This Day in History - June 19th, 1903: Hall of Fame baseball player Lou Gehrig was born in New York City in 1903. A standout football and baseball player, Gehrig signed his first contract with the New York Yankees in April 1923. Over the next 15 years he led the team to six World Series titles and set the mark for most consecutive games played. He retired in 1939 after getting diagnosed with ALS. Gehrig passed away from the disease in 1941. --Bio. 1905: [S]ome 450 people attend the opening day of the world’s first nickelodeon, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and developed by the showman Harry Davis. The storefront theater boasted 96 seats and charged each patron five cents. Nickelodeons (named for a combination of the admission cost and the Greek word for “theater”) soon spread across the country. Their usual offerings included live vaudeville acts as well as short films. By 1907, some 2 million Americans had visited a nickelodeon, and the storefront theaters remained the main outlet for films until they were replaced around 1910 by large modern theaters. --History. 1947: Born on June 19, 1947, in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, Salman Rushdie was British-Indian novelist...His first novel, Grimus, was published in 1975, followed by other notable works, including Midnights Children (1981) and Shame (1983). Rushdies fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), led to accusations of blasphemy against Islam, and he was subsequently forced to go into hiding under the protection of the British government. --Bio. Todays This Day in History was provided by BIO and HISTORY. If youd like to learn more, we can help!
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