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Ruth homers as the American League beats the National in baseball's first All-Star Game

Tribune sports editor Arch Ward's showcase experiment draws the sport's biggest stars to Comiskey Park, mid-Exposition Chicago its stage.

Chicago was in the middle of hosting the Century of Progress Exposition when the city took on baseball's best. On July 6, 1933, the American League and National League met at Comiskey Park in a game Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward had dreamed up to showcase the sport's biggest stars. Babe Ruth hit a home run that helped the American League defeat the National League in the first All-Star Game. What was meant as a one-time exhibition became an annual tradition…

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1962

AEC detonates 'Sedan' 636 feet underground at Yucca Flat; 12 million tons of earth go skyward

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St. Clair abandons Ticonderoga overnight; the garrison slips out without firing a shot

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1779

D'Estaing holds Grenada; Byron charges 25 French ships with 21 and pays in blood

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Thousands gather at Morgan's Forty on the edge of town, united by fury over the Kansas-Nebraska Act's opening of closed territories to slavery.
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1942

Dive bombers sink three Japanese carriers in six minutes; a fourth falls before dark

Cryptanalysts cracked Tokyo's naval code and fed the enemy a lie about a water shortage, and Nagumo's flight decks are crowded with fueled, armed planes when the Americans arrive.
1935

Dr. Bob Smith takes his last drink, then walks into surgery

The Akron surgeon, sober after hours of talk with New York businessman Bill Wilson, steps into the operating room following a final relapse at an Atlantic City convention.
1942

Japanese submarine shells Fort Stevens; Doney orders blackout, holds his guns

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1942

Congress makes the Pledge of Allegiance official, fifty years after a magazine wrote it

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