Land of 10,000 coincidences

The sequel to that awesome article from a few weeks ago…

July 22, 1923: How old is Bob Dole?
So old that he was born on the day Walter Johnson fanned his 3,000th batter.

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October 12, 1960: We will bury you!
While speaking before the UN General Assembly, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev became so irate that he took off his shoe and started banging it on the podium to make his point. That same day, the Yankees crushed the Pirates 12-0 in the World Series. Despite this, the Yankees would be as successful in that Series as communism was in the USSR.

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June 17, 1972: Only in the ‘70s
Charles Finley held his Mustache Night for the Oakland A’s the same day that the Committee to Re-Elect the President had its Break Into the Democratic Headquarters Night at the Watergate.

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August 31, 1990: Coming together
On this day, Father and Son Griffey played together in the same lineup for the first time with Seattle. Meanwhile, East and West Germany signed a treaty as part of their road to unification.

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July 16-22, 1994
On July 19, a piece of the roof fell off in Seattle’s Kingdome prior to a game. Fortunately, no one was hurt. As a roof piece collided with earth, a much more serious series of collisions happened in Jupiter, as the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 began crashing into it.