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1 day ago · Early life Gehrig was born June 19, 1903, at 1994 Second Avenue (according to his birth certificate) in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan ; he weighed almost 14 pounds (6.4 kg) at birth. He was the second of four children of German immigrants Christina Foch (1881–1954) and Heinrich Gehrig (1867–1946). Christina was born in 1881 in Wiltser, Schleswig-Holstein, a province of pre-World ...
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Eleanor Grace Gehrig (née Twitchell; March 6, 1904 – March...
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- Charles William Mayo
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- The Pride of The Yankees
The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 American sports drama...
- Bob Meusel
Robert William Meusel (July 19, 1896 – November 28, 1977)...
- Triple Crown
In baseball, a player earns a Triple Crown when he leads a...
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Cecil Rutherford "Rud" Rennie (1897–1956), newspaperman, was...
- Murderers
Etymology. The term, which mimicked the name applied to a...
- Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a...
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4 days ago · Opened in 1967 and 1968, the branch connected the Independent Subway System (IND) Sixth Avenue Line to the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) Brighton Line via the Manhattan...
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1 day ago · Chicago. / 41.88194°N 87.62778°W / 41.88194; -87.62778. Chicago [a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388 in the 2020 census, [8] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.
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- March 4, 1837; 186 years ago
2 days ago · East Side Omnibus Corporation bus route (M15) replaced Second Avenue Railroad's Second Avenue Line streetcar and began running route (M13) on First Avenue on June 26, 1933. The routes were combined as a one-way pair on June 4, 1951, and kept the number M15.
23 hours ago · The headquarters of the United Nations (UN) is on 17 to 18 acres (6.9 to 7.3 ha) of grounds in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It borders First Avenue to the west, 42nd Street to the south, 48th Street to the north, and the East River to the east. [4] Completed in 1952, the complex consists of several ...
- September 14, 1948;, 75 years ago
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23 hours ago · Madison Square is formed by the intersection of 5th Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in Manhattan. It was named after James Madison, fourth President of the United States. Two venues called Madison Square Garden were located just northeast of the square, the original Garden from 1879 to 1890, and the second Garden from 1890 to 1925
1 day ago · Dubbed “Clark’s Folly,” the William A. Clark mansion at 960 Fifth Avenue at the more northern end of Millionaire’s Row cost an astonishing $6 million to build at the time, or about $150 ...