1981: Rick Monday's HR beat Montreal in game 5

We remember Rick Monday for a few reasons:

1) He was a good player:   241 HR and 775 RBI with the Kansas City/Oakland A's, Chicago Cubs and LA Dodgers;

2) In 1976, he stopped two people from burning the US flag in an afternoon game at Wrigley Field; and, 

3) Monday hit a top of the 9th HR off Steve Rogers to put LA rather than Montreal in the 1981 World Series.   I heard it on the radio!

I think that they called it "Blue Monday" in Montreal for several years.

Great player and big post season moment.

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1957: Braves win!

We remember that The Milwaukee Braves beat the Yankees in 7 games in 1957.   The two teams had a rematch in 1958 but the Yankees won that one. 

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1981: Sadat killed in Egypt

On this day in 1981,  Anwar Sadat, the president of Egypt, was assassinated during a military parade.   It all happened so fast that many thought that the soldiers jumping from the truck were part of the show.    Within seconds, it became clear that it was a terrorist attack against a head of state.

President Sadat and PM Begin of Israel won the Nobel Peace Prize for the Camp David accords of 1978.  Unfortunately, the deal made him a target of Islamic extremists across the Middle East.

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