Women who were close enough to see higher-level positions on the corporate ladder yet couldn't reach them faced a barrier referred to as a glass ceiling, according to a 1986 article in The Wall Street Journal.
Baseball in Canada. anada claims the first recorded account of a baseball game, which occurred in Beechville, Ontario on June 4, 1838, described in a detailed letter written by Dr. Adam E. Ford, but not published until 38 years later on May 5, 1886, in a magazine called Sporting Life.
Courtesy of Baseball-Almanac.com, here are some of the more notable ones that took place in the remainder of the 1940s: 1  Aug. 26, 1947: Don Bankhead becomes the first black pitcher to play in a major league game, pitching 3.1 innings for the Dodgers against the Pittsburgh Pirates.