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April 13, 2007
Today in History: April 13th
From Those Were the Days - Today in History:
1796 - The first known elephant (like, how would one NOT know it was an elephant?) to arrive in the United States, came to America. The elephant was from Bengal, India and entered the U.S.A. through New York City.
1954 - Hank Aaron debuted for the Milwaukee Braves. In his first ever major-league baseball game, Hammerin’ Hank went 0-for-5 against Cincinnati. Aaron’s first major-league homer came 10 days later.
Childrens books about Hank Aaron:
Hank Aaron : brave in every way / by Peter Golenbock
MAT-CTR. GV865.A25 G642001
Henry Aaron, home-run king / by Sam and Beryl Epstein
MAT-CTR. GV865.A25 E67
1972 - The first strike in the history of major-league baseball ended. Players had walked off the field 13 days earlier.
1981 - Janet Cook won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Things took a strange turn when she later said that her prize-winning story in The Washington Post was a fake. She made up the story and passed it off as truth. Her award was taken away and given instead to Teresa Carpenter of New York’s Village Voice.
Find other Pulitzer Prize winners:
Who’s who of Pulitzer Prize winners / Elizabeth A. Brennan and Elizabeth C. Clarage
REF. AS911.P8 B741999
To find more books on these and other topics, search the Library Catalog.
Posted by d-nadler at April 13, 2007 09:24 AM