This Week in Her and History

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This Week in History, Feb 9 - Feb 15

Feb 09, 1971
Satchel Paige nominated to Baseball Hall of Fame. On this day in 1971, pitcher Leroy "Satchel" Paige becomes the first Negro League veteran to be nominated for the Baseball Hall of Fame. In August of that year, Paige, a pitching legend known for his fastball, showmanship and the longevity of his playing career, which spanned five decades, was inducted. Joe DiMaggio once called Paige "the best and fastest pitcher I've ever faced." Paige was born in Mobile, Alabama, most likely on July 7, 1906, although the exact date remains a mystery. He earned his nickname, Satchel, as a boy when he earned money carrying passengers' bags at train stations. Baseball was segregated when Paige started playing baseball professionally in the 1920s, so he spent most of his career pitching for Negro League teams around the United States. During the winter season, he pitched for teams in the Caribbean and Central and South America. As a barnstorming player who traveled thousands of miles each season and played for whichever team met his asking price, he pitched an estimated 2,500 games, had 300 shut-outs and 55 no-hitters. In one month in 1935, he reportedly pitched 29 consecutive games.

Feb 10, 1996
Kasparov loses chess game to computer. On this day in 1996, after three hours, world chess champion Gary Kasparov loses the first game of a six-game match against Deep Blue, an IBM computer capable of evaluating 200 million moves per second. Man was ultimately victorious over machine, however, as Kasparov bested Deep Blue in the match with three wins and two ties and took home the $400,000 prize. An estimated 6 million people worldwide followed the action on the Internet. Kasparov had previously defeated Deep Thought, the prototype for Deep Blue developed by IBM researchers in 1989, but he and other chess grandmasters had, on occasion, lost to computers in games that lasted an hour or less. The February 1996 contest was significant in that it represented the first time a human and a computer had duked it out in a regulation, six-game match, in which each player had two hours to make 40 moves, two hours to finish the next 20 moves and then another 60 minutes to wrap up the game.

Feb 11, 1990
Nelson Mandela released from prison. Nelson Mandela, late leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, was released from prison after 27 years on February 11, 1990. In 1944, Mandela, a lawyer, joined the African National Congress (ANC), the oldest black political organization in South Africa, where he became a leader of Johannesburg's youth wing of the ANC. In 1952, he became deputy national president of the ANC, advocating nonviolent resistance to apartheid--South Africa's institutionalized system of white supremacy and racial segregation. However, after the massacre of peaceful black demonstrators at Sharpeville in 1960, Nelson helped organize a paramilitary branch of the ANC to engage in guerrilla warfare against the white minority government. In 1961, he was arrested for treason, and although acquitted he was arrested again in 1962 for illegally leaving the country. Convicted and sentenced to five years at Robben Island Prison, he was put on trial again in 1964 on charges of sabotage. In June 1964, he was convicted along with several other ANC leaders and sentenced to life in prison

TRES LECHES

TRES LECHES is what we recommend for Valentines Day, especially if your significant other has a sweet tooth.

A light sponge cake soaked with a mixture of three kinds of milk. This is the BEST Tres Leches recipe. It is a very good cake recipe and the cake should be very moist.

So if you do not have any special plans and want to stay in, here's a dessert recipe to die for! It's a little time consuming and very high in calories, but it's worth it!

​INGREDIENTS

FOR THE CAKE

Vegetable oil
6 3/4 oz cake flour, plus extra for pan
1 tsp baking powder

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Focal Point Gallery * 40th Anniversary

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40 years after opening his art gallery and photo studio on City Island, Ron Terner continues to host his Friday receptions and open houses for local artists. Terner says he's planning a special celebration later on this year.

Mr.Terner owns and operates Focal Point Gallery and is a multifaceted artist, as well as an exceptionally kind individual. His work has been featured in major photography magazines and is in the private and permanent collections of museums, individuals and corporations.

US MALE SUPERSTARS

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Some have no idea who these male superstars were and that's an American tragedy...

Sterling Hayden, US Marines. Smuggled guns into Yugoslavia and parachuted into Croatia.

James Stewart, US Army Air Corps. Bomber pilot who rose to the rank of General.

Ernest Borgnine, US Navy. Gunners Mate 1c, destroyer USS Lamberton.

Ed McMahon, US Marines. Fighter Pilot. (Flew OE-1 Bird Dogs over Korea as well.)

Telly Savalas, US Army.

Walter Matthau, US Army Air Corps., B-24 Radioman/Gunner and cryptographer.

Steve Forrest, US Army. Wounded, Battle of the Bulge.

US WINS FIRST OLYMPIC GOLD

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Now that the opening ceremonies are over and the competitions are underway at the 2014 Winter Games, Team USA's Sage Kotsenburg has taken the first gold medal in men slope-style.

Snowboarders are a tight-knit group, and although that can cause problems when one boarder stands out above the crowd, it is the source of tremendous group pride.

Sage Kotsenburg won the first gold of the Sochi Games in slopestyle on Saturday. And while Canadians may have some cause to gripe about the results, those on the mountain and closest to Kotsenburg offered plenty of slope support.

WHERE'S BAMBI?

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The Department of Parks & Recreation will conduct an aerial survey weather permitting of the deer population over various parks in The Bronx TONIGHT, 2/7 and Sat, 2/8 at 6 PM, including Pelham Bay, Van Cortlandt, Riverdale, Bronx River and others.

US TRADE EMBARGO ON CUBA

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Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the US embargo on Cuba. This communist island nation is the only one-party state in the western hemisphere.

The embargo, known among Cubans as "El Bloqueo" or "The Blockade," consists of economic sanctions against Cuba and restrictions on Cuban travel and commerce for all people and companies under US jurisdiction.

STAY OFF BROADWAY!!!

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A new analysis from the Tri State Transportation Campaign says Broadway is the City's most dangerous road.

Their analysis identifies the most dangerous roads in the tri-state region for pedestrian fatalities. Looking at federal data from 2010 to 2012, it includes fact-sheets and maps that identify the locations of pedestrian fatalities and the age and gender of those killed. Counties in downstate New York and New Jersey that had five or more pedestrian fatalities over the three-year period were analyzed, as was the state of Connecticut.

http://tstc.org/

Winter Olympics: Games Begin

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Olympics: While the games begin in SOCHI, Russia, The 2014 Winter Olympics got underway Thursday the 22nd Winter Games started with crystal clear temperature just below 20 degrees.

These Olympics are an 18-day competition beginning with qualifying in the men and women slope-style events, qualifying in women's freestyle skiing moguls and team figure skating. Both the slope-style competitions and the team figure skating are new events to this year's program, during which 98 gold medals will be awarded.