95 years ago today, Yankee Stadium opened its doors in New York City with John Philip Sousa playing The Star-Spangled Banner and Babe Ruth hitting a home run to help defeat his former team, the Boston Red Sox, on baseball’s opening day (1923)
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MORE Good News On This Day:
- Paul Revere, who was 40 years old at the time, a respected craftsman and father of 16 children, rode with William Dawes and Samuel Prescott, galloping through the countryside of colonial Massachusetts to Lexington and Concord warning of the sudden movements of the British army (1775) –See more below
- Joan of Arc was beatified in Rome (1909)
- The first transatlantic jet passenger trip (1950)
- Zimbabwe celebrates Independence Day (1989)
- Green Cross International was co-founded by former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev to protect the global environment which transcends national borders (1993)
- Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League’s all-time…
