Today's events in sports history

JAN 29

• 1900 American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee and Minneapolis
• 1906 Dutch speed skater Coen de King skates a world record 32,370m in one hour

1st Winter Olympics

1924 Swiss team of Denis Vaucher (C), Alfred Aufdenblatten, Antoine Julen & Alfons Julen win the military patrol gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; first version of the biathlon


Einar Landvik, Nordic skier from Norway, competes in the first-ever Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, 1924
Hall of Fame
1936 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson


MLB LegendTy Cobb

Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

MLB ShortshopHonus Wagner
Australian Men's Tennis Open
1940 Australian Championships men's Tennis: Australian Adrian Quist beats countryman Jack Crawford 6-3, 6-1, 6-2 for his 2nd Australian title


Tennis PlayerAdrian Quist

• 1940 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Nancye Wynne Bolton wins her 2nd Australian singles titles; beats Thelma Coyne 5-7, 6-4, 6-0
• 1946 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: John Bromwich wins his 2nd Australian title; beats fellow Australian Dinny Pails 5-7, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2
• 1946 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Nancye Wynne Bolton beats Joyce Fitch 6-4, 6-4 for her 3rd Australian singles crown
• 1947 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Dinny Pails beats fellow Australian John Bromwich 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, 8-6 for his only Grand Slam title
• 1947 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Nancye Wynne Bolton wins 3rd consecutive Australian singles crown; beats Nell Hall Hopman 6-3, 6-2
• 1948 Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs and Phillies $500 each for signing high school players
• 1955 John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962)

Hall of Fame
1963 Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football Hall of Fame


Versatile AthleteJim Thorpe

American Football Coach and Team OwnerGeorge Halas

NFL LegendRed Grange

• 1964 IX Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria
• 1964 Most lopsided high-school basketball score 211-29 (Louisiana)
• 1964 NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million

Sports History
1966 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming


Figure SkaterPeggy Fleming
Hall of Fame
1967 Branch Rickey & Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame


Baseball Player and Sports ExecutiveBranch Rickey

• 1967 Kees Verkerk becomes European skating champ
• 1968 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Australian Bill Bowrey wins his first and only Grand Slam title; beats Juan Gisbert Sr. of Spain 7-5, 2-6, 9-7, 6-4

Australian Open Women's Tennis
1968 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: American Billie Jean King beats home favourite Margaret Court 6-1, 6-2 for her 13th Grand Slam singles title


Tennis LegendBillie Jean King

• 1974 1974 NFL Draft: Ed Jones from Tennessee State first pick by Dallas Cowboys
• 1974 27th NHL All-Star Game, Chicago Stadium: Western Division beats Eastern Division, 6-4; MVP: Garry Unger, St. Louis, C
• 1978 JoAnne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship
• 1979 NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: NFC beats AFC, 13-7; MVP: Ahmad Rashād, Minnesota Vikings, WR
• 1980 Cleveland Cavaliers beat LA Lakers 154-153 in quadruple OT
• 1981 AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf & Eddie Einhorn for $20 million, & 80% of Mariners to George Argyros for $104 million
• 1982 Old Dominion ends Louisiana Tech's women's basketball record 54-game winning streak
• 1982 Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians

NBA All-Star Game
1984 34th NBA All-Star Game, Denver: East beats West, 154-145 (OT); MVP: Isiah Thomas, Detroit Pistons, G; first All-Star Saturday; Legends Classic, West wins, 64-63; first Slam-Dunk winner, Larry Nance


NBA Point Guard and CoachIsiah Thomas

• 1984 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 45-3; MVP: Joe Theismann, Washington Redskins, QB

Sports History
1985 Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39


NHL StarJari Kurri

• 1988 Detroit Pistons draw a then record NBA regular season crowd of 61,983 fans to the Pontiac Silverdome for a 125-108 win over the Boston Celtics

Australian Men's Tennis Open
1989 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Ivan Lendl wins his first Australian title; beats fellow Czech Miloslav Mecii 6-2, 6-2, 6-2


Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionIvan Lendl
Sports History
1989 Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129


MLB First BasemanKeith Hernandez

• 1989 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 34-3; MVP: Randall Cunningham, Philadelphia Eagles, QB
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• 1994 Frankie Randall beats Mexican boxing legend Julio César Chávez by split decision to win WBC super lightweight title at MGM Grand, Las Vegas; Chavez's 1st knockdown of career in 11th and 1st loss in 91 pro fights

Australian Men's Tennis Open
1995 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Andre Agassi wins his 1st of 4 Australian titles; beats fellow American Pete Sampras 4-6, 6-1, 7-6, 6-4


Tennis LegendAndre Agassi

Tennis PlayerPete Sampras
Super Bowl
1995 Super Bowl XXIX, Joe Robbie Stadium, Miami, FL: San Francisco 49ers beat San Diego Chargers, 49-26; MVP: Steve Young, SF, QB


NFL QuarterbackSteve Young
Cricket History
1996 Last day of Test cricket for Australian cricketer David Boon


Cricket BatsmanDavid Boon
Australian Open Women's Tennis
2000 Australian Open Women's Tennis: American Lindsay Davenport claims her 3rd and final career Grand Slam title; beats Martina Hingis 6-1, 7-5


Tennis PlayerMartina Hingis
NBA Record
2000 Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz becomes the 3rd player in NBA history to score 30,000 career points; finishes with 35 in a 96-94 loss to Minnesota; behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387) and Wilt Chamberlain (31,419)


Basketball PlayerKarl Malone

NBA LegendKareem Abdul-Jabbar
Sports History
2002 The San Diego Chargers hire Marty Schottenheimer as their 13th head coach


NFL CoachMarty Schottenheimer
Australian Open Women's Tennis
2005 Australian Open Women's Tennis: In an all-American final Serena Williams wins her 2nd Australian title; beats Lindsay Davenport 2-6, 6-3, 6-0

Australian Men's Tennis Open
2006 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Roger Federer beats Marcos Baghdatis 5-7, 7-5, 6-0, 6-2 for his 2nd Australian title

• 2006 Irfan Pathan becomes first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match

Sports History
2007 Ken Dryden's #29 jersey is retired by the Montreal Canadiens

Australian Open Women's Tennis
2011 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Kim Clijsters wins her 4th and final Grand Slam title; beats Li Na of China 3-6, 6-3, 6-3

Australian Men's Tennis Open
2012 100th Australian Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković beats Rafael Nadal 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7, 7-5; longest Grand Slam singles final in duration in the Open Era, 5 hours 53 minutes

• 2012 59th NHL All-Star Game, Scotiabank Place, Ottawa: Team Chara beats Team Alfredsson, 12-9; Marián Gáborík, NY Rangers, LW

Sports History
2012 American snowboarder Shaun White achieves the first ever SuperPipe perfect score (100) in Winter X Games history

• 2012 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 59-41; MVP: Brandon Marshall, Miami Dolphins, WR

Sports History
2014 Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the 1st non-Spanish player to captain Real Madrid, making his 500th appearance for the club

• 2017 62nd NHL All Star Games, Staples Centre, Los Angeles, CA: Metropolitan All Stars win four team 3-on-3 tournament; MVP: Wayne Simmonds, Philadelphia Flyers, RW
• 2017 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Roger Federer beats Spaniard Rafael Nadal 6–4, 3–6, 6–1, 3–6, 6–3 to win his record 18th Grand Slam
• 2017 NFL Pro Bowl, Orlando, FL: AFC beats NFC, 20-13; MVPs: Travis Kelce, KC Chiefs, TE; Lorenzo Alexander, Buffalo Bills, LB
• 2018 Cleveland Indians announce they will remove "Chief Wahoo" caricature logo from uniforms in 2019

Sports History
2018 David Beckham launches a Major League Soccer team in Florida; Inter Miami CF

Sports History
2019 In the aftermath to a wild ending to UFC 229, Khabib Nurmagomedov ($500k & 9 months) and Conor McGregor ($50k & 6 months) are issued fines and suspensions; bans retroactive to October 6, 2018

• 2022 Australian Open Women's Tennis: World #1 Ash Barty wins her home Grand Slam event for the first time; beats American Danielle Collins 6-3, 7-6

 

JAN 30

1st Winter Olympics

1924 Gillis Grafström of Sweden wins men's figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; first to successfully defend his Summer Olympic title (1920) at the Winter Games


Einar Landvik, Nordic skier from Norway, competes in the first-ever Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, 1924

• 1924 Great Britain clinch inaugural Olympic curling gold medal with a 46-4 win over France at the Chamonix Games
• 1924 Norway’s Thorleif Haug claims first of 3 gold medals at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; wins 50k cross country in a Norwegian sweep of the medals; also 18k and Nordic combined champion

Australian Men's Tennis Open
1928 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Frenchman Jean Borotra wins his only Australian title; beats Jack Cummings of Australia 6-4, 6-1, 4-6, 5-7, 6-3


Tennis PlayerJean Borotra

• 1928 Australian Championships Women's Tennis, Sydney: Daphne Akhurst wins 3rd title; beats Esna Boyd 7-5, 6-2
• 1933 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Jack Crawford wins his 3rd straight Australian title; beats Keith Gledhill of the US 2-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-2
• 1933 Australian Championships Women's Tennis, Melbourne: Joan Hartigan Bathurst beats Coral McInnes Buttsworth 6-4, 6-3
• 1934 Former Australian cricket spin bowler Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days as Victoria draws with NSW at the Sydney Cricket Ground
• 1936 New owners of baseball's Boston Braves survey newspaper journalists to pick a new team nickname; known as 'Bees' in 1940 but return to 'Braves' in 1941
• 1937 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Vivian McGrath wins his only Grand Slam singles event; beats fellow Australian John Bromwich 6-3, 1-6, 6-0, 2-6, 6-1
• 1937 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Nancye Wynne Bolton wins her first of 6 Australian singles titles; beats Emily Hood Westacott 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
• 1948 V Winter Olympic Games open in St Moritz, Switzerland
• 1950 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Frank Sedgman retains title; beats fellow Australian Ken McGregor 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1

Australian Open Women's Tennis
1950 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: In an all-American final Louise Brough beats Doris Hart 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 for her only Australian singles title


Tennis PlayerLouise Brough

Tennis PlayerDoris Hart
Australian Men's Tennis Open
1956 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Lew Hoad beats fellow Australian Ken Rosewall 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 for his first Grand Slam title


Tennis Player and Four-Time Major ChampionLew Hoad

Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionKen Rosewall

• 1956 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Mary Carter Reitano beats fellow Australian Thelma Coyne Long 3-6, 6-2, 9-7 for her 1st Australian singles title
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• 1956 Hallgeir Brenden of Norway wins Olympic 15k cross country gold medal at the Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games; his 2nd career Olympic title after taking out the 18k event in Oslo (1952)
• 1956 Soviet 500m speed skating champion Yevgeni Grishin wins 2nd gold medal of the Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics when he dead heats teammate Yuri Mikhatlov in the 1,500m in world record 2:08.6
• 1958 MLB Commissioner Ford Frick announces that players and coaches, rather than fans, will vote on selections for the All-Star Game; vote returns to the fans in 1970
• 1961 Outstanding West Indian spin bowler Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Ken Mackay, Wally Grout, Frank Misson) in drawn 4th Test v Australia in Adelaide

World Record
1966 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:05.2)


Speed SkaterArd Schenk
Australian Men's Tennis Open
1967 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Roy Emerson repeats previous year's result; beats American Arthur Ashe 6-4, 6-1, 6-4 for his 5th straight Australian title


Tennis PlayerRoy Emerson

Tennis PlayerArthur Ashe
Australian Open Women's Tennis
1967 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: American Nancy Richey wins her first and only Australian title; beats home favourite Lesley Turner Bowrey 6-1, 6-4


Tennis Player and Two-Time Major ChampionNancy Richey

• 1968 1968 NFL Draft: Ron Yary from USC first pick by Minnesota Vikings
• 1971 Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, v England
• 1971 UCLA starts 88 basketball game winning streak
• 1973 1973 NFL Draft: John Matuszak from University of Tampa first pick by Houston Oilers
• 1973 26th NHL All-Star Game, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Eastern Division beats Western Division, 5-4; MVP: Greg Polis, Pittsburgh Penguins, LW

Sports History
1977 Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW vs Qld)


Test CricketerAllan Border

• 1978 Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Boxing Title Fight
1982 WBC super welterweight champion Wilfred Benitez of Puerto Rico defeats boxing legend Roberto Durán of Panama in a 15-round unanimous decision at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas


BoxerWilfred Benítez

BoxerRoberto Durán

• 1983 Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ
• 1983 Super Bowl XVII, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA: Washington Redskins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17; MVP: John Riggins, Washington, RB
• 1988 Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS v N Tvl)
• 1989 Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore

NHL Record
1990 LA center Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record by scoring his 100th point of the season for the 11th straight season; milestone comes with an assist in a 5-2 Kings' win over visiting New Jersey Devils


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky

Australian Open Women's Tennis
1993 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 for her 3rd consecutive Australian singles crown


Tennis Player and Nine-Time Major ChampionMonica Seles

Tennis PlayerSteffi Graf
Australian Men's Tennis Open
1994 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras wins 1st of 2 Australian titles; fellow American Todd Martin 7-6, 6-4, 6-4

Australian Open Women's Tennis
1994 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 6-0, 6-2

World Record
1994 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76)


Speed SkaterDan Jansen
Cricket Record
1994 Kapil Dev takes 2/41 as India beats Sri Lanka by an innings and 95 runs in 2nd Cricket Test in Bengaluru; equals Sir Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets

• 1994 Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.

