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Fast facts: Baseball legend Babe Ruth led the American League in home runs 12 times. Baseball player Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres became only the 22nd player to reach the milestone 3,000 career hit mark on August 6, 1999. Notable is that August 6 is his mother's birthday. Gwynn reached the milestone 6 years to the day after reaching the 2,000 career hit plateau. Baseball's first Rookie of the Year was Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson, who was given the award in 1947. Forty years later, it was officially renamed the Jackie Robinson Award. In hockey, a "deke" is a quick fake by a puck carrier intended to trick an opponent out of position. In June 1963 in Britain, the British tennis player Michael Sangster served a ball that was clocked at 154 mph. This is the fastest tennis serve ever recorded. Because wool has outstanding elastic recovery, 150 yards of wool yarn are used in an official baseball.

 

On this date: In 1646, Joseph Jenkes of Massachusetts received the first colonial machine patent. In 1836, 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo after a 13-day fight. In 1886, the first U.S. alternating-current power plant began operation in Great Barrington, Mass. In 1902, the Census Bureau formed. In 1940 a television station telecasted for the first time from an airplane in New York. In 1965, J.R. Willford made the first nonstop helicopter crossing of North America. In 1987, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Ecuador and killed 100.