Loading ...Every now and again, The Cincinnati Man looks at a day in historical manliness. Ready?
- As much as I hate the Yankees (you too, probably), in 1956 Don Larsen pitched the only perfect World Series game.
- Che Guevara, otherwise known as the mystery man on the mid-nineties hipster t-shirt, is captured in Bolivia in 1967.
- In 1978, Ken Warby sets the still-standing water speed record: 317 miles per hour.
- Harvey Pekar, the greatest contemporary voice of middle America, is born in 1939.
- Chevy Chase is born in 1943.
- Johnny Ramone is born, as is C-Jay Ramone, albeit almost 20 years later.
- For those who took Literary Criticism in college, Jacques Derrida died today in 2004.
Anything else happen October 8 in history worth mentioning?
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