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April 8, 1974

Today In History

Hank Aaron Breaks Babe Ruth's HR Record with his 715th

On April 8, 1974, facing LA Dodgers’ pitcher Al Downing in Atlanta, Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron recorded his 715th career home run, breaking the all-time record held by Babe Ruth. Aaron had a major league career that spanned 23 seasons from 1954-1976. He is the only player to hit at least 30 home runs in 15 different seasons, and he currently holds the all-time career RBI mark of 2,297. Aaron made every all-star team from 1955-1975, and was the 1957 National League’s Most Valuable Player, the only year in which he won the World Series. That season he hit 44 Home Runs, 132 RBIs, scored 118 Runs, and averaged .322

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A National Geographic Moment | A classroom in Omaha, Nebraska
Baseball Opening Day in 1965 at the Houston Astrodome - LBJ throws out the first pitch
USA athlete Mary Lou Retton performs her Perfect 10 at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics - Gymnastics Womens Vault Finals
Song of the Day
Elvis Presley | Blue Suede Shoes | 1956
Jack Nicholson Receives Cecil B. Demille Award at the Golden Globes in 1999
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A Classic Patriotic Moment in upstate New York

Most Romantic Place to Propose

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    Top of the Empire State Building
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    Pebble Beach | Next to the 18th hole
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    On a Cruise ship in Alaska near an iceberg
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Which show won Best Panel, Quiz or Audience Participation series in 1959?

  • I've Got a Secret
  • The Price is Right
  • This Is Your Life
  • What's My Line?
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Ben Casey starring Vince Edwards

In 1906 Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.

There was a long-lost fourth member of the Snap/Crackle/Pop gang. "Pow" represented Rice Krispies' explosive nutritional value.

CLASSIC MOVIE SCENES

TV Show of the Day
Classic scenes from Get Smart | Season 5
Maxwell Smart, a.k.a. Agent 86, works for CONTROL, a Washington, D.C.-based counterintelligence agency. Totally inept as a secret agent, Smart can barely use the gadgetry the agency provides him 'including a phone embedded in his shoe'. Nevertheless, he and his fellow agents always seem to thwart the operations of KAOS, an organized crime outfit dedicated to evil. Agent 99 is Smart's smarter partner, a resourceful agent who eventually marries her bumbling cohort. Smart and Agent 99's boss is a man known only as The Chief. Starring Don Adams as Maxwell Smart | Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 | Edward Platt as The Chef.
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Original 1949)
Curt Flood discusses his initial challenge to baseball to earn free agency
Interview of the Day
Larry King Live with Shirley Temple Black
Some of the world's biggest hit records from the 1960s came from a recording studio in a little town in northern Alabama called Muscle Shoals

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Alana Stewart

SATURDAYS WERE THE BEST - NO SCHOOL!!!!!

Great Baseball Feats

Babe Ruth hit 60 HR in 1927

Frank Robinson - won the Triple Crown in 1966 - his first year in Baltimore

Denny McClain won 31 games in 1968

Carl Yastrzemski won the Triple Crown in 1976 with the Red Sox

Walter Johnson won 36 games in 1913 - he only lost 7

Babe Ruth hit 60 HR in 1927

Frank Robinson - won the Triple Crown in 1966 - his first year in Baltimore

Denny McClain won 31 games in 1968

Carl Yastrzemski won the Triple Crown in 1976 with the Red Sox

Walter Johnson won 36 games in 1913 - he only lost 7

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