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May 2nd

When Leonardo da Vinci died on May 2nd, 1519 he probably had no idea that he would be at the center of fictional conspiracy theories almost 500 years later.  Probably.  He was a smart dude, after all.

Births and Deaths and Other Events

Sometime battery-mates for the Texas Rangers, Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Neftali Feliz (you have no idea how hard it was to type that combo correctly) share today as their birthday, Jarrod was born in 1985 and Neftali in 1988.

Major league baseball Hall of Famer Eddie Collins was born May 2, 1887 in Millerton, New York.  Eddie played in 25 seasons for the Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago White Sox.  As of the start of the 2010 season he still ranked #7 on the all-time stolen bases list.

Famous cross-dresser and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover died on this day in 1972.

Tags: Eddie Collins, J. Edgar Hoover, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Leonardo Da Vinci, May 2nd, Neftalia Perez

 

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