1874

Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of England during World War II)

Napoleon Larry Lajoie (Baseball manager)

Herbert Clark Hoover (Former U.S. President)

Robert Frost (Poet)

Harry Houdini (Famous magician, escape artist)

Honus Wagner (Baseball player)

Bill Klem (Baseball umpire)

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (American financier and philanthropist)

The Republican Party was symbolized as an elephant for the first time in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly.

National Association of Professional Baseball Players officially adopted the batter’s box.

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