October 1972 - October 15, 1972 (Sunday)

October 15, 1972 (Sunday)

• In the only verified example of an animal being killed by a meteorite, a cow was killed on a farm near Trujillo, Venezuela.
• Jackie Robinson made his last public appearance, throwing out the first pitch at Game 2 of the 1972 World Series, in Cincinnati. Before a national television audience, the first African-American to break Major League Baseball's color line 25 years earlier said "I am extremely proud and pleased", "but I'm going to be tremendously more pleased and proud when I look at that third base coaching line one day and see a Black face managing the ball club." Robinson, who had accepted MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's invitation in return for a pledge to recruit African American managers, died nine days later.
• Died: An-An, 15, famed panda at the Moscow Zoo.