1956: Don Larsen's perfect game

On this day in 1956, Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in World Series history.   

He shut down a great Brooklyn Dodgers' team that included future Hall of Famers Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson and Duke Snider, along with power hitter Gil Hodges.     

The game ended on a called strike 3 on Dale Mitchell.

Larsen played a few more years and was eventually traded to the Kansas City A's.   He retired with a 81-91 record.    

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1970: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn won The Nobel Prize in Literature

We remember how Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was given the prize back in 1970.   The Soviet Union did not allow him to receive the award.  In 1974, he was expelled for treason and moved to the U.S.

Solzhenitsyn was a great man, writer and hero. He was willing to write books in a country that did not tolerate dissent.  He was exactly the kind of man for a Nobel Prize. 

He died in 2008 at age 89.  His books are very difficult to read but they remind us of what repression in the old USSR was like.

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