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Ruth homers as the American League beats the National in baseball's first All-Star Game

Tribune sports editor Arch Ward's showcase experiment draws the sport's biggest stars to Comiskey Park, mid-Exposition Chicago its stage.

Chicago was in the middle of hosting the Century of Progress Exposition when the city took on baseball's best. On July 6, 1933, the American League and National League met at Comiskey Park in a game Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward had dreamed up to showcase the sport's biggest stars. Babe Ruth hit a home run that helped the American League defeat the National League in the first All-Star Game. What was meant as a one-time exhibition became an annual tradition…

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1962

AEC detonates 'Sedan' 636 feet underground at Yucca Flat; 12 million tons of earth go skyward

The radioactive cloud is already drifting east, and early tracking puts fallout exposure across the Midwest at more than 13 million people.
1777

St. Clair abandons Ticonderoga overnight; the garrison slips out without firing a shot

Burgoyne's engineers spent three days hauling cannon up Mount Defiance, and by dawn the fort's heaviest guns, its cattle, and its invalids are left behind.
1779

D'Estaing holds Grenada; Byron charges 25 French ships with 21 and pays in blood

The disordered British chase leaves 183 dead and the Lion limping toward Jamaica after a battle the admiral entered expecting the advantage.
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Thousands gather at Morgan's Forty on the edge of town, united by fury over the Kansas-Nebraska Act's opening of closed territories to slavery.
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1943

Roosevelt signs a monument into existence for Carver; no Black American has been honored this way before

The site near Diamond, Missouri, where Carver was born into slavery, becomes the first national monument built to honor a private citizen.
1945

The gadget detonates; 21,000 tons of TNT in an instant above the Jornada del Muerto

A plutonium device atop a 100-foot tower vaporizes the steel at 5:29 a.m., lighting the sky as far as Amarillo and melting desert sand to green glass.
1945

Churchill, Stalin, and Truman convene at Cecilienhof; a new Europe is on the table

Three months into his presidency, Truman sits down with allies to settle Germany's occupation zones, Poland's government, and where the Reich's eastern border will now fall.
1943

690 American bombers hit Rome; 9,125 bombs fall on San Lorenzo, killing 1,500

A freight yard and steel factory were the targets, but apartment blocks and a papal basilica took hits too; Pope Pius XII walks the rubble before day's end.
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