BirthSeptember 211991

Carlos Martínez (pitcher, born 1991)

Carlos Martínez, Dominican baseball player

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When
Saturday, September 21 199135 years ago
Category
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Era
20th century · 1990s
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Carlos Martínez (pitcher, born 1991)

Who they were

Carlos Ernesto Martínez, nicknamed "Tsunami", is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals. Originally signed by the Boston Red Sox as an international free agent in 2009, MLB voided his contract due to discrepancies over his name and date of birth after the revelation that he was also known as Carlos Matias. However, he was eventually cleared of wrongdoing, as it was found that the inconsistencies arose from poor record keeping.

Why this date

Carlos Martínez (pitcher, born 1991) appears on our September 21 calendar for 1991 as a birth entry.

September 21 through the years

Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.

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  3. 2001Murder of Ross Parker
  4. 2003Galileo (spacecraft)
  5. 2004Green Day
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  8. 2013Westgate shopping mall attack
  9. 2015AdventHealth
  10. 2018Zak Kostopoulos
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  • March 14EscondidaEscondida, one of the most productive copper mines in the world, was officially inaugurated.
  • September 12Space Shuttle DiscoveryNASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-48 to deploy the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.
  • September 17EstoniaEstonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
  • September 17LinuxThe first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
  • September 5Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
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September 21 1991 — 35 years ago, on a Saturday.

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