POSTED: November 25th 2009

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California anniversary of the birth of baseball's Joe DiMaggio

THIS DAY IN SPORT (NOVEMBER 25) MARKS THE . . . 95th anniversary, from 1914, of the birth of baseball legend Giuseppe Paolo 'Joe' DiMaggio in Martinez, California. His 56-game hitting streak in 1941 for the New York Yankees is a record which still stands. DiMaggio died on March 8, 1999, in Hollywood, Florida. In other sports, this day marks the 56th anniversary, from 1953, of the historic afternoon when England not only lost at home to continental opposition for the first time but were thrashed 6-3 by the legendary Hungarian side led by Ferenc Puskas, Josef Bozsik, Sandor Kocsis and Nandor Hidegkuti – who scored a hat-trick. The performance, tactics and skill of the ‘Magical Magyars’ prompted a major re-evaluation within the English game. WORLD EVENTS – 307: Notional anniversary of the martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria - of 'Catherine Wheel' remembrance. 1835: Birth in Dunfermline, Scotland, of steel industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. 1844|: Birth of automotive engineer Karl Benz, in Karlsruhe, Germany. 1867: Patenting of dynamite by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel. 1952: First performance of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, longest continuous-running show in the world.

Keywords · November 25 · Joe DiMaggio · Hungary · Puskas · Andrew Carnegie · Benz · Nobel · Agatha Christie · The Mousetrap

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