American baseball player (died 1941)

Lou Gehrig

Henry Louis Gehrig was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. Gehrig was renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his durability, which earned him the nickname "the Iron Horse", and he is regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Gehrig was an All-Star seven consecutive times, a Triple Crown winner once, an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player twice and a member of six World Series champion teams. 447 on-base average.

Born

1903

June 19

Died

1941

Era

1900s

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Lou, in brief

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1903 Born
1941 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

325 The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.
1179 The Battle of Kalvskinnet takes place outside Nidaros (now Trondheim), Norway. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1306 The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1586 English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.

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The world in 1903

When Lou arrived

april 19 The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
april 26 Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded.
april 29 A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
august 18 German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on June 19

Blaise Pascal 1623–1662 French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (born 1623) Hugh Dancy 1975– English actor and model Jean Dujardin 1972– French actor John Ralston Saul 1947– Canadian philosopher and author Lejla Njemčević 1994– Bosnian cross-country and mountain bike cyclist Mary Tenney Gray 1833–1904 American editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (died 1904) Nigel Gresley 1876–1941 Scottish-English engineer (born 1876) Silvanus P. Thompson 1851– English physicist, engineer, and academic (died 1916) Timothy Morton 1968– American philosopher and academic

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1903

Alec Douglas-Home 1903–1995 English cricketer and politician, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1995) Caroline Pafford Miller 1903–1992 American author (died 1992) Fernandel 1903– French actor and singer (died 1971) Frank P. Ramsey 1903–1930 English economist, mathematician, and philosopher (died 1930) Frank Sargeson 1903– New Zealand writer (died 1982) Georg Elser 1903– German carpenter and attempted assassin of Adolf Hitler (died 1945) Giulio Natta 1903–1979 Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979) Guy Simonds 1903– English-Canadian general (died 1974) Harold Eugene Edgerton 1903–1990 American engineer and academic (died 1990)

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