Thomas was the fourth child born to Abraham Lincoln (1744â1786) and Bathsheba Herring (c. 1742 â 1836), having been born in Rockingham County, Virginia. Abraham had been given 210 acres of prime Virginian land from his father, John Lincoln, and later sold the land to move in the 1780s to western Virginia, now Kentucky.
The measurement of home runs, however, has long been an inexact science at best. For decades, measuring the gameâs longest home runs was a combination of guesswork, estimation, exaggeration and myth. Mickey Mantle was estimated to have hit one a staggering 653 feet in 1953, and another for about 643 feet in 1960.
Hank Aaron hits first home run of his MLB career. On April 23, 1954, Hank Aaron knocks out the first home run of his Major League Baseball career. Twenty years later, Aaron becomes baseballâs new home run king when he broke Babe Ruthâs long-standing record of 714 career homers.