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1988 Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism

1986 Edna Mae Cooper, actress (Folly of Vanity, Grounds for Divorce), dies

1984 Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36

1981 Mariners mgr Maury Wills is suspended for 2 games after ordering Seattle's grounds crew to enlarge batter's boxes by one foot

1975 Last U.S. helicopter leaves U.S. embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders

1974 U.S. House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon

1964 Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project

1963 Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1

1962 Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds

1962 Lou Brock is 2nd to HR into Polo Grounds right-center field bleachers

1961 France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria

1960 2nd French atom bomb explodes in the Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria

1960 France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria

1957 New York Giants play and lose their last game at Polo Grounds (9-1 to Pitts)

1956 NFL's New York Giants switches games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium

1955 John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962)

1953 Joe Adcock is 1st to homer into Polo Grounds' center field bleachers

1946 U.S. V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM

1945 Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off

1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt buried on grounds of Hyde Park home

1944 Polo Grounds host 1st New York City night game since 1941

1942 10th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York

1940 1st night game at New York's Polo Grounds (Giants 8, Braves 1)

1940 New York Giants rip Boston Bees 8-1 in 1st night game at Polo Grounds

1937 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers ends Carl Hubbell's consecutive-game winning streak at 24

1935 Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat

1934 2nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, New York

1934 Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into 4 straight double plays

1922 Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader

1922 Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth and Gehrig consecutive HRs

1922 Yankees final game at Polo Grounds (played there 7 years)

1921 Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds

1921 Memorial to Capt Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds

1920 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds

1920 Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season

1920 Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR and 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds

1917 Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws

1911 Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A's, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379)

1911 Polo Grounds grandstand and left field bleachers go up in flames

1911 Brooklyn Dodgers President Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000

1907 Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club 1st game, loses to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at Edmonton Exhibition Grounds

1905 England Pilgrim Association beats All New York 11, 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds

1902 AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY

1901 Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)

1900 Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Balt

1899 French Capt Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds

1890 1st pro baseball game, New York Metropolitans beat Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings at Polo Grounds in New York City

1885 U.S. Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds

1884 Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series Oct 23-25 at Polo Grounds New York City to determine baseball champion

1874 Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds

1862 Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens

1859 Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used

1839 1st Canadian track and field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)

1796 Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds



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