2005 Ruth Warrick, American Musician
2002 Ruth Handler, inventor, invented Barbie, dies at 85
2002 Ruth Fertel, restaurateur, started Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, dies at 75
1999 Ruth Roman, actress, dies at 75
1997 Ruth Picardie, journalist, dies at 33
1996 Ruth Holland, journalist, dies at 54
1996 Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director, dies at 68
1995 Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados, dies at 79
1995 Patsy Ruth Miller, actress (Wide Open, Sap, Twin Beds), dies at 91
1994 Leo Fuchs, Polish/US Yiddish actor (Story of Ruth), dies at 83
1994 Ruth Evelyn Mansfield, doctor, dies at 92
1994 Karoli Ruth Needles, painter, dies at 54
1994 Ruth Niehaus, dies
1994 Ken Griffey, Jr. breaks Ruth's record for most home runs by end of June (31)
1994 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1994 Ruth Gillette, actress (Wild Gold), dies of cancer at 88
1993 Ruth Krauss, author (Carrot Seed), dies at 91
1993 Ruth Lady Fermoy, maternal grandmother of Princess Diane, dies at 84
1992 Ruth Corbett Thom, dies after long illness at 78
1992 Ruth Nelson, actress (Awakenings, 3 Women), dies at 87
1992 Ruth Hammond, dies in her sleep at 96
1989 Bette [Ruth E] Davis, actress (All About Eve, White Mama), dies at 81
1987 Ruth Attaway, actress (Porgy and Bess, Conrack, Being There), dies
1986 Ruth Polsky, record promoter, dies after being run over by a cab at 30
1985 Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88
1984 Ruth Cummings, actress (Daybreak, Dream of Love), dies at 90
1984 Norman Krasna, author (Dear Ruth), dies of a heart attack at 74
1984 Ruth Taylor, actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 76
1982 Ruth Donnelly, comedienne, dies at 86 in New York City
1982 Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart), killed by letter bomb
1979 31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman and Ruth Gordon
1978 Ruth Etting, U.S. dancer/singer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 80
1977 Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record
1977 Ruth Moniz, NSW Australia, gymnast 1996 Olympics
1976 Ruth McDevitt, actress (Jo-All in the Family), dies at 80
1976 Ruth P Thomson, writer, dies
1975 Ruth Lee, actress (Middleton Family at 1939 World's Fair), dies at 79
1975 Ruth Schaumann, German author/painter/sculptor, dies at 75
1974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th HR, breaks Babe Ruth's record
1974 Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th
1971 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
1969 Ruth White, actress (Fugitive), dies of cancer at 55
1968 Ruth St. Denis, U.S. choreography, dies at about 90
1968 Ruth St. Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91
1967 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, head of 1st Zen Institute of America, dies at 75
1966 Ruth Gates, Denton TX, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79
1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Ladies' Golf Open
1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Hillside House Ladies' Golf Open
1964 On Elston Howard Night, Mickey Mantle ties Babe Ruth's career strikeout record (1,330)
1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational
1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open
1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1964 Ruth Picardie, journalist
1964 Ruth Davidon, born in Baltimore, Maryland, rower, Olympics-6th-96
1963 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open
1963 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Naples Professional Golf Tournament
1962 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open
1962 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1961 Dr. Ruth marries Fred Westheimer
1961 Ruth Chatterton, actress (Female, Dodsworth), dies after illness at 67
1961 Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning
1961 Whitey Ford breaks Babe Ruth's World Series record of 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings, running his streak to 32
1961 Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record
1961 Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth's record of 60 HR in 154-game sched in 1927, must be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games
1961 Ford Frick rules that if anyone breaks Babe Ruth 60 HR record, it must be done in 1st 154 games
1961 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1961 Roy Del Ruth, director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67
1959 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1958 Ruth Guerri, born in St. Louis, Missouri, playmate, July, 1983
1958 1st flight with black stewardess, Ruth Carol Taylor, Ithaca New York
1957 Ruth Wysocki, Alhambra California, 800m/1500m runner
1957 Ruth Draper, U.S. elocutionist, dies at 67 or 72
1956 Lyle Lovett, born in Klein, Texas, country singer, God Will, Joshua Judges Ruth
1955 Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging
1955 Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely
1954 Michigan rep Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock and roll) records
1953 Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League
1949 Phils Eddie Waitkus, shot by Ruth Steinhagen, 19, at Eddgewater Hotel
1949 Yankees dedicate a plaque for Babe Ruth
1948 Ruth Benedict, anthropoligst, dies
1948 Babe Ruth, Baseball legend (New York Yankees), dies in New York at 53
1948 "Babe Ruth Story," premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance
1948 Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th
1947 Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium and through out US
1946 Ruth Fuchs, German DR, javelin thrower, Oly-2 gold-72, 76
1946 Ruth Pointer, singer, Pointer Sisters-I'm So Exicted
1945 Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx)
