American baseball player (born 1945)

Tony Conigliaro

Anthony Richard Conigliaro, nicknamed "Tony C" and "Conig", was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Boston Red Sox and California Angels (1971). Born in Revere, Massachusetts, he was a 1962 graduate of St. Mary's High School in Lynn, Massachusetts. Conigliaro started his MLB career as a teenager, hitting a home run in his first at-bat during his home field debut in 1964, and reaching 100 career home runs faster than any player in American League history.

Born

1945

January 7

Died

1990

Era

1940s

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About

Tony, in brief

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Key dates

1945 Born
1990 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

-49 The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army, prompting the tribunes who support him to flee to where Caesar is waiting in Ravenna.
1078 The people of Constantinople revolt, lynch the unpopular official Nikephoritzes and proclaim Nikephoros Botaneiates as emperor.
1325 Afonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1558 French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.

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The world in 1945

When Tony arrived

april 1 World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
april 11 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
april 12 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman succeeds him.
april 12 World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 80 kilometres from Berlin.

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Aloe Blacc 1979– American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman and philanthropist Alvin Dark 1922–2014 American baseball player and manager (died 2014) Dustin Diamond 1977–2021 American actor, director, stand-up comedian, and musician (born 1977) Éric Gagné 1976– Canadian baseball player Israel Putnam 1718–1790 American general (died 1790) Joseph Whitty 1904–1923 Irish Republican died on hunger strike during the 1923 Irish Hunger Strikes (born 1904) Lamar Jackson 1997– American football player Lauren Cohan 1982– American-English actress Sandford Fleming 1827–1915 Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (died 1915)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1945

Adly Mansour 1945– Egyptian lawyer, judge, and politician, President of Egypt André Lacroix 1945– Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach August Wilson 1945–2005 American author and playwright (died 2005) Bernard Goldberg 1945– American journalist and author Bill Bergey 1945–2024 American football player (born 1945) Bob Seger 1945– American singer-songwriter and guitarist Brenda Fricker 1945– Irish actress Brian Doyle-Murray 1945– American actor and comedian Colin Blunstone 1945– English singer-songwriter

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