ON THIS DATE

1923: Happy 93rd birthday to Ara Parseghian, famed Notre Dame football coach born in Akron, Ohio (same as Steph Curry and LeBron James).

1960: Kent Hrbek, hometown hero for the Minnesota Twins, is born in Minneapolis with only one vowel.

1969: After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over the Mets.

1977: Ricky Williams, Heisman Trophy winner in 1998, is born in San Diego. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.

1977: Heavily favored Seattle Slew wins the Preakness by 1½ lengths over Iron Constitution, a 31-1 shot.

1979: Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup for the fourth year in a row. (The Islanders win the next four.)

1988: Risen Star wins the Preakness, spoiling Winning Colors’ bid to become the first filly to win the Triple Crown.

1989: Nancy Lopez wins her third LPGA Championship.

1995: Al Unser Jr. becomes the first Indianapolis 500 winner to fail to qualify the next year.

1999: Deion Sanders and model Pilar Biggers are married in Paradise Island, Bahamas. Not til 2013 did they part.

2001: Barry Bonds hits his eighth home run in five games, equaling the record set by Frank Howard, who did it twice in 1968 with Washington.

2011: Bernard Hopkins, 46, supplants George Foreman as the oldest fighter to win a major world championship, taking the WBC light heavyweight title from Jean Pascal in Montreal.

2014: Wendell Scott becomes the first African-American driver elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

2014: The A’s get only one hit — a solo homer by Brandon Moss — in a 3-2 victory over Tampa Bay.

2016: Jim Ray Hart, slugging third baseman for the Giants, dies at 74 in Acampo, Cal.