Cy Young pitched his twelfth consecutive win for the Boston Americans.
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Thursday, July 16, 2026
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Monday, July 15, 1901. Tom Horn goes visiting.
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1901 Tom Horn, returned from Army service in the Spanish American War, and employed by John Coble, member of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, visited Jim and Dora Miller's ranch near Iron Mountain, as well as Glendolene Kimmel, the 22 year old teacher at the Iron Mountain School.
The Millers and Horn, including the Miller children, engaged in target shooting later that day, with Horn shooting his .30-30 Winchester.
Kimmel would go on to be a defense witness for Horn at his trial for the murder of Willie Nickell, one of her students. That would end up in her being charged with perjury, although the charges were dismissed. She moved to Missouri and thereafter lived with her family in Hannibal. She moved with her mother to California in 1913, and lived there until her death in 1949 at age 68. She never married.
The Kimmel story has been a feature of the Tom Horn legend from nearly the beginning, but in truth she had very little connection with Horn, having met him on a very limited basis. On this occasion, he told stories, and given his role as a frontier scout and in the Spanish American War, he had stories to tell. But Horn was nearly 40 years old on this occasion and Kimmel, a single woman in Wyoming, would have been sought after by nearly any single male in the region.
She would claim that one of the Miller boys claimed the murder, which is certainly possible even if he didn't. She swore an affidavit to that effect. She also wrote an unpublished book on Horn defending him. While that might show a strong degree of interest in him, it didn't rise to the level of a romantic relationship as suggested in later day.
A better view would be that based on her limited interaction with him she took an interest in his fate, and felt honor bound after hearing a confession of the murder, whether it was true or not.
Indeed, the more surprising things is that she never married.
The Edison Manufacturing Company attained a monopoly over the production of American motion pictures after a federal court in New York ruled in its favor in a suit against the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company for patent infringement.
The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers went on strike.
Christy Mathewson pitched no-hitter for the Giants against St. Louis
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Saturday, July 13, 1901. A good effort.
Saturday, July 15, 1876. First no hitter.
George Washington Bradley of the St. Louis Brown Stockings threw the first officially recognized no-hitter in Major League Baseball history while pitching against the Hartford Dark Blues 2-0.
Bradley's major league career started in 1875 and lasted, as a player, until 1890. He was a Philadelphia policeman thereafter, and died at age 79 in 1931.
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Thursday, July 13, 1876. Grant informs Congress of what is known.
Sunday, July 12, 2026
Wednesday, July 12, 1911. Stealing second, third, and home.
Ty Cobb stole second, third, and home on three consecutive pitches by Harry Krause of the Philadelphia Athletics.
Au Sable, Michigan was destroyed by a forest fire in day two of horrific forest fires occurring in Michigan.
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Sunday, July 9, 1911. Partido Constitucional Progresista
Sunday, June 7, 2026
Friday, June 7, 1946. BBC Television resumes broadcasting.
BBC Television, which had been off the air since September 1, 1939, resumed broadcasting. The resumption was for only an hour on June 7, but it signaled its first return. The programming featured speakers welcoming the audience back, a performance by ballerina Margo Fonteyn, a talk segment, and a rebroadcast of Disney's Mickey's Gala, the latter being the last thing broadcast in 1939.
There were over 18,000 television sets in the US when service was suspended.
The players of the Pittsburgh Pirates, which had threatened to walk out if they were not allowed to join the American Baseball Guild, didn't.
First flight of the Short Sturgeon.
The design was to have been a carrier borne aircraft, but like a lot of revolutionary piston engined aircraft of its era, it wasn't around very long. Only 28 were built.
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Saturday, May 23, 2026
Tuesday, May 23, 1876. First No Hitter.
Boston pitcher Joe Borden pitched the first official no-hitter in Major League Baseball history. The Boston Red Stockings, defeated the Cincinnati Reds 8-0.
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May 18, 1876. Marines land at Matamoros.
Thursday, May 21, 2026
National Park Service Uprooted on the National Mall
When I become President, every golf course in the United States will be grazing land.
Same thing with shopping malls.
National Park Service Uprooted on the National Mall
I know how to play golf, but I don't golf. It's boring and sanitized. The kind of sport for people who want to go outside, but fear the outside, or are hopelessly urban. Granted, that's not the fault of all of the hopelessly urban, and that's the place for golf.
Golf is one of those sports that underwent an evolution in my mind when I was quite young. I won't say that is rational or correct.
My mother was a first rate golfer. My father didn't golf at all. None of the men I knew when very young golfed, and when I came to know some that did, as I aged, they were men who didn't do the things, or didn't do them to the same extent, as the men I knew. Golfing men didn't hunt much, they didn't fish much, they weren't going to be found at brandings. They all tended to be from the upper upper middle class, or the lower wealthy. In my mind, they were effeminized as they were playing what seemed to me to be an effeminate sport.
