FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS

George Lee “Sparky” Anderson (February 22, 1934 – November 4, 2010) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player, coach, and manager. He managed the National League‘s Cincinnati Reds to the 1975 and 1976 championships, then added a third title in 1984 with the Detroit Tigers of the American League. Anderson was the first manager to win the World Series in both leagues. His 2,194 career wins are the sixth-most for a manager in Major League history. Anderson was named American League Manager of the Year in 1984 and 1987. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000.

TODAY’S ALMANAC

FULL BUCK MOON

Traditionally, we have called July’s full Moon the “Full Buck Moon.” This name comes from our Native American and Colonial past when the Moon was used to track the seasons. Bucks are growing new antlers at this time. July’s Full Moon was also known as the Thunder Moon, because thunderstorms are so frequent during this month.

Every Year

• HOT ENOUGH FOR YA? DAY

1820s

• 1827: AMERICA’S FIRST SWIMMING SCHOOL OPENED BY FRANCIS LIEBER IN BOSTON, MA
• 1829: THE FIRST PRACTICAL TYPOGRAPHER (TYPEWRITER) WAS PATENTED BY WILLIAM BURT

1840s

• 1840: UNION ACT PASSED BY BRITISH PARLIAMENT, UNITING UPPER AND LOWER CANADA INTO ONE GOVERNMENT

1880s

• DIED 1885: ULYSSES S. GRANT (18TH U.S. PRESIDENT)
• BORN 1888: RAYMOND THORNTON CHANDLER (AUTHOR)

1900s

• 1906: COPYRIGHT FOR “AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL” BY KATHARINE LEE BATES REGISTERED

1910s

• DIED 1916: SIR WILLIAM RAMSAY (CHEMIST & NOBEL PRIZE WINNER)

1930s

• BORN 1936: DON DRYSDALE (BASEBALL PLAYER)

1940s

• DIED 1948: D. W. GRIFFITH (FILM DIRECTOR)

1960s

• DIED 1966: MONTGOMERY CLIFT (ACTOR)
• BORN 1967: PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN (ACTOR)

1970s

• DIED 1973: EDWARD V. RICKENBACKER (WWI FLYING ACE)
• BORN 1973: NOMAR GARCIAPARRA (BASEBALL PLAYER)

1980s

• 1983: BOEING 767 TURNED INTO GLIDER AFTER FUEL RAN OUT DUE TO METRIC CONVERSION ERROR, GIMLI, MANITOBA
• 1984: VANESSA WILLIAMS BECAME THE FIRST MISS AMERICA TO RESIGN WHEN SHE RELINQUISHED HER CROWN
• BORN 1989: DANIEL RADCLIFFE (ACTOR)

1990s

• 1999: DISNEY’S TARZAN BECAME THE FIRST ALL-DIGITAL FILM

2000s

• 2000: GEORGE LEE “SPARKY” ANDERSON INDUCTED INTO THE NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME
• DIED 2002: WILLIAM PIERCE (WHITE SUPREMACIST WHOSE BOOK, THE TURNER DIARIES, IS BELIEVED TO HAVE INSPIRED OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBER TIMOTHY MCVEIGH)
• DIED 2002: CHAIM POTOK (AUTHOR)
• DIED 2007: RON MILLER (SONGWRITER; HITS INCLUDE TOUCH ME IN THE MORNING AND FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE)

2010s

• DIED 2011: AMY WINEHOUSE (SINGER)
• DIED 2012: SALLY RIDE (ASTRONAUT; FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN IN SPACE)

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