Resorting to a birthday, since no one else has gone with an event...
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Dave Jolly. Happy 100th Birthday. Born in Stoney Point, NC; and later buried there. I urge you to read the SABR Project bio link is in his Baseball Reference page. We gravitate to celebrating baseball heroes for their 'on the field' efforts. We should remember players like Dave Jolly who was a Star in the game of life. He has a youth league field named for him.
He was under contract to at least 4 different organizations, all of his playing time in the Majors was with the Milwaukee Braves, lifetime batting average .292. His pitches seemed to have been a fairly good slider and a sneaky letter high fastball. Toward the end of his time in the Majors he did add in an occasional knuckle ball. His first minor league stop was with the Moorsville, NC team (about half an hour from Stoney Point), a team-mate was Hoyt Wilhelm. He was on the Braves' 1957 World Series roster, but did not get into a game. He played in the minors after not making a major league roster. Back home after baseball, he taught boys Sunday school, coached the state's Babe Ruth league champions, and he bought his church a new organ from his World Series share. And then he died prematurely. If Stoney Point was big enough to have a Hall of Fame, Dave Jolly would have been in it.
Dave was a good guy.