That view of golf hasn't changed much for me and indeed its been reenforced as I've grown older. I know that there are some really manly men that golf, but I don't know very many. Of guy's guys that I know that golf, there's one really nice guy I know who does, and that somehow fits him. He's a computer guy. And there's one that's just too out of shape to do anything else, and you can be pretty out of shape and play golf if you use a cart. Neither of them are effeminate.
I don't think, actually, that these feelings are as unique as a person might think. At one point in time lawyers were associated with golf (not anymore) and some golfed as they felt they had to. This was particularly the case with new lawyers. I've known at least two new lawyers who golfed as they thought that's what lawyers did. Interestingly, of those two lawyers, I know a third person, a woman, who insists that one of them is "gay" just by her observations of him, even though he's been a married man for years. Maybe the golfing was too effeminizing.
In a weird sort of way, Donald Trump emphasized this a couple of years ago when he simply gushed over his probably totally fictional observations of the size of Arnold Palmer's penis.
Seriously?
Oddly enough, golf was definitely associated with lesbianism at one time. This was the case for decades, and in some ways it cuts against what I'm noting here. As a sport, it was a sport that women could participate in and do very well as professionals, and so perhaps, maybe, women who were sort of masculine in their internal inclinations participated at a higher rate that would have simply existed in the general population.
Oddly, golf at one time was highly segregated in every imaginable way. Blacks flat out weren't allowed on private golf courses, but often women weren't either. Lawsuits were required to end that. Wealth played a role to play on private courses, and still does. Indeed wealth played a role in keeping women off of golf courses, as business deals were conducted on them from which they were omitted, and that helped bring about the lawsuits later on.
All that probably offends my Irish egalitarianism.
I can't say much for golf.
Golf also seems to me to be the ultimate boring urban upper middle class excuse for a sport, at least at one time. Manly men might shoot hoops, or go play flag football, or something, but at one time towns and real estate developers put in golf courses as it was the default sport for aging white people.
Tennis is the other urban sport, or was. It's joined by basketball and pickle ball in that category, the latter being a newer sport whose existence I don't understand. The thing is, however, that to play any of those sports well, you really need to be in shape. The same kind of guy that can really drive a tennis ball over the net can drive a baseball right down the field at lethal speed.
Supposedly golf has declined in popularity in recent decades, and its notable that at the same time the demographics of the country are changing. Golf was heavily racist at one time and indeed it was more recently than a person might imagine, although there have been some really notable Hispanic and Black golfers. Golf is apparently of Scottish origin, where it would have been pretty darned manly, so its an import of the British Isles. People from other cultures don't really have any roots in it, and for that matter, lots of European Americans don't. Shooting was the sport for Germans, and competitive shooting, like polo, was a major military sport. Shooting was, and in fact is, a major civilian sport in many parts of the country. Basketball is an American sport, as is baseball, and both were played by rural and lower middle class demographics at first. Basketball is particularly interesting this way as it comes from farming country with bitter winters, so its a good indoor sport for a lot of pretty athletic people.
Football is actually of British origin, but the origin is from the British lower class and it reflects that origin to this day. Hunting is a male human universal, which recent anthropology suggest had more female participation in antiquity than previously imagined.
Gardening, hunting, shooting, walking, running and nearly anything just seems to have more merit that golf. But it hangs on in the minds of the elderly, a game of privilege from their youth.
So that a bloated old man with money would choose to wreck things for golf, makes sense. People tend to hang on to the era in which they were young, and the wealthy have more of an ability to do that than other people. The super wealthy have the ability to afflict that on everyone else.
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Thursday, May 20, 1976. Kleptocracy.
The President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko endorsed kleptocracy, the practice of public officials stealing tax money for personal use, in a speech at a stadium before 70,000 people and millions of listeners, noting that he himself "personally spent on average more than 35 percent of the national budget on himself" during the 1970s and 1980s.
He warned; "If you want to steal, steal in a nice way, but if you steal too much to become rich overnight you will soon be caught."
He was eventually overthrown and died in exile at age 66.
This sort of open corruption used to be pretty much a third world thing, and I guess it still is in some ways. Now, of course, we're seeing corruption of a different type, but rivaling, or exceeding it, in the United States, which pretty much informs the world of what we now are.
The acrylic bubble of the Montreal Biosphere, designed by Buckminster Fuller for Expo 67, was destroyed by a fire during remodeling.
It was rebuilt, but without the transparent panels, and reopened in 1990.
Baseball great Ramón Hernández was born in Venezuela.
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Friday, May 7, 1976. Jacelyne Khoueiry at Martyrs' Square.
Monday, May 20, 1946. Air disaster in Manhattan, War in Iran, Nationalization of Coal in the UK.
