1997:In honor of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball exactly 50 years before, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig retires Robinson’s uniform number, 42, for all professional baseball teams, at a ceremony at New York City’s Shea Stadium.
1959: Three months after leading a revolution that overthrew President Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader Fidel Castro arrives in the United States for an 11-day visit at the invitation of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Although President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses to meet with Castro, the young Cuban’s visit is thought to be a public relations success.
1981: Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke admits that she had fabricated Jimmy’s World, the article that had won her the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing only two days earlier. Cooke’s feature about an 8-year-old heroin addict had been completely made up, but had led top Washington, D.C., officials such as Mayor Marion Barry to announce that they were aware of Jimmy and his addiction.
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