Baseball Milestone

Frank Thomas hit his 500th career homerun today and Craig Biggio collected (why collected for hits?) his 3,000th career hit. My question is: Has this ever happened before, and if so, when? My thoughts are that it's incredible unlikely, maybe the good ole folks over at Elias will mention it in their ESPN report.

UPDATE!

From Jayson Stark, of ESPN.com

Never in the history of baseball had we seen one man hit his 500th home run and another man get his 3,000th hit on the same day.

Heck, only twice before (Ernie Banks-Hank Aaron in 1970, Tony Gwynn-Wade Boggs-Mark McGwire in 1999) had we witnessed both of those magic numbers arrive in the same week.

My questions are silenced, for now.