Posted on 05/04/2005 12:41:43 PM PDT by Asphalt
This is the 124th day of the year, with 241 days remaining in 2005.
Fact of the Day: Pitcher's Elbow
Pitcher's elbow or thrower's elbow is a term used for the injuries associated with a baseball pitcher's throwing method or overuse. Professional baseball pitchers produce arm speeds of 7000 degrees per second as the arm rotates inwards. The elbow is subjected to violent forces during all phases of the pitching motion. There can be damage to the triceps muscle, its tendon, and the olecranon process (the tip of the elbow) which may suffer stress fractures. Pitchers are also predisposed to osteoarthritis in the arm. Until about 1870, the pitcher was merely a player assigned to put the ball in play by pitching it to the batter to hit. Now, until a batter hits the ball, the game is a duel between the pitcher (and catcher) and the batter. Of a major league's team roster of 25, usually 11-12 are pitchers.
Holidays:
Feast day of St Pelagia of Tarsus, St Florian of Lorch, St Robert Lawrence, St Augustine Webster, St Gothard, St John Houghton, St Venerius of Milan, and St Cyriacus.
China: Youth Day.
Curacao: Memorial Day.
Rhode Island: Independence Day.
Events:
1471 - The Battle of Tewkesbury, the last battle in the Wars of the Roses, took place; the Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians.
1626 - Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on present-day Manhattan Island. He purchased Manhattan from resident Algonquin Indians for the equivalent of $24.
1715 - A French manufacturer debuted the first folding umbrella.
1776 - Rhode Island declared independence from England.
1836 - The Ancient Order of Hibernians was founded.
1886 - At Haymarket Square in Chicago, a labor demonstration for an eight-hour workday turned into a riot when a bomb exploded.
1894 - The first Bird Day was observed.
1904 - Work began on the Panama Canal.
1927 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded.
1945 - German forces in the Netherlands, Denmark, and northwest Germany agreed to surrender in World War II.
1961 - A group of 13 "Freedom Riders" left Washington for New Orleans to challenge racial segregation in interstate buses and bus terminals.
1970 - Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others.
1973 - The world's tallest building, Sears Tower, Chicago, was completed.
Births 1796 - Horace Mann, educator, the father of public education in the US, author, editor.
1825 - Thomas Huxley, English naturalist, biologist.
1874 - Frank Conrad, American electrical engineer, helped establish first radio station.
1928 - Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet.
1929 - Audrey Hepburn (Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Rusten), Belgian-born US actress.
1941 - George F. Will, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist.
1796 - Horace Mann, educator, the father of public education in the US, author, editor.
1825 - Thomas Huxley, English naturalist, biologist.
1874 - Frank Conrad, American electrical engineer, helped establish first radio station.
1928 - Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet.
1929 - Audrey Hepburn (Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Rusten), Belgian-born US actress.
1941 - George F. Will, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist.
1959 - So Cal Rocket, FReeper
Me, too! Same day, same year.
May 4, 1979 - One of the greatest days of my life... My son, Cooper, was born!
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