Historical clue formulations

• Gets going — 2026-05-27
• Launches — 2025-10-15
• Goes first — 2024-01-21
• Begins — 2021-04-27
• Gets underway — 2017-12-19
• Some may be flying — 2017-12-12
• Is a first-stringer — 2017-11-15
• Turns over, as an engine — 2011-02-02
• Turns on, as a car — 2009-12-01
• Cy Young had a record 815 — 2008-05-24
• Pitching statistic — 2005-08-19
• Dawns — 2004-11-13
• Turns over, in a way — 2001-06-03
• Some may be false — 2000-04-27
• They're sometimes running — 2000-01-16
• Race openers — 1996-09-23
• Begins — 1996-04-01
• Fits and _____ — 1995-05-08
• Twitches — 1995-01-28
• Blasts off — 1994-05-08
• Fits' companion — 1994-02-21