The House of Commons voted to nationalize the British coal industry. The House of Lords would follow and Royal Assent would be received on July l2.
C-45. By LanceBarber at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Liftarn using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12001474
A C-45 crashed into the 58th floor of the Bank of Manhattan building killing all five passengers but nobody else, given that it occurred at 8:00 p.m.
Things were not going well in Iran.
We've dealt with this a bit already, but this event was caused by Soviet support for Azerbaijani and Kurdish rebels.
Cher in high school.
Cherilyn Sarkisian, better known by her stage name Cher, was born in El Centro, California. Bobby Murcer, the baseball announcer and player, was born in Oklahoma City.
Murcer passed away in 2008, but Cher is still with us.
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Sunday, May 19, 1946. Food protests in Japan.
Labels: 1940s, 1946, Civil Unrest, Food, Japan, Labor unrest, Occupation of Japan, Railroads, Strike Wave of 1945-1946
Friday, May 8, 2026
Saturday, May 8, 1926. First color feature film, testing a famous torpedo fuse, fire at Fenway Park, birth of Sir David Aattenborough.
The first color feature film, The Black Pirate, was released.
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin addressed the British public about the ongoing strike in the UK, the first such emergency radio broadcast of that type in that nation.
The first test of the Mark 6 torpedo exploder was conducted.
The secret device would not receive much in the field testing before World War Two, at which time it was learned that it had extremely dangerous flaws and defects that needed to be fixed immediately, although they were rapidly learned of and corrected early in the war.
Sir David Frederick Attenborough was born, and turns 100 years old today.
A major fire broke out at Fenway Park.
It was a Saturday.
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Friday, May 7, 1926. Resumed wars.
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Sunday, April 25, 1976. Saving the flag.
Chicago Cubs baseball player and Marine Corps Reserve veteran Rick Monday noticed two protesters trying to burn an American flag in the outfield during a game at Dodger Stadium and snatched the flag from them.
Portugal's constitution proclaimed socialism to be a national goal.
A mass prison outbreak occurred in Laos.
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Monday, April 5, 1976. "April 5, 1976: The Soiling of Old Glory"
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Saturday. April 22, 1876. The first National League baseball game.
The Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Caps played the first ever game of the newly organized National League. The Red Caps won 6-5.
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Friday, April 21, 1876. The Turf Protection Act.
Friday, April 17, 2026
Saturday, April 17, 1926.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Sunday, April 14, 1946. Chinese Civil War resumes.
The Chinese Communist Party announced the resumption of the Chinese Civil War. The Red Army had just pulled out of Manchuria, explaining the timing.
Sh'erit ha-Pletah members of Nakam, the "Jewish Avengers", commenced a campaign of poisoning SS prisoners held at Stalag XIII-D in Nuremberg. Bread was laced by arsenic. It is not known how many of the SS prisoners died.
The American Baseball Guild was formed by Robert Murphy to advocate for player rights. While it would not last long, it would foreshadow the later players union.
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Friday, April 12, 1946. Chips.
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Monday, February 2, 2026
Tuesday, February 2, 1926.
A play, adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, premiered at the Ambassador Theater on Broadway, which is remarkable in more ways than one, one being that this was well before the collapse in the economy that is so often figured into the novel, but which the novel anticipated as a moral collapse.
The incite of the novel, accordingly, can hardly be appreciated today, and indeed should be reread today, given the current times.
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
The Great Gatsby.
Representatives of the governments of the UK and France, which nearly went to war in 1918/1919 over the fate of Syria, signed a treaty of friendship on behalf of the British Mandate for Palestine and the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon. Notably, the native populations for both areas had utterly no desire that either European power be there.
Four members of the illegal Black Reichswehr were sentenced to death for politically motivated murders in Germany.
A banquet was held at the Hotel Astor to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the National League.
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Saturday, January 30, 1926. Pinks and Greens.
Wednesday, February 2, 1876. The National League formed.
The National League was founded on this date.
It was a successor to the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NAPBBP or National Association (NA)). The original teams were
- Chicago, the "Chicago White Stockings", now the Chicago Cubs.
- Philadelphia, the Athletic Club of Philadelphia which were expelled after the 1876 season.
- Boston, the "Boston Red Stockings", which became the Boston Braves, then the Milwaukee Braves, now the Atlanta Braves.
- Hartford, the "Hartford Dark Blues".
- New York, the Mutual Club of New York which was expelled after the 1876 season.
- St. Louis, the "St. Louis Brown Stockings", which folded after the 1877 season.
- Cincinnati, the "Cincinnati Reds", which disbanded after the 1879 season.
- Louisville, the "Louisville Grays"), a new franchise, which folded after the 1877 season.
Well, the NL is still around.
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Tuesday, February 1, 1876. The War Department takes over.
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