Stan Musial (1920–2013) was an American professional baseball player
and Navy veteran of World War II. He was a Major League Baseball
outfielder and first baseman on the St. Louis Cardinals for 22 seasons,
from 1941 through 1963. Widely considered to be one of the greatest
hitters in baseball history, with 3,630 career hits, Musial ranks fourth
all-time and first in a career spent with only one team. He hit 475 home
runs during his career and was named the National League's Most Valuable
Player three times. In 1946 he earned his third and final World Series
title, despite missing the entire previous season serving with the navy.
He shares the major league record for the most All-Star Games played
(24) with Hank Aaron and Willie Mays, and was a first-ballot inductee
into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. He was also known for his
harmonica playing, during and after his playing career, and for his
modesty and sportsmanship. Musial was selected for the Major League
Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. In February 2011, President Barack
Obama presented Musial with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of
the highest civilian awards the US government can bestow.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Musial>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1607:
San Agustin Church in Manila, the oldest church in the
Philippines, was completed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Agustin_Church_(Manila)>
1795:
A day after William V, Prince of Orange (pictured), fled the
Dutch Republic as a result of the Batavian Revolution, the Batavian
Republic was established.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavian_Republic>
1917:
Approximately 50 tons of TNT exploded at a munitions factory in
Silvertown in West Ham, present-day Greater London, killing more than 70
people and injuring more than 400 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvertown_explosion>
1975:
A magnitude 6.8 Ms earthquake struck northern Himachal Pradesh,
India, causing extensive damage to the region.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Kinnaur_earthquake>
2006:
In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an
Antonov An-24 aircraft operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in
northern Hungary, killing 42 of the 43 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Slovak_Air_Force_Antonov_An-24_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ascertain:
To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ascertain>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is
the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were given to every
human being at his birth; what rights are, therefore, inherent in him as
a human being, necessarily remain with him during life; and, however
capable of being trampled upon, are incapable of being blotted out,
extinguished, annihilated, or separated or eliminated from his nature as
a human being, or deprived of their inherent authority or obligation.
--Lysander Spooner
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner>