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On Sunday, July 10, 1932, an 18-inning baseball game was played at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. The Philadelphia Athletics defeated the Cleveland Indians, 18–17, in a game that saw a number of records set. Johnny Burnett of Cleveland set Major League Baseball (MLB) records that still stand with seven singles and nine total hits. Cleveland's 33 hits and the 58 total hits in the game are also MLB records; the 35 runs scored set a record for a extra-inning MLB game that stood until 1979. Eddie Rommel secured the win over Cleveland's Wes Ferrell. The Athletics had taken only two pitchers on the one-game road trip, required since Sunday baseball was illegal in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia's Lew Krausse gave up three runs in the first inning. Rommel then pitched an American League–record 17 innings in relief, allowing 14 runs, the most ever by a winning MLB pitcher, and 29 hits, a one-game MLB pitching record. This was Rommel's 171st MLB victory; he never won another major league game. (Full article...)

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March 14: New Year's Day (Sikhism); White Day in parts of East Asia; Pi Day

Gioachino Rossini

• 1309 – On Eid al-Fitr, the citizens of Granada stormed palaces in the city, deposing Sultan Muhammad III and placing his half-brother Nasr on the throne.
• 1864 – The Petite messe solennelle was first performed in Paris, 34 years after Gioachino Rossini (pictured) retired as a composer.
• 1931 – Alam Ara, the first Indian sound film, premiered at the Majestic Cinema in Bombay.
• 1988 – China defeated Vietnam in a naval altercation while attempting to establish oceanographic observation posts on the Spratly Islands.
• 2021 – The Burmese military and police forces killed at least 65 civilians during the Hlaingthaya massacre in Yangon, including those protesting a recent coup d'état.

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• Japanese manga artist Akira Toriyama, author of Dragon Ball, dies at the age of 68.
• Sweden becomes the thirty-second member state of NATO.
• The Haitian government declares a state of emergency after gangs storm two prisons and demand the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry.

Olivetti Valentine

• ... that Ettore Sottsass's design of the Olivetti Valentine typewriter (example pictured) was inspired by the pop-art nudes of Tom Wesselmann?
• ... that the first game in Georgetown football history was never played?
• ... that Family 1, a closely related group of Greek New Testament manuscripts, place the passage of the woman caught in adultery at the end of the Gospel of John as a separate story?
• ... that the Canada Centre Building has one of the first aquifer thermal energy storage systems?
• ... that Spring Lake has suffered from an infestation of Eurasian water milfoil, a noxious weed?
• ... that Indian aristocrat and photographer Umrao Singh Sher-Gil left more than 3000 prints and negatives, including many of his daughter Amrita Sher-Gil, documenting life in Europe and India?
• ... that a Variety critic suggested that the title of Ariana Grande's "Yes, And?" followed on from that of "Thank U, Next"?
• ... that as a result of the medicalisation of sexuality, sexual disorders like erectile dysfunction have been used as a "penile health gauge" to measure general wellbeing?

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