Super Bowl
1994 Super Bowl XXVIII, Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13; MVP: Emmitt Smith, Dallas, RB


American Football PlayerEmmitt Smith

• 1996 Future Basketball Hall of Famer Magic Johnson comes out of a 5 year retirement; helps LA Lakers to 128-118 win over Golden State at the Great Western Forum with 19 points, 8 rebounds & 10 assists
• 1998 All-Star Fla Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires

Australian Open Women's Tennis
1999 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Martina Hingis of Switzerland wins her 3rd consecutive Australian title; beats unseeded Amélie Mauresmo 6-2, 6-3

Australian Men's Tennis Open
2000 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Andre Agassi beats defending champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4; Agassi makes 4 consecutive Grand Slam finals, 1st since Rod Laver (1969)

• 2000 Super Bowl XXXIV, Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA: St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans, 23-16; MVP: Kurt Warner, St. Louis, QB

NBA Record
2002 Utah's Karl Malone becomes 2nd player in NBA history to register 34,000 career points by scoring 18 in a 90-78 win over Chicago at the Delta Center; trails only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387 points)


Basketball PlayerKarl Malone

NBA LegendKareem Abdul-Jabbar

• 2005 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Marat Safin of Russia wins his second and final Grand Slam title; beats local hero Lleyton Hewitt 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4

Australian Open Women's Tennis
2010 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams retains her title; beats Justine Henin of Belgium 6-4, 3-6, 6-2


Tennis PlayerSerena Williams

• 2011 58th NHL All-Star Game, RBC Centre, Raleigh, NC: Team Lidstrom beats Team Staal, 11-10; MVP: Patrick Sharp, Chicago, LW

Australian Men's Tennis Open
2011 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković wins his 2nd Australian title; beats Scotsman Andy Murray 6-4, 6-2, 6-3


Tennis ChampionNovak Đoković

Tennis ChampionAndy Murray

• 2011 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 55-41; MVP: DeAngelo Hall, Washington Redskins, DB
• 2016 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Angelique Kerber of Germany wins her first major title; beats Serena Williams 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
• 2018 Houston forward James Harden puts up highest scoring triple-double in NBA history (60 points, 10 rebounds, 11 assists) as the Rockets beat Orlando Magic, 114-107 in Houston
• 2022 AFC Championship, Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri: Cincinnati Bengals beat Kansas City Chiefs, 27-24 OT

Australian Men's Tennis Open
2022 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Rafael Nadal wins record 21st Grand Slam singles title with an epic 2-6, 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 win over Daniil Medvedev of Russia


Tennis ChampionRafael Nadal

• 2022 NFC Championship, SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, California: LA Rams beat SF 49ers, 20-17

 

JAN 31

• 1901 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Winnipeg Victorias edge Montreal Shamrocks, 2-1 to sweep challenge series, 2-0

NHL Record

1920 Quebec Bulldogs center Joe Malone sets NHL record with 7 goals in a 10-6 win against Toronto St. Patricks at the Quebec Arena


Ice Hockey PlayerJoe Malone

• 1923 Montreal Canadiens beat Hamilton Tigers, 5-4 at the Mount Royal Arena, Montreal; first penalty-free game played in NHL history

1st Winter Olympics
1924 Austrians Helene Engelmann & Alfred Berger win the pairs skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; beat Finnish pair Ludowika Jakobsson & Walter Jakobsson by just 0.39 points


Einar Landvik, Nordic skier from Norway, competes in the first-ever Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, 1924

• 1924 Herma Szabo of Austria wins the ladies figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; only women's event at the Games

Australian Men's Tennis Open
1925 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Sydney: James Anderson of Australia wins 2nd straight Australasian crown; beats countryman Gerald Patterson 11-9, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3


Tennis PlayerGerald Patterson

• 1925 Australasian Championships Women's Tennis, Sydney: Daphne Akhurst wins 1st of 5 home titles; beats fellow Australian Esna Boyd 1-6, 8-6, 6-4

Baseball History
1927 NL rules future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the St. Louis Cardinals and play for the NY Giants; earns $2,916 dividend on same day


MLB Hall of Fame 2nd Baseman and ManagerRogers Hornsby

• 1938 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: American Don Budge wins the 1st-leg of his Grand Slam; beats John Bromwich of Australia 6-4, 6-2, 6-1
• 1938 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: American Dorothy Cheney wins her only Grand Slam singles title; beats Dorothy Stevenson of Australia 6-3, 6-2

Boxing Title Fight
1941 In his 13th title defence Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in the 5th round at Madison Square Garden, New York to retain NYSAC heavyweight boxing crown


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJoe Louis

• 1948 An unprecedented 3-way tie for the silver medal in the 500m speed skating at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; Americans Robert Fitzgerald & Ken Bartholomew, and Thomas Byberg of Norway are equal on 43.2s; Finn Helgesen of Norway wins gold, 43.1s
• 1948 Sweden sweeps the medals in the 18km cross country event at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; Martin Lundström takes gold ahead of countrymen Nils Östensson and Gunnar Eriksson
• 1948 Swiss pair Felix Endrich & Friedrich Waller beat countrymen Fritz Feierabend & Paul Eberhard to win the 2-man bobsleigh gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; silver medallist Feierabend is team coach
• 1949 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Frank Sedgman wins 1st of 2 straight Australian titles; beats fellow Australian John Bromwich 6-3, 6-2, 6-2

Australian Open Women's Tennis
1949 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: American Doris Hart beats Nancye Wynne Bolton 6-3, 6-4 for the first of her 6 Grand Slam singles titles


Tennis PlayerDoris Hart

• 1951 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Nancye Wynne Bolton beats Thelma Coyne Long 6-1, 7-5 for her 6th and last Australian singles crown
• 1951 Australian Championships: American Dick Savitt wins his only Australian title; beats Ken McGregor of Australia 6-3, 2-6, 6-3, 6-1
• 1952 Detroit Tigers Harry Heilmann & Pittsburgh Pirates Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Sports History
1953 New York, Cleveland, & Boston retaliate at Bill Veeck, forcing the Browns to play afternoon games to avoid sharing TV revenues


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck
Australian Men's Tennis Open
1955 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Ken Rosewall wins his 2nd Australian title; beats Lew Hoad 9-7, 6-4, 6-4


Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionKen Rosewall

Tennis Player and Four-Time Major ChampionLew Hoad

• 1955 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Beryl Penrose wins her only Australian singles title; beats Thelma Coyne Long 6-4, 6-3
• 1956 Austrian skier Toni Sailer wins the slalom at the Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics for his 2nd gold medal of the Games; sweeps all 3 alpine skiing events

Television Premiere
1958 "Jackpot Bowling" premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host


Baseball Player and ManagerLeo Durocher
Treaty of Interest
1959 Former star MLB shortstop and manager Joe Cronin signs 7 year pact to become American League President


Baseball Player and ManagerJoe Cronin

• 1961 West Indian cricket batsman Rohan Kanhai scores back-to-back centuries in the drawn 4th Test against Australia in Adelaide; follows 1st innings 117 with 115 in 2nd knock
• 1965 19th century pitcher James 'Pud' Galvin elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Australian Men's Tennis Open
1966 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Roy Emerson makes it 4 straight Australian titles; beats American Arthur Ashe 6-4, 6-8, 6-2, 6-3


Tennis PlayerRoy Emerson

Tennis PlayerArthur Ashe
Australian Open Women's Tennis
1966 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Margaret Smith wins her 7th consecutive Australian singles title; beats American Nancy Richey in a walkover, Richey injured


Tennis Player and Two-Time Major ChampionNancy Richey

• 1966 Bill Lawry (119) & Bob Simpson (225) complete match-winning 244 opening stand in Australia's 1st innings, 4th Test v England in Adelaide
• 1971 Dave Bancroft & George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame
• 1971 Special Veterans Committee adds 6 former players and 1 executive to the Baseball Hall of Fame: Dave Bancroft, Jake Beckley, Chick Hafey, Harry Hooper, Joe Kelley, Rube Marquard and George Weiss
• 1976 In his final Test, West Indian cricket spin bowler Lance Gibbs dismisses Australian opener Ian Redpath for 101 in 6th Test in Melbourne; becomes highest Test wicket-taker at 308
• 1977 Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie and Al López elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

NBA All-Star Game
1982 32nd NBA All-Star Game, Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ: East beats West, 120-118; MVP - Larry Bird, Boston Celtics


NBA LegendLarry Bird

• 1982 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 16-13; MVPs: Co-MVPs: Kellen Winslow, San Diego Chargers, TE; Lee Roy Selmon, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, DE

Sports History
1982 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton


Figure SkaterScott Hamilton

• 1984 36th NHL All-Star Game, Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 7-6; MVP: Don Maloney, NY Rangers, LW

Super Bowl
1988 Super Bowl XXII, Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego, CA: Washington Redskins beat Denver Broncos, 42-10; MVP: Doug Williams, Washington, QB


NFL QuarterbackJohn Elway

• 1990 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing
• 1991 Denver Nuggets Michael Adams becomes shortest NBAer to get a triple-double

Australian Men's Tennis Open
1993 Australian Open Men's Tennis: American Jim Courier retains title; repeats previous year's win over Stefan Edberg 6-2, 6-1, 2-6, 7-5


Tennis PlayerStefan Edberg

• 1993 Super Bowl XXVII, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 52-17; MVP: Troy Aikman, Dallas, QB
• 1997 San Antonio forward Dominique Wilkins scores 27 points in the Spurs' 97-95 loss to Minnesota; gives him 26,009 career points; only the 6th NBA player to reach the 26k milestone

Australian Open Women's Tennis
1998 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Switzerland's Martina Hingis retains her title; beats Conchita Martinez of Spain 6-3, 6-3 for 5th Grand Slam title


Tennis PlayerMartina Hingis

Tennis PlayerConchita Martínez

• 1999 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Yevgeny Kafelnikov becomes first Russian, male or female, to win an Australian title; beats Thomas Enqvist of Sweden 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, 7-6
• 1999 Super Bowl XXXIII, Pro Player Stadium, Miami, FL: Denver Broncos beat Atlanta Falcons, 34-19; MVP: John Elway, Denver, QB

Murder of Interest
2000 A fight between Ray Lewis and his companions and another group of people results in the stabbing deaths of Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar, resulting in the indictment of Lewis 11 days on murder and aggravated-assault charges


NFL LegendRay Lewis

• 2004 Australian Open Women's Tennis: In an all-Belgian final, Justine Henin-Hardenne beats Kim Clijsters 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 to win her only Australian title

Australian Open Women's Tennis
2009 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams wins 10th Grand Slam singles title; outclasses Dinara Safina of Russia 6-0, 6-3

Australian Men's Tennis Open
2010 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Roger Federer outclasses Scotsman Andy Murray 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 for his 4th Australian title

• 2010 NFL Pro Bowl, Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens: AFC beats NFC, 41-34; MVP: Matt Schaub, Houston Texans, QB

Sports History
2015 17 year old Lydia Ko of New Zealand becomes the youngest golfer in men's or women's golf history to be ranked No. 1 in the world


GolferLydia Ko

• 2015 Atlanta Hawks set a new NBA monthly win record as they move to 17-0 for January, with a 91-85 win against the Philadelphia 76ers
• 2015 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams wins 19th career Grand Slam singles title; beats arch rival Maria Sharapova of Russia 6-3, 7-6
• 2016 61st NHL All Star Games, Bridgestone Centre, Nashville, TN: Pacific Division All Stars win four-team 3-on-3 tournament; MVP: John Scott, San Jose, LW

Australian Men's Tennis Open
2016 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković retains Championship for his record-equaling 6th Australian title; beats Andy Murray 6-1, 7-5, 7-6

NFL Pro Bowl
2016 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: Team Irvin beats Team Rice, 49-27; MVPs: Russell Wilson, Seattle, QB; Michael Bennett, Seattle, DE


NFL QuarterbackRussell Wilson

• 2018 Houston guard James Harden becomes first player in NBA history to log a 60-point triple-double with 60 points, 10 rebounds, 11 assists, 4 steals and a block in Rockets' 114-107 win over Orlando Magic
• 2019 Blockbuster NBA trade: NY Knicks send Kristaps Porziņģis, Tim Hardaway Jr., Courtney Lee & Trey Burke to Dallas Mavericks for Dennis Smith Jr., DeAndre Jordan, Wesley Matthews & 2 future 1st-round picks

 

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• 1905 Dutch soccer club ADO Den Haag forms in The Hague; ADO represents the amateur branch of the club

Contract of Interest

1913 American all-round athlete Jim Thorpe signs to play baseball with the NY Giants; unlike his other sporting endeavours the Olympic-medal winner's career in MLB was uninspiring (1913-19)


Versatile AthleteJim Thorpe

• 1914 Chicago White Sox and New York Giants play a 10-inning, 3-3 tie in Cairo, Egypt in an exhibition MLB game; part of special 56-game world tour
• 1919 Brooklyn Robins trade former NL MVP Jake Daubert to Cincinnati Reds for outfielder Tommy Griffith; result of a salary grievance

Cricket History
1932 Australian cricket's master batsman Don Bradman scores 299 not out in 10 wicket 4th Test win vs South Africa in Adelaide; runs out of partners going for 300


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

• 1948 Finland goes 1-2 in the Nordic combined event at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; Heikki Hasu takes gold ahead of teammate Martti Huhtala
• 1948 Johnny Palmer sets a 36-hole PGA Tour scoring record with rounds of 62-64 in the Tucson Open; finishes runner-up by 1 stroke to Skip Alexander who cards tournament record total 264

Sports History
1950 Green Bay Packers founder, player and coach Curly Lambeau resigns after 31 seasons and 6 NFL titles to his credit


NFL Head CoachCurly Lambeau

• 1954 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Mervyn Rose wins his first Grand Slam title; beats fellow Australian Rex Hartwig 6-2, 0-6, 6-4, 6-2
• 1954 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Thelma Coyne Long beats Jenny Staley 6-3, 6-4 for the 2nd of her 2 Australian singles titles
• 1954 Dutch soccer club De Graafschap "The County" forms in Doetinchem, Netherlands
• 1955 Hap Day becomes the first man to serve as Toronto Maple Leafs' captain, coach and general manager when he is appointed to run the famous Canadian NHL club
• 1956 Hayes Alan Jenkins leads only US sweep of Olympic men's figure skating medals at the Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Games; Ronald Robertson wins silver with bronze to Jenkins' younger brother, David
• 1958 Manchester United beats Arsenal, 5-4 at Highbury in the team's last game on British soil, 5 days prior to the plane crash at Munich airport that killed 7 players
• 1958 Tommy Taylor scores 2 goals and Duncan Edwards 1, in Manchester United's 5-4 win vs Arsenal at Highbury; pair amongst 7 players killed 5 days later when team’s charter plane crashes at Munich airport
• 1959 Outfielder Zack Wheat, a Brooklyn Robins favourite of the 1910s and 1920s, is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame; Wheat hit .317 over 19-year career, and batted .300 or better 14 times

Golf Tournament
1959 Senior PGA Championship Men's Golf, PGA National GC: Willie Goggin, using a borrowed set of woods, wins by 1 stroke ahead of Leland Gibson, Paul Runyan and Denny Shute


GolferDenny Shute
Australian Men's Tennis Open
1960 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: In a classic all-Australian final Rod Laver beats Neale Fraser 5-7, 3-6, 6-3, 8-6, 8-6; Laver's first Grand Slam title


Tennis PlayerRod Laver

• 1960 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Margaret Smith wins first of 11 Australian singles titles; beats fellow Australian Jan Lehane 7-5, 6-2
• 1961 Australian cricket tail-enders Ken Mackay (62no) and Lindsay Kline (15no) hang on for 100 minutes to earn a famous draw on the final day vs West Indies in 4th Test in Adelaide
• 1962 MLB's National League releases its first 162-game schedule due to expansion (18 games between opponents)
• 1964 French sisters Christine Goitschel (gold) and Marielle Goitschel (silver) become first female siblings to win Olympic gold and silver in the same event when they dominate the slalom in Innsbruck

Australian Men's Tennis Open
1965 Australian Championship Men's Tennis: Roy Emerson wins 3rd consecutive Australian title; beats fellow Australian Fred Stolle 7-9, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-1


Tennis PlayerRoy Emerson
Australian Open Women's Tennis
1965 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Australian Margaret Smith wins 6th straight home singles title; beats Maria Bueno of Brazil 5-7, 6-4, 5-2; Bueno retired injured


Tennis ChampionMaria Bueno
Sports History
1965 Former world heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson beats Canadian George Chuvalo by unanimous decision in a 12-round non-title clash at New York’s Madison Square Garden; 'The Ring' names bout Fight of the Year.


