Sanford “Sandy” Koufax is a former American Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. He pitched 12 seasons for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, from 1955 to 1966. Koufax, at age 36 in 1972, became the youngest player ever elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Born: Dec 30, 1935 (age 80) · Brooklyn, NY
Height: 6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
Net worth: $10 million USD (2016)
Spouse: Kimberly Francis (m. 1985 – 1998) · Anne Koufax (m. 1969 – 1982)
Education: Lafayette High School · University of Cincinnati · Columbia University · Columbia University School of General Studies
Parents: Evelyn Lichtenstein (Mother) · Jack Braun (Father)

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Highlights

• 1955: Koufax made only 12 appearances in 1955, pitching  41 2⁄3 innings and walking almost as many men (28) as he struck out (30).


• 1955: Koufax made his major league debut on June 24, 1955 against the Milwaukee Braves, with the Dodgers trailing 7–1 in the fifth inning.


• 1959: On August 31, 1959, he surpassed his career high with 18 strikeouts, setting the NL record and tying Bob Feller’s major league record for strikeouts in one game.


• 1961: Posting an 18–13 record for the Dodgers in 1961, Koufax led the league with 269 strikeouts, breaking Christy Mathewson’s 58-year-old NL mark of 267.


• 1965: On September 9, 1965, Koufax became the sixth pitcher of the modern era, and eighth overall, to throw a perfect game, the first by a left-hander since 1880.


• 1966: He pitched 6 1⁄3 innings in four All-Star games including being the starting pitcher for 3 innings in the 1966 All-Star Game.

— Source: wiki/Sandy_Koufax

The Spanish transition to democracy, or simply the Transition refers to the restoration of democracy in Spain after the death of Francisco Franco in 1975. The transition began shortly after Franco’s death on 20 November 1975, while its completion has been variously said to be marked by the Spanish Constitution of 1978, the failure of an attempted coup on 23 February 1981, or the electoral victory of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party on 28 October 1982. Though faced with political and economic at the time, the transition to democracy was one of the factors that allowed Spain to join the European Economic Community and NATO.

— Source: wiki/Spanish_transition_to_democracy

James Warren “Jim” Jones was an American cult leader. Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, infamous due to the mass murder-suicide in November 1978 of 918 of its members in Jonestown, Guyana, the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan, and the ordering of four additional Temple member deaths in Georgetown, the Guyanese capital. Nearly three hundred children were murdered at Jonestown, almost all of them by cyanide poisoning. Jones died from a gunshot wound to the head; it is suspected his death was a suicide.

Lived: May 13, 1931 – Nov 18, 1978 (age 47)
Height: 5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
Spouse: Marceline Jones (m. 1949 – 1978)
Children: Stephan Gandhi Jones (Son) · Lew Eric Jones (Son) · Timothy Glen Jones (Son) · Jim Jon Prokes (Son) · Stephanie Jones (Daughter) · Jim W. Jones Jr. (Son) · Suzanne O. Jones (Daughter)
Movies: Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple · Witness to Jonestown
Parents: Lynetta Putnam (Mother) · James Thurman Jones (Father)

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Highlights

• 1949: Jones married nurse Marceline Baldwin in 1949, and moved to Bloomington, Indiana.


• 1971: The Temple repeatedly claimed that Jones fathered the child when, in 1971, Tim Stoen had requested that Jones have sex with Grace to keep her from defecting.


• 1975: The move led to Jones and the Temple becoming politically influential in San Francisco politics, culminating in the Temple’s instrumental role in the mayoral election victory of George Moscone in 1975.


• 1977: In order to avoid potentially giving up the boy in a custody dispute with Grace, Jones ordered Tim to take John to Guyana in February 1977.


• 1977: In September 1977, California assemblyman Willie Brown served as master of ceremonies at a large testimonial dinner for Jones attended by Governor Jerry Brown and Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally.


• 1978: Stoen traveled to Washington, D.C. in January 1978 to visit with State Department officials and members of Congress, and wrote a “white paper” to Congress detailing his grievances against Jones and the Temple.


• 1978: Jim Jones died on November 18, 1978 in Port Kaituma, Guyana.

