JULY 17
1941:Yankee slugger Joe DiMaggio ends his 56-game hitting streak, still the longest in Major League Baseball history, at the hands of Cleveland Indians pitchers Al Smith and Jim Bagby Jr., at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland. "Joltin' Joe"
misses out on a $10,000 endorsement deal promised by Heinz if DiMaggio
was able to match their "57" ketchup varieties. Undeterred, DiMaggio
finishes the season with another 16-game hitting streak, making it to
the bases in 72 out of 73 games.
1918: The deposed Czar Nicholas II of Russia, Czarina
Alexandra, their five children and four servants are executed by a squad
of Bolsheviks in the cellar of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg.
1938: After taking off from Brooklyn, N.Y., bound for
California, pilot Douglas Corrigan flies 3,150 miles in the wrong
direction in a battered and unstable Curtiss Robin monoplane, ending up
in Dublin, Ireland. "Wrong Way" Corrigan maintains that his compass
malfunctioned, leading the soon-to-be national celebrity across the
Atlantic Ocean instead of west to Los Angeles.
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