Boxing ChampionFloyd Patterson
Sports History
1967 The 10-team American Basketball Association (ABA) with George Mikan as Commissioner is formed and lasts 9 years; its three-point shot remains a feature of the game


NBA CenterGeorge Mikan
Sports History
1968 Vince Lombardi steps down as NFL Green Bay Packers head coach in favor of longtime assistant Phil Bengtson; stays on as Packers' general manager for 1968


NFL CoachVince Lombardi
Sports History
1969 In his first start in a Ford, legendary driver Richard Petty wins the Motor Trend 500 at Riverside, California; previous 92 NASCAR victories were in Plymouths


Auto RacerRichard Petty

• 1969 Tim Wood wins second of 3 straight US Men's Figure Skating titles whilst Janet Lynn takes first of her 5 consecutive Women's National Championships in Seattle
• 1970 Former MLB Commissioner Ford Frick as well as ex-players Earle Combs and Jesse Haines are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame

NHL Record
1970 Rangers' goalie Terry Sawchuk records his 447th (and final) victory, and 103rd career shutout when New York beats the Pittsburgh Penguins, 6-0; both are NHL records at the time


NHL LegendTerry Sawchuk

• 1972 1972 NFL Draft: Walt Patulski from University of Notre Dame first pick by Buffalo Bills
• 1973 Outfielder Monte Irvin is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Special Committee on the Negro Leagues; fourth inductee through the committee
• 1976 62nd Rose Bowl: #11 UCLA beats #1 Ohio State, 23-10
• 1979 English international forward Trevor Francis becomes Britain’s first £1 million soccer player when he transfers from Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest

NBA All-Star Game
1981 31st NBA All-Star Game, Coliseum at Richfield, OH: East beats West, 123-120; MVP: Nate Archibald, Boston Celtics, PG


NBA Point GuardNate Archibald

• 1981 Australian cricket captain Greg Chappell sensationally instructs younger brother Trevor to bowl underarm to Brian McKechnie with NZ needing 6 from last ball to tie 3rd World Series ODI in Melbourne; Australia wins by 6
• 1981 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 21-7; MVP: Eddie Murray, Detroit Lions, PK
• 1984 American lawyer and businessman David Stern becomes NBA Commissioner, succeeding Larry O'Brien; stays in position until 2014
• 1985 Patient innings from Dilip Vengsarkar (137) and Mohammad Azharuddin (122) set India up for 5th cricket Test draw vs England in Kanpur; Azharuddin, 3 centuries in 1st 3 Tests

NFL Pro Bowl
1987 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 10-6; MVP: Reggie White, Philadelphia Eagles, DE


NFL LegendReggie White

• 1991 Australian cricket fast bowler Craig McDermott sets up a 9 wicket, 5th Test win over England with a career best 8-97 in Perth

Sports History
1992 Defenseman Denis Potvin's #5 becomes first number retired by NY Islanders; Potvin played entire 15 year NHL career in NY


NHL StarDenis Potvin
Contract of Interest
1992 Slugging outfielder Barry Bonds signs highest single year contract in MLB history, $4.7 million with Pittsburgh Pirates


MLB LegendBarry Bonds
Sports History
1994 Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his part in attack on American Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan; plea bargain, confesses to racketeering in exchange for testimony implicating ex-wife Tonya Harding

• 1994 South African cricket fast bowler Fanie de Villiers bravely survives 197 minutes for 30 on last day of 3rd Test against Australia in Adelaide; Proteas finally all out 129; Australia win by 191, draw series

Sports History
1995 Utah Jazz guard John Stockton passes Magic Johnson's all-time NBA assists mark of 9,221, in a 129-98 win over the Denver Nuggets at the Delta Centre in Salt Lake City

• 1995 Zimbabwe batsmen Andy (156) & Grant Flower (201) set world record brotherly stand of 269 to propel Zimbabwe to first ever victory in Test cricket in 1st Test against Pakistan in Harare

Sports History
1997 Future Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman Ray Bourque scores a goal and an assist to become the Boston Bruins' all-time scoring leader, with 1,341 points in an 18-year NHL career

• 1998 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Petr Korda of Czechoslovakia wins his first and only Grand Slam event; beats Marcelo Rios of Chile 6-2, 6-2, 6-2
• 1998 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 29-24; MVP: Warren Moon, Seattle Seahawks, QB, HI

Australian Men's Tennis Open
2004 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Roger Federer wins his first Australian title; beats Marat Safin of Russia 7-6, 6-4, 6-2

Super Bowl
2004 Super Bowl XXXVIII, Reliant Stadium, Houston, TX: New England Patriots beat Carolina Panthers, 32-29; MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB

Music Concert
2004 Wardrobe malfunction: Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to FCC censorship guidelines.

• 2005 Arsenal’s English Premier League record 33-game unbeaten streak at home ends when the Gunners go down, 4-2 to Manchester United at Highbury
• 2006 High school senior Epiphanny Prince scores US girls national prep basketball record 113 points in Murry Bergtraum HS's 137-32 win over Brandeis HS; surpasses Cheryl Miller's 105
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• 2008 Canadian jockey Russell Baze rides his 10,000th career winner aboard Two Step Cat in 3rd race at Golden Gate Fields, Albany, CA; prevails in a 3-horse photo finish
• 2008 Minnesota starter Johan Santana signs a 6-year, $137.5 million deal with the New York Mets to become the highest-paid pitcher in MLB history; trade from Twins to Mets official the next day

Australian Men's Tennis Open
2009 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Spanish ace Rafael Nadal wins his first Australian title; beats Roger Federer 7-5, 3-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-2

• 2009 Super Bowl XLIII, Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Arizona Cardinals, 27-23; MVP: Santonio Holmes, Pittsburgh, WR

Sports History
2014 American businessman and lawyer Adam Silver becomes the 5th NBA Commissioner

Sports History
2014 Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning becomes all-time record-holder for MVP trophies, winning his 5th at the NFL Honours in New York; also 2013 Offensive Player of the Year

• 2014 Ray Guy (Oakland/LA Raiders) becomes second pure kicker, and first pure punter to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Australian Men's Tennis Open
2015 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Serbian ace Novak Đoković wins an Open era record 5th men's singles crown, beating Scotsman Andy Murray 7-6, 6-7, 6-3, 6-0

• 2015 France defeats Qatar, 25-22 to win the World Men's Handball Championship in Lusail, Qatar
• 2015 Super Bowl XLIX, University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, AZ: New England Patriots beat Seattle Seahawks, 28-24; MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB
• 2020 Australian Open Women's Tennis: 21 year old American Sofia Kenin wins her first Grand Slam title with a 4–6, 6–2, 6–2 victory over Garbiñe Muguruza of Spain
• 2022 At age 44, Tom Brady, regarded as the greatest NFL quarterback of all time, announces his retirement after a 22 year career and a record 7 Super Bowl titles with the NE Patriots and TB Buccaneers

 

FEB 2

• 1876 Baseball's National League forms at the Grand Central Hotel, NYC with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia and St Louis
• 1892 Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe & Frank Crosby

1st Winter Olympics

1924 Norway’s Thorleif Haug takes the cross-country double at the Chamonix Winter Olympics when he wins the 18k event; Haug also 50k gold medalist


Einar Landvik, Nordic skier from Norway, competes in the first-ever Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, 1924

• 1926 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Adelaide: In all-Australian final John Hawkes beats James Willard 6-1, 6-3, 6-1
• 1926 Australasian Championships Women's Tennis, Adelaide: Daphne Akhurst Cozens retains title; beats Esna Boyd Robertson 6-1, 6-3
• 1943 Cubs return to original uniform after experimenting with a vest
• 1944 Baseball meets in NYC to discuss postwar action

Sports History
1949 American golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident


GolferBen Hogan

• 1954 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game
• 1956 Despite a severe ankle injury Tenley Albright leads an American 1-2 in the women's figure skating at the Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics; Carol Heiss takes the silver medal

Contract of Interest
1959 Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach NFL Green Bay Packers


NFL CoachVince Lombardi

• 1962 1st pole vault over 16' (4.88m) (John Uelses-16', Melrose Games)

Hall of Fame
1964 Elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Tim Keefe, Heinie Manush, John Montgomery Ward, & Miller Huggins


Major League Baseball PitcherTim Keefe

• 1964 Sjoukje Dijkstra (Neth) wins Olympic gold for figure skating
• 1967 Formation of American Basketball Association is announced
• 1969 Stan Coveleski & Waite Hoyt are voted into Baseball Hall of Fame

Sports History
1970 Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points


NBA GuardPete Maravich

• 1972 Lefty Gomez, Ross Youngs & William Harridge selected for Baseball Hall of Fame

Cricket Debut
1973 Test debut of champion New Zealand cricket all-rounder Sir Richard Hadlee; drawn 1st Test v Pakistan, Wellington


CricketerRichard Hadlee

• 1974 Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1,641)

Sports History
1975 US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill


Figure SkaterDorothy Hamill

• 1976 Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom & umpire Cal Hubbard elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1977 Toronto's Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL REcord for a defenseman
• 1980 Mexican boxer Salvador Sánchez dethrones Danny “Little Red” Lopez as WBC world featherweight champion with a 13th-round TKO in Phoenix, AZ; Lopez champion since November 1976, 8th defence

Sports History
1985 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano


Figure SkaterBrian Boitano

• 1986 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 28-24; MVP: Phil Simms, NY Giants, QB
• 1987 KC Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires

Cricket History
1988 David Boon's 6th Test Cricket century, 184* v England at Sydney


Cricket BatsmanDavid Boon

• 1992 Australian Kieren Perkins swims 1,500m freestyle short course world record, 14:32.40 at AIS, Canberra, Australia
• 1992 David Boon's 13 Test Cricket century, 107 v India at Perth
• 1992 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 21-15; MVP: Michael Irvin, Dallas Cowboys, WR
• 1995 Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket
• 1997 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 26-23 (OT); MVP: Mark Brunell, Jacksonville Jaguars, QB

Sports History
1997 Scotty Bowman becomes first coach in NHL history to win 1,000 games


NHL CoachScotty Bowman

• 2002 52nd NHL All-Star Game, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA: World beats North America, 8-5; MVP: Éric Dazé, Chicago Blackhawks, RW
• 2003 53rd NHL All-Star Game, Office Depot Centre, Sunrise, FL: West beats East, 6-5; MVP: Danny Heatley, Atlanta Thrashers, LW
• 2003 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 45-23; MVP: Ricky Williams, Miami Dolphins, RB
• 2012 NHL player Sam Gagner becomes the first player to scores eight points in one game for the Edmonton Oilers against the Chicago Blackhawks since 1989

Super Bowl
2014 Super Bowl XLVIII, MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ: Seattle Seahawks beat Denver Broncos, 42-8; MVP: Malcolm Smith, Seattle, LB


NFL PlayerRichard Sherman
Australian Men's Tennis Open
2020 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković of Serbia rallies to beat Austrian Dominic Thiem 6-4, 4-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 for a record-extending eighth title at Melbourne Park


Tennis ChampionNovak Đoković

Tennis PlayerDominic Thiem
Super Bowl
2020 Super Bowl LIV, Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, FL: Kansas City Chiefs beat San Francisco 49ers, 31-20; MVP: Patrick Mahomes, KC Chiefs, QB; Chiefs' 1st victory in 50 years


NFL QuarterbackPatrick Mahomes

 

FEB 3

• 1876 Albert Spalding invests $800 to start sporting goods company, manufacturing first official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball and football
• 1894 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched at Bath, Maine

1st Winter Olympics

1924 Canada beats United States, 6-1 to retain the Olympic ice hockey gold medal (won at 1920 Summer Games) at the Chamonix Games; Canadian LW Harry Watson top scores with 46 points


Einar Landvik, Nordic skier from Norway, competes in the first-ever Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, 1924

• 1924 Switzerland claims the inaugural Olympic bobsleigh gold medal at the Chamonix Games, ahead of Great Britain and Belgium

Cricket History
1937 Don Bradman scores 212 (in 441 minutes!) in 5th cricket test v England


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

• 1942 Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
• 1947 Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket
• 1951 Dick Button wins US skating title for 6th time
• 1951 Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
• 1956 Toni Sailer of Austria wins the downhill at the Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics; becomes first athlete to sweep all 3 alpine skiing events in a single Olympics
• 1962 John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm
• 1964 French sisters Marielle Goitschel (gold) and Christine Goitschel (silver) repeat (in reverse order) their top-2 finish in the slalom 2 days earlier, in the giant slalom at the Innsbruck Winter Olympics
• 1965 Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down

Sports History
1967 Jimi Hendrix adds vocals and overdubs for "Purple Haze" at Olympic Studios in London; basic track had been recorded by the band in January


Rock GuitaristJimi Hendrix

• 1972 XI Winter Olympic Games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
• 1975 Billy Herman, Earl Averill, & Bucky Harris elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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• 1976 26th NBA All-Star Game, Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa: East beats West, 123-109; MVP: Dave Bing, Washington Bullets, PG

Sports History
1979 Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players


Baseball Hall of Fame InfielderRod Carew
NBA All-Star Game
1980 30th NBA All-Star Game, Capital Centre, Landover, Md: East beats West, 144-136 (OT); MVP: George Gervin, San Antonio Spurs, SF


NBA GuardGeorge Gervin
Boxing Title Fight
1980 Larry Holmes TKOs Lorenzo Holmes in 6 for heavyweight boxing title


WBC Heavyweight ChampionLarry Holmes

• 1981 Australia beats NZ 3-1 to win cricket's World Series Cup
• 1987 Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton
• 1987 SD Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup
• 1989 Baseball's National League announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will its 1st African American President

