George Washington dies, a spacecraft flies by Venus for the first time, Bob Dylan releases his first single, and President George W. Bush ducks flying shoes in Iraq, all on this day.
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1949: Baseball player Bill Buckner, who hit more than 2,700 hits in his 20-year MLB career but is most remembered for a fielding error for the Boston Red Sox during Game 6 of the 1986 World Series against the New York Mets, is born in Vallejo, Calif.