Daily Quiz for June 29, 2016

HistoryNet Staff

This man was the first hockey player to score 800 career goals.

Gordie Howe
Wayne Gretzky
Phil Esposito
Mario Lemieux

Gordie Howe. “Mr. Hockey” played the game professionally from the 1940s to the 1980s. Howe scored his 800th on February 29, 1980, just three weeks later Wayne Gretzky tied and then broke the record.

Today in History: Born on January 28

1693

Anna "Ivanovna", Tsarina of Russia.

1706

John Baskerville, inventor of the "hot-pressing" method of printing.

1853

Jose Marti, Cuban poet and journalist, known as the "Apostle of the Cuban Revolution."

1912

Jackson Pollock, influential abstract expressionist painter.

Related Stories

SUBSCRIPTIONS
SECTIONS
TOPICS
ABOUT US

HistoryNet.com is brought to you by Historynet LLC, the world's largest publisher of history magazines. HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 5,000 articles originally published in our various magazines.

© 2021 HistoryNet