Sports History
1990 Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation


Baseball PlayerDarryl Strawberry
Sports History
1990 Jockey Bill Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race


Racing Hall of Fame JockeyBill Shoemaker

• 1991 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 23-21; MVP: Jim Kelly, Buffalo Bills, QB
• 1993 Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments

NHL Record
1998 Florida Panther Dino Ciccarelli is 9th NHLer to score 600 career goals


NHL StarDino Ciccarelli

• 1998 NY Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman

Super Bowl
2002 Super Bowl XXXVI, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA: New England Patriots beat St. Louis Rams, 20-17; MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB


NFL QuarterbackTom Brady
Super Bowl
2008 Super Bowl XLII, University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, AZ: New York Giants beat New England Patriots, 17-14; MVP: Eli Manning, New York, QB


NFL QuarterbackEli Manning

• 2013 Super Bowl XLVII, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, New Orleans, LA: Baltimore Ravens beat San Francisco 49ers, 34-31; MVP: Joe Flacco, Baltimore, QB
• 2019 Super Bowl LIII, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA: New England Patriots beat Los Angeles Rams, 13-3; MVP: Julian Edelman, NE Patriots, WR; Patriots' 6th SB victory
• 2019 Wreckage from light aircraft carrying EPL team Cardiff City's record signing Emiliano Sala is discovered on seabed of the English Channel; cause of death, head and trunk injuries

 

FEB 4

• 1902 Stanley Cup, Winnipeg Auditorium, Winnipeg, Manitoba: Montreal HC beats Winnipeg Victorias, 2-1 for a 2-1 challenge series victory
• 1903 Stanley Cup: Montreal HC beats Winnipeg Victorias, 4-1 for a 2-1 challenge series win

1st Winter Olympics

1924 Jacob Tullin Thams of Norway wins ski jumping gold at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; in 1936 he earns a silver medal in sailing at Berlin Summer Games


Einar Landvik, Nordic skier from Norway, competes in the first-ever Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, 1924

• 1924 Norway sweeps the medals in the Nordic combined event at the inaugural Chamonix Winter Olympics; Thorleif Haug wins his 3rd gold of the Games ahead of teammates Thoralf Strømstad & Johan Grøttumsbråten
• 1929 Archie Jackson scores 164 in Test Cricket debut v England at Adelaide
• 1931 National League adopts a deader baseball
• 1932 III Winter Olympic Games open in Lake Placid, New York
• 1948 After winning the men’s downhill, French alpine skier Henri Oreiller takes the combined gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; becomes most successful athlete at these Games with a slalom bronze

Sports History
1952 1st African American executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC NY)


Baseball PlayerJackie Robinson

• 1956 Soviet Union beats Canada, 2-0 at Cortina d'Ampezzo to clinch their first ever Olympic ice hockey gold medal; US takes silver, Canada bronze
• 1958 MLB Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950
• 1962 Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game

Sports History
1968 Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball


MLB CommissionerBowie Kuhn
Appointment of Interest
1969 John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders


NFL Coach and SportscasterJohn Madden

• 1971 Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks

Olympic Gold
1972 Dutch speed skater Ard Schenk wins the 5,000m at the Sapporo Winter Olympics; also wins the 1,500m and 10,000m gold medals


Speed SkaterArd Schenk

• 1973 Islanders & Sabres had a penalty free game
• 1976 XII Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria
• 1979 29th NBA All-Star Game, Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, Mi: West beats East, 134-129; MVP: David Thompson, Denver Nuggets, SG

Sports History
1983 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton


Figure SkaterScott Hamilton
NHL All-Star Game
1986 38th NHL All-Star Game, Hartford Civic Centre: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 4-3 (OT); MVP: Grant Fuhr, Edmonton Oilers, G


NHL GoalieGrant Fuhr

• 1987 Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954
• 1987 Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup
• 1989 Australian cricketer Dean Jones scores 216 v WI at the Adelaide Oval
• 1990 Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (3:40.81)
• 1990 Lyudmila Narozhilenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69)
• 1990 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 27-21; MVP: Jerry Gray, LA Rams, DB

Cricket History
1990 Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar)


CricketerRichard Hadlee

• 1990 St Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship

Hall of Fame
1991 Baseball's Hall of Fame board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose, due to his betting on games while a player and manager


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose
Cricket Record
1991 NZ cricketers Martin Crowe and Andrew Jones make a world record 467 run stand, against Sri Lanka at the Basin Reserve in Wellington


CricketerMartin Crowe

• 1995 Australian cricketer Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria v South Australia
• 1995 Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77)
• 1995 Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning

NFL Pro Bowl
1996 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 20-13; MVP: Jerry Rice, SF 49ers, WR, HI


NFL LegendJerry Rice
Sports History
1997 Mario Lemieux is 7th NHL player to score 600 goals


NHL Legend and OwnerMario Lemieux
Sports History
1997 O.J. Simpson found liable in the deaths of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson in a civil court action


NFL Running Back and Convicted CriminalO.J. Simpson

• 2001 51st NHL All-Star Game, Pepsi Centre, Denver, CO: North America beats World, 14-12; MVP: Bill Guerin, Boston Bruins, RW
• 2001 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 38-17; MVP: Rich Gannon, Oakland Raiders, QB

Super Bowl
2007 Super Bowl XLI, Dolphin Stadium, Miami Gardens, Miami, FL: Indianapolis Colts beat Chicago Bears, 29-17; MVP: Peyton Manning, Indianapolis, QB


NFL QuarterbackPeyton Manning

• 2013 Europol announces it will investigate over 680 football matches alleged to involve match fixing

Super Bowl
2018 Super Bowl LII, US Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN: Philadelphia Eagles defeat New England Patriots, 41-33; MVP: Nick Foles, Philadelphia, QB


NFL QuarterbackNick Foles

• 2022 XXIV Olympic Winter Games open in Beijing, China

 

FEB 5

• 1921 Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium

1st Winter Olympics

1924 1st Winter Olympic Games close at Chamonix, France


Einar Landvik, Nordic skier from Norway, competes in the first-ever Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, 1924

• 1931 Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 246.08 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car at Daytona Beach, Florida
• 1932 American speed skater Jack Shea wins the 1,500m at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; clinches sprint double after also taking out the 500m
• 1942 Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett and Gene Moore

Sports History
1943 Jake LaMotta defeats future multi-weight world boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson by unanimous points decision in Detroit in the 2nd of their 6 meetings; his only win of their rivalry; Robinson’s first loss in his first 40 pro bouts


World Middleweight Boxing ChampionJake LaMotta

Champion BoxerSugar Ray Robinson

• 1945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)
• 1948 18 year old Dick Button becomes first American men's figure skating Olympic gold medallist at the St. Moritz Winter Games; first to complete a double axel in competition; retains title in 1952
• 1948 Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic ski slalom champion
• 1949 Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic
• 1956 Finland goes 1-2 in the ski jumping at the Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics; Antti Hyvärinen takes gold ahead of teammate Aulis Kallakorpi
• 1956 NY Mayor Robert Wagner & Bkln Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build
• 1956 VII Winter Olympic Games close in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
• 1958 Test cricket debut of outstanding West Indian spin bowler Lance Gibbs, 2nd Test v Pakistan in Port-of-Spain
• 1959 Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide
• 1968 Skater Kees Verkerk wins olympic gold in the 1500m
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• 1969 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vice-president, general manager, and head coach of NFL Washington Redskins
• 1970 1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six
• 1970 Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa v Australia, Durban
• 1972 Bob Douglas is 1st African American elected to Basketball Hall of Fame
• 1972 German speed skater Erhard Keller wins his 2nd consecutive Olympic 500m gold medal at the Sapporo Winter Games after taking out the event in Grenoble (1968)
• 1974 Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win
• 1976 Last day of Test cricket for West Indian spin bowler Lance Gibbs & Australian opening batsman Ian Redpath, 6th Test in Melbourne

Sports History
1977 Future 5-division world boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard makes his professional debut with a 6-round unanimous decision over Luis Vega at Baltimore’s Civic Center


BoxerSugar Ray Leonard

• 1978 28th NBA All-Star Game, Omni Coliseum, Atlanta, Ga: East beats West, 133-125; MVP: Randy Smith, SD Clippers, G
• 1978 Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded
• 1980 32nd NHL All-Star Game, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 6-3; MVP: Reggie Leach, Philadelphia Flyers, RW
• 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points

Sports History
1991 Howard Stern kisses NY Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Super Bowl


Radio Shock JockHoward Stern

• 1991 LA King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points
• 1992 Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar
• 1992 Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win v India
• 1995 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 41-13; MVP: Marshall Faulk, Indianapolis Colts, RB, HI
• 1998 Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record

Sports History
1998 Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding talk on FOX (Taped Dec 22nd)


Figure SkaterTonya Harding

Figure SkaterNancy Kerrigan

• 2006 Super Bowl XL, Ford Field, Detroit, MI: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Seattle Seahawks, 21-10; MVP: Hines Ward, Pittsburgh, WR

Hall of Fame
2011 Ed Sabol, co-founder of NFL Films, elected for enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame


Filmmaker and Founder of NFL FilmsEd Sabol
Super Bowl
2012 Flavor Flav and Elton John appear in a Pepsi Co. ad during Super Bowl XLVI


Rapper & TV starFlavor Flav

SingerElton John
Super Bowl
2012 Super Bowl XLVI, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN: New York Giants beat New England Patriots, 21-17; MVP: Eli Manning, New York, QB


NFL QuarterbackEli Manning
Super Bowl
2017 Super Bowl LI, NRG Stadium, Houston, TX: New England Patriots defeat Atlanta Falcons, 34-28; MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB


NFL QuarterbackTom Brady

• 2022 NHL All Star Game, T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada: Metropolitan All Stars win four-team, 3-on-3 tournament; MVP: Claude Giroux LW Philadelphia Flyers
• 2022 Six days before his 50th birthday, 11-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater wins his 8th Pipeline title beating 22-year old Hawaiian Seth Moniz in the final

 

FEB 6

• 1926 NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates
• 1926 St Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from NY Yankees

• 1932 1st Olympic dog sled race at Lake Placid, New York (demonstration sport)
• 1936 IV Winter Olympic Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
• 1947 Compton & Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket

Cricket History

1948 Bradman retires hurt, 57 in his last Test Cricket innings in Australia


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

• 1948 Nils Karlsson wins the 50k cross country gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; Swedish skiers win all 3 cross-country events at the Games
• 1948 World & European champion Barbara Ann Scott becomes the first Canadian to win a women's figure skating Olympic gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Games
• 1953 Ian Craig makes Test Cricket debut at 17 yrs 239 days, youngest Aussie
• 1958 21 dead in air crash at Munich-Riem Airport; 8 players and 3 staff are from the Manchester United football team

Sports History
1958 Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Ted Williams becomes highest paid player in MLB when he re-signs with Boston Red Sox for $135,000


Baseball PlayerTed Williams
Boxing Title Fight
1967 Muhammad Ali pummels Ernie Terrell for 15 rounds to retain his world heavyweight boxing crown at Houston Astrodome; regains Terrell’s WBA belt as well


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali

• 1968 X Winter Olympic Games opens in Grenoble, France
• 1970 Graeme Pollock completes 274 v Australia at Durban
• 1970 NBA expands to 18 teams with Buffalo, Cleveland, Houston & Portland

Sports History
1971 American astronaut Alan Shepard is 1st to hit a golf ball on the moon [1]


AstronautAlan Shepard

Olympic Gold
1972 Dutch speed skater Ard Schenk follows his win in the 5,000m with victory in the 1,500m, on his way to 3 gold medals at the Sapporo Winter Olympics; also wins 10,000m


Speed SkaterArd Schenk

• 1973 Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edm
• 1974 3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
• 1977 4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0
• 1983 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 20-19; MVPs: Dan Fouts, San Diego Chargers, QB; John Jefferson, Green Bay Packers, WR

Sports History
1990 Brett Hull becomes 1st son of NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50


NHL LegendBrett Hull

• 1990 Groundbreaking begins on Baltimore Orioles' new $102 million stadium

NHL All-Star Game
1993 44th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: Wales beats Campbell, 16-6; MVP: Mike Gartner, NY Rangers, RW


NHL StarMike Gartner
Boxing Title Fight
1993 Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title


BoxerRiddick Bowe

• 1994 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 17-3; MVP: Andre Rison, Atlanta Falcons, WR
• 1995 Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket

Sports History
1995 MLB outfielder Darryl Strawberry suspended from baseball for 60 days for positive cocaine test


Baseball PlayerDarryl Strawberry

• 1998 Twins trade Chuck Knoblauch to NY Yankees for $3M & 4 minor leaguers

NHL All-Star Game
2000 50th NHL All-Star Game, Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON: World beats North America, 9-4; MVP: Pavel Bure, Florida Panthers, RW


Ice Hockey GreatPavel Bure

• 2000 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 51-31; MVP: Randy Moss, Minnesota Vikings, WR, HI
• 2005 Super Bowl XXXIX, Alltel Stadium, Jacksonville, FL: New England Patriots beat Philadelphia Eagles, 24-21; MVP: Deion Branch, New England, WR

Super Bowl
2011 Super Bowl XLV, Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX: Green Bay Packers beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-25; MVP: Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay, QB


NFL QuarterbackAaron Rodgers
Laureus Awards
2012 Laureus World Sports Awards, Central Hall Westminster, London, England: Sportsman: Novak Đoković; Sportswoman: Vivian Cheruiyot; Team: FC Barcelona


Tennis ChampionNovak Đoković

• 2018 Brazilian jockey Jorge Ricardo equals world record number of victories for a jockey - 12,844 in Rio de Janeiro
• 2022 NFL Pro Bowl, Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, Nevada: AFC beats NFC, 41-35; MVPs: Justin Herbert, QB LA Chargers; Maxx Crosby, DE LV Raiders

 

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Boxing Title Fight

1882 Last bare knuckle champion John L. Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJohn L. Sullivan

• 1884 Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
• 1893 Vanderbilt University claims it participated in the first organised intercollegiate basketball game at the Nashville YMCA Gymnasium; Vanderbilt beats YMCA, 9-3
• 1903 VVV '03 soccer club is established in the Dutch southeastern city of Venlo

Baseball History
1908 Philadelphia A's manager/owner Connie Mack sells future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell to St Louis Browns for $5,000


Baseball LegendConnie Mack
Film Premiere
1914 Charlie Chaplin debuts silent film character The Tramp in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"


Comedian, Actor and FilmmakerCharlie Chaplin

• 1942 1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8")
• 1948 After winning Lake Placid (1932) and Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1936) Olympic ski jumping gold medals, Birger Ruud comes out of retirement to win silver in St. Moritz in a Norwegian medal sweep

