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On July 3, 1966, Atlanta Braves pitcher Tony Cloninger made MLB history by hitting two grand slams in a 17-3 rout of the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park. Driving in nine runs—a single-game record for a pitcher—Cloninger remains the only pitcher in major league history to hit two grand slams in a single game, or even an entire career.
On July 3, 2009, John Kane triggered five video poker jackpots in under an hour at Vegas's Silverton Casino. The secret? A hyper-specific software glitch that let him replay winning hands at max stakes just by pressing a precise sequence of buttons. The feds charged Kane and his partner under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, but a judge dismissed the case. The ruling? Simply pushing the buttons a casino provides to the public—even in a glitchy order—isn't hacking. The exploit forced IGT to rush out global firmware patches, cementing it as one of the wilder legal loopholes in modern gaming history.
