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1996
San Francisco Giant Bobby Bond is 2nd player to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases
1994
Smoking banned in Pentagon and all U.S. military bases
1993
Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon
1992
John Jaha ties record of 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers)
1991
Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day
1991
U.S. announces closing of 31 major U.S. military bases
1990
Pirate Bobby Bond is 2nd to hit 30 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season (so he can play in 6 decades) because it is a publicity stunt
1990
Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game
1990
Oakland A's Rickey Henderson becomes 2nd to steal 900 bases
1989
Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)
1989
Howard Johnson joins B Bonds and W Mays to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases
1989
Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases
1989
Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th and 40th consecutive bases
1988
Jose Canseco is baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases and hit 40 HRs
1988
Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases
1988
Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a New York Yankee
1987
Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in one season
1985
Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74
1985
Carlton Fisk becomes 5th catcher to steal 100 bases
1983
Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in season
1982
Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year
1980
Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith, and Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for Padres
1980
Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season
1980
Bucky Dent hits an inside park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded, Yanks win 16-3
1979
Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 home runs and 300 stolen bases)
1978
Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 home runs and have 500 stolen bases
1977
St. Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3
1975
A's release pinch runner Herb Washington (played 104 games without batting, pitching, or fielding He stole 30 bases, and scored 33 runs)
1970
Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation
1968
Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases
1967
St. Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 64th World Series as Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 World Series
1963
New York Mets Jimmy Piersall, hits his 100th HR, he circles bases backwards
1962
John F. Kennedy announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled
1962
Cuban missile crisis ends, John F. Kennedy says U.S.S.R. is dismantling missile bases
1962
Nikita Khrushchev sends note to John F. Kennedy offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if U.S. closed its bases in Turkey offer is rejected
1962
Stevenson demands U.S.S.R. ambassador Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"
1962
John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba
1962
Los Angeles Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to steal 100 bases (en route to 104)
1960
U.S. and Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases
1959
Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples
1954
Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hrs, 1 double)
1953
U.S. and Greece signs peace treaty (US bases)
1953
U.S. and Spain sign defense treaty (4 U.S. bases in Spain)
1950
Red Sox Dom DiMaggio leads AL with only 15 stolen bases
1950
Viet Minh-offensive against French bases in Vietnam
1944
15 U.S. aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
1943
Great-Britain establishes bases on Azores
1943
U.S. air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen
1941
Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to U.S. for 99 years
1941
Canada and U.S. acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
1939
Estonia accepts Soviet military bases
1925
Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)
1924
Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game
1918
White Sox losing 5-4 against New York Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a triple play
1917
Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game
1917
Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves
1915
Washington Nationals steal record 8 bases vs. Cleveland Indians in the 1st inning
1912
Eddie Collins repeats record of stealing 6 bases in a game (9/7/12)
1912
Philadelphia A's Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game
1912
Eddie Collins steals record 6 bases in 9-7 Athletics win over Detroit
1912
New York Giant Josh Devore steals 4 bases in an inning (2nd and 3rd twice)
1911
Yanks steal 15 bases and get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning
1909
Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in 1st inning against Cubs
1907
Nationals steal a record 13 bases off catcher Branch Rickey
1904
NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, New York Giants)
1894
Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases
1886
Ty Cobb, batted .367, stole 892 bases, Det Tigers
1883
Cub's Burns (extra bases), Williamson and Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn
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