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1997 Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city Giants vs Mets and Oakland A's vs Yankees in NY

1995 Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria

1995 Indians and Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose - Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition)

1993 Fred McGriff and David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back home runs twice in same game

1993 Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit home runs in same inn (vs Yankees)

1992 1st time AL East and West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor and Oak

1990 Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend

1990 Ken Griffey Sr &, Jr. are 1st father and son to play on same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners

1990 Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey, Jr. become 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning

1990 Guns and Roses' Axl marries Erin Everly (annulled same year)

1989 Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at same time being accused of fathering children by 2 other women

1985 Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve becomes 1st Phillie to switch hit home runs in same game

1984 Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on same hole

1984 1st brother combo to win Gold and Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil and Steve Mahre-Slalom)

1982 Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun

1981 Yank Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game

1977 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877

1976 Sadiq and Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings vs. New Zealand

1975 Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in New York City

1974 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian and Westfall

1974 Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same day

1972 Ian and Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings

1967 White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game)

1965 Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron (1954 - 1965) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 home runs while playing together on the same team

1962 Brothers Hank and Tommie Aaron homer in same inning

1959 During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time

1958 Phils drop plans for New York sportcast as Yankees threat to do same in Philadelphia

1958 U.S.S.R. suspends nuclear weapons tests, and urges U.S. and Britain to do same

1957 Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher

1956 ... Kennedy, daughter of future President Kennedy, dies same day

1952 Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid

1950 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: CCNY beats Bradley 71-68 New York City college becomes 1st to win NCAA and National Inv Basketball in same year

1947 Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries New York City under 25.8" of snow in 16 hours That same day, LA set a record high of 84 degrees F

1947 Compton and Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket

1944 Billy Cobham, Panama, jazz artist, Same Ole Love

1942 WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"

1938 Arthur Fagg completes 244 and 202 in the same cricket game for Kent

1933 1st time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox

1931 George Gunn gets 183 and son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings

1926 Louise L. Hay, born in Los Angeles, California, motivational author, professional speaker, self-help and motivational writer, 'You Can Heal Your Life', 1984, on the New York Times Bestseller list, sold 35 million copies in 30 languages, made into movie of the same title, founder, Hay House Publishing

1925 NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began

1916 Codell, Kansas hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 and 1918)

1912 Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Australia vs. South Africa

1902 Cleveland is 1st AL team to hit 3 consecutive home runs in same inning

1900 Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match

1892 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket England vs. South Africa (Cape Town)

1697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night


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