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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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