Sports History
1949 Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000 a year baseball player for the New York Yankees


Baseball PlayerJoe DiMaggio

• 1958 Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc
• 1969 Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah)
• 1970 US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood

Olympic Gold
1972 Dutch Olympic 1,500m and 5,000m speed skating champion Ard Schenk wins his 3rd gold medal at the Sapporo Winter Games when he takes out the 10,000m


Speed SkaterArd Schenk

• 1973 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0

NHL Record
1976 Toronto center Darryl Sittler sets NHL record with 10 points in a Maple Leafs' 11-4 win over Boston at Maple Leaf Gardens; 6 goals, 4 assists


NHL LegendDarryl Sittler

• 1985 NY Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals
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• 1987 Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring the America's Cup back to US

Sports History
1987 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano


Figure SkaterBrian Boitano
NBA All-Star Game
1988 38th NBA All-Star Game, Chicago Stadium: East beats West, 138-133; MVP: Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls, F


Basketball SuperstarMichael Jordan

• 1988 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 15-6; MVP: Bruce Smith, Buffalo Bills, DE

NHL All-Star Game
1989 40th NHL All-Star Game, Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton: Campbell Conference beats Wales Conference, 9-5; MVP: Wayne Gretzky, LA Kings, C


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky
Sports History
1989 Tennis superstar Björn Borg apparently attempts suicide in Milan


Tennis PlayerBjörn Borg
Hall of Fame
1991 Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin & Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame


NBA Center and Head CoachDave Cowens
Sports History
1992 Mike Tyson testifies in his rape trial


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

• 1993 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 23-20; MVP: Steve Tasker, Buffalo Bills, WR

Cricket History
1995 Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch & Mike Gatting


CricketerGraham Gooch

• 1998 NHL's Dallas Stars retire Neal Broten's #7
• 1998 XVIII Winter Olympic Games open in Nagano, Japan
• 1999 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 23-10; Keyshawn Johnson, NY Jets, QB; Ty Law, New England Patriots, CB
• 2005 Britain's Ellen MacArthur becomes the fastest person to sail solo around the world taking 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes 33 seconds

Super Bowl
2010 Super Bowl XLIV, Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, Miami, FL; New Orleans Saints beat Indianapolis Colts, 31-17; MVP: Drew Brees, New Orleans, QB


NFL QuarterbackDrew Brees
Laureus Awards
2011 Laureus World Sports Awards, Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, UAE: Sportsman: Rafael Nadal; Sportswoman: Lindsey Vonn; Team: Spanish Men's National Football team


Tennis ChampionRafael Nadal

Alpine SkierLindsey Vonn

• 2014 XXII Winter Olympic Games open in Sochi, Russia
• 2016 Super Bowl L, Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, CA: Denver Broncos beat Carolina Panthers, 24–10; MVP: Von Miller, Denver, LB
• 2021 Sarah Thomas becomes the first woman to referee a Super Bowl in Tampa Bay, Florida

Super Bowl
2021 Super Bowl LV, Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers dominate defending champion Kansas City Chiefs, 31-9; MVP: Tom Brady, TB Bucs, QB; Brady's record 7th SB win


NFL QuarterbackTom Brady
Super Bowl
2021 The Weeknd becomes the first Canadian solo artist to headline the Super Bowl half time show (Super Bowl LV)


Singer-SongwriterThe Weeknd

 

FEB 8

• 1908 Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert, Netherlands
• 1932 American speed skater Irving Jaffee wins the 10,000m at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; clinches distance double after also taking out the 5,000m

• 1936 1936 NFL Draft (first ever): Jay Berwanger from University of Chicago first pick by Philadelphia Eagles
• 1936 1st ski jumping tournament at Red Wing, Minnesota
• 1936 1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers
• 1936 German alpine skier Christi Cranz wins the inaugural Olympic women’s combined gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games ahead of teammate Käthe Grasegger

Agreement of Interest

1945 Paul Brown agrees to coach the new American football expansion team in Cleveland, which would later be named the Cleveland Browns after their coach


American Football CoachPaul Brown

• 1948 Canada beats Switzerland 3-0, to regain the Olympic ice hockey title at the St. Moritz Winter Games; forward Walter Halder top scores with 29 points in Canada’s 5th Olympic title
• 1948 V Winter Olympic Games close at St Moritz, Switzerland

Sports History
1960 Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)


Basketball PlayerBill Russell

• 1963 AFL's Dallas Texans become KC Chiefs
• 1967 Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)
• 1972 Josh Gibson & Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame
• 1975 Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders

Sports History
1975 Pete Maravich scores 47 points as the New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game NBA road losing streak with a 106-102 win over the Hawks in Atlanta


NBA GuardPete Maravich
Sports History
1981 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton


Figure SkaterScott Hamilton

• 1982 Los Angeles Dodgers trade 2B Davey Lopes to Oakland A's, breaking up MLB's longest-playing infield (Garvey-Lopes-Russell-Cey) after 8 1/2 seasons

NHL All-Star Game
1983 35th NHL All-Star Game, Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale: Campbell Conference beats Wales Conference, 9-3; MVP: Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oilers, C


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky
Sports History
1983 Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

• 1983 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period
• 1984 A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation
• 1984 XIV Winter Olympic Games open in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
• 1985 1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica v Barbados
• 1985 Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5½" basketball shot
• 1985 Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75)
• 1986 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition

Figure Skating History
1986 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano


Figure SkaterBrian Boitano

• 1987 37th NBA All-Star Game, Kingdome, Seattle, WA: West beats East, 154-149 (OT); MVP: Tom Chambers, Seattle SuperSonics, C
• 1989 American jockey Chris Antley begins record 64-day consecutive winning streak; ends 1 May and includes 147 winners from 486 mounts

Contract of Interest
1991 Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract


MLB Pitching LegendRoger Clemens

• 1992 XVI Winter Olympic Games opens in Albertville, France

Sports History
1994 Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car


ActorJack Nicholson
Cricket Record
1994 Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432


CricketerKapil Dev

• 1996 NFL & Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Baltimore but he had to leave the Browns' name behind

NBA All-Star Game
1998 48th NBA All-Star Game, Madison Square Garden, NYC: East beats West, 135-114; MVP: Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls, F


Basketball SuperstarMichael Jordan

• 1998 Finland beats Sweden, 6-0 at the Aqua Wing Arena in Nagano, Japan in the first female ice hockey game played in Olympic history
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• 1998 NHL stops season stops to accommodate the Nagano Winter Olympics; returns February 24
• 2002 XIX Winter Olympic Games open in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

NHL All-Star Game
2004 54th NHL All-Star Game, Xcel Energy Centre, Saint Paul, MN: East beats West, 6-4; MVP: Joe Sakic, Colorado Avalanche, C


NHL LegendJoe Sakic

• 2004 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 55-52; MVP: Mark Bulger, St. Louis Rams, QB, HI
• 2009 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 30-21; MVP: Larry Fitzgerald, Arizona Cardinals, WR
• 2014 Justine and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe claim gold and silver medals in the moguls freestyle skiing event at the Sochi Winter Olympics; first Canadian sisters to stand together on the podium
• 2014 Netherlands sweeps the medals in the men's 5,000m speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Sven Kramer retains title (Vancouver (2010) ahead of teammates Jan Blokhuijsen and Jorrit Bergsma
• 2014 Ole Einar Bjørndalen equals the Winter Olympics medal record with 12
• 2014 Slopestyle snowboarding event makes Olympic debut at Sochi Winter Games; American Sage Kotsenburg is inaugural men's gold medallist
• 2018 Noriaki Kasai of Japan becomes first athlete in history to participate in 8 Winter Olympics in the ski jumping qualification prior to the Pyeongchang Games
• 2019 Fire at Ninho de Urubu football training center for Flamengo football club, Rio de Janeiro, kills 10
• 2022 Austrian alpine skier Matthias Mayer narrowly retains his Olympic Super-G title from American Ryan Cochran-Siegle at the Beijing Winter Games; Mayer's 3rd Olympic gold medal

 

FEB 9

• 1540 The first recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester)
• 1895 William Morgan presents his new sport "Mintonette" to the world at Springfield College, Massachusetts, later renames it "Volleyball" [1]

• 1900 Dwight Davis establishes a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup
• 1912 US Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion
• 1916 NL votes down a proposal by Giants, Braves, & Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to 22 (The Reds want to decrease to 20)
• 1920 Joint Rules Com bans foreign substances & alterations to baseballs
• 1932 USA enters Olympic 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time
• 1935 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
• 1936 German skier Franz Pfnür wins the inaugural Olympic men’s combined gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games ahead of teammate Gustav Lantschner

Boxing Title Fight

1940 Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJoe Louis

• 1942 Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils"
• 1943 National League of Baseball seeks a buyer for the Philadelphia Phillies as owner Gerry Nugent falls in arrears

Baseball History
1951 St Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherSatchel Paige

• 1960 AFL & NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact
• 1964 IX Winter Olympic Games close in Innsbruck, Austria
• 1968 A rare 3-way tie for silver in the women's 500m speed skating at the Grenoble Winter Olympics; Soviet Lyudmila Titova wins from American trio of Jenny Fish, Mary Meyers and Dianne Holum
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• 1968 World champion Jean-Claude Killy of France wins the downhill at the Grenoble Winter Olympics; first of 3-event clean sweep of the alpine skiing events at the Games
• 1971 Satchel Paige becomes 1st Negro League player elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Figure Skating History
1974 US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill


Figure SkaterDorothy Hamill

• 1976 Oscar Charleston selected to baseball's Hall of Fame
• 1979 UK Football club Nottingham Forest makes £1m transfer deal

NBA Record
1980 Rick Barry of the Houston Rockets is the 1st in NBA history to score eight 3-pointers in a game


NBA Small ForwardRick Barry
NHL All-Star Game
1982 34th NHL All-Star Game, Capital Centre, Landover: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 4-2; MVP: Mike Bossy, NY Islanders, RW


Ice Hockey GreatMike Bossy

• 1984 East German ski jumper Jens Weißflog wins first of 3 career Olympic gold medals in the Normal Hill individual event at the Sarajevo Winter Games
• 1984 East German speed skater Karin Enke wins the 1,500m in world record 2:03.42 at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; also wins 1,000m gold
• 1984 Finnish cross-country skier Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen wins the 10k gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; first of 3 individual medal sweep, also winning 5k and 20k events

NBA All-Star Game
1986 36th NBA All-Star Game, Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX: East beats West, 139-132; MVP: Isiah Thomas, Detroit Pistons, G


NBA Point Guard and CoachIsiah Thomas

• 1986 Marvin Johnson stops Leslie Stewart in 7 rounds in Indianapolis to win WBA light heavyweight boxing title; record 3rd time he regains a version of light heavyweight crown
• 1986 West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17)

NHL All-Star Game
1988 39th NHL All-Star Game, St. Louis Arena: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 6-5 (OT); MVP: Mario Lemieux, Pittsburgh Penguins, C


NHL Legend and OwnerMario Lemieux

• 1988 NH begins a NCAA record 32-game losing streak at home (ends Feb 1991)
• 1989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
• 1991 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5k (6:41:73)

Boxing Title Fight
1991 Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice and beats him to defend his WBC Super Welterweight title


BoxerSugar Ray Leonard
NBA All-Star Game
1992 42nd NBA All-Star Game, Orlando Arena, Orlando, FL: West beats East, 153-113; MVP: Magic Johnson, LA Lakers, F


NBA LegendMagic Johnson

• 1992 Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m)
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• 1992 Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4:07.10)
• 1997 47th NBA All-Star Game, Gund Arena, Cleveland, OH: East beats West, 132-120; MVP: Glen Rice, Charlotte Hornets, F

ESPY Awards
1998 6th ESPY Awards: Ken Griffey Jr, Mia Hamm win


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderKen Griffey Jr.

• 2002 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 38-30; MVP: Rich Gannon, Oakland Raiders, QB
• 2003 52nd NBA All-Star Game, Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA: West beats East, 155-145 (2 OT); MVP: Kevin Garnett, Minnesota Timberwolves, F

NFL History
2006 Al Michaels joins NBC's "Sunday Night Football" broadcast with John Madden


Television SportscasterAl Michaels

NFL Coach and SportscasterJohn Madden

• 2014 Olympic teams figure skating event debuts in Sochi with Russia taking the gold medal; pairs champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov win first of 2 gold at the Games
• 2014 Slopestyle snowboarding event makes Olympic debut at Sochi Winter Games; American Jamie Anderson is inaugural women's gold medallist
• 2014 Slovak biathlete Anastasiya Kuzmina retains her Olympic 7.5k sprint title (Vancouver 2010) at the Sochi Winter Games

Olympic Games
2018 XXIII Olympic Winter Games open in PyeongChang, South Korea


SnowboarderChloe Kim

 

FEB 10

Boxing Title Fight

1908 Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs Englishman Jack Palmer in round 4 in London in his 8th title defence


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionTommy Burns

• 1912 Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG
• 1920 Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball
• 1924 Bucky Harris at 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Washington Senators)
• 1925 AL decides to alternate leagues for game 1 of World Series each year
• 1926 Building of Olympic Stadium Amsterdam, begins
• 1932 Sweden goes 1-2 in the 18k cross country event at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; Sven Utterström wins gold ahead of teammate Axel Wikström
• 1940 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
• 1953 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Westwood & Demmy GRB
• 1953 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA
• 1954 World Figure Skating Championship at Oslo: Ice Dancing - won by Great Britain's team of Jean Westwood and Lawrence Demmy
• 1954 World Figure Skating Championship at Oslo: Pairs - won by Canadian team of Frances Dafoe and Norris Bowden
• 1961 AFL's LA Chargers move to San Diego

Olympic Gold
1968 American 2-time world champion Peggy Fleming comfortably wins Olympic women's figure skating gold medal at the Grenoble Winter Games


Figure SkaterPeggy Fleming
Sports History
1969 LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94


NBA GuardPete Maravich

• 1971 Bill White becomes 1st African American baseball announcer (NY Yankees)
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• 1973 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
• 1973 Pakistani cricketer Mushtaq Mohammad scores 201 runs in a match against New Zealand
• 1974 Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us women's marathon (2:55:17)
• 1975 William "Judy" Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame

Cricket History
1979 Allan Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he misses


Test CricketerAllan Border

• 1981 33rd NHL All-Star Game, The Forum, Inglewood: Campbell Conference beats Wales Conference, 4-1; MVP: Mike Liut, St. Louis Blues, G
• 1981 Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249

Olympic Gold
1984 Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins a career 4th Olympic gold medal when he takes out the 30k event in Sarajevo; 3 gold in Lake Placid 1980