1944 Norman Krasna's "Dear Ruth," premieres in New York City
1944 Ruth Kempson, linguist, SOAS
1943 Ruth Madoc, actress, Hi Di Hi
1942 Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for New York - Washington game (raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief
1942 Ruth Holland, journalist
1940 Karoli Ruth Needles, painter
1939 Ruth Ashton, general secretary, Royal College of Midwives
1938 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood
1938 Babe Ruth applies for job of St. Louis Browns' manager
1938 Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season
1937 Ruth Laredo, nee Meckler, born in Detroit, Michigan, concert pianist
1937 It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads
1936 Ruth Jessen, LPGA golfer
1936 Ruth Buzzi, Westerly, Rhode Island, comedienne, Laugh-In, Margie-That Girl
1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player
1936 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson
1935 Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand
1935 Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player
1935 Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat
1935 Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies
1935 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs. Pirates
1935 Babe Ruth's 1st NL game, for Boston Braves, included a HR
1935 New York Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves
1935 Ruth Clarke, Moderator, General Assembly of the United Reform Church
1935 Ruth Ann Minner, American Politician
1934 Babe Ruth tours Tokyo Japan
1934 All-Star team led by Babe Ruth and Connie Mack sails to Hawaii and Japan
1934 Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3
1934 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
1934 Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player
1934 Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland
1934 New York Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
1934 Ruth hits 700th career home run
1934 Babe Ruth hits HR #700, against Detroit
1934 Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig and Foxx in All star game
1934 Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)
1933 Yank refuses to release Babe Ruth so he can manage the Cin Reds
1933 Ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game
1933 Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice, U.S. Supreme Court
1933 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American Judge
1933 Juanita [Ruth] Coulson, sci-fi author, Web of Wizardry, Space Trap
1932 World Series moves to Chicago, In 5th inning, Babe Ruth waits until he has 2 strikes, points and hits next pitch into center field bleachers
1932 New York Yankees win World Series The winning pitcher is Babe Ruth beating Red Sox 9-3
1931 Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops 1st
1931 Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR, off George Blaeholder of Browns
1931 Lou Gehrig hits a HR but is called out for passing a runner, mistake costs him AL home run crown; he and Babe Ruth tie for season
1931 Ruth Etchells, principal, St. John's College-Durham
1931 Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee
1930 Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent
1930 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, New York to California), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days
1930 Lou Gehrig hits 3 home runs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in doubleheader
1930 Ruth hits 3 home runs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th and lose 15-7
1930 Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week
1930 Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (8th-10th of 60 in 1930)
1930 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
1930 Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"
1930 Ruth Rendell, British Writer
1929 Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve)
1929 Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
1929 Ruth Carter-Stapleton, Plains, Georgia, 1st sister/evangelist
1928 New York Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, Ruth hits 3 HR in game
1928 Ruth Westerheimer, sex therapist, Dr. Ruth
1928 Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 and is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace
1928 Ruth Westheimer, born in Germany, sex therapist, WYNY-FM
1928 Evelyn Ruth Anderson, composer
1928 Ruth Snyder, 1st woman to die in electric chair
1927 Lou Gehrig named AL MVP (Babe Ruth (former winner) not eligible)
1927 Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary)
1927 Babe Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
1927 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th HR of season off Tom Zachry
1927 Yanks clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 home runs (52 en route to 60)
1927 Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers
1927 Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
1927 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (New York Yankee Babe Ruth)
1927 Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs
1927 Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director
1927 Babe Ruth hits 19th and 20th of 60 HRs
1927 Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 home runs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)
1927 Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year)
1926 Babe Ruth hits 3 home runs in a World Series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5
1926 Ruth Zechlin, composer
1926 Ruth Brown, born in Portsmouth, Virginia, actress, Leona-Hello Larry, Checking In
1925 Ruth Mompati, South Africa sec of Nelson Mandela/W Sisulu
1925 Ruth S. White, composer
1925 After a night on the town, Babe Ruth shows up late for batting practice Miller Huggins suspends Ruth and slaps a $5,000 fine on him
1925 Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out
