1996 Braves Andruw Jones is youngest player to homer in World Series
1995 Orioles Jeff Manto, hits his 4th consecutive homer
1991 Ernestine McClendon, director/actress (Homer and Eddie), dies
1991 Frank Thomas is 1st White Sox to homer at new Comiskey Park
1990 Reds Eric Davis is 22nd player to homer in his 1st World Series at bat
1990 New York Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside park homer
1989 Kenneth "Jethro" Burns, country singer (Homer and Jethro), dies at 69
1984 Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer
1978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer and Pinella's fielding
1977 Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer, Reggie hits 2 more
1976 Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives New York Yanks pennant #30
1976 "Home Sweet Homer" opens and closes at Palace Theater New York City
1974 Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat
1972 Oakland A Gene Tenace is 1st to homer in 1st 2 World Series at bats
1972 Balt Roric Harrison is last AL pitcher to homer until interleague play 25 years later
1972 Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Alex Johnson) to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers
1972 In Willie Mays 1st game as a New York Met his homer beats San Francisco Giants, 5-4
1971 New York Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet
1968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
1968 Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting 10 in 6 consecutive games
1966 5 Minnesota Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, and Harmon Killebrew) all homer in 7th inning to beat A's 9-4
1963 Leslie Narum is only Baltimore Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat
1962 Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55
1962 Brothers Hank and Tommie Aaron homer in same inning
1962 Mantle hits his 3rd and 4th consecutive homer
1960 Ted Williams hits his final homer #521
1956 Yanks set dubious record, stranding 20 men on base Mantle hits a 500' plus homer but Red Sox win 13-9 in Fenway
1956 Yanks clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of year
1955 Bauer and Berra homer in 9th beating Red Sox 5-4 taking over 1st
1953 Billy Hunter is last St. Louis Browns player to homer in a game
1953 Sidney Homer, composer, dies at 88
1953 Joe Adcock is 1st to homer into Polo Grounds' center field bleachers
1950 Eduard Hermann, German linguist (Homer), dies at 80
1947 Yankee Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a World Series homer
1941 Homer Banks, U.S. singer and songwriter, Be What You Are
1940 Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series
1938 Phil Emmett Mueller and Dodger Ernie Koy both homer in their 1st at bat
1933 Ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game
1933 1st time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox
1930 Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball
1926 Harry "Little" Caesar, blues singer and actor, City Heat, Homer and Eddie
1923 Kenneth "Jethro" Burns, country singer, Homer and Jethro
1921 Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
1920 Phillies mgr Gravvy Cravath puts himself in as pinch hitter, his 3- run homer beats New York Giants 3-0
1920 Homer Newton Bartlett, composer, dies at 74
1920 Jethro Burnsburns, country singer, Homer and Jethro
1919 Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey
1915 Homer Keller, composer
1910 Winslow Homer, painter (Prout's Neck), dies
1892 Homer A. Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy vs. Ferguson)
1869 Eduard Hermann, Coburg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, German linguist, Homer
1864 Sidney Homer, composer
1845 Homer Newton Bartlett, composer
1836 Winslow Homer, U.S., painter, Gulfstream
1783 Vasili A. Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator, Homer
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