Cross-Country SkierNikolay Zimyatov

• 1985 35th NBA All-Star Game, Hoosier Dome, Indianapolis: West beats East, 140-129; MVP: Ralph Sampson, Houston Rockets, C

Hall of Fame
1989 Celtic KC Jones & Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame


NBA Point Guard and CoachLenny Wilkens

• 1989 Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St Louis
• 1989 Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak v NZ age 16 years 189 days
• 1989 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a NJ court

NBA All-Star Game
1991 41st NBA All-Star Game, Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, NC: East beats West, 116-114; Charles Barkley, Philadelphia 76ers, F


NBA Power ForwardCharles Barkley
Olympic Gold
1992 Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for USA


Speed SkaterBonnie Blair
Trial of Interest
1992 Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

• 1993 Jani Sievinen swims world record 200m backstroke (1:55.59)
• 1995 Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m)

Sports History
1996 IBM computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning (human) chess champion, Gary Kasparov


Chess Grandmaster and Political ActivistGarry Kasparov
Trial of Interest
1997 O.J. Simpson jury reaches decision on $25M in punitive damages


NFL Running Back and Convicted CriminalO.J. Simpson

• 1998 Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery

NBA All-Star Game
2002 51st NBA All-Star Game, First Union Centre, Philadelphia, PA: West beats East, 135-120; MVP: Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers, F


NBA GuardKobe Bryant
Olympic Games
2006 XX Winter Olympic Games open in Turin, Italy, Luciano Pavarotti sings "Nessun dorma" in his last ever performance


Operatic TenorLuciano Pavarotti

• 2007 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 31-28; MVP: Carson Palmer, Cincinnati Bengals, QB
• 2008 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 42-30; MVP: Adrian Peterson, Minnesota Vikings, RB

Olympic Gold
2014 After winning Vancouver (2010) Olympic moguls title, Canadian freestyle skier Alexandre Bilodeau wins 2nd consecutive Olympic gold medal in Sochi; beats teammate Mikaël Kingsbury


Freestyle SkierAlexandre Bilodeau

• 2014 Canadian short track speed skater Charles Hamelin wins his 3rd career Olympic gold medal in the 1,500m in Sochi; Vancouver (2010) 500m and 5,000m relay champion
• 2014 German alpine skier Maria Höfl-Riesch retains her Olympic combined title (Vancouver 2010) when she Nicole Hosp beats of Austria by 0.4s
• 2014 Netherlands sweeps the medals in the men's 500m speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Michel Mulder wins gold ahead of teammates Jan Smeekens and Ronald Mulder
• 2018 German biathlete Laura Dahlmeier wins women's 7.5k sprint gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; also wins 10k pursuit gold
• 2018 Sochi (2014) Olympic large hill ski jump champion Andreas Wellinger of Germany wins the individual normal hill gold medal at Pyeongchang by just 0.2m from Norway's Johann André Forfang
• 2018 Swedish cross country skier Charlotte Kalla wins 3rd career Olympic gold medal in the 15k skiathlon in Pyeongchang; also wins 10k freestyle gold in Vancouver (2010) and 4 x 5k relay in Sochi (2014)
• 2018 Tottenham Hotspur edge Arsenal, 1-0 at Wembley Stadium in front of English Premier League record single-game attendance of 83,222 fans
• 2019 The eight centrally owned and operated team Alliance of American Football gets underway; Orlando Apollos beat Atlanta Legends, 40-6 at Spectrum Stadium, Orlando, FL

 

FEB 11

• 1851 Inaugural 1st-class cricket match in Australia; Tasmania v Victoria in Launceston; Tasmania wins by 3 wickets
• 1878 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms

• 1908 Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England

Sports History

1927 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles


Figure Skater and Tennis PlayerNathaniel Niles

• 1928 II Winter Olympic Games open in St Moritz, Switzerland

Sports History
1938 Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to win National Boxing Association world heavyweight title


Professional WrestlerLou Thesz

• 1948 Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut Eng v WI, out for 140
• 1948 Test cricket debut of Frank Worrell for the West Indies vs. England at Port-of-Spain
• 1949 Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title
• 1950 Englishman Jack Holden wins Empire Games marathon in Auckland, New Zealand in 2:32:57; runs last 9 miles barefoot after his shoes fell apart during the race

NBA All-Star Game
1952 2nd NBA All-Star Game, Boston Garden: East beats West, 108-91; MVP: Paul Arizin, Philadelphia Warriors, F


Basketball Power forwardPaul Arizin
Election of Interest
1957 NHL Players Association forms (NYC), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president


NHL StarTed Lindsay

• 1959 Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi)
• 1965 Braves propose to pay 5 cents from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee

Contract of Interest
1966 SF Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year


MLB LegendWillie Mays

• 1969 Diana Crump becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah

Sports History
1970 John Lennon pays £1,344 fines for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland


Musician and BeatleJohn Lennon

• 1971 Montreal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal
• 1973 1st sub 17-min 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)
• 1973 Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row
• 1974 First Major League Baseball arbitration case; Minnesota Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins; Twins offered $23,000
• 1974 Minnesota Twins pitcher Dick Woodson is first of 48 to invoke Major League Baseball's new arbitration rule
• 1976 John Curry wins Britain's first Olympic gold medal in figure skating at Innsbruck Winter Games; finishes men's singles ahead of Soviet skater Vladimir Kovalyov and Canadian Toller Cranston

Sports History
1978 25th hat trick in NY Islander history, Denis Potvin's 2nd


NHL StarDenis Potvin
Sports History
1982 Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through


Baseball PlayerOzzie Smith
Sports History
1984 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky

• 1985 Kent Hrbek signs 5-year $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins

Cricket History
1985 Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, NZ still wins


CricketerWasim Akram
Cricket History
1986 Australia beat India 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup, David Boon scores the most runs in the series (418)


Cricket BatsmanDavid Boon

• 1987 England beat Australia 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup

NBA All-Star Game
1990 40th NBA All-Star Game, Miami Arena, Miami, FL: East beats West, 130-113; MVP: Magic Johnson, LA Lakers, F


NBA LegendMagic Johnson
Boxing Title Fight
1990 In a huge upset, James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10th round in Tokyo, Japan to win the world heavyweight boxing title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

• 1990 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
• 1995 Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46)
• 1995 Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec)
• 1995 Sandra Volker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec)
• 1995 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge

NBA All-Star Game
1996 46th NBA All-Star Game, Alamodome, San Antonio, TX: East beats West, 129-118; MVP: Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls, F


Basketball SuperstarMichael Jordan
Sports History
1997 Bill Parcells becomes head coach of NY Jets


NFL Coach LegendBill Parcells

• 2001 50th NBA All-Star Game, MCI Centre, Washington, D.C.: East beats West, 111-110; MVP: Allen Iverson, Philadelphia 76ers, G
• 2014 Slopestyle freestyle skiing event makes Olympic debut at Sochi Winter Games; Canadian Dara Howell is inaugural women's gold medallist
• 2018 Dutchman Sven Kramer becomes only male speed skater to win same Olympic event 3 times, claiming gold in the 5,000m at Pyongchang; first man to win total 8 Olympic medals in the sport
• 2018 Norway sweeps the medals in the Olympic 30k cross country skiathlon at Pyeongchang; Simen Hegstad Krüger wins gold ahead of teammates Martin Johnsrud Sundby & Hans Christer Holund

 

FEB 12

• 1878 Harvard player Frederick Thayer patents baseball catcher's mask (pat # 200,358)
• 1899 1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in US begins, Madison Square Garden, NYC

• 1908 NY to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in NYC George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
• 1909 American James Clark runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6) in NYC
• 1926 Barendrecht soccer team forms
• 1932 49 year old Australian cricket spin bowler Bert Ironmonger captures 5-6 as South Africa dismissed for 36 in 5th Test in Melbourne; Australia wins by an innings & 72 runs; series 5-0
• 1932 Karl Schäfer of Austria wins the first of 2 consecutive men’s figure skating Olympic gold medals at the Lake Placid Winter Games in the United States

Olympic Gold

1932 Sonja Henie of Norway wins her 2nd of 3 consecutive Olympic gold medals in women’s figure skating at the Lake Placid Winter Games; beats Austria’s Fritzi Burger into 2nd place for 2nd straight Games


Figure Skater and ActressSonja Henie

• 1932 World champion French husband and wife team Pierrre and Andrée Brunet win their 2nd consecutive Olympic pairs figure skating gold medal at the Lake Placid Games
• 1937 Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams granted an NFL franchise

Sports History
1958 Boston Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse Nationals, 119-101


Basketball PlayerBill Russell

• 1961 Boston Celtic Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Philadelphia Warriors, 136-125
• 1961 Pakistani cricketer Mushtaq Mohammad scores his 1st test cricket century for Pakistan at 17 years of age

Cricket History
1964 End of Richie Benaud's 63-Test cricket career in drawn 5th Test v South Africa in Sydney


Cricketer and CommentatorRichie Benaud
Sports History
1964 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming


Figure SkaterPeggy Fleming

• 1967 Kees Verkerk becomes world champ all round skater
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• 1968 Dutch speed skater Ans Schut wins women's 3,000m event at Grenoble Winter Olympics; first 10 finishers beat previous Olympic record set in Squaw Valley (1960)
• 1968 Frenchman Jean Claude-Killy follows his win in the downhill with victory in giant slalom at Grenoble Winter Olympics; clean sweeps 3 alpine skiing events with success in the slalom
• 1971 Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 & 0 Aust v England
• 1977 Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
• 1980 NY Islanders 2nd scoreless tie, vs Winnipeg Jets

Sports History
1980 Richard Hadlee becomes NZ's top wicket-taker with 117


CricketerRichard Hadlee

• 1981 Arbitrator Goetz declares Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent

NHL Record
1982 Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, breaking NHL record


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky

• 1984 12 years after winning the doubles in Sapporo (1972), Italian Paul Hildgarten wins the men's luge singles at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics

Daytona 500
1984 Cale Yarborough, becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier, above 200 MPH


Auto RacerCale Yarborough

• 1984 East German luger Steffi Martin wins the first of 2 consecutive women's singles gold medals at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; also wins in Calgary (1988)
• 1984 Finnish cross-country skier Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen wins the 5k gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; 2nd of 3 individual medal sweep, also winning 10k and 20k events
• 1984 West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket's World Series Cup after going undefeated in the qualifying rounds

NHL All-Star Game
1985 37th NHL All-Star Game, Olympic Saddledome, Calgary: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 6-4; MVP: Mario Lemieux, Pittsburgh Penguins, C


NHL Legend and OwnerMario Lemieux

• 1985 West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket's World Series Cup (Australian Tri-Series)
• 1986 1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is v Guyana

NBA All-Star Game
1989 39th NBA All-Star Game, Astrodome, Houston, Texas West beats East, 143-134; MVP: Karl Malone, Utah Jazz, forward


Basketball PlayerKarl Malone

• 1989 50th PGA Seniors' Championship Men's Golf, PGA National GC: Larry Mowry wins only career major title; beats Miller Barber & Al Geiberger by 1 stroke
• 1989 Thursday's Child sets sailing record, NY-Cape Horn-SF, 80 d 20 h
• 1989 Wayne Gretzky sets 2 records, his 45th hat trick & 10th 40+ goal season
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• 1994 XVII Winter Olympic Games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
• 1995 45th NBA All-Star Game, America West Arena, Phoenix, AZ: West beats East, 139-112; MVP: Mitch Richmond, Sacramento Kings, SG

World Record
1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec)


Speed SkaterBonnie Blair

• 1995 Jeff Rouse swims world record 50m backstroke (24.37 sec)
• 1995 Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m)

ESPY Awards
1996 4th ESPY Awards: Cal Ripken, Rebecca Lobo win


MLB LegendCal Ripken Jr
Murder of Interest
1997 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O.J. Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement


NFL Running Back and Convicted CriminalO.J. Simpson

• 1998 Dallas Cowboys sign Chan Gailey as their 4th head coach

ESPY Awards
2001 9th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Marion Jones win


GolferTiger Woods

Track and Field Athlete and Drug CheatMarion Jones

• 2006 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 23-17; MVP: Derrick Brooks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, LB

Sports History
2007 Marty Schottenheimer is abruptly fired as head coach of the San Diego Chargers due to lack of playoff success and a strained relationship with ownership


NFL CoachMarty Schottenheimer

• 2010 XXI Winter Olympic Games open in Vancouver, Canada

Sports History
2013 At a ceremony in Philadelphia, the NFL pays tribute to the life of the late Steve Sabol and his many contributions to the league


Filmmaker and Founder of NFL FilmsSteve Sabol

• 2014 German Nordic combined skier Eric Frenzel wins the 1st of 3 career Olympic gold medals in Individual normal hill/10 km event in Sochi; wins event again Pyeongchang and long hill 4 x 5k relay
• 2014 Switzerland’s Dominique Gisin and Tina Maze of Slovenia tie for gold in the women’s downhill event at 1:41.57s at the Sochi Winter Games; first-ever dead-heat in Olympic alpine skiing
• 2014 Tatyana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov win the Olympic gold in pairs figure skating
• 2018 American snowboarder Jamie Anderson retains her Olympic slopestyle title (Sochi 2014) at the Pyeongchang Winter Games, comfortably ahead of Canada's Laurie Blouin
• 2018 Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst becomes first Winter Olympian to win an individual gold medal in 4 straight Games with victory in the 1,500m at Pyeongchang; first speed skater to win 10 Olympic medals
• 2018 French biathlete Martin Fourcade wins men's 12.5k pursuit gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; also wins 15k mass start gold
• 2018 German biathlete Laura Dahlmeier wins her 2nd gold medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the women's 10k pursuit; also wins 7.5k sprint gold

 

FEB 13

• 1912 Olympic boxing gold medallist Johnny Douglas takes 5/46 as England cricket team regains Ashes with an innings and 225 run 4th Test win over Australia in Melbourne
• 1920 Baseball Hall of Famer “Rube” Foster and 7 other team owners create the first Negro National League (NNL) at a meeting in a Kansas City YMCA

• 1923 1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance", organizes

Olympic Gold

1928 Clas Thunberg of Finland wins his 4th Olympic gold medal when he dead-heats with Norway’s Bernt Evensen in the 500m speed skating at the St. Moritz Winter Games


