Nadia Comaneci scored a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Olympics, becoming a famous gymnast. David Cone pitched the 14th perfect game in MLB history. Ty Cobb scored his 4,000th career hit and is regarded as one of the best baseball players. Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for a third term as US President. A tsunami killed nearly 3,000 people in Papua New Guinea. The San Ysidro McDonald Massacre killed 21 people. Actress Rebecca Schaeffer was killed by an obsessed fan, leading to the first anti-stalking law in the US. Beverly Lynn Burns became the first female captain of a Boeing 747 aircraft. Hitler published Mein Kampf, Volume 1, which remains controversial. Rome was razed to the ground in 64 AD by a fire of unknown origin.
Nadia Comaneci became the first gymnastics competitor to score a perfect 10 in the Olympics. (1976) The 1976 Olympics was also her first Olympics. She would go on to win many medals before retiring in 1981. She is regarded as one of the most famous gymnasts and is credited with helping to make the sport popular around the world.
The 14th perfect game in Major League Baseball (MLB) history was pitched. (14) David Cone pitched the historic perfect game for the New York Yankees, playing against the Montreal Expos. Only 1999 perfect games have been pitched since MLB was founded in 2009.
Ty Cobb scored his 4,000th career hit. (1927) Cobb is regarded as one of the best major league baseball players in history, having set 90 league records during his career. He still holds the career-highest batting average at . 366. His career hit total, 4.189, stood as the record until 1985.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt has been nominated for a third term, the first in US presidential history. (1940) In November 1941, President Roosevelt became the only president in history to be elected to a third term. He was the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 to 1945.
An unexpected tsunami has killed nearly 3,000 people on the coast of Papua New Guinea. (1998) The 59-foot (15-meter) waves were generated by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. Two villages, Arop and Warapu, were destroyed.
A gunman entered a McDonald’s in San Ysidro, California and shot and killed 21 people. (1984) In what became known as the “San Ysidro McDonald Massacre,” James Oliver Huberty was eventually killed by police after killing 21 people.
American actress Rebecca Schaeffer was killed by an obsessed fan. (1989) Schaeffer was killed by Robert John Bardo, who had stalked her for three years. Her death led to the first anti-stalking law in the United States.
The Boeing 747 aircraft got its first female captain. (1984) Beverly Lynn Burns captained her first flight on this day as she flew from New York to Los Angeles. When she retired years later, she had been a captain for 27 years and logged more than 25,000 flight hours.
Hitler published Mein Kampf, Volume 1. (1925) Part autobiography and part political manifesto, the book was originally published in two volumes, one in 1925 and one in 1926, and was later combined into one book. By the end of the war, more than 10 million copies were in circulation, including free copies given to all newly married couples. It remains a highly controversial book today.
Rome razed to the ground. (64) The fire, which burned for five and a half days, destroyed all but four of Rome’s 14 districts. Historians aren’t sure how the fire started.
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