The Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds played the longest scoreless tie in Major League Baseball history. Nineteen innings in 4 hours, 40 minutes,
The game was called because of darkness.
The United States turned over $1,121,400,000 worth of surplus U.S. Army property to the Philippines.
Ida Stover Eisenhower, mother of Dwight Eisenhower, Milton S. Eisenhower, Edgar N. Eisenhower, Arthur Bradford Eisenhower, Paul Dawson Eisenhower, Roy Jacob Eisenhower, and Earl D. Eisenhower. died at age 84.
Dwight was, of course, Commander of SHAEF in World War Two, and later President of the United States. The military had actually been a default career for him, and not his first intention. Milton S. Eisenhower was an accomplished academic. Edgar was a lawyer. Earl an engineer and Kansas legislator.
Ida was a runaway. Family deaths and circumstances had left her in the care of an aunt and uncle who did not believe in female education, so she took off in order to go to high school. Her husband, David, was an engineer by training, but his personality left him impoverished and withdrawn.
She was a pacifist.
Blessed Francesco Giovanni Bonifacio was brutally murdered by Yugoslavian Popular Guards for being a Catholic Priest.
He was ethnically Italian, although the region of Italy he was born in was part of the Austro Hungarian Empire at the time of his birth. The region he was killed in was part of Italy at the time, but became part of Yugoslavia, and is now part of Croatia.
Johnny Allen Hendrix was renamed by his father to James Marshall Hendrix.
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