1974 - Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth with 714 career home runs with a three-run shot off of Reds pitcher Jack Billingham. 1911 - Automobile maker Hugh Chalmers announces that he will award a new car ...

A home run. Henry Aaron has just tied Babe Ruth’s home-run record of 714 with a clout over the 375 marker in left field.” The game paused as Vice President Gerald Ford, on hand to throw out ...

That year, the U.S. Postal Department confirmed that Aaron received 900,000 letters, about a third of which "were letters of hate engendered by his bettering of Babe Ruth's career record." ...

Bush presents Hank Aaron with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award during a ceremony in 2002. (Bloomberg) -- Henry “Hank” Aaron, the Black baseball slugger who broke Babe Ruth’s career ...