Known for his hitting brilliance, Ruth set career records for home runs ( 714 ), slugging percentage (. 690 ), runs batted in ( RBI ) ( 2, 217 ), and on-base plus slugging ( OPS ) ( 1. 164 ).

In the Christian canon the Book of Ruth is placed between Judges and 1 Samuel.

The theme of hesed is woven throughout Ruth, beginning at 1: 8 with Naomi blessing her two daughters-in-law as she urges them to return to their Moabite families.

Act 2: Ruth Meets Boaz, Naomi's Relative, on the Harvest Field ( 2: 1 – 23 )

Scene 1: Ruth Goes to Glean ( 2: 1 – 3 )

Act 3: Naomi Sends Ruth to Boaz on the Threshing Floor ( 3: 1 – 18 )

Scene 1: Boaz Acquires the Right to Redeem Ruth and Naomi ( 4: 1 – 12 )

Ruth figures as one of four females named in the genealogy of Jesus at the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew ( Matthew 1: 1-17 ).

* October 1 – Baseball player Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits his 61st home run in the last game of the season, against the Boston Red Sox, beating the 34-year-old record held by Babe Ruth.

* January 1 – Babe Ruth is traded by the Red Sox for $ 125, 000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time.

* October 1 – Babe Ruth makes his famous called shot in the fifth inning of game 3 of the 1932 World Series.

For the season, the Yankees acquired star slugger Babe Ruth and in his first year with his new team, the Yankees drew 1. 3 million fans to the Polo Grounds, outdrawing the Giants.

The Yankees went on to defeat Ruth's former team, the Boston Red Sox, by a score of 4 – 1, with Ruth hitting a three-run home run into the right-field stands.

As reported by editor Ruth Berman ( issue # 1, Inside Star Trek, July 1968, pp. 15 – 16 ), " ardent rock hound and amateur lapidary " Roddenberry came up with the Vulcan philosophy after he presented Leonard Nimoy with a unique " hand-crafted piece of jewelry ," a " pendent " ( sic ) of polished yellow gold ( circle ) and florentined white gold ( triangle ), with a stone of brilliant white fabulite — an artificial gem " developed by the laser industry and used in space mechanisms for its optical qualities ," and thus well-suited as a gift for an actor in a science fiction show.

In 458 at bats, Ruth had 172 hits, comprising 73 singles, 36 doubles, 9 triples, and 54 home runs, which brings the total base count to ( 73 × 1 ) + ( 36 × 2 ) + ( 9 × 3 ) + ( 54 × 4 ) = 388.

In 1971, Cecil Beaton curated an exhibition of 1, 200 20th-century high-fashion garments and accessories, including gowns worn by leading socialites such as Patricia Lopez-Willshaw, Gloria Guinness and Lee Radziwill, and actresses such as Audrey Hepburn and Ruth Ford.

In six career Series starts, he was 4-2 with 32 strikeouts and a low 1. 79 earned run average, and is still remembered for striking out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin in their consecutive at-bats in the 1934 All-Star Game.

* 1988: Ruth Rendell Mysteries .... Pippa Bond ( 1 episode, 1988 )

Over the next 35 bouts, his record was 32 – 1 – 2, including a win over former world champion Battling Battalino and one over a boxer named Babe Ruth ( not the baseball player ).

* January 1: Pascal Couchepin takes office as President of the Confederation and Interior Minister of Switzerland ; Ruth Metzler-Arnold becomes vice president ; Claude Lässer becomes president of the Council of State of Fribourg, Stefan Engler president of the government of Graubünden, Gérald Schaller president of the government of Canton of Jura, Margrit Fischer-Willimann Schultheiss of Luzern, Christian Wanner Landammann of Solothurn, and Jean-Claude Mermoud president of the Council of State of Vaud, and Walter Suter Landammann of Zug.

On 1 January 2007 she became the second female President of the Confederation in history, the first having been her predecessor on the Federal Council, Ruth Dreifuss.

