Today's 26 April Fun Facts in History

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  • 1879 National Park (later renamed Royal National Park) established south of Sydney, Australia. World's second-oldest national park.
  • 1912 First home run hit at Fenway Park by Hugh Bradley of the Red Sox

Golf History

1952 Patty Berg scores 64, the best competitive round of golf by a woman

  • 1956 First modern container ship, the Ideal X, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
  • 1980 Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120 feet

Mike Tyson' Speeding Ticket

1989 Mike Tyson gets a speeding ticket for drag racing his Lamborghini in Albany, New York

  • 1994 Physicists announce the first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle

Pelé Added to Dictionary

2023 Brazilian Portuguese-language Michaelis dictionary adds "pelé" as a new adjective to its online edition, meaning "exceptional, incomparable, unique" [1]



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