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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1962 Event - Lou Brock is 2nd to home run into Polo Grounds right-center field bleachers

1961 Event - France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1935 Event - Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat

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

1934 Event - Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into 4 straight double plays

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

1922 Event - Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth and Gehrig consecutive home runs

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

1921 Event - Yankees beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds

1921 Event - Memorial to Captain Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds

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

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

1920 Event - Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee home run and 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds

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

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

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

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

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

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

1902 Event - AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY

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

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

1899 Event - French Captain Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds

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

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

1884 Event - 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 Event - Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds

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

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

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

1796 Event - Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds

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