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3 days ago · Baseball teams put on benefit games for the families of players who died unexpectedly. For example, the Addie Joss Benefit Game in 1911 raised $12,914 for the Joss family ($422,288 in current dollar terms).. The first All-Star Game was held on July 6, 1933, at Comiskey Park in Chicago as part of the 1933 World's Fair, and was initiated by Arch Ward, then sports editor for the Chicago Tribune ...
3 days ago · 2015 (Tuesday) January 6 is the ... 1938 – Larisa Shepitko, Soviet film director, screenwriter, and actress (d. 1979) ... South African-English radio and television host (b. 1928) 2012 – Spike Pola, Australian footballer and soldier (b. 1914)
