The Yankee triumph made Ralph Houk only the third man to lead a team to both a pennant and a World Series victory in his first year as a manager.

Bill Mazeroski, the World Series hero of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Casey Stengel, the former manager of the Yankees.

( Farrell did -- and Maris led the team to victory in the Little World Series.

In 1920, as the startling news that the 1919 White Sox had conspired to lose the World Series leaked out, fans grew disillusioned and disinterested in baseball.

Charles ' recording is very commonly played at major sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, and WrestleMania 2 ; Charles gave a live performance of the song prior to Super Bowl XXXV, the last Super Bowl played before the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series after the attacks.

Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.

This will force the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

Also known as the D-Backs, Arizona has one World Series title, in 2001, becoming the fastest expansion team in the majors to win a championship, doing it in only the fourth season since their expansion in 1998.

In their first five seasons of existence, the Diamondbacks won three division titles ( 1999, 2001, 2002 ) a National League pennant ( 2001 ) and a World Series championship ( 2001 ).

Fan posing with 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks World Series Championship Trophy

Arizona had postseason victories over the St. Louis Cardinals ( 3 – 2 in the NLDS ) and the Atlanta Braves ( 4 – 1 in the NLCS ) to advance to the World Series where, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City, they beat the three-time reigning champions, the New York Yankees, 4 to 3, to become the youngest expansion franchise to win the World Series ( in just their fourth season of play ).

This was the first time since that the home team won all seven games of a World Series and the first time that a National League team won a World Series in which the home team won all seven games of a World Series.

Both Johnson and Schilling had suffered injuries during the season and Schilling was traded in the off season to the Boston Red Sox where he contributed to that team's 2004 World Series victory.

A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.

* World Health Day – April 7

* 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany ( see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress ).

* 1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 ( the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) and Operation Marita ( the invasion of Greece ).

* 1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.

* 1945 – World War II: the Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.

* 1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.

* 1945 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization ( d. 2006 )

* 1943 – World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.

* 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day.

* 1988 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opens World Expo ' 88 in Brisbane, Australia.

* 1993 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.

* 1916 – Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.

* 1918 – Battle of Ambos Nogales: U. S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.

* 1943 – Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.

* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

* 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany ; Austria declares war on Russia.

* 1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair – the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

* 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.

* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.

* World TeamTennis, currently playing for the St. Louis Aces.

During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

When the Orioles were the St. Louis Browns, they played in only one World Series, the 1944 matchup against their Sportsman's Park tenants, the Cardinals.

A church was planned in the 1930s but delayed by World War II: the Church of St Mary and St Petroc was eventually consecrated in 1965: it was built next to the already existing seminary.

* Previous editions of The World Factbook from the University of Missouri – St.

Rather than hold any games in the cross town rival Sox Park, the Cubs made arrangements with the August A. Busch, owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, to use Busch Stadium in St. Louis as the Cubs " home field " for the World Series.

In the 1982 World Series the St. Louis Cardinals of the NL had home field advantage.

* 2001 – Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA's purchase by American Airlines.

They won the National League pennant and an exhibition World Series, defeating the American Association champion St. Louis Browns, ten games to five.

* St. Nicholas Cathedral-a monumental 13th century Gothic church ( cathedral only from 1992, before it was a parochial church ), damaged by fire in the late 18th century, then destroyed in World War II and reconstructed

* St. Mary's Church-former Dominican church, erected in the 13th century, rebuilt in the 14th and 16th centuries ; damaged in World War II and reconstructed in 1961 as an art gallery ; remnants of cloister are partially preserved

During this time, England played at a number of different venues across the country, though by the time of the 2006 World Cup qualifiers this had largely settled down to having Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium as the primary venue, with Newcastle United's St. James ' Park used on occasions where Old Trafford was unavailable.

The Miami Marlins in front of a sellout crowd at the inaugural Opening Night game at Marlins Park against the reigning World champion St. Louis Cardinals.

During the Second World War, Fort William was the home of HMS St Christopher which was a training base for Royal Navy Coastal Forces.

The Tigers went on to face the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1934 World Series.

Particularly abusive were the St. Louis Cardinals during the 1934 World Series.

Though the Astros were poised to close out the series in Game Five in Houston, Brad Lidge gave up a monstrous two-out three-run home run to Albert Pujols, forcing the series to a sixth game in St. Louis, where the Astros clinched a World Series appearance.

* 1978 – The Crown of St. Stephen ( also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary ) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.

In the context of the St. Louis World Fair ( Louisiana Purchase Exposition ), the Japanese government had replicated a historical Japanese structure, the " Pine and Maple Palace " ( Shofu-den ), modelled after the Kyoto Imperial Coronation Palace of 1, 300 years ago.

In the 1985 World Series against the cross-state St. Louis Cardinals ( nicknamed the " I-70 Series " because the two teams are both located in the state of Missouri and connected by Interstate 70 ), the Royals again fell behind 3 – 1.

The Royals ' most prominent rivalry is with the intrastate St. Louis Cardinals, beginning with Royals ' successes in the early ' 80's and fueled by the Royals ' victory over the Cardinals in the 1985 World Series.