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The history of the New York Yankees
Major League Baseball team spans more
than a century. Frank J. Farrell and
William Stephen Devery bought the
rights to an American League (AL) club
in New York City after the 1902 season.
The team, which became the Yankees in
1913, won their first AL title in 1921,
followed by their first World Series
The 1913 team
championship in 1923. Babe Ruth and
Lou Gehrig were part of the team's
Murderers' Row lineup; under Miller Huggins, they led the Yankees to a Series
championship and a 110-win season, a league record in 1927. The Yankees won
the World Series every year from 1936 to 1939 with a team that featured Gehrig
and Joe DiMaggio. New York set a major league record by winning five
consecutive championships from 1949 to 1953, and appeared in the World
Series nine times during the next 11 years. Despite management disputes, the
team reached the World Series four times between 1976 and 1981, claiming the
championship in 1977 and 1978. Their 19982000 teams were the last to win
three straight World Series titles. In 2009, they won the title for a record 27th
time. (Fullarticle...)
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13 lakes of at least 5 acres (0.02km2)
(Lake Nokomis pictured)?
... that Baba Sidhaye is regarded as the
"first deaf and mute cricketer to have taken
Lake Nokomis in August
the field"?
... that London's Pall Mall owes its name
to a 17th-century ball game similar to croquet?
... that being a thrifty man, bibliographer Ioan Bianu raised cows on
Romanian Academy grounds in downtown Bucharest?
... that each JetBlue Mint passenger gets two power outlets?
... that Lois Jones led the first all-woman science team to Antarctica in
1969?
... that when Glasgow Records could not find a suitable singer to
perform their dance tunes, they decided instead to create one?

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July 6: Eid al-Fitr (Islam, 2016); Independence Day in
Comoros (1975) and Malawi (1964); Statehood Day in
Lithuania (1253); the Festival of San Fermn begins in
Pamplona, Spain
1253 Mindaugas, the
first known Grand Duke of
Lithuania, was crowned as
King of Lithuania, the only
person to ever hold that
title.
1809 Napoleon's French Stairs in Nathu La from the
Indian side of the border
forces defeated Archduke
Charles' Austrian army at
the Battle of Wagram, the decisive confrontation of
the War of the Fifth Coalition.
1905 American schoolteacher Katie DeWitt James
filed for divorce from her husband, beginning a series
of events that would ultimately lead to her unsolved
murder and the consequent naming of Dead Women
Crossing, Oklahoma.
1936 A major breach of the Manchester Bolton &
Bury Canal in England sent millions of gallons of
water cascading 300ft (91m) into the River Irwell.
2006 Nathu La (pictured), a mountain pass in the
Himalayas connecting India and China, sealed during
the Sino-Indian War, re-opened for trade after more
than 40 years.
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Hercules is a constellation named after Hercules, the Roman mythological hero adapted from the Greek hero Heracles. Here he is shown holding
Cerberus, a former constellation now included within Hercules. One of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy,
Hercules is the fifth largest of the 88 modern constellations.
This illustration comes from Urania's Mirror, a set of 32 astronomical star chart cards first published in November 1824. The figure of Hercules
appears upside down in the sky relative to neighbouring constellations, such as Corona Borealis.
Lithograph: Sidney Hall; restoration: Adam Cuerden

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