On this day in 1920 of the common era (CE) The Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces the sale of slugger Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 in cash and a $350,000 loan. The so-called curse of the Bambino ensues; it would be eighty-four years before the Red Sox would claim a world series victory.
Babe Ruth famously wore the number three, and in the 1919, just before he was traded to the Yankees, he hit his twenty-eighth home run, breaking the single season home run record set in the nineteenth century…(3 x 28 = 84), and these mystical numbers set the duration of the Bambino’s Curse.
On this day in 1974 CE the price of gold hits record $121.25 an ounce, six years later the price of gold hits record $634 an ounce, growing in value by a multiple of 5.22; today the price of gold is $4,341.90 an ounce having grown in value by a multiple of 6.84.
On this day in 1987 CE Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame…priceless.
On this day in 1990 CE Panama's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities to face charges on drug trafficking in US courts, today the United States has invaded Venezuela and arrested its President Nicolas Muduro along with his wife to face similar charges in the Southern District of New York.
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