Celebrations Today – August 6
Holidays and observances
- H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan‘s Accession Day. (United Arab Emirates)
- Independence Day (Bolivia), celebrates the independence of Bolivia from Spain in 1825.
- Independence Day (Jamaica), celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962.
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony (Hiroshima, Japan)
- Russian Railway Troops Day (Russia)
Celebrations Today – USA: August 6
National Root Beer Float Day
National Fresh Breath Day
National Wiggle Your Toes Day
American Family Day – First Sunday in August
National Friendship Day – First Sunday in August
National Sisters Day – First Sunday in August
National Corporate Baby Name Day
National Hiroshima Day
National Gossip Day
Today in US History: August 6
Cy Young
“Cy” Young, Cleveland’s veteran pitcher, has had a long and successful career. Among his greatest individual feats are a game of May 5, 1904, when not one of the hard-hitting Athletics reached first base, and another June 30, 1908, against the Highlanders, when only one man got “on” in nine innings. Prior to 1910 he failed only three times in his many years pitching to turn in a majority of victories. In 1910 he won his 500th game, an unsurpassed record. August 12, 1908, “Cy” Young Day was celebrated in Boston. He was presented with the entire receipts of the game, and more silverware and floral designs than he could carry.Baseball biography of Denton T. Young,
printed on the back of his 1911 Sweet Caporal Cigarettes card.
Baseball Cards, 1887-1914
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Cy Young, 1911.
Baseball Cards, 1887-1914
On August 6, 1890, baseball great Cy Young pitched his first professional game, leading the Cleveland Spiders past the Chicago Colts. Over the course of his 22-year career, Young won at least 508 games (511 is the generally accepted number) and averaged more than 23 victories per season. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937.
Born Denton True Young in Gilmore, Ohio, on March 29, 1867, Young earned his nickname when he tore off several fence boards with his pitches, leading a bystander to observe that the fence looked like it had been hit by a cyclone. He played for the Cleveland Spiders from 1890 until 1898, spent the next two years with St. Louis, and then signed with the Boston Americans (renamed the Red Sox in 1908) in the American League. Young’s final season was 1911, which he split between the Cleveland Naps and the National League’s Boston Rustlers. The Cy Young Award, instituted in 1956, is given annually to the best pitcher in each professional league.
League Park,
Cleveland, Ohio,
between 1900 and 1910.
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920
Group of Cleveland Base Ball Players,
c1910.
Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991
Learn more about the history of baseball in the United States and the Caribbean in American Memory:
- Examine additional memorabilia in the American Memory collection Baseball Cards, 1887-1914. See the special presentation “Tinkers to Evers to Chance!” — a tribute to three of Young’s baseball contemporaries.
- Find more pictures and stories of the game. See the special presentation Early Baseball Pictures, 1860s-1920s in the collection By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s.
- Search across the American Memory collections on baseball, or search the Today in History Archive on baseball to learn about legendary baseball players such as Jackie Robinson, Connie Mack, and Satchel Paige.
Let others hunt, or fish, or sail
Afar o’er ocean’s foam;
Give me the game that’s played among
The sweet green fields of home.Bases pitch on a level spot,
Beneath a smiling sky,
No sport for pleasure or for health,
With Base Ball then can vie…”The Base Ball Song“,
lyric and melody by W. J. Bullock,
1874.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860 & 1870-1885
Today in History – August 6-External Links
Today’s Weather in History
Today in Earthquake History
This Day in Naval History
Today’s Document from the National Archives
Today’s Events, Births & Deaths –Wikipedia
Today in History by AP
On this Day -1950 to 2005 – Today’s Story–BBC
On This Day: The New York Times
This Day in History –History.com
Today in Canadian History – Canada Channel
History of Britain that took place On This Day
Russia in History –Russiapedia