— Source: wiki/Jim_Jones

Terence Hardy “Terry” Waite CBE is an English humanitarian and author. Waite was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of four hostages, including the journalist John McCarthy. He was himself kidnapped and held captive from 1987 to 1991.The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

Born: May 31, 1939 (age 77) · Bollington, United Kingdom
Height: 6′ 7″ (2.01 m)

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Highlights

• 1963: In 1963, Waite was appointed Education Advisor to the Anglican Bishop of Bristol, Oliver Tomkins, and assisted with Tomkins’s implementation of the SALT (Stewardship and Laity Training) programme in the diocese, along with Basil Moss.


• 1969: In 1969, he moved to Uganda where he worked as Provincial Training Advisor to Erica Sabiti, the first African Anglican Archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi and, in that capacity, travelled extensively throughout East Africa.


• 1980: In 1980, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, appointed him the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs on the recommendation of Tomkins and Bishop John Howe.


• 1984: On 10 November 1984, he negotiated with Colonel Gaddafi for the release of the four remaining British hostages held in the Libyan Hostage Situation, Michael Berdinner, Alan Russell, Malcolm Anderson and Robin Plummer and was again successful.


• 1985: From 1985, Waite became involved in hostage negotiation in Lebanon, and he assisted in successful negotiations which secured the release of Lawrence Jenco and David Jacobsen.


• 1987: The group broke trust and took him hostage on 20 January 1987.

— Source: wiki/Terry_Waite

Born: 1818 · London, England
Died: Jan 08, 1880 · San Francisco, CA
Parents: John Norton · Sarah Norden

— Source: wiki/Emperor_Norton

The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign. It was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It is the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with a combined tally of 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing.

Date: Sep 17, 1862

— Source: wiki/Battle_of_Antietam

The Space Shuttle Enterprise was the first orbiter of the Space Shuttle system. Rolled out on September 17, 1976, it was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform atmospheric test flights after being launched from a modified Boeing 747. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of spaceflight.

Manufacturer: Rockwell International

— Source: wiki/Space_Shuttle_Enterprise

Solidarity is a Polish trade union that was founded on 17 September 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa. It was the first trade union in a Warsaw Pact country that was not controlled by a communist party. Its membership reached 9.5 million members before its September 1981 Congress, which constituted one third of the total working-age population of Poland.

Founded: Sep 17, 1980
Founder: Lech Walesa

— Source: wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)

The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn and the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, fought on August 27, 1776, was the first major battle of the American Revolutionary War to take place after the United States declared its independence on July 4, 1776. It was a victory for the British Army and the beginning of a successful campaign that gave them control of the strategically important city of New York. In terms of troop deployment and fighting, it was the largest battle of the entire war.
Date: Aug 27, 1776

The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in the Dutch East Indies began in the afternoon of August 26, 1883, and culminated with several destructive eruptions of the remaining caldera. On August 27, two-thirds of Krakatoa collapsed in a chain of titanic explosions, destroying most of the island and its surrounding archipelago. Additional alleged seismic activity continued to be reported until February 1884, though reports of those after October 1883 were later dismissed by Rogier Verbeek’s investigation. It was one of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic events in recorded history, with at least 36,000 deaths being attributed to the eruption itself and the tsunamis it created. Significant additional effects were also felt around the world.

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1998 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous U.S. editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records and national records, both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The book itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted book of all time. As of the 2016 edition, it is now in its 62nd year of publication. The international franchise has extended beyond print to include television series and museums. The popularity of the franchise has resulted in Guinness World Records becoming the primary international authority on the cataloguing and verification of a huge number of world records; the organization employs official record adjudicators authorised to verify the authenticity of the setting and breaking of records.

Renée Richards is an American ophthalmologist and former tennis player who had some success on the professional circuit in the 1970s. In 1975 Richards underwent male-to-female sex reassignment surgery. She was then denied entry into the 1976 US Open by the United States Tennis Association, which began that year requiring genetic screening for female players. She disputed this policy, and the New York Supreme Court ruled in her favor in 1977 in a decision in favor of transsexual rights. As one of the first professional athletes to identify as such, she became a spokesperson for the transgender community.
Born: Aug 19, 1934 (age 82) New York, NY
Height: 6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
Turned pro: 1977