Still, the base hit is the most basic unit in baseball, and nobody in the history of the game has gotten more of them in a single season. Ichiro, the fourth-year leadoff man from Japan, who has piled up so many great performances and lesser records, now owns one of baseball's most important marks. It has been clear since Ichiro's first season in the United States in 2001, when he had 242 hits, that he was capable of challenging Sisler.
Lead Story. U.S. begins Berlin Airlift. On this day in 1948, U.S. and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city is isolated by a Soviet Union blockade. When World War II ended in 1945, defeated Germany was divided into Soviet, American, British and French zones of occupation.
The Berlin Airlift could be called the first battle of the Cold War. It was when western countries delivered much needed food and supplies to the city of Berlin through the air because all other routes were blocked by the Soviet Union.After World War II. After the airlift Germany was split into two separate countries, the German Democratic Republic in the east (controlled by the Soviet Union) and the Federal Republic of Germany in the west. 2  The city of Berlin was also divided in half, with East Germany eventually building the Berlin Wall to keep people from defecting.