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Happy birthday to Todd Hundley, and a mighty host of others.

Today in baseball history, in 2006 – At Fenway ParkCurt Schilling becomes the 104th pitcher in major league history to reach 200 wins in the 6-4 triumph over Tampa Bay. Schilling becomes only the fourth pitcher to earn his 200th win while in a Red Sox uniform, joining Lefty Grove (1934), Ferguson Jenkins (1976) and Luis Tiant (1978) — and other stories as well.

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Today in baseball history:

2015 – Cubs pitcher Jon Lester sets a new record for most hitless at bats from the start of a career by going 0 for 2 in a game against the Nationals. Coming into the game, he had been tied with Joey Hamilton with 57 fruitless at-bats.

Cubs Birthdays: Brad Boxberger, Todd Hundley*, Jerry Kindall, Jimmy Hallinan. Also notable: Frank Thomas HOF. Jeff Bagwell HOF.

Today in history:

1692 – William Phips, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony authorizes a special Court of Oyer and Terminer (“to hear and determine”), to administer Salem witch trials.

1895 – British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector.

1905 – Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history.

1916 – President Woodrow Wilson addresses the League to Enforce Peace, founded in 1915, and gives public support to the idea of a league of nations.

1930 – The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public,

1930 – Richard Drew invents masking tape.

1937 – Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to pedestrians.

1958 – Ernest Green becomes the first African-American to graduate from Little Rock’s Central High School.

1963 – Columbia Records releases “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan“, the second studio album by folk singer Bob Dylan; it contains his songs “Blowin’ in the Wind”, “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” and “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”, and serves as his critical and commercial breakthrough.

1968 – George Halas retires from coaching, finishing with 318 regular-season wins and 6 NFL titles

1971 – John Lennon records the song “Imagine” at his Ascot Sound home studio at Tittenhurst Park, England.

1977 – The Sex Pistols release “God Save the Queen,” sparking major controversy and leading to a ban on the song by the BBC.

*pictured.