Chicago Cubs history unpacked, April 22

Cubs Birthdays: Mickey Morandini*, Terry Francona, Fabian Kowalik, Taylor Douthit, Bob Smith.

Today in history:

• 1692 – Edward Bishop is jailed for proposing flogging as a cure for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts
• 1823 – British inventor Robert John Tyers patents an in-line roller skate he calls the “Volito” with a single row of five wooden wheels, a wooden sole, and a curved iron bar at the front as a rudimentary brake.
• 1884 – Thomas Stevens leaves San Francisco on the first bicycle trip around the world, which takes him 2 years and 9 months
• 1889 – A 1.9 million-acre tract of Indian Territory for white colonial settlement in Oklahoma officially starts at 12pm (The Oklahoma Land Run)
• 1934 – US Division of Investigation (later the FBI) under Melvin Purvis botch an operation to capture the John Dillinger Gang at Little Bohemia Lodge, Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, with 2 dead and 4 injured
• 1966 – The Troggs second single “Wild Thing” released; tops the charts in July
• 1979 –The Rolling Stones play two benefit concerts for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, in Oshawa, Ontario; performance part of guitarist Keith Richards’ heroin conviction sentence
• 1994 – World’s largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made by BonBon, a candy factory in Home-Olstrup, Denmark; record later broken.

*pictured.