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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The American League opened its major league inaugural season with the Chicago White Sox playing the Cleveland Blues. Three additional games scheduled for the 24th were postponed on account of rain.
The White Sox had been a minor league team in the American League the year prior and had won the league's championship.
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Emiliano Zapata met with Ambrosio Figueroa, head of the rebels in the state of Guerrero. They decide to combine their forces.
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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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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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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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
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President Gerald R. Ford signed into law the Metric Conversion Act. The country should have carried through with it, but abandoned it in 1982 when Ronald Reagan was President, the point at which, in the long history of the evolution of things, the country began its slide into idiocy, although it was hardly evident at the time.
CIA Station Chief in Athens Richard Welch, his identify recently exposed, was gunned down by terrorists in Athens.
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Indeed, they did.
I was rooting for the Blue Jays.
I was really looking forward to this series, but when it arrived, I really didn't watch it. It was a great series, but I just couldn't get into it. I didn't even watch all of the concluding game, I was simply too tired and at some point went to bed. Toronto was leading at the time.
This whole year has been sort of like that. Stress, anxiety, fatigue, for a variety of reasons, take their toll.
It was announced that Jackie Robinson had signed with the Kansas City Royals, although he was not to play under the arrangement for a full season, going to the Montreal Royals for the 1946 season.
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Robinson was a great man, and is justly celebrated, but there's a fair number of myths regarding his pioneering role in integrated baseball. He was not, for one thing, the first black player in the major leagues. That honor would inaccurately go to Moses Fleetwood Walker, although he had played in the 19th Century, and is inaccurate itself as William Edward White had played a single major league game prior to that. White didn't reveal his race, and therefore is often not credited, but Walker's brother Weldy Walker did, and he also played major league baseball
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A surprising part of the story is that Robinson being picked upset a fair number of players in the Negro Leagues who well knew that their talents were superior to Robinson's. It was Robinson's character, of course, that had lead Ricky to pick him.
If the entire story is pieced together, it makes for an interesting focus on racism in the United States following the Civil War and before the Civil Rights Era. Racism was intense the entire time, but it can be argued it actually got worse towards the end of the 19th Century. The Navy had been integrated going into the Spanish American War but forces were at work to end that, and soon did. Breaking the color barrier was hard for athletes in team sports, but was possible in the 19th Century up until the late 1880s when it became much harder, with it being harder in baseball, where the color barrier was absolute, as opposed to football, where a few men crossed it here and there before the 1946 groundbreaking season.
World War Two had a lot to do with the color barrier fracturing.
Considerations were being made about the post war military, including a proposal to have a single service (something the Canadians in fact did). Also proposed was something akin to the pre war German system, a small professional army with a large conscript reserve.
Of course, in just a couple of years conscription would in fact be revived, and would remain a feature of American life until 1973. Watching current events, however, a good argument can be made for just what Truman had proposed here, a very small professional Army with a conscript reserve. Conscripts are a lot less likely to fire on their friends and neighbors than professionals or volunteers are.
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Francisco Franco, age 82, suffered a severe heart attack that would render him bed ridden.
The Boston Red Sox won the 1975 World Series in Game Six.
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The China Zhi Gong Party as founded in the United States in San Francisco by a pair of exiled former warlords who opposed the the Kuomintang. It remains today as one of the eight minor Chinese political parties currently permitted to exist as flunkies.
M'eh.
It was a bit of an immigrants take. Dunkin was an Irish American, and so was Shanahan. Cop, and cop killer, both of recent immigrant stock, a story that was not uncommon.
Dunkin was convicted and remained in prison until 1954. He died in 1981.
The Senators beat the Pirates 6 to 3 in game four of the 1925 World Series.
At Locarno delegates agreed that due consideration would be given to Germany's special military status until such time as a general arms reduction plan could be implemented across Europe. This was thought to secure Germany's entry into the League of Nations.
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The Detroit Tigers won the World Series, beating the Chicago Cubs 9 to 3 in game four.
The Chongqing Negotiations (Chinese: 重慶談判) came to an end.
The negotiations were between the Nationalist and the Communists and marked a resumption, after a twenty year gap, of efforts between the two contesting sides to resolve their differences. Both sides signed the Double Tenth Agreement at the end.
This day would be the last meeting between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong.
The Double Tenth Agreement provided:
The British completed the reoccupation of the Andaman Islands.
The Allied Control Council abolished the Nazi Party.
The Communist Party of Korea was founded, unfortunately.
Joseph Darnand, a French hero of the Great War, far right politician between the wars to the point of belonging to the La Cagoule terrorist organization, decorated French soldier again upon the German invasion of 1940 only to form the collaborationist militia, Service d'ordre légionnaire (SOL) and become a member of the SS, was executed. He was 48.
CBS successfully conducted an experiment in color television.
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