Speed SkaterClas Thunberg

• 1928 Legendary Norwegian speed skater Ivar Ballangrud wins the first of 2 straight 5,000m Olympic gold medals when he beats Julius Skutnabb of Finland by 9 seconds in St. Moritz
• 1932 A 2-2 final round tie with the US is good enough for Canada to clinch its 4th consecutive Olympic ice hockey gold medal at Lake Placid; Canadian center Walter Monson is tournament top scorer with 11 points
• 1932 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Jack Crawford retains title and repeats previous year's win over Harry Hopman 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1
• 1932 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Coral McInnes Buttsworth retains title; beats Kathrine Le Mesurier 9-7, 6-4
• 1932 Finland goes 1-2 in the 50k cross country event at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; Veli Saarinen wins gold ahead of teammate Väinö Liikkanen
• 1936 Ivar Ballangrud of Norway narrowly misses winning all 4 speed skating events at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Olympics; finishes 2nd in 1,500m just 1.0s behind teammate Charles Mathiesen
• 1937 Boston Redskins receive approval from NFL to move to Washington, D.C; to share baseball's Griffith Stadium with first Washington Senators of the American League
• 1937 Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship

Sports History
1940 Bradman scores 209* in 161 minutes for South Aust at the WACA


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

• 1948 West Indian batsman Andy Ganteaume scores 112 for W Indies in his only Test Cricket innings

Sports History
1952 Future world champion Rocky Marciano knocks out Italian heavyweight boxer Gino Buonvino in the 2nd round at Rhode Island Auditorium, Providence for his 40th straight win


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionRocky Marciano
Sports History
1965 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming


Figure SkaterPeggy Fleming

• 1968 After winning giant slalom in Innsbruck (1964) French skier Marielle Goitschel takes out the slalom gold medal at the Grenoble Winter Olympics
• 1968 Swedish 10k cross country champion Toini Gustafsson wins her 2nd gold medal at the Grenoble Winter Olympics in the 5k event ahead of Soviet pair Galina Kulakova and Alvetina Kolchina

Sports History
1971 US Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd while golfing, injuring 2


Vice President of the United StatesSpiro Agnew

• 1972 XI Winter Olympic Games close at Sapporo, Japan

Hall of Fame
1974 James 'Cool Papa' Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame


Baseball playerCool Papa Bell
Olympic Gold
1976 American Dorothy Hamill wins the free skate to clinch the women's figure-skating gold medal at the Innsbruck Winter Olympics


Figure SkaterDorothy Hamill
NBA All-Star Game
1977 27th NBA All-Star Game, MECCA Arena, Milwaukee, Wi: West beats East, 125-124; MVP: Julius Erving, Philadelphia 76ers, F


NBA LegendJulius Erving
Sports History
1977 Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship


Speed SkaterEric Heiden

• 1980 NZ beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin
• 1980 XIII Winter Olympic Games open in Lake Placid, New York

Sports History
1982 Islander's Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against Flyers


NHL StarBryan Trottier

• 1983 33rd NBA All-Star Game, The Forum, Inglewood, CA: East beats West, 132-123; MVP: Julius Erving, Philadelphia 76ers, F
• 1983 Opener Steve Smith with 117 and Geoff Lawson 3-11 guide Australia to 149 run win over New Zealand in cricket's World Series Cup 2nd Final in Melbourne; win series, 2-0
• 1984 Karin Enke of East Germany wins her 2nd gold medal of the Sarajevo Winter Games, winning the women's 1,000m in Olympic record 1:21.61; also wins 1,500m gold
• 1984 Swedish cross country skier Gunde Svan wins 15k event, the first of 2 gold medals at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; also wins 4 x 10k relay gold
• 1987 Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator
• 1988 Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m)
• 1988 XV Winter Olympic Games open in Calgary, Canada
• 1989 Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison

Sports History
1990 Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games


NBA LegendLarry Bird

Sports History
1992 Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW


MLB PlayerJosé Canseco

• 1992 West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game
• 1993 Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m)

NBA All-Star Game
1994 44th NBA All-Star Game, Target Centre, Minneapolis, MN: East beats West, 127-118; MVP: Scottie Pippen, Chicago Bulls, F


Basketball ForwardScottie Pippen

• 1994 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96

ESPY Awards
1995 3rd ESPY Awards: Steve Young, Bonnie Blair win


Speed SkaterBonnie Blair

NFL QuarterbackSteve Young
Sports History
1995 West Indies beat NZ by innings & 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55


West Indian CricketerCourtney Walsh
NBA All-Star Game
2000 49th NBA All-Star Game, Oakland Arena, Oakland, CA: West beats East, 137-127; MVPs: Tim Duncan, San Antonio Spurs, F; Shaquille O'Neal, LA Lakers, C


NBA Power ForwardTim Duncan

Basketball PlayerShaquille O'Neal
NFL Pro Bowl
2005 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 38-27; MVP: Peyton Manning, Indianapolis Colts, QB, HI


NFL QuarterbackPeyton Manning

• 2014 French biathlete Martin Fourcade wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the individual competition; also claims the pursuit title

World Record
2014 Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu is first to break 100 points barrier in the short program (101.45 points) at the Sochi Winter Olympics, on way to the men's singles gold medal


Figure SkaterYuzuru Hanyu

• 2014 Polish cross country skier Justyna Kowalczyk follows her Vancouver (2010) Olympic women's 30k classical title with a gold medal in the 10k classical in Sochi
• 2014 Slopestyle freestyle skiing event makes Olympic debut at Sochi Winter Games; American Joss Christensen is inaugural men's gold medallist
• 2014 Women's luge singles champion Natalie Geisenberger and men's doubles winners Tobias Wendl & Tobias Arlt earn their 2nd Olympic gold medals in Sochi in team relay event; Germany sweeps 4 events
• 2018 After winning Olympic gold in the women's curling in Sochi (2014), Canadian Kaitlyn Lawes wins the mixed doubles with dual gold medallist John Morris in Pyeongchang
• 2018 Austrian alpine skier Marcel Hirscher wins the men's combined gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; goes on to also win giant slalom gold
• 2018 Dutch speed skater Kjeld Nuis wins the men's 1,500m gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; also takes 1,000m gold
• 2022 Marte Olsbu Røiseland of Norway wins the women's biathlon pursuit for her third gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics (women's sprint & mixed relay)
• 2022 Quentin Fillon Maillet of France adds the biathlon pursuit to his individual gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics

Super Bowl
2022 Super Bowl LVI halftime show features Hip Hop legends Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige, Eminem and 50 Cent


Rapper and Record ProducerDr. Dre

Rapper and SongwriterEminem

Singer-songwriter and RapperKendrick Lamar

• 2022 Super Bowl LVI, SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CA: Los Angeles Rams beat Cincinnati Bengals, 23-20; MVP: Cooper Kupp, LA Rams, WR

 

FEB 14

• 1887 Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000

Sports History

1896 George Lohmann takes a hat-trick for England v South Africa, 8-7 for inning - their lowest ever


Cricket Medium Pace BowlerGeorge Lohmann

• 1896 Stanley Cup, Victoria Skating Rink, Montreal, Quebec: Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias, 2-0

Olympic Gold
1928 Clas Thunberg of Finland wins his 2nd gold medal of the Games and 5th career title when he takes out the 1,500m speed skating at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics


Speed SkaterClas Thunberg

• 1928 Per-Erik Hedlund leads a Swedish sweep of the medals in the 50k cross-country at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; Gustaf Jonsson & Volgar Andersson take the minor medals
• 1934 NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto
• 1936 Karl Schäfer of Austria wins his 2nd consecutive men’s figure skating Olympic gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games in Germany
• 1936 Norwegian speed skater Ivar Ballangrud sets Olympic record 17:24.3 to win the 10,000m at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games; his 3rd gold medal from 4 events and 4th career Olympic gold
• 1936 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
• 1944 Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing"
• 1950 Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg

Sports History
1951 Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title


Champion BoxerSugar Ray Robinson

• 1952 Giant slalom event for women debuts at the Winter Olympics at Oslo Games; American skier Andrea Mead-Lawrence wins gold ahead of Dagmar Rom of Austria and German Annemarie Buchner
• 1952 VI Winter Olympic Games open at Oslo, Norway
• 1957 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
• 1960 2nd Daytona 500: Junior Johnson survives a 37 car crash on Turn 4 to win driving a John Masoni owned Chevrolet
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• 1965 7th Daytona 500: Fred Lorenzen wins driving for Holman-Moody; race ends on lap 133 due to persistent rain

NBA Record
1966 Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain

• 1968 Norwegian 15k Olympic cross country champion Harald Grønningen wins his second gold medal of the Grenoble Winter Olympics in the 4 x 10k relay
• 1968 Soviet Union goes 1-2 in pairs figure skating at the Grenoble Winter Olympics; husband & wife team Oleg Protopopov and Liudmila Belousova edge teammates Tatiana Zhuk and Alexander Gorelik

Daytona 500
1971 13th Daytona 500: Richard Petty wins his 3rd Great American Race; goes on to win the inaugural Winston Cup title


Auto RacerRichard Petty
Boxing Title Fight
1973 Muhammad Ali beats British heavyweight boxing champion Joe Bugner by unanimous points decision in 12 rounds at Las Vegas Convention Centre


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali

• 1978 In girls' HS basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St George

Olympic Gold
1980 Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins first of 3 gold medals at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics when he takes out 30k event; also wins relay and 50k gold


Cross-Country SkierNikolay Zimyatov
Daytona 500
1982 24th Daytona 500: Bobby Allison wins with margin of victory over Cale Yarborough an impressive 23 seconds, more than half a lap


Auto RacerCale Yarborough
Olympic Games
1984 Britain's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean famously dominate the ice dancing at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; perform to Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" in free dance routine; record 9-of-9 perfect scores for artistic impression


Ice DancerChristopher Dean

Ice DancerJayne Torvill

Composer and PianistMaurice Ravel

• 1984 Canadian speed skater Gaétan Boucher takes out the 1,000m gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; also wins 1,500m; narrowly beats Soviet skater Sergey Khlebnikov in both events
• 1987 Detroit Pistons-Philadelphia 76ers game draws crowd of 53,745 at Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac; third largest crowd in NBA history; Pistons win, 125-107
• 1988 30th Daytona 500: Bobby Allison beats his son, Davey, to the finish line; remembered for Richard Petty's rollover crash in the tri-oval on lap 106, rolls over 8 times and hit by Brett Bodine; walks away unhurt

Sports History
1988 PGA Seniors' Championship Men's Golf, PGA National GC: South African Gary Player wins his second of 3 event titles by 3 strokes from Chi-Chi Rodríguez


GolferGary Player

• 1992 Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60)

Daytona 500
1993 35th Daytona 500: Dale Jarrett, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, wins from Dale Earnhardt and Geoff Bodine


NFL Head Coach and NASCAR Team OwnerJoe Gibbs

Auto RacerDale Earnhardt
ESPY Awards
1994 2nd ESPY Awards: Barry Bonds, Julie Krone win


MLB LegendBarry Bonds
NBA Finals
1995 The Portland Trail Blazers trade Clyde Drexler to the Houston Rockets, who end up winning the 1995 NBA Championship


NBA SwingmanClyde Drexler
Daytona 500
1999 41st Daytona 500: Jeff Gordon wins; first Daytona 500 pole sitter to win the race since Bill Elliott in 1987


Auto RacerBill Elliott
ESPY Awards
2000 8th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Mia Hamm win


GolferTiger Woods

• 2010 52nd Daytona 500: Jamie McMurray, driving for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing wins; Mark Martin, oldest polesitter in Daytona 500 history at 51 years, 27 days

NBA All-Star Game
2010 59th NBA All-Star Game, Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX: East beats West, 141-139; MVP: Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat, G


Basketball PlayerDwyane Wade
Olympic Gold
2010 Alexandre Bilodeau wins the Gold Medal in the freestyle skiing men's moguls event, becoming the first Canadian to win a Gold Medal during a Canadian-hosted Olympics


Freestyle SkierAlexandre Bilodeau

• 2010 America's Cup: Team USA defeats Alinghi 2-0 to win in Spain
• 2014 Britain's Lizzy Yarnold wins her first of 2 consecutive Olympic women's skeleton gold medals in Sochi; also wins event in Pyeongchang (2018)

Olympic Gold
2014 For the first time in men's figure skating, all 3 Olympic singles medalists are of Asian descent; Yuzuru Hanyu (Japan) gold, Patrick Chan (Canada) and Denis Ten (Kazakhstan)


Figure SkaterYuzuru Hanyu

• 2014 Swiss cross country skier Dario Cologna wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the 15k classical; also wins 30k skiathlon
• 2016 NBA All-Star Game, Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON: West beats East, 196-173; MVP: Russell Westbrook, OKC Thunder, G

Laureus Awards
2017 Laureus World Sports Awards, Monte-Carlo Sporting, Monaco: Sportsman: Usain Bolt; Sportswoman: Simone Biles; Team: Chicago Cubs


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt

GymnastSimone Biles
Olympic Gold
2018 American snowboarder Shaun White wins an unprecedented 3rd Olympic halfpipe gold medal (previous 2006, 10) at the Pyeongchang Winter Games


SnowboarderShaun White

• 2018 Dutch speed skater Jorien ter Mors wins her 3rd career Olympic gold medal in the 1,000m at Pyeongchang; 1,500m and team pursuit champion in Sochi (2014)
• 2019 OKC guard Russell Westbrook makes a triple-double (44 points, 14 rebounds, 11 assists) in an NBA record 11th consecutive game as the Thunder go down, 131-122 in New Orleans
• 2020 UEFA places 2 year ban on Manchester City from European club competition for committing "serious breaches" of club licensing and financial fair play regulations; EPL champions also fined €30million
• 2021 63rd Daytona 500: Michael McDowell navigates through fiery, final-lap pileup to claim his first career NASCAR Cup Series win in his 14th season; race delayed by rain for 6 hours after huge Lap 14 crash

 

FEB 15

• 1905 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark)
• 1916 NY Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500

• 1921 Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 v England, Australian Test Cricket rec
• 1930 Wenona Mustangs beat Toluca Wildcats in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes, 26-22
• 1931 Spring training site of NY Yankees in St Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager
• 1932 American brothers Hubert and Curtis Stevens beat the 8-nation field to win the 2-man bobsleigh gold medal at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics

Olympic Gold

1932 As a member of gold medal winning US 4-man bobsleigh team at Lake Placid, Eddie Eagan (boxing gold Antwerp 1920) becomes only Olympian to win gold medals at both summer & winter Games in different sports


Boxer and BobsledderEddie Eagan

• 1932 Australia beat South Africa in cricket by an innings in 5 hrs 53 min playing time
• 1932 III Winter Olympic Games close at Lake Placid, New York
• 1936 Great Britain’s 0-0 tie with the US is enough to clinch their first ever Olympic ice hockey gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games; breaks Canada’s 4 straight Games golden streak