1925 Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery
1925 New York Yankee Babe Ruth has ulcer surgery
1925 Babe Ruth rushed to hospital
1925 Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in North Carolina due to an ulcer
1925 Ruth Slenczynska, Sacramento, California, pianist
1923 Ruth Roman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Sylvia-Knots Landing, Dallas
1923 Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a Giants uniform
1923 Babe Ruth hits 2 home runs in a World Series game
1922 Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth and Gehrig consecutive HRs
1922 Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922
1922 St. Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times
1922 Babe Ruth suspended 1 day and fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump
1922 Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, return to the New York lineup and go hitless
1922 Babe Ruth signs 3 years at $52,000 a year New York Yankee contract
1921 Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, and Bill Piercy defy Landis ban on World Series
1921 Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
1921 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits then record 59th HR
1921 Yankee Ruth hits home runs 57 and 58 to beat Indians 8-7
1921 Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games
1921 Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs
1921 Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 home runs beating Tigers 11-8
1921 Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120, Gavvy Cravath
1921 Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, and held in jail until 4 PM
1921 Ruth Gipps, British conductor/composer
1920 Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54
1920 Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win
1920 Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54
1920 Ruth ties his record of 29 home runs in a season
1920 Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR and 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds
1920 Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to New York Yankees
1920 New York Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth
1920 New York Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000
1919 Yanks and Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth
1919 Babe Ruth's 29th HR is 1st of year in Washington (1st in every park in league in one season)
1919 Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey
1919 Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 HRs
1919 Babe Ruth hits his 26th HR off Jack Quinn in NY, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 HR mark of 25
1919 Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 home runs in a game for his 1st of 72 times
1918 Peg Phillips, actress, Ruth Ann-Northern Exposure
1918 Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway scores Amos Strunk, the Red Sox win 1-0 over Cleve, prevailing rules reduce Babe's HR to a triple
1918 Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4
1917 Ruth Hussey, born in Providence, Rhode Island, actress, Another Thin Man, Philadelphia Story
1917 Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he throws him out and retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game
1917 Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Washington Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0
1917 Babe Ruth beats New York Yanks, pitching 3-hit 10-3 win for Red Sox
1916 Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados
1916 Babe Ruth begins 29 2/3 scoreless World Series innings
1916 Babe Ruth pitches and wins longest WS game (14 innings) 2-1
1916 Ruth Warwick, born in St. Joseph, Missouri, actress, Citizen Kane, All My Children
1915 Ruth Warrick, American Musician
1915 Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut and 1st HR, loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15
1914 Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for Red Sox
1914 Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleveland 4-3
1914 Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles
1914 Baltimore Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore and Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty
1914 Ruth White, born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, actress, Up the Down Staircase
1914 Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win
1911 Josh Gibson, pro baseball player, "Negro Babe Ruth", hit 800+ HRs
1906 William Bendix, New York City, actor, Lifeboat, Babe Ruth Story, Life of Riley
1905 Ruth Page, U.S. choreographer/ballet leader, Diaghilev, Pygmalion
1905 Ruth Bernhard, German Photographer
1904 Patsy Ruth Miller, actress, Quebec, Wide Open, Sap, Twin Beds
1902 Ruth Evelyn Mansfield, doctor
1902 Cleve's Bill Bradley is 1st ALer to hit a HR run in 4 consecutive games, not duplicated until Babe Ruth does it June 25, 1918
1899 Ruth Schaumann, German painter/writer, Rose, Black King
1897 Ruth Pitter, British poet
1896 Ruth Etting, U.S. dancer/singer/actress, Roman scandals
1896 Ruth Gordon, Massachusetts, actress, Rosemary's Baby, Harold and Maude
1895 Ruth McDevitt, Coldwater, Michigan, actress, Jo-All in the Family
1895 Babe Ruth, American Athlete
1893 Ruth Chatterton, U.S. actress, Madame X, Sarah and Son
1893 Roy Del Ruth, DE, director, About Face, Babe Ruth Story, Star Show
1892 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, U.S., Zen teacher, 1st Zen Institute of America
1892 Ruth Stonehouse
1887 Ruth Benedict, anthropoligist
1887 Ruth Benedict, U.S., anthropologist, Patterns of Culture
1885 Ruth Bryan Rohde, U.S., Rep, minister to Denmark
1884 Ruth Draper, American Actress
1877 Ruth St. Denis, Newark, New Jersey, ballerina, Dances of the 5 Senses
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