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October 30. Leon Day is born in 1916.
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October 30, 1916. Leon Day is born. Leon Day’s photo is taken from a panoramic shot of Baltimore Elite Giants in 1950.
October 29. Pete Richert is born in 1939.
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October 29, 1939. Pete Richert is born. Pete Richert is featured in a Dodger photo from 1964.
Toboggan Accident in Color
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Postcard 1910
Alaskan Highway is Finished
Real photo postcard 1942
October 28. Joe Page is born in 1917.
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October 28, 1917. Joe Page is born. Joe Page warms up for the Yankees in the late 1940s.
October 27. Ralph Kiner is born in 1922.
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October 27, 1922. Ralph Kiner is born. Ralph Kiner talks with Monte Irvin in the Polo Grounds clubhouse before a National League game, around 1952.
October 27. New York City Subway opens in 1904.
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October 27, 1904. New York City subway opens. Graphic postcard showing the expanded underground design of the NYC subway system connecting to New Jersey, circa 1920.
October 26. Dick Hoblitzel is born in 1889.
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October 26, 1889. Dick Hoblitzel is born. Hoblitzel is shown as a card in the game deck from the Tom Barker set, 1911.
October 26. Pony Express mail service ceases operation in 1861.
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October 26, 1861. Pony Express mail service ceases operations. Official 1876 U.S. mail envelope commemorating the Pony Express.
Battle of Balaclava as a Promo
Advertising Trade Card * Stock Card • London, England • 4″ x 3″ • c.1890
Smokey Joe Wood with Cleveland
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News photograph 1921
October 24. Revolutionary activity ramps up as Red Guards occupy buildings in Moscow in 1917.
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October 24, 1917. Revolutionary activity ramps up as Red Guards occupy buildings in Moscow. Poster from Moscow illustrating a Bolshevik method of taking power, from circa 1920.
Ned Williamson with the Alleghenies of Pittsburgh
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Carte-de-visite 1877.
Birdie Cree Scores for the Highlanders
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News photograph 1909
October 23. Stock market panic begins, bringing on Great Depression in 1929.
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October 23, 1929. Stock market panic begins, bringing on Great Depression. Photographic postcard of three stock brokers reacting to plummeting prices in lower Manhattan.
Bill Carrigan Receives Major Award
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News photograph 1918.
October 22. International Meridian Conference declares Greenwich, England the Universal Time meridian in 1884.
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October 22, 1884. International Meridian Conference declares Greenwich, England the Universal Time meridian of longitude. Postcard of a couple of elves working on tower clock for a new years celebration.
October 21. The movie The Shiek with Rudolph Valentino premiers in 1921.
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October 21, 1921. The movie The Shiek with Rudolph Valentino premiers. Colorized photo postcard of Rudie Valentino as The Shiek.
October 21. Whitey Ford is born in 1928.
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October 21, 1928. Whitey Ford is born. Ford is the subject of this Bowman gum card from 1953.
October 20. Pope Pius XII issues the Summi Pontificatus encyclical in 1939.
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October 20, 1939. Pope Pius XII, often criticized for his tolerance of the Nazis, issues the Summi Pontificatus encyclical. Drawing by Mark Rucker entitled “Shadow Puppet.”
October 20. Sam Hughes is born in 1910.
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October 20, 1910. Sam Hughes is born. Hughes is photographed in his Baltimore Elite Giants uniform, circa 1940.
MASH Unit • Korean War 1954
News photograph 1954 .
October 19. Mordecai ‘Three Finger’ Brown is born in 1878.
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October 19, 1878. Three Finger Brown is born. Mordecai Brown is the subject of this c.1910 postcard, shown in a pitching pose with the St. Louis of the Federal League.
October 18. Mike Ditka is born in 1939.
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October 18, 1939. Mike Ditka is born. Team issued photo of Mike Ditka with the Chicago Bears football team.
October 18. Candy Cummings is born in 1848.
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October 18, 1848. Candy Cummings is born. In his Star of Brooklyn uniform, Candy Cummings poses for this tintype circa 1869.
October 17. Junior Gilliam is born in 1928.
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October 17, 1928. Junior Gilliam is born. Portrait of Gilliam with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
October 17. Rita Hayworth is born in 1918.
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October 17, 1918. Rita Hayworth is born. Musical publicity shot of Hayworth issued in the early 1940s.
October 16. Goose Goslin is born in 1900.
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October 16, 1900. Goose Goslin is born. Leon Goslin poses with a pet goose, while in Detroit circa 1935.
October 16. Pitcher Ellis Kinder dies in 1968.
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October 16, 1968. Ellis Kinder is dead. Photograph of Ellis Kinder pitching for the Boston Red Sox.
October 15. Mel Harder is born in 1909.
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October 15, 1909. Mel Harder is born. Mel Harder is photographed pitching for the Cleveland Indians.
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