Irish-American baseball player and manager (born 1865)

Patsy Donovan

Patrick Joseph Donovan was an Irish born right fielder and manager in Major League Baseball who played for several teams from 1890 to 1907, most notably the Pittsburgh Pirates. Donovan started his career with Boston in 1890 but shuffled over to Brooklyn before the season ended, which saw him win the National League pennant. He played for Louisville and Washington of the American Association for a season each before he found himself with the Pirates in 1892, where he would play for the next seven years. 317 with 46 stolen bases and 158 hits in 113 games.

Born

1865

March 16

Died

1953

Era

1860s

Country

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About

Patsy, in brief

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Key dates

1865 Born
1953 Died

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-597 The first siege of Jerusalem by the Neo-Babylonian Empire ends with the city surrendering to king Nebuchadnezzar II.
445 Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated while practising on the Campus Martius on behalf of Petronius Maximus.
1190 Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
1244 Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burnt to death after the Fall of Montségur.

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The world in 1953

When Patsy departed

april 13 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
april 24 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
april 25 Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
april 27 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1865

Alexander Glazunov 1865–1936 Russian composer, conductor, and educator (died 1936) Arie de Jong 1865–1957 Indonesian-Dutch linguist and physician (born 1865) Erich Ludendorff 1865–1937 German general and politician (died 1937) Frederick Cook 1865– American physician and explorer (died 1940) Harry Coulby 1865–1929 American businessman (died 1929) Irving Babbitt 1865–1933 American academic and critic (died 1933) Kate Gleason 1865– American engineer, businesswoman, and philanthropist (died 1933) Paul Dukas 1865–1935 French composer, critic, and educator (born 1865) Philipp Scheidemann 1865–1939 German journalist and politician, 10th Chancellor of Germany (died 1939)

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