 On this day in 1927, another great Detroit Tigers baseball player, Ty Cobb, recorded his 4,000th career hit, became the first player to reach that mark. That was, of course, later broken in 1985 by Pete Rose. And on this day in 1969, a car driven by Senator Edward Kennedy plunged off a bridge of Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard. The crash killed Kennedy's passenger, Mary Jo Kopechny.