1968 Event Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years 1968 Event Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball 1965 Event William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball 1965 Event William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball 1946 Event ENIAC, U.S. 1st computer finished by Mauchly/Eckert 1941 Birthday Fred J. Eckert, born in Rochester, New York, Representative-D-New York, 1985 - 1987 1919 Birthday John Presper Eckert, co-inventor, 1st electronic computer-ENIAC
