1881

The first grand slam hit in the National League was by Roger Connor for the Troy Trojans. The Troy Trojans (New York) beat the Worcester

The Gunfight at the OK Corral occurred in Tombstone, Arizona, as Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and “Doc” Holiday shot it out with Ike Clanton’s

Branch Rickey (former Baseball General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers)

John XXIII (Pope of the Roman Catholic Church)

Pablo Picasso (Artist)

William Boeing (American aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company)

Cecil B. DeMille (Filmmaker, The Ten Commandments)

Alexander Fleming (Scottish bacteriologist, invented penicillin)

Jimmy Evers (Baseball player)

President James A. Garfield died of wounds inflicted by an assassin 11 weeks earlier.

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