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Disco Demolition Night was a Major League Baseball (MLB) promotion on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, that ended in a riot. At the climax of the event, a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field between games of the twi-night doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers.
Black Sox Scandal. The Black Sox Scandal was a game-fixing scandal in Major League Baseball (MLB) in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of intentionally losing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for payment from a gambling syndicate, possibly led by organized crime figure Arnold Rothstein. There ...
April 1, 1954 (Thursday) The U.S. Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the founding of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. South Point School was founded in Kolkata, India. It would become the largest school in the world by 1988. [ 1]
July 1, 2024 at 6:09 AM. Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese made history in her squad’s 70-62 defeat against the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday, becoming the first WNBA player to record a double-double in ...
August 15, the Battle of Fort Dearborn. 1816: The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri. Ft. Dearborn is rebuilt. 1818: December 3, Illinois joins the Union and becomes a state. 1820 Chicago. 1821 Survey of Chicago. 1830. August 4, Chicago is surveyed and platted for the first time by James Thompson.
Chicagoans are familiar with disappointment. “There’s always next year,” was the motto for generations of Cubs fans who waited 108 years between the team’s last two championships. Yet ...
Sports in Chicago include many professional sports teams. Chicago is one of eleven U.S. cities to have teams from the five major American professional team sports (baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and soccer). Chicago has been named as the "Best Sports City" by Sporting News three times: 1993, 2006, and 2010. Chicago was a candidate city ...
CHICAGO - Chicago is about to open its arms to Democrats from around the country who are ... "This is a convention that’s never happened in this way, in the history of American politics, in the ...