The Miraculous May 6
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In the News
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1835
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James Gordon Bennett published the "New York Herald" for the first time on this day.
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1915 |
Babe Ruth hit his first major-league home run. He was playing for the Boston Red Sox at the time. "The Sultan of Swat" went on to smash 714 round-trippers before he retired, as a New York Yankee, in 1935.
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1957
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Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Profiles In Courage".
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On The Radio
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1958
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Tequila - The Champs
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1962
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Johnny Angel - Shelley Fabares
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1980
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Lost in Love - Air Supply
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Famous Birthdays
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1856
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Sigmund Freud (psychiatrist)
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1915
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Orson Welles (actor: War of the Worlds, Citizen Kane,
The Mercury Radio Theatre of the Air, The Long Hot Summer,
A Man for All Seasons, MacBeth, Moby Dick, Casino Royale,
Catch-22)
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1931
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Willie Mays (Baseball Hall of Famer: The Say Hey!
Kid: SF Giants OF: Baseball Writer's Award [1954 & 1965])
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