ON THIS DAY SEPTEMBER 6 2023

This Day in History: September 6

Featured Event

1995







Cal Ripken, Jr., in full Calvin Edwin Ripken, Jr., byname Iron Man, (born Aug. 24, 1960, Havre De Grace, Maryland, U.S.), American professional baseball player, one of the most durable in professional sports history. On September 6, 1995, Ripken played his 2,131st consecutive game for the American League Baltimore Orioles and thereby broke Lou Gehrig’s major league record of consecutive games played. Gehrig’s record had stood for more than 56 years.
Ripken joined the Orioles’ major league team in 1982 after having spent a few seasons in their minor league system. Ripken’s original position was third base, but he switched to shortstop in 1982. He was named American League Rookie of the Year in that year, when he hit 28 home runs and had 93 runs batted in (RBIs). He holds the record for most career home runs by a shortstop, 345.


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Featured Biography

Jane Addams, (born September 6, 1860, Cedarville, Illinois, U.S.—died May 21, 1935, Chicago, Illinois), American social reformer and pacifist, cowinner (with Nicholas Murray Butler) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1931. She is probably best known as a cofounder of Hull House in Chicago, one of the first social settlements in North America.
Addams graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in Illinois in 1881 and was granted a degree the following year when the institution became Rockford College. Following the death of her father in 1881, her own health problems, and an unhappy year at the Woman’s Medical College, Philadelphia, she was an invalid for two years. During neither subsequent travel in Europe in 1883–85 nor her stay in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1885–87 did she find a vocation.


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