Event:
Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager
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1993 Mattel and Fisher Price toys merge
1984 Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for president
1957 U.S. Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
1919 Afghanistan declares independence from U.K.
