birthday meme

Published: Apr 7, 2006
Author: Theresa O'Connor
Tagged: Bosworth Field Wars of the Roses Nolan Ryan Rickey Henderson baseball webcam Dorothy Parker Carl Yastrzemski Michael Collins Irish Free State Beal na mBlath Cork Irish Civil War Cork Brigade ireland

Events
- 1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses
- 1989 - Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5000 strikeouts.
- 2001 - the Trojan room coffee pot is switched off for the last time.
Births
- 1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
- 1939 - Carl Yastrzemski, baseball player
Deaths
- 1922 - Michael Collins (b. 1890), Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.