Today in Sports - Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth hits his first MLB home run

1895 — African American jockey James “Soup” Perkins guides Halma to a wire-to-wire victory in the Kentucky Derby. The 15-year-old joins fellow African American jockey Alonzo Clayton as the youngest jockey to ride a Derby winner.

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