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The San Diego Padres are an American professional baseball team based in San Diego. The Padres compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West Division. The team has won two NL pennants, in 1984 and 1998, losing in the World Series both years.
Addie Viola Smith (1893–1975) was an American attorney who served as the U.S. trade commissioner to Shanghai from 1928 to 1939, the first female Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Foreign Service to work under the Commerce Department, and the first woman to serve as trade commissioner.
MS Cap San Diego is a general cargo ship, situated as a museum ship in Hamburg, Germany.Notable for her elegant silhouette, she was the last of a series of six ships known as the White Swans of the South Atlantic, and marked the apex of German-built general cargo ships before the advent of the container ship and the decline of Germany's heavy industry.
San Diego has never hosted an NHL franchise, though it hosted the San Diego Mariners of the now-defunct World Hockey Association (WHA) from 1974 through 1977, prior to the 1979 NHL-WHA merger. San Diego is the largest American city not to have won a championship in a Big Four sport (MLB, NBA, NHL, NFL). Currently, there is no NFL, NBA, or NHL ...
Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, [13] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [14] making it one of the best-selling books of all time.
San Diego Padres Cap (1974–1984) Ray Kroc owned the team from 1974 until his death in 1984. In his first home game as the Padres' new owner in 1974, Ray Kroc grabbed the public address system microphone and apologized to fans for the poor performance of the team, saying, "I have never seen such stupid ballplaying in my life."
First Madonna tour to San Diego since The Virgin Tour in 1985. October 28, 2011: Avicii Deadmau5 — — — — September 28, 2014: Paul McCartney — Out There Tour: 45,352 / 45,352: $4,968,567: First performance in San Diego since Wings at the San Diego Sports Arena in 1976. May 24, 2015: The Rolling Stones: Gary Clark Jr. Zip Code Tour ...
This is a list of video games that have sold the highest number of software units worldwide. The best-selling video game to date is Minecraft, a sandbox game released by Mojang in November 2011 for a wide range of PC, mobile and console platforms, selling more than 300 million copies across all platforms.