Born on this day in 1886, Ty Cobb became one of baseball’s greatest players and a Detroit Tiger legend, inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936. On this day in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to 2,000 people in Kalamazoo during a snowstorm, sharing his vision for a brighter future of freedom and justice, saying, “My faith is that somehow this problem will be solved.”