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The photograph shows the battleship USS IOWA (BB 61) passing through the Gaillard Cut in Panama in 1984. The Gaillard Cut, also known as the Culebra Cut, is a notable feature of the Panama Canal. It is a narrow and deep man-made trench that was created during the construction of the canal.

79 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, and goes on to destroy Pompeii [approximate date]

1305 Scottish patriot William Wallace is executed for high treason by Edward I of England at Smithfield, London

1799 Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power

1839 British capture Hong Kong from China

1889 First ship-to-shore wireless message ("Sherman is sighted") is received in the US from Lightship No. 70 to a coastal receiving station at Cliff House in San Francisco

1914 The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War. It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers,Although the British fought well, they were eventually forced to retreat due both to the greater strength of the Germans and the sudden retreat of the French Fifth Army,

1926 Rudolph Valentino Italian actor & silent movie idol, dies of a relapse of pleuritis in NY at 31

1936 17-year-old Cleveland Indians future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller plays his first MLB game as a starter and strikes out 15 St. Louis Browns in a 4-1 win at League Park, Cleveland

1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree to the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact and secretly divide Poland between themselves, setting the stage for World War II

1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad, killing 40,000 people ( that Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact worked out well)

1942 Japanese and American aircraft engaged in combat over Darwin, Australia between 1200 and 1245 hours; 7 Japanese bombers, 8 Japanese Zero fighters were shot down by P-40 Warhawk fighters of US 49th Fighter Group. This was to be the last Japanese attempt to raid Darwin.

1942 727 RAF bombers dropped 1,700 tons of explosives on Berlin,Hamburg, Dresden, and Other German Cities

1943 Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, ends after 50 days as the Soviet Union defeats Germany; over 10,000 tanks take part, and nearly 250,000 combatants are killed

1946 Premiere of "The Big Sleep," directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall

1960 Oscar Hammerstein (Rodgers & Hammerstein,"Oklahoma!","South Pacific","The King And I",The Sound Of Music"), dies at 65

1966 The Beatles' last concert takes place in Queens, New York City, at Shea Stadium before a crowd of 45,000 with 11,000 unsold seats

1968 Yankees and Tigers play a 3-3 tie in 19 innings due to a 1 am curfew

1974 John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in New York City

1982 Seattle Mariners pitcher Gaylord Perry is ejected for throwing a spitter  (No not Gaylord,the hell you say)

1985 Paul Hornung is awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against the NCAA, which barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games

1989 The LA Dodgers beat the Montreal Expos 1-0 in 22 innings with a home run by Rick Dempsey

1993 Fred McGriff and David Justice are the sixth to hit back-to-back home runs twice in the same game

2002 Hoty Wilhem American Baseball HOF pitcher 8 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1954 NY Giants,dies at 80

2003 Bobby Bonds American MLB baseball outfielder, 1968-81, 3x All-Star, 3x Golden Glove, father of Barry Bonds, dies of lung cancer and brain tumor at 57

2024 Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels steals a base and hits a grand slam in a 7-3 win at home over Tampa Bay, becoming just the sixth MLB player to have 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a season

This is where the Dawgs played before 1929, at home, which is why bigger games were often played somewhere else, like in Columbus, GA or Atlanta.  

Many of you have heard this but they found few more that I hadn't,certainly weird

Largest coinincidence in History?

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Pete Rose Is Banned from Baseball (1989)
During his 24-year baseball career, Rose played in more games and got more hits than any player in history. Even so, the onetime Most Valuable Player could not avoid a lifetime ban from the sport after being accused of betting on baseball games—including those of his own team. In return for not having the charges formally proven, Rose accepted the banishment, which rendered him ineligible for induction into baseball's Hall of Fame. However, he later spent five months in federal prison