TODAY IN HISTORY

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1835 US national debt is $0 for the first and only time in history

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1951 Maurice Richard scores his 16th career hat trick in the Montreal Canadiens' 3-0 win over NY Rangers to bring his career total to 274 goals; passes Howie Morenz as NHL's #2 all-time leading goal scorer.

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Jan 12th 1967 Louisville, Kentucky draft board refuses exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali

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1970 Joe Frazier TKOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

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Today in 1934 Casey Stengel becomes manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers

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1962 MLB's National League releases its first 162-game schedule due to expansion (18 games between opponents)

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3-7-1955 - "Peter Pan" was presented as a television special for the first time.

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1996 "𝓕𝓪𝓻𝓰𝓸" 𝓭𝓲𝓻𝓮𝓬𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓷 𝓫𝔂 𝓙𝓸𝓮𝓵 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓔𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷 𝓒𝓸𝓮𝓷, 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓕𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼 𝓜𝓬𝓓𝓸𝓻𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓭, 𝓦𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓪𝓶 𝓗. 𝓜𝓪𝓬𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓢𝓽𝓮𝓿𝓮 𝓑𝓾𝓼𝓬𝓮𝓶𝓲 𝓻𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓤𝓢

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March 9th, 1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player.

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1937 Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice and replaces his 40 oz bat with a 36 oz one

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May,25,1935 Legendary American athlete Jesse Owens equals or breaks four world records in 45 minutes at a Big Ten meet at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan; remembered as "the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport"

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On this date, 2017, Gregg Allman passed away.

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5-30-1987 The North American Philips Company unveils the compact disc video format (CD-V), which can hold up to 800 MB, enough for a full-length movie.

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May 31st,1921, Boston Red Sox 1st baseman John "Stuffy" McInnis begins an errorless string of 1,700 chances

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June 15, 1928, Philadelphia Athletics baseball star Ty Cobb steals home for a record 54th time.

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June 22, 1977, Walt Disney's animated film "The Rescuers" is released, the first Disney film to get a sequel

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Aug 3rd, 1936 American sprinter Jesse Owens wins the 100m (10.3 seconds) in front of Adolf Hitler in a famous race at the Berlin Olympics, the first of four gold medals he wins at the Games.

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1921 MLB Pittsburgh Pirates drop doubleheader to St. Louis Cardinals, allowing the idle New York Giants to clinch the NL

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9-30-1934 In his final game as a New York Yankee, Babe Ruth goes 0 for 3.

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Oct 1st, 1961-Roger Maris breaks home run record