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1993 Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game 1993 Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp 1992 Ground breaking of Florida Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium 1988 Angela Aames, actress (Lost Empire, Basic Training), dies 1987 New York Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl 1987 Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training 1978 Padres fire Al Dark (2nd manager ever fired during spring training) 1976 Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract 1967 White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game) 1963 Pete Rose debuts with hits in his 2 1st at bats in spring training 1958 Ann Dusenberry, born in Tucson, Arizona, actress, Jaws 2, Lies, Basic Training 1956 AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training 1954 In spring training, Ted Williams breaks his collarbone 1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War 1952 Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada 1948 Yanks and Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17, spring training game 1945 Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain, New York 1944 Peter Ryan, British national director, Police Training 1942 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training 1942 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines 1942 Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Selective Training and Service Act (1st peacetime draft) 1937 1st Santa Claus Training School opens in Albion, New York 1931 Spring training site of New York Yankees in St. Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager 1916 U.S. Army forms Reserve Officers Training Corps 1910 Barbara Woodhouse, dog training expert 1909 Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women 1876 U.S. Coast Guard officers' training school established New Bedford, Massachusetts 1750 1st American school to offer manual training courses opens, Md

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