1921: Black Sox. A day after eight Chicago White Sox players are acquitted of conspiring to fix the 1919 World Series, Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis bans them from professional baseball forever.
1852: Harvard’s crew team beats Yale in America’s first intercollegiate athletic event, marking the beginning of the athletic rivalry between the two Ivies.
1958: The USS Nautilus becomes the first submarine to cross the North Pole underwater.
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