Olympic Gold
1936 Sonja Henie of Norway becomes the most successful Olympic figure skater ever by winning her 3rd consecutive gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games; beats Cecilia College of Great Britain by 6.4 points


Figure Skater and ActressSonja Henie

• 1952 Giant slalom event for men debuts at the Winter Olympics at Oslo Games; Stein Erikson of Norway wins gold ahead of Austrians Christian Pravda and Toni Spiß
• 1958 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB
• 1961 Australia beat West Indies 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever
• 1963 1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright)

NBA History
1964 Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton


Basketball Player and US SenatorBill Bradley

• 1966 Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater
• 1968 Biathlon 4 x 7.5k relay debuts at the Grenoble Winter Olympics with the Soviet Union taking the gold medal ahead of Norway and Sweden
• 1968 Fred Anton Maier of Norway skates a world record 7:22.4 in winning the 5,000m at the Grenoble Winter Olympics; Dutch 1,500m champion Kees Verkerk is just 0.8s behind for silver

Figure Skating History
1970 Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater


Speed SkaterArd Schenk

• 1972 Newly-formed NHL franchise New York Islanders hire Bill Torrey as their first General Manager
• 1973 Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak

Daytona 500
1976 18th Daytona 500: David Pearson makes contact with Richard Petty just yards from finish line into a wall and to infield; Petty stalls whilst Pearson restarts to win


Auto RacerRichard Petty

Auto RacerDavid Pearson

• 1976 XII Winter Olympic Games close in Innsbruck, Austria
• 1978 England all out 64 for 1st loss to NZ in cricket (Geoffrey Boycott captain)

Boxing Title Fight
1978 Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionLeon Spinks

Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali
Olympic Gold
1980 American speed skater Eric Heiden wins 500m in Olympic record 38.03s; first of record 5 gold medal sweep of events at Lake Placid, New York


Speed SkaterEric Heiden

• 1980 East German speed skater Karin Enke wins first of 3 career Olympic gold medals with victory in the 500m at Lake Placid Winter; wins 1,000m & 1,500m in Sarajevo (1984)

NHL Record
1980 NHL Oilers Wayne Gretzky assists on NHL-record-tying 7 goals, in 8-2 victory over Washington at Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky

• 1980 Soviet cross-country skier Raisa Smetanina claims her 3rd of 4 career Olympic gold medals in 5k event at Lake Placid; also wins 10k and relay gold (Innsbruck 1976) and relay (Albertville 1992)
• 1981 23rd Daytona 500: Richard Petty wins record 7th title at Daytona, beating Bobby Allison to the line by 3.5 seconds
• 1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw
• 1984 An East German sweep of the medals in the women's 3,000m speed skating at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; Andrea Schöne takes gold ahead of teammates Karin Enke and Gabi Zange

Sports History
1985 World chess championship match abandoned with Anatoly Karpov 25 leading Gary Kasparov 23


Chess Grandmaster and Political ActivistGarry Kasparov

Chess GrandmasterAnatoly Karpov

• 1986 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit

Golf History
1987 1982 Masters champion Craig Stadler is disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot


Singer and TV HostAndy Williams

Daytona 500
1987 29th Daytona 500: Bill Elliott leads for 104 of 200 laps including the last 3; had won pole with record speed of 210.364 mph


Auto RacerBill Elliott

• 1987 Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater
• 1987 PGA Seniors' Championship Men's Golf, PGA National GC: Chi-Chi Rodríguez wins his second and final Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke from Dale Douglass
• 1990 Baseball owners lock out players
• 1991 Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117
• 1994 Tom Barrasso becomes winningest US born goalie in NHL history, as the Pittsburgh Penguins win, 5-3 over visiting Winnipeg; passes record of 252 career wins set by Frank Brimsek

Sports History
1996 American boxer Tommy Morrison announces he has contracted HIV


Heavyweight BoxerTommy Morrison
NFL Record
1996 NFL coaching maestro Bill Belichick is fired by Cleveland, finishing his Browns coaching career with a record of 36-44


NFL CoachBill Belichick
Daytona 500
1998 40th Daytona 500: Dale Earnhardt's only Daytona win in his 20th start; snaps a 59-race winless streak


Auto RacerDale Earnhardt
ESPY Awards
1999 7th ESPY Awards: Mark McGwire, Chamique Holdsclaw win


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

• 1999 Wayne Gretzky records 5 assists in NY Rangers' 7-4 win over the Predators; takes a 1,000 point lead over Gordie Howe in all time NHL scoring lead; Gretzky's only appearance in Nashville

NHL History
2000 Martin Brodeur becomes first goaltender in NHL history to get credit for a "game winning" goal as New Jersey wins, 4-2 over the visiting Philadelphia Flyers


NHL GoalieMartin Brodeur

• 2004 46th Daytona 500: Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins exactly 6 years to the day after his father Dale Earnhardt Sr. won his first and only Daytona 500 in 1998

NBA All-Star Game
2004 53rd NBA All-Star Game, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA: West beats East, 136-132; MVP: Shaquille O'Neal, LA Lakers, C


Basketball PlayerShaquille O'Neal

• 2009 51st Daytona 500: Matt Kenseth wins shortened race; called off with 48 laps to go after a severe rainstorm hits the track

NBA All-Star Game
2009 58th NBA All-Star Game, US Airways Center, Phoenix, AZ: West beats East, 146-119; MVPs: Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers, F; Shaquille O'Neal, LA Lakers, C


NBA GuardKobe Bryant

Basketball PlayerShaquille O'Neal

• 2014 Polish ski jumper Kamil Stoch wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the men's large hill event; also wins normal hill gold
• 2014 World champion Aleksandr Tretyakov of Russia wins the men's skeleton gold medal at his home Sochi Winter Olympics
• 2015 64th NBA All-Star Game, Madison Square Garden, NYC: West beats East, 163-158; MVP: Russell Westbrook, OKC Thunder, G
• 2018 Denver's Serbian center Nikola Jokić records fastest triple double in NBA history (14 minutes, 33 seconds) in the Nuggets' 134-123 win at Milwaukee; Jokić finishes with 30 points, 17 assists, 15 rebounds
• 2018 Frenchman Pierre Vaultier retains his Olympic snowboard cross title (Sochi 2014) with a gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Games
• 2018 German figure skaters Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot set new ISU best free skating score of 159.31 on their way to pairs gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
• 2018 German women's luge singles champion Natalie Geisenberger and men's doubles winners Tobias Wendl & Tobias Arlt earn their 2nd Olympic gold medals in Pyeongchang in the team relay event
• 2018 IBU Female Rookie of the Year, Hanna Öberg of Sweden wins 15k individual biathlon gold medal with 4 clean shootings at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; first victory and podium of her career
• 2018 Sochi (2014) Olympic slalom champion Mikaela Shiffrin of the US wins the giant slalom at the Pyeongchang Winter Games; also takes combined silver
• 2018 Vancouver (2010) Olympic super-G champion Aksul Lund Svindal of Sweden wins the downhill gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Games
• 2022 In the only podium sweep of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Germany takes all 3 medals in the 2-man bobsleigh; Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis win gold

 

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• 1899 Future England cricket captain Pelham Warner scores an unbeaten 132 on his Test debut in a 32 run win over South Africa in the 1st Test in Johannesburg
• 1899 Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland's first football club is founded

• 1900 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 5-4 to take challenge series, 3-1
• 1912 VSV soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
• 1923 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard

Sports History

1923 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger


Figure SkaterSherwin Badger

• 1926 Suzanne Lenglen defeats US champion Helen Wills in influential tennis match in Cannes, France
• 1933 England cricket team regains the Ashes against Australia, thanks to "bodyline" tactics
• 1936 IV Winter Olympic Games close in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
• 1950 Writers fail to elect anyone to Baseball's Hall of Fame
• 1952 Ian Craig makes NSW cricket debut aged 16 years 249 days (NSW record)
• 1952 United States goes 1-2 in the 500m speed skating at the Olso Winter Olympics with Ken Henry taking gold ahead of teammate Don McDermott; Norwegian Hjalmar Anderson dominates remaining 3 speed skating events

Sports History
1953 Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet, later awarded the Air medal


Baseball PlayerTed Williams
NBA Record
1963 North Carolina forward Billy Cunningham grabs a record 27 rebounds in a game vs Clemson


NBA Forward and CoachBilly Cunningham

• 1966 Australian cricket batsman Bob Cowper makes a patient 307 (727 mins, 20 x 4s) in drawn 5th Test v England in Melbourne
• 1966 End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Australian wicketkeeper
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• 1967 NY Yankees pitcher Red Ruffing elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1968 Italy completes the bobsleigh double at the Grenoble Winter Olympics with victory in the 4-man; Eugenio Monti and Luciano de Paolis double up for gold winning 2-man earlier
• 1969 Detroit Red Wings' captain Alex Delvecchio picks up an assist in a 6-2 defeat at Minnesota to become the 3rd player in NHL history to score 1,000 career points

Boxing Title Fight
1970 Joe Frazier TKOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for heavyweight boxing title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJoe Frazier

• 1972 Test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe WI v NZ Kingston, 214 & 100

NBA Record
1972 Wilt Chamberlain of the Los Angeles Lakers becomes first player in NBA history to reach the career 30,000 point mark during a 110-109 loss to the Phoenix Suns


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain
Daytona 500
1975 17th Daytona 500: Benny Parsons wins after Cale Yarborough sends race leader David Pearson spinning on the backstretch; Parsons avoids the accident and takes the victory


Auto RacerCale Yarborough

Auto RacerDavid Pearson

• 1975 Washington Capitals 1st NHL shutout, beating KC Scouts 3-0

Olympic Gold
1980 American speed skater Eric Heiden wins 5,000m in Olympic record 7:02.29; second of record 5 gold medal sweep of events at Lake Placid


Speed SkaterEric Heiden
Olympic Gold
1984 3-time men's figure skating world champion Scott Hamilton of the US wins the gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics from Brian Orser of Canada and Jozef Sabovčík of Czechoslovakia


Figure SkaterScott Hamilton

• 1984 Bill Johnson becomes first American to win an Olympic downhill skiing gold at the Sarajevo Games; beats Swiss Peter Müller by 0.27s
• 1984 Canadian speed skater Gaétan Boucher takes out the 1,500m at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics, his second gold medal of the Games; also wins the 1,000m
• 1984 NJ Devils 1st OT goal, Jan Ludvig beats Hartford Whalers 6-5
• 1984 Swedish cross country skier Gunde Svan takes his 2nd gold medal of the Sarajevo Winter Olympics in the 4 x 10k relay; also wins 15k gold
• 1984 Swedish cross country skier Thomas Wassberg wins 2nd career gold medal in 4 x 10k relay at Sarajevo Winter Olympics; 2nd of 4 career gold; 15k Lake Placid (1980), 50k Sarajevo, relay Calgary (1988)
• 1985 Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Philadelphia at Detroit
• 1985 Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA Lightweight championship, in Buffalo, New York
• 1985 NJ Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds

Daytona 500
1986 28th Daytona 500: Geoff Bodine wins on fuel mileage after Dale Earnhardt forced to pit for gas with 3 laps to go, then blows engine leaving the pits


Auto RacerDale Earnhardt

• 1986 Dutch speed skater Hein Vergeer becomes World Allround champion for the second time

Sports History
1986 PGA Seniors' Championship Men's Golf, PGA National GC: South African Gary Player wins first of 6 Senior Tour major titles with a 2 stroke victory over runner-up Lee Elder


GolferGary Player
Contract of Interest
1989 Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser signs $7.9M-3 year contract


Baseball PitcherOrel Hershiser
Contract of Interest
1989 Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens signs $7.5M-3 year contract


MLB Pitching LegendRoger Clemens
Sports History
1991 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding


Figure SkaterTonya Harding
Daytona 500
1992 34th Daytona 500: Davey Allison joins father Bobby as a race winner; Richard Petty and A. J. Foyt's final drives in the event


Auto RacerRichard Petty

Racing Car DriverA. J. Foyt
Sports History
1992 LA Lakers retire Magic Johnson's #32 uniform


NBA LegendMagic Johnson

• 1993 Sandra Völker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.33 sec)
• 1994 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 1500m (1:51.29)
• 1997 39th Daytona 500: Hendrick Motorsports posts a 1-2-3 finish with Jeff Gordon winning the race, ahead of Terry Labonte and Ricky Craven

Sports History
1999 O.J. Simpson's 1968 Heisman Trophy is sold for $230,000 to help settle a $33.5 million civil judgement against Simpson for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend


NFL Running Back and Convicted CriminalO.J. Simpson

• 2001 Mathieu Schneider of the Los Angeles Kings becomes the first defenseman in history to score a goal against all 30 NHL teams as LA beats Minnesota, 4-0
• 2003 45th Daytona 500: Michael Waltrip wins for the second time in 3 years; race ends after 109 laps when rain pours on the track
• 2004 The Pittsburgh Penguins lose their 12th consecutive home game, a NHL record
• 2005 2004-05 NHL season is cancelled by Commissioner Gary Bettman; first time a North American professional sports league has called off a season due to labor dispute

Sports History
2013 Lionel Messi scores his 14th consecutive goal in La Liga and his 300th goal in 365 appearances for Barcelona


Football StarLionel Messi
NBA All-Star Game
2014 63rd NBA All-Star Game, Smoothie King Centre, New Orleans, LA: East beats West, 163-155; MVP: Kyrie Irving, Cleveland Cavaliers, G


NBA PlayerKyrie Irving

• 2014 American Bode Miller (36) becomes the oldest medalist in Olympic alpine skiing history when he ties for bronze in the super-G in Sochi
• 2014 Netherlands sweeps the medals in the women's 1,500m speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Jorien ter Mors wins gold ahead of teammates Ireen Wüst and Lotte van Beek
• 2018 Sochi (2014) Olympic downhill champion Matthias Mayer of Austria wins the super-G gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Games
• 2018 Swiss cross country skier Dario Cologna wins 4th career Olympic gold medal in the 15k freestyle in Pyeongchang; wins event in Vancouver (2010), and 15k classical & 30k skiathlon in Sochi (2014)
• 2019 Needing 78 for an unlikely victory, Sri Lanka's Kusal Perera 153no and Vishwa Fernando 6no put on a record 10th wicket stand for a 1 wicket win vs South Africa in the 1st cricket Test in Durban
• 2020 NBA All Star Game, United Center, Chicago, IL: Team LeBron beats Team Giannis, 157-155; MVP: Kawhi Leonard, LA Clippers, F
• 2022 Johannes Høsflot Klæbo teams with Erik Valnes to win the men's team sprint for Norway and clinch the cross country freestyle sprint double at the Beijing Winter Olympics