Ty Cobb

Ty Cobb was suspended for ten days during the 1912 baseball season. Cobb was disciplined for beating Claude Lucker, a fan who had been heckling him during the four-game series between Cobb's Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees. Cobb was ejected from the game on May 15, 1912, and American League president Ban Johnson suspended him indefinitely. Cobb's teammates took his side, and after defeating the Philadelphia Athletics on May 17, told Johnson that they would not play again until Cobb was reinstated. Johnson refused to do so. Seeking to avoid a $5,000 fine, owner Frank Navin told manager Hughie Jennings to recruit a team; he did so. Facing the Athletics, baseball's World Champions, the replacement players, joined by Jennings and his coaches, lost 24–2, after which Cobb persuaded his teammates to return. They and Cobb were fined, but Navin paid. The walkout was baseball's first major league strike; it had little effect, but teams put additional security into stadiums. (Full article...)

Frances Darlington

• ... that although sculptor Frances Darlington (pictured) was known for her painted relief panels, she also designed a railway poster?
• ... that a shrine dedicated to the fictional character Ianto Jones is visited by people from around the world?
• ... that a sprinter who competed for American Samoa at the 2020 Summer Olympics had never competed in a sprinting event beforehand?
• ... that immigrant midwife Dorothy Dworkin was considered the matriarch of Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital?
• ... that an Alabama TV station fired nearly its entire news staff and replaced its newscasts with a countdown clock for more than a month?
• ... that the Kelvite sounding machine used a chemical reaction to determine the depth of water in which a ship was sailing?
• ... that Zionist activist Georg Kareski defended the Nuremberg Laws in a Nazi newspaper?
• ... that the 2024 U.S. Supreme Court case Department of State v. Muñoz decided that the fundamental right to marry does not give a U.S. citizen a right to challenge their spouse's visa denial?
• ... that Toby Olubi helped fund his Olympic bobsled career by being "shot out of a cannon"?

Joe Biden

• Incumbent U.S. president Joe Biden (pictured) withdraws from the 2024 presidential election.
• In golf, Xander Schauffele wins the Open Championship.
• General secretary and former president of Vietnam Nguyễn Phú Trọng dies at the age of 80.
• The International Court of Justice finds the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories to be a violation of international law.