bransonglobe.com HISTORY Music • • record and the last ever by a Brooklyn Dodgers player 1960 Aretha Franklins 1st recording session Soul Singer Aretha Franklin • 1963 Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale • 1964 Beatles’ single “A Hard Day’s Night” goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks • 1969 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival • 1971 George Harrison’s concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC Sports • 1906 Brooklyn Superbas MLB pitcher Harry McIntire no-hits Pittsburgh for 10 2/3 innings but loses in 13th, 1-0 on an unearned run • 1918 Pittsburgh and Boston Braves play a MLB record 20 scoreless innings before Pirates win, 2-0 in 21 • 1928 Babe Ruth hits home run #42 in the Yankees 12-1 win v St. Louis Browns, takes him 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace • 1933 NY’s future Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell sets MLB record for consecutive scoreless innings at 45 1/3 as Giants lose 3-1 v Boston Braves • 1934 US Amateur Golf Championship format is changed to a 6-day event with no 36-hole stroke-play qualifying, and 36hole matches for semi-finals and final • ts outfielder Mel Ott hits historic 500th MLB home run off Braves Johnny Hutchings, joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx as only players to reach milestone • 1953 Boston Red Sox pitcher Ben Flowers sets then MLB record of 8 consecutive games in relief • 1954 Tour de France: Louison Bobet of France wins by 15’ 49” from Ferdinand Kübler, for the second of his 3 consecutive wins • 1957 Gil Hodges hits his 13th MLB career grand slam, a NL • • 1957 Ex MLB outfielder Glen Gorbous throws a regulation baseball a record 136m (445’ 10”) in a game promotion 1961 Australian cricket captain Richie Benaud takes 6 for 70 in England’s 2nd innings for a 54 run 4th Test win at Old Trafford • 1963 Arthur Ashe becomes first African-American tennis player to be named in the US Davis Cup team • 1973 MLB All Star catchers Thurman Munson of the NY Yankees and Boston Red Sox’ Carlton Fisk brawl at home plate Fenway Park; Red Sox win, 3-2 • 1976 Seattle Seahawks take the field for the first time in pre-season game v SF 49ers at the newly constructed Kingdome in Seattle • 1976 Reigning world F1 champion Niki Lauda of Austria suffers a near fatal crash during the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim • 1977 San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th MLB career grand slam • 1978 Atlanta Braves trounce Cincinnati Reds, 16-4 and halt Pete Rose’s NL record hitting streak at 44 games • 1980 Gerd Wessig of East Germany becomes the first male to set a high jump world record at the Olympics (2.36m [7’ 9”] Moscow) • 1982 American Greg Louganis becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives in winning 3m springboard gold, World Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador • 1982 East German swimmer Petra Schneider breaks her own 400m medley world record by 0:19 (4:36.10) at the World Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador • 1982 After the first 13 runnings of the midsummer classic, Darryl Waltrip becomes the first driver the win the Talladega 500 twice Birthdays • 1770 William Clark, American explorer, soldier, Indian agent and territorial governor who led the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-06 and claimed the Pacific Northwest for the United States, born in Ladysmith, Virginia (d. 1838) • 1779 Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, poet and composer of the lyrics to “Star-Spangled Banner”, born in Carroll County, MaryAug 2 - 4, 2020 • 23 land (d. 1843) • 1819 Herman Melville, American author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd), born in NYC, • 1965 J. K. Rowling, English writer (Harry Potter novels), born in Yate, Gloucestershire
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