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This Day In Wrestling History:

1939-Bronko Nagurski beats Lou Thesz in Houston, to win National Wrestling Association world heavyweight title @nwa

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This Day In Sports History:

2003-Barry Bonds steals second base against the LA Dodgers, becoming the first player in MLB history to have 500 career home runs and 500 steals

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This Day In History:

1993-Lorena Bobbitt chops off the penis of her sleeping husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, with a kitchen knife. She flees their home, tossing the severed organ from her car window as she drives away.

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This Day in History:

1982-John Hinckley, Jr., was ruled to be innocent by reason of insanity in the shooting of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

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This Day in Wrestling History:

1993-On WWF Monday Night Raw, Razor Ramon faced The 1-2-3 Kid (@TheRealXPac) in a rematch of the famous upset victory in the Manhattan Center five weeks earlier on Raw. Ramon put up a $10,000 cash prize if the Kid accepted the rematch. The match ended in a no-contest after the Kid ran out of the venue with a bag brought to the ring by Ramon containing the $10,000.  Also, Marty Jannetty (@1MartyJanetty) defeated Doink the Clown in a 2 out of 3 Falls match, and on the following taped edition, Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels (@ShawnMichaels) defeated Kamala in a non-title match.

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This Day In Sports History:

2021-Carl Nassib becomes the first openly gay player in the NFL in a post on Instagram. In the same post, he pledged to donate $100,000 to The Trevor Project (@TrevorProject). #PRIDEMONTH26

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@JoJoFromJerz Why? You trying to restrict someone's freedom of speech?

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This Day n Wrestling History:

This Day in Wrestling History:d North America founded the National Wrestling Alliance (@nwa ). Paul “Pinkie” George, along with Al Haft, Tony Stecher, Harry Light, Orville Brown, and Sam Muchnick, decided to consolidate the championships of their regional companies into one true world championship of professional wrestling, whose holder would be recognized worldwide. This newly formed NWA Board of Directors decided that Brown would be the first-ever NWA World Heavyweight Champion. NWA member promotions were divided into territories that each promoter would operate with periodic guest visits from the NWA World Heavyweight Champion.

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This Day In History:

1865-“The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, ‘all slaves are free.’ ” So began General Order No. 3, a decree delivered by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger to the residents of Galveston, Texas. The order informed both enslavers and the enslaved alike that the Emancipation Proclamationfreed the enslaved peoples living in Confederate territories. Commemorating this historic day and the end of slavery in the United States, the first Juneteenth (a combination of the words June and nineteenth) celebrations began in Texas in 1866 and spread widely as Black Texans moved about the country. Juneteenth National Independence Day became a federal holiday in 2021. #junteenth

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This Day In SPorts history:

This Day In Sports history: Jackson (@PhilJackson11 ) won a record-setting 10th @NBA championship, as the Los Angeles @Lakers defeated the Orlando Magic.

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This Day in History:

2017-a gunman (James T. Hodgkinson) walked onto a baseball field at Eugene Simpson Park in Alexandria, Virginia, opening fire on politicians and wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and four others.

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This Day In Sports History:

1991-Billy Fasell, 27, Minnesota, took shelter under a willow tree near the 11th hole during thunderstorms that rolled in during the @usopengolf. The tree was fatally struck by a direct bolt, and Fasell died. Thus, the incident prompted golf’s governing body to drastically reevaluate its weather and course-evacuation policies for spectators.

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This Day In Sports History:

2012-@SFGiants Matt Cain pitches first and only perfect game in the franchise's history against the Houston @astros

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On This Day In History:

2017-Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old student who was taken prisoner in North Korea 17 months earlier, returned home to the United States in a comatose state. His return marked a warming of relations between the U.S. and the pariah state known for its extensive human-rights abuses, casting new attention on how North Korea treats foreigners in captivity. After a five-day stay in the country as part of an organized adventure trip, the University of Virginia student was arrested at Pyongyang airport in January 2016 for allegedly taking a propaganda poster from his hotel room. His trial lasted just one hour, and he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in a North Korean prison. By March, he was in a coma.

