Sunday, June 10, 2012

TODAY IN HISTORY

JUNE 10
 1944:Fifteen-year-old Joe Nuxhall becomes the youngest player in Major League Baseball history when he pitches for the Cincinnati Reds in the ninth inning of an 18-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. Teenaged players were common in the MLB during World War II, as many mature professional players had enlisted in the armed forces. Nuxhall would rejoin the Reds at age 23, pitching for 15 seasons.

1943: Hungarian journalist Laszlo Biro and his chemist brother, Georg, patent the ballpoint pen, which solves the problem of leaking and smudging ink. In most of the world, ballpoints are commonly referred to as "biros," in honor of their inventors.

1977: After serving eight years at the maximum security Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tenn., James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., escapes with six other inmates. The escapees would all be caught within three days, and Ray would die in prison in 1998.

1972: "The Candy Man', performed by Sammy Davis, Jr., hits #1 on Billboard Chart

1915:The Girl Scouts organization is formed

1793:Jardin des Plantes: the first public zoo is created.
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