* Barbara Cason as Ruth Shandling ( seasons 2-4, recurring guest season 1 )-Garry's elderly mother.

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

Ruth is also commemorated as a matriarch in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod on July 16, and is one of the Five Heroines of the Order of the Eastern Star.

* August 16 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player ( b. 1895 )

He was the fourth of the eight children of Owen Brown ( February 16, 1771 May 8, 1856 ) and Ruth Mills ( January 25, 1772 December 9, 1808 ) and grandson of Capt.

Open Secrets – Drawings and Etchings by Paula Rego, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA, 18 September – 23 October ; Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, 16 November – 20 December, curated by Memory Holloway ; text by Memory Holloway and Ruth Rosengarten

15 and 16 form a Ruth – Aaron pair under the second definition in which repeated prime factors are counted as often as they occur.

On October 16, 1923, after Babe Ruth received his World Series winner's share ‚ Heilmann ‚ who was friends with Ruth despite having beaten him for the batting title ‚ sold Ruth a $ 50 ‚ 000 life insurance policy.

* August 16 – death of Babe Ruth

Daws Butler was born on November 16, 1916 in Toledo, Ohio, the only child of Ruth Butler and Charles Allen Butler.

In February 1935, civic leaders held a dinner for Babe Ruth at the Copley Plaza to celebrate his return to Boston after 16 years with the New York Yankees.

On August 16,, Hoyt paid tribute to Babe Ruth, speaking on the air without notes for two hours upon learning of his death after a game.

The page was from the Book of Ruth ( appropriately Ruth 1: 16, " But Ruth said, ' Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you ; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge.

Episode 16 of series 26 marked the last episode filmed in Bristol, with a fire destroying the department and characters Ruth and Jay leaving the show.

On 16 May 2009, Ruth Padel defeated the Indian poet Arvind Mehrotra to become the first woman elected to the post since its inception in 1708.

Ruth Klüger Aliav ( née Polishuk ) ( April 27, 1910 – February 16, 1980 was a Ukraine-born Romanian and Israeli Jewish Zionist activist, assisting in the Aliya Beth before and after World War II.

Babe Ruth hit. 625 ( 10 for 16 ) as the Yankees demolished their opponents by a combined score of 27 to 10.

Ruth Ann Udstad Fertel ( February 5, 1927-April 16, 2002 ) was the founder of Ruth's Chris Steak Houses.

Julian was born on April 16, 1962 in New Westminster, British Columbia to Terry and Ruth Julian.

* 1943 – Ruth Madoc, Welsh actress

* 1914 – Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and songwriter ( d. 1981 )

* 1886 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, British author ( d. 1988 )

* 1959 – Ruth Ann Swenson, American soprano

* 1979 – Ruth Riley, American basketball player

* 1923 – Yankee Stadium, " The House that Ruth Built ", opens.

* 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

* 2003 – Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress ( b. 1908 )

* 1961 – Roy Del Ruth, American director ( b. 1893 )

* 2002 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman, created the Barbie doll ( b. 1916 )

* 1924 – Ruth Kobart, American actress and singer ( d. 2002 )

He married eight times: Ruth Boyd ( 1940 – 1947 ), dancer Marion Bell ( 1947 – 1949 ), Nancy Olson ( 1950 – 1957 ), lawyer Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo ( 1957 – 1965 ), editor Karen Gunderson ( 1966 – 1974 ), Sandra Payne ( 1974 – 1976 ), Nina Bushkin ( 1977 – 1981 ) and Liz Robertson ( 1981 – 1986 death ).

The never – landmarked Yankee Stadium, the " House that Ruth Built " and home to the New York Yankees since 1923, has been replaced with a similar-looking ballpark just across 161st Street.

* Ruth Bader Ginsburg – 1993

But the tactic fell into relative disuse after Babe Ruth introduced the era of the home run – in 1955, for example, no one in baseball stole more than 25 bases, and Dom DiMaggio won the AL stolen base title in 1950 with just 15.