American baseball manager (died 1978)

Joe McCarthy

Joseph Vincent McCarthy was an American manager in Major League Baseball (MLB), most renowned for his leadership of the "Bronx Bombers" teams of the New York Yankees from 1931 to 1946. The first manager to win pennants with both National and American League teams, he won a total nine league pennants and seven World Series championships – the latter is a record tied only by Casey Stengel. McCarthy was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1957. He recorded a 100-win season six times, a record matched only by Bobby Cox.

Born

1887

April 21

Died

1978

Era

1880s

Country

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About

Joe, in brief

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Key dates

1887 Born
1978 Died

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-753 Romulus founds Rome (traditional date).
-43 Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
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1092 The Diocese of Pisa is elevated to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Urban II.

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The world in 1978

When Joe departed

april 14 Tbilisi demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
april 17 Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan.
april 27 John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
april 27 The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Charles Grodin 1935–2021 American actor and talk show host (died 2021) Edwin Stanton Porter 1870– American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1941) Elizabeth II 1926–2022 Queen of the United Kingdom and her other realms (died 2022) Odilo Globocnik 1904–1945 Italian-Austrian SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (died 1945) Petero Civoniceva 1976– Fijian-Australian rugby league player Reg Fleming 1936–2009 Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2009) Toby Stephens 1969– English actor

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1887

Albert M. Greenfield 1887– Ukrainian-American businessman and philanthropist (died 1967) Alfred Lee Loomis 1887– American physicist and philanthropist (died 1975) Alvin C. York 1887–1964 American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1964) Beatrice Kerr 1887– Australian swimmer and diver (died 1971) C. R. M. F. Cruttwell 1887–1941 English historian (born 1887) Charles I of Austria (died 1922) 1887– Charles Nordhoff 1887–1947 English-American lieutenant and author (born 1887) Chico Marx 1887–1961 American actor (died 1961) Eubie Blake 1887–1983 American pianist and composer (born 1887)

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