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On this Date:
 Columbus on this day in 1492 set sail on the ocean blue 

John T. Scopes born in 1900 D. 1970

1921 -  eight Chicago White Sox players were banned from baseball for life, accused of receiving bribes to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series.

1934 Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German Chancellor and President, declaring himself "Führer" (leader)

1936 American sprinter Jesse Owens wins the 100m (10.3 seconds) in front of Adolf Hitler in a famous race at the Berlin Olympics, first of 4 gold medals at the Games

1949 Basketball Association of America (BAA) & National Basketball League (NBL) merge to form National Basketball Association (NBA), Maurice Podoloff elected head of new league

1958 - The U.S. atomic submarine Nautilus passed beneath the thick ice cap of the North Pole, an unprecedented feat.

1968 100,000 attend two-day Newport Pop Festival in Costa Mesa, California; performers included Alice Cooper, Canned Heat, The Chambers Brothers, Country Joe and the Fish, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Sonny & Cher, Steppenwolf, Tiny Tim, The Animals, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and The Byrds

1984 American gymnast Mary Lou Retton won the all-around event at the Los Angeles Games, becoming the first American woman to win an individual Olympic gold medal in gymnastics.

Tom Brady - 47th Birthday

Martin Sheen - 84th Birthday

The largest human gathering on earth is the Kumbh Mela. A spiritual gathering held every three years, this Hindu festival attracts over 100 million people.

As a tail end Gen X MTV was so important to my generation.  I tell stories to the younger guys I work with (millennials) about how we would go to a friends house and watch MTV.  It was a thing.  We'd watch it for hours, soaking up the videos and the like.  We didn't even have cable in my neighborhood until probably the late 80's, and I'm not sure we even had MTV until the early 90's.  
I asked my friend how the younger generation views MTV, he said "Teen Mom".  Sad.  

Krypteia

In the Spartan tradition of Krypteia, young men who successfully completed their rigorous training regime were sent into the countryside unarmed and told to kill any members of Sparta's serf population, or "Helots," that they encountered at night and to take any food they needed. The tradition derives it name from a Greek word meaning "hidden, secret things," and its goal and nature are still a matter of debate among historians.

Dan Cummins does an episode on the Spartans on his Timesuck podcast. It's pretty informative but with his usual twisted comedic spin. 

On the same day Rod Carew got his 3,000th hit in Anaheim, White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver won his 300th career game by beating the Yankees, 4-1, at Yankee Stadium. The Sox scored four times in the sixth inning to put Seaver in a position to get the milestone win, and he got late-inning defensive help when Harold Baines climbed the right field wall to rob Willie Randolph of an extra-base hit with men on base.

This name is familiar to me only thanks to Adam Sandler.