Stephen I, also known as King Saint Stephen of Hungary, lived from ca. AD 975 to 1038. He was the first King of Hungary from either 1000 or 1001 until his death in 1038. The year of his birth is uncertain, as is the date of his coronation. He is the Saint Stephen of “The Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of St. Stephen.” Stephen is a popular saint in Hungary and the neighboring territories. In Hungary, his feast day (celebrated on 20 August) is also a public holiday commemorating the foundation of the state, known as State Foundation Day.
Michael Andrew Yastrzemski, who was born on August 23, 1990, is an American professional baseball outfielder for the San Francisco Giants. Prior to playing professionally, Yastrzemski played college baseball for the Vanderbilt Commodores. He is the grandson of Hall of Famer and Triple Crown winner Carl Yastrzemski, who was born on August 22, 1939.
Mike Yastrzemski was originally drafted out of high school by the Boston Red Sox in 2009, but didn’t sign with that franchise. He eventually signed with the Baltimore Orioles following the 2013 draft, and was traded to the Giants in March of 2019. He made his major league debut on May 25, 2019.
As chance would have it, the Giants played a series against the Red Sox in Fenway Park later in the 2019 season. Mike Yastrzemski hit his 20th career home run in Fenway on September 17, 2019, in a game won by the Giants 7-6.
In late 1957, two of New York City’s three Major League Baseball teams moved to the West Coast: the New York Giants moved to San Francisco, and the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. This left only the Yankees in New York, and left the city without a team in the National League.
As part of the National League’s expansion in 1962, the New York Mets were formed. As Mets management wanted to appeal to fans of both of the former New York NL teams, they selected the uniform colors of blue (for the Dodgers) and orange (for the Giants); those two colors also happen to be on the official flag of the city of New York.
Gotta love that kid. Go Giants!!!
In play: With the Washington Nationals in the World Series this year, and it is their first-ever appearance, only one tram remains that has never appeared in the World Series: the Seattle Mariners. Five other teams that have played in and completed at least one World Series have never won it all: the Texas Rangers and San Diego Padres (both are 0-2), and the Tampa Bay Rays, the Colorado Rockies, and the Milwaukee Brewers (all three are 0-1).
The Washington Nationals, who finished their regular season at 93-69, were 19-31 and in fourth place in the NL East after the first 50 games of the 2019 season. Since May 24 (including the postseason), the Nationals had the best record in baseball at 82-40. The Astros sit second at 81-41.
The Houston Astros, who set a franchise record for wins (107-55) during the regular season, are aiming for their second World Series title in three seasons.
Before last night, the last time a team from Washington DC won a World Series game was Game 7 of the 1924 series. The Washington Senators defeated the New York Giants 4-3 in 12 innings; Walter Johnson, in a relief appearance, was the winning pitcher.
There were two different American League teams named the Washington Senators; both franchises are stiil active members of the AL, though in other cities, and under different names.
The first Washington Senators team, which was one of the founding franchises in the American League, moved to Minnesota and became the Minnesota Twins after the 1960 season.
Washington DC was awarded an expansion team, which would also be named the Senators, for the 1961 season. The second iteration of the Senators went through several ownership changes, and only lasted for eleven seasons in Washington; the team relocated to Arlington, Texas, for the 1972 season, and became the Texas Rangers.
The 1941 song “Deep in the Heart of Texas” features lyrics by June Hershey and music by Don Swander. There were no fewer than five versions in the Billboard charts in 1942. “Deep in the Heart of Texas” spent five weeks at the top of Your Hit Parade in 1942 during its twelve weeks stay.
It is considered to be a de facto state song of Texas.
Christiaan Barnard, the South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world’s first heart transplant in 1968, had a brother who died of a heart problem at the age of three.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh, the first to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean nonstop from New York to Paris, at the age of 25 in 1927, later in life did some pioneering work in the field of biomechanics. He designed the perfusion pump, a handblown, 18-inch-high, clear Pyrex glass configuration that was used to keep organs functioning outside of the body. Lindbergh made it in 1935 after a culmination of a quiet collaboration with the Nobel Prize winning scientist Alexis Carrel. The device supplied or “perfused” the organ with a steady supply of oxygenated blood. It was a precursor to medical devices like the heart-lung machine.
Charles Lindbergh was an advocate of non-interventionism and a supporter of Germany in the early days of World War II. He supported the anti-war America First Committee and resigned his commission in the U.S. Army Air Forces in April 1941 after President Franklin Roosevelt publicly rebuked him for his views.
Lindbergh publicly supported the U.S. war effort after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent German declaration of war against the United States. He flew fifty missions in the Pacific Theater of World War II as a civilian consultant but did not take up arms against Germany. Roosevelt refused to reinstate his Air Corps colonel’s commission.
When Reeve Lindbergh’s mother Anne Morrow Lindbergh was visiting her daughter’s family, they woke up one morning to find that her 20 month old sonson, Jonathan, had died of a seizure during the night. Anne told Reeve that “the most important thing to do now was to go and sit in the room with the baby.” While Reeve would rather do anything else at that point, she sat in the baby’s room with her mother, who told her "I never saw my child’s body. I never sat with my son this way.”
After being cast in the lead role of the 1978 film Superman, actor Christopher Reeve embarked on a two-month training regimen, in order to gain bulk and muscle so that he could portray the Man of Steel without having to resort to a “muscle suit.” Reeve’s coach for this training program was David Prowse, an English weightlifter and bodybuilder, who had, at that point, just finished his role as Darth Vader in the original Star Wars film.
David Prowse commented in an interview that he was unaware that his voice been dubbed with that of James Earl Jones’ until he saw the movie Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) on opening night.
James Earl Jones is also the voice of the character Mufasa in the movie The Lion King.
He is not, however, the voice in the Arby’s commercials. That voice belongs to actor Ving Rhames.
Ving Rhames was born with the name Irving Rameses Rhames. After high school, Ving Rhames studied drama at SUNY Purchase, where fellow acting student Stanley Tucci gave him his nickname “Ving”.
Ving Rhames voiced the Arby’s commercial with the line “but since you can’t take your emotional support peacock on a plane,” which was based on a true incident. However, the peacock ddied,
Arby’s was founded in 1964 in Boardman, Ohio, about midway between Cleveland and Pittsburgh, and 50 miles east of the Football Hall of Fame in Canton OH.
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Brothers Forrest and Leroy Raffel founded Arby’s when they thought there was a market opportunity for a fast food franchise based on a dish other than hamburgers. Arby’s expanded dramatically in the 1970s at a rate of 50 stores a year. In 1976, the Raffel family sold the company to Royal Crown Cola Company for $18 million.
Ryan Reynolds got a dig in at Arby’s in Deadpool 2:
Zeitgeist: “I’m Zeitgeist.”
Deadpool: “Cool. I’d like to say you have the power to put your finger on the… pulse of society?”
Zeitgeist: “No… No, I spit acidic vomit.”
Deadpool: “Oh.”
Zeitgeist: “You want me to demonstrate?”
Deadpool: “No, thank you.”
Weasel: “We’ll take your word for it.”
Deadpool: “Yeah, listen, we’ve all eaten at Arby’s. Okay?”