S&H Farm Supply presents "On this Day in History" July 20th sponsored by Hiland Dairy, Rib Crib and Chevy Dealers of the Ozarks

• 1859 - At a racetrack on Long Island, about 1,500 fans become the first ever to pay to see a baseball game. The spectators spend fifty cents to watch New York defeat Brooklyn, 22-18.
• 1876 - First US intercollegiate track meet is held, in Saratoga, New York; Princeton wins.
• 1906 - Brooklyn Dodgers' Mal Eason no-hits Saint Louis Cardinals, 2-0.
• 1912 - Philadelphia Phillies' Sherry Magee steals home twice in one game.
• 1923 - New York Yankees hit into a triple-play but beat Philadelphia Athletics 9-2.
• 1938 - Finland is awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws.
• 1941 - New York Yankees beat Detroit Tigers 12-6 in 17 innings.
• 1954 - Tennis champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident.
• 1956 - New York Yankees' pitcher Whitey Ford ties American League record of six straight strike-outs.
• 1970 - Los Angeles Angels' Bill Singer no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0.
• 1976 - Hank Aaron hits his last big league homer, his 755th and establishes the all-time major league record for career home runs.
• 1984 - Uwe Hohn of German Democratic Republic throws javelin a record 104.8 metres.
• 1987 - New York Yankees' Don Mattingly ties first base majors fielding record (Hal Chase, 1906) with 22 put-outs.
• 2006 - At Coney Island, New York, a New York-Penn League game between the Oneonta Tigers and the Brooklyn Cyclones, the Tigers win by 6-1 after 26 innings, lasting 6 hours 40 minutes. This is the third longest game by innings in professional baseball history.
• 2010 - The New Jersey Devils and Russian left-winger Ilya Kovalchuk officially agree to a landmark 17-year, US$102-million contract, but the NHL rejects the deal a few hours later, saying it circumvents the $6 million per year salary cap by paying more in early years and less in later years.
• 1969 At 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.
• On this day in 1944, Hitler cheats death as a bomb planted in a briefcase goes off, but fails to kill him.
• 1941 Ted Williams pinch hits in the top of the 9th in St. Louis and hits a 3 run home run.  He is now batting .396
• 1941 Joe DiMaggio gets 4 hits and 3 rbi's in 9 plate appearences in a 17 inning game in Detroit, Yankees win 12-6.  DiMaggio is batting .375