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12 hours ago · Induction. 1979. Vote. 94.7% (first ballot) Willie Howard Mays Jr. (May 6, 1931 – June 18, 2024), nicknamed " the Say Hey Kid ", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Mays was a five-tool player who began his career ...
12 hours ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
12 hours ago · Nicolae Ceaușescu ( / tʃaʊˈʃɛskuː / chow-SHESK-oo, Romanian: [nikoˈla.e tʃe̯a.uˈʃesku] ⓘ, 26 January [ O.S. 13 January] 1918 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician who served as the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989. He was the second and last communist leader of Romania.
12 hours ago · July 6 (UPI) -- Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include: Advertisement. -- John Paul Jones, founder of the U.S. Navy, in 1747. -- Artist Frida Kahlo in 1907. -- Musician ...