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Thus Day In Wrestling history:

1993-@WWE, presented the first-ever King Of The Ring PPV from the Nutter Center in Dayton, Ohio. The centerpiece of the show was an 8-man tournament to crown the King Of The Ring. After three classic matches against Razor Ramon, Mr. Perfect and Bam Bam Bigelow, Bret ‘Hitman’ Hart (@BretHart) was declared the winner. His crowning ceremony was ruined by 'The King', @JerryLawler, who attacked Hart and sparked an on-and-off rivalry that lasted for several years. The other major happening on the show saw Yokozuna defeat Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship in what would be Hogan’s last televised bout in the company until 2002.

This, however, was not the first King Of The Ring Tournament nor the first time Bret won it, having won in 1991. It occurred from 1985-89 and 1991 with Don Muraco, Harley Race, Randy Savage, Ted Dibiase, and Tito Santana winning (in chronological order

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This Day In Wrestling History:

2006-@WWE officially revived ECW as a weekly show, broadcast on @SYFY in the USA, with their debut show taking place in Trenton, New Jersey. Rob Van Dam was officially presented with the revived ECW World Championship, and Sabu won a battle royal for the right to face John Cena at the upcoming Vengeance PPV. Also on the show, Kurt Angle defeated Justin Credible, and Sandman defeated…The Zombie?

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This Day In Sports History:

1990-@MLB @OaklandAs outfielder Rickey Henderson becomes 2nd to steal 900 bases

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On This Day:

2016-The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history up to that time occurred when a gunman (29-year-old Omar Mateen) opened fire at Pulse, an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people and wounding more than 50. Being labeled an act of domestic terrorism, Mateen acted in retaliation for the airstrike killing of, among others, ISIS militant Abu Waheeb in the previous month. He told the negotiator to tell America to stop the bombing. He died at the scene where his wife was arrested for aiding and abetting the commission of a terror act and Obstruction of justice. However, she was found not guilty on both charges

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This Day in Wrestling History:

2006-@WWE presented @HistoryOfECW One Night Stand at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, with 2’460 fans at ringside. This was the first official revival of the ECW brand since the company's bankruptcy in early 2001. The event was a sequel to the hugely successful original the year prior and was followed days later by ECW's revival as a third WWE weekly brand. It also marked the first time that Rob Van Dam won a world championship-level title in his wrestling career. On the PPV, Tazz (@OfficialTAZ) defeated @JerryLawler by in just 35 seconds by making Lawler pass out to the Tazzmission. Tazz then joined the commentary table for the rest of the show. @RealKurtAngle defeated @RandyOrton by submission with the Ankle Lock.
@reymysterio fought @TheRealSabuECW to a no-contest in an Extreme Rules match for the World Heavyweight Championship. The ending came about when Sabu DDT’d Mysterio through a table, injuring both men, and the ringside doctors called for the end of the match.
Mick Foley, Edge (@RatedRCope), and Lita (@AmyDumas) defeated Terry Funk, @THETOMMYDREAMER, and Beulah McGillicutty in an ‘Intergender Extreme Rules Tag Team’ Match after Edge hit McGillicutty with a Spear and got the pin.
Rob Van Dam (@TherealRVD) defeated @JohnCena in an Extreme Rules Match to win the WWE Championship. Edge interfered towards the end of the match, hitting Cena with a Spear and then knocking out the referee. Van Dam then hit Cena with the Five-Star Frog Splash, and Paul Heyman ran out to count the pin. This was memoriable due to the huge sign hung by fans that said "If Cebna Wins, We Riot."
: in an Extreme Rules Match to win the WWE Championship. Edge interfered towards the end of the match, hitting Cena with a Spear and then knocking out the referee. Van Dam then hit Cena with the Five-Star Frog Splash, and Paul Heyman ran out to count the pin. This was memorable due to the huge sign hung by fans that said "If Cebna Wins, We Riot."

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This Day In Sports History:

1990-@MLB Texas @Rangers Nolan Ryan pitches his 6th no-hitter beating @OaklandAs , in the 9th inning, he retires Ken Phelps, Rickey Henderson and Willie Randolph