Wednesday, May 7, 2008

10 Timeline Memories:

1. 1789] The 1st inaugural ball is held in honor of President George Washington and his wife Martha with music provided by Lester Lanin...
2. 1903] It all started with this game. Boston faces off against New York for the 1st time as the Pilgrims beat the Highlanders 6-2 at the Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston. Bill Dinneen is the winning pitcher for Boston. Hobe Ferris homers...
3. 1946] The Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp. is founded. The company will be renamed SONY...
4. 1968] British singer Reginald Dwight changes his name to Elton John...
5. 1957] A line-drive off the bat of Yankee Gil McDougald severely damages Cleveland pitcher Herb Score's right eye, effectively ruining his career. Two years later he retires...
6. 1966] After winning 4 games out of the 1st 20 as Yankee manager, Johnny Keane is fired and replaced by Ralph Houk. And this was 7 years before George Steinbrenner...
7. 1968] Dancer's Image, winner of the Kentucky Derby 3 days earlier is disqualified after it's discovered that the horse was injected by the painkiller 'bute' to reduce inflammation of the joints. Forward Pass who finished 2nd is declared the winner of the KD...
8. 1987] Shelly Long a.k.a. Diane Chambers makes her last appearance as a regular on "Cheers"...
9. 1999] A jury in Pontiac (MI) orders "The Jenny Jones Show" to pay $25 million to the family of a gay man who was shot to death after revealing a crush on a male guest on the show. The award will be overturned on appeal...
10. 2002] 25 years to the exact date that Seattle Slew won the Kentucky Derby, the 1st of his Triple Crown victories in 1977, the great Slew died at the age of 28...

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