Conference in June 1969. This strategy was a three-pronged program to disengage the United States from the war in Vietnam.
1972---Top Hits
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
Rockin' Robin - Michael Jackson
I Gotcha - Joe Tex
Chantilly Lace - Jerry Lee Lewis
1977-- The disco haven, Studio 54, was opened in an abandoned opera house in New York by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager. It became the centre of the jet-set disco society, attracting the likes of Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger and Liz Taylor. Disco - up-tempo, heavily-orchestrated dance music - was hugely popular in the 1970's. It was rooted in rhythm-and-blues, but the idea of disco dance clubs is generally thought to have originated in homosexual bars and clubs in New York.
1980-Studio 54 was closed for liquor license violations, several months after owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager were jailed for tax evasion. It reopened under new management in 1981.
1980---Top Hits
Call Me - Blondie
Ride like the Wind - Christopher Cross
With You I'm Born Again - Billy Preston & Syreeta
A Lesson in Leavin' - Dottie West
1984 - Severe thunderstorms associated with an intense cyclone spawned a total of forty-seven tornadoes in two days from Louisiana to Upper Michigan. The tornadoes killed 16 persons and injured 259 others
1984-the great Count Bill Basie passes away at the age of 79, Hollywood, FL. I took my three kids to his last concert at the Circle Star in San Carlos, California. After leaving the revolving bandstand in his electric “cart,” I introduced the three of them to one of my favorite jazz musicians. I hope they never forget the moment, as I have not. Kit Menkin
http://www.nw-cybermall.com/jazzworld/c-basie.htm
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_basie_count.htm
http://www.duke.edu/~ymm/basi.html
http://www.harlem.org/people/basie.html
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0821.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/jazz/dbasie.htm
1986--- 5150, the first Van Halen album to feature Sammy Hagar, tops the charts for the first of four weeks. The album is named after the New York police code for the criminally insane and Eddie Van Halen's recording studio.
1987 - Twenty-two cities in the central and western U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon high of 83 degrees at Astoria OR smashed their previous record by 13 degrees. Sacramento CA hit 94 degrees.
1987 - Tennis star Chris Evert won her 150th career tennis tournament. She beat Martina Navratilova in Houston, Texas.
http://www.chrisevert.org/
1988---Top Hits
Where Do Broken Hearts Go - Whitney Houston
Devil Inside - INXS
Wishing Well - Terence Trent D'Arby
I'll Always Come Back - K.T. Oslin
1988-“China Beach” premiered on TV. The stories revolved around the lives of the women serving at a Da Nang armed forces hospital during the Vietnam War. The theme and background music of the series evoked plenty of nostalgia from the turbulent era. The ABC drama was created by William Boyles, Jr, and John Sacret Young. The cast featured Dana Delany, Michael Boatman, Nancy Giles, Jeff Kober, Robert Picardo, Concetta Tomei, Brian Wimmer, Marg Helgenberger, Chloe Webb, Nan Woods, Megan Gallagher, Ned Vaughn and Ricki Lake.
1988-the Boston Bruins snapped a string of 18 straight Stanley Cup playoff series losses to the Montreal Canadiens, dating back to 1943, by ousting the Habs, four games to one. Boston used two goals each from Cam Neely and Steve Kasper and strong goaltending from Rejean Lemelin to defeat Montreal,4-1.
1989 - Thirty-three cities in the central and southeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Afternoon highs of 91 degrees at Evansville IN and Nashville TN equalled April records. Thunderstorms produced severe weather from Iowa to Kentucky, with more than ninety reports of large hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 90 mph at Berwick IA.
1990 - Twenty-nine cities from the Carolinas to the Great Lakes Region and western New England reported record high temperatures for the date as readings soared into the 80s and lower 90s. Record high temperatures included 95 degrees at Baltimore MD and 92 degrees at Allentown PA. The record high of 89 degrees at Alpena MI was the third out of six straight record highs for that location, and smashed their previous record for the date by ten degrees.
1991 - Severe thunderstorms in the central U.S. spawned fifty-five tornadoes from northeastern Texas to Iowa and eastern Nebraska killing twenty-one persons. Early evening thunderstorms over south central Kansas spawned a violent (F-5) tornado whiched traveled 45 miles from southwest of Wichita to north of El Dorado. It killed seventeen persons, including thirteen at the Golden Spur Mobile Home Park in Andover. The tornado also caused 62 million dollars damage to McConnell Air Force Base as it crossed the south side of Wichita.
2000- The St. Louis Cardinals set a major league record by hitting 50 home runs in April. Homers by pitcher Rick Ankiel, Jim Edmonds and Fernando Tatis in the 7-0 victory over the Brewers help to break the mark established by the 1997 Indians with 49.
2001- Hideo Nomo just misses becoming the fifth pitcher since 1900 to hurl two no-hitters in a single season as former Gold Glove right fielder Darren Lewis just misses catching Torii Hunter's blooper in the top of the seventh inning. The hit, which many consider a questionable call by the scorer, is the only hit given up by the Red Sox right-hander in the 2-0 victory over the Twins. 2001 -After 2 1/2-years in the post, Kevin Malone resigns as the general manager of the Dodgers. Despite having the league's largest payroll, Los Angeles has failed to make the playoffs during his tenure.
2004-Record heat hit the Bay Area with 91 reported in SF. 93 degrees was reported in San Jose.
2005 --With three home runs during his first three trips to the plate, Alex Rodriguez becomes only the 11th major league player to bat in 10 or more runs in a game. The highest paid player in baseball history is one RBI shy of the American League record of 11 set by fellow Yankee Tony Lazzeri in 1936 and two short of the major league mark of 12 shared by Jim Bottomley (1924) and Mark Whiten (1993) of the Cardinals.
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