Category: Beatles

• History Daily: August 16

  BABE RUTH DIES Image: Ruth at Yankee Stadium prior to the Yankees’ retirement of his jersey number. (Wikimedia Commons.) On August 16, 1948, baseball icon George Herman “Babe” Ruth died from cancer in New York City. Following his death, his body lay in state at Yankee Stadium, and thousands of people paid their last respects. He was…

  August 16, 2023

  1700s, 1940s, 1960s, American History, American Revolutionary War, Babe Ruth, Beatles, History Daily, Ringo Starr

  1700s, 1940s, 1960s, American History, American Revolutionary War, Babe Ruth, History Daily, Ringo Starr, The Beatles