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2000 After years of preparation for Y2K, only minor computer-related problems were reported (a problem with Hotmail, with a nuclear power plant in Japan and with apartment heating in Korea)

1999 John Minor Wisdom, American Judge

1998 Twins trade Chuck Knoblauch to New York Yankees for $3M and 4 minor leaguers

1992 Colorado Rockies 1st minor league team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game

1989 Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St. Louis

1987 Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to A's for 3 minor leaguers

1981 Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))

1976 Minor White, American Photographer

1973 Deon Minor, Paris Texas, 400m runner

1972 George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident

1971 Greg Minor, NBA guard for the Boston Celtics

1969 Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals

1966 Blas Minor, Merced California, pitcher for the Seattle Mariners

1965 Minor Watson, actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid), dies at 75

1957 CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on

1957 Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships

1957 Dodgers (Ft. Worth) and Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises

1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St. Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee

1952 St. Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan

1946 U.S. General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor Nazi's" amnesty

1944 Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore

1942 Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of New York Giants minor league system

1938 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St. L Cardinals minor leaguers

1920 Annual drafting of baseball players from minor leagues to be done in inverse order of the final standings, agreed to

1913 Hugo Pos, Suriname/Netherlands WW II prosecutor of minor war crimes Tokyo

1909 1st pro baseball game, minor league, played under lights

1908 Minor White, American Photographer

1905 John Minor Wisdom, American Judge

1902 Minor League's most lopsided baseball game: Corsicana 51; Texarkana 3 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Texas minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game

1893 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted 1st performance of "Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique"

1889 Minor Watson, Marianna AR, actor, Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid

1887 1st minor league baseball association organizes in Pittsburgh

1879 Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill

1877 International Association (minor baseball league) organizes

1873 Sergei Rachmaninoff, born in Novgorod, Russia, composer, Prelude in C# Minor

1859 Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover

1810 Frederic Chopin, born in Poland, composer/pianist, Concert in F Minor

1750 Minor earthquake in London

1750 Tomaso Albinioni, Italian composer (Adagio in G Minor), dies at 78

1536 English king Henry VIII expropriate minor monasteries

787 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor

325 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea, Asia Minor


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