1946:Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, patron saint of immigrants, becomes the first American citizen canonized by the Catholic Church.
1948: On his 42nd birthday, Satchel Paige is signed to the Cleveland Indians as Major League Baseball's oldest rookie. Paige will also be the first Negro League player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and the oldest athlete to play in the major leagues.
1985: Seventeen-year-old tennis prodigy Boris Becker wins the men's singles title at Wimbledon, becoming the youngest, the first German and the first unseeded player to win the championship. Exactly five years later, Czech-born American tennis player Martina Navratilova would defeat fellow American Zina Garrison to win a record ninth Wimbledon singles championship.
1948: On his 42nd birthday, Satchel Paige is signed to the Cleveland Indians as Major League Baseball's oldest rookie. Paige will also be the first Negro League player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and the oldest athlete to play in the major leagues.
1985: Seventeen-year-old tennis prodigy Boris Becker wins the men's singles title at Wimbledon, becoming the youngest, the first German and the first unseeded player to win the championship. Exactly five years later, Czech-born American tennis player Martina Navratilova would defeat fellow American Zina Garrison to win a record ninth Wimbledon singles championship.
1990:The World Wide Web is born when Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, develops the HyperText Markup Language which would later be called HTML.
1930:Construction of Boulder Dam begins
1928:Sliced bread sold for the first time
1928:Sliced bread sold for the first time
1954:Elvis Presley made his radio debut: his first recording "That's All Right".
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