TODAY'S EVENTS IN SPORTS HISTORY 2024

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

Vinson US Champion

1935 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson


Figure SkaterMaribel 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

Louis vs. Godoy
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

Browns Sign Paige
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

Hamill US Champion
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

Barry 1st 3-Pointers
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
34th 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

36th 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)

39th 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)
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• 1989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
• 1991 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5k (6:41:73)

Norris vs. Leonard
1991 Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice and beats him to defend his WBC Super Welterweight title


BoxerSugar Ray Leonard
42nd 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)
• 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

6th 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

Michaels Joins Saturday Night Football
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

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


SnowboarderChloe Kim

 

FEB 10

Burns vs. Palmer

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


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

Albright World Champion
1953 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA


Figure SkaterTenley Albright

• 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

Fleming Olympic Champion
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
Maravich Scores 66
1969 Louisiana State University's Pete Maravich scores 66, despite his team 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

Border's Only Missed Test
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

Lillee Top Australian Wicket-taker
1981 Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249


Cricketer and Fast BowlerDennis Lillee
Zimyatov's Fourth 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

NBA 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

41st 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
Tyson Convicted
1992 Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

Blair Wins Gold
1992 Speed skater Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for USA


Speed SkaterBonnie Blair

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

Deep Blue Beats Kasparov
1996 IBM chess-playing computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning (human) chess champion, Garry Kasparov


Chess Grandmaster and Political ActivistGarry Kasparov
Simpson Jury Awards $25M
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

51st 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
XX Winter Olympics
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

Bilodeau's 2nd 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

Figure Skating 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

Casey vs. Thesz
1938 Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston to win the American Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Championship


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

Sports History
1973 1st sub 17-min 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)


SwimmerShane Gould

• 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
Sports History
1990 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge


Figure SkaterTodd Eldredge

• 1995 Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46)
• 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 Dutch speed skater Kees Verkerk becomes All-Around World Champion
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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)

Cricket Debut
1986 1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is vs Guyana


CricketerCurtly Ambrose
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 Senior PGA Championship, 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
• 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

Coach Schottenheimer Fired
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


FilmmakerSteve 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

Rihanna Performs at Super Bowl
2023 Rihanna performs half-time at the Super Bowl, in her first live performance in six years in Glendale, Arizona [1]


SingerRihanna
Super Bowl LVII
2023 Super Bowl LVII, State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona: Kansas City Chiefs beat Philadelphia Eagles, 38-35; MVP: Patrick Mahomes, KC, QB


NFL QuarterbackPatrick Mahomes

 

• 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

Australian Men's Tennis Open
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


Tennis Player and CoachHarry Hopman

• 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

Sports History
1937 Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship


Figure SkaterMaribel Vinson
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

• 1954 American college basketball player Frank Selvey scores a record 100 points for Furman beating Newberry 149-95

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

Baseball 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
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• 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

Sports History
1987 Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherJack Morris

• 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

 

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• 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

Sports History
1936 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson


Figure SkaterMaribel 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
Ali vs. Bugner
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

Auto RacerBobby Allison
Torvill and Dean's Perfect Score
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 [1]


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

Senior PGA Championship
1988 Senior PGA Championship, PGA National GC: South African Gary Player wins his second of 3 event titles by 3 strokes from Chi-Chi Rodríguez


GolferGary Player

GolferChi-Chi Rodríguez

• 1992 American sprinter Andre Cason runs world record 60m indoor (6.41s) in Madrid, Spain
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• 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 Trade
1995 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 thoroughbred horse race meet at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas
• 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

Sports History
1963 1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright)


Figure SkaterTenley Albright
College Basketball
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

World Skating Champion
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
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• 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

Chess Controversy
1985 World chess championship match abandoned with Anatoly Karpov 25 leading Garry Kasparov 23


Chess Grandmaster and Political ActivistGarry Kasparov

Chess GrandmasterAnatoly Karpov

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

Disqualified for Kneeling
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

Senior PGA Championship
1987 Senior PGA Championship, PGA National GC: Chi-Chi Rodríguez wins his second and final Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke from Dale Douglass


GolferChi-Chi Rodríguez

• 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, a diagnosis he later claimed to be false


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

58th 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
Sports History
1926 Suzanne Lenglen defeats US champion Helen Wills in influential tennis match in Cannes, France


Tennis PlayerSuzanne Lenglen

• 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

Baseball Hall of Fame
1967 NY Yankees pitcher Red Ruffing elected to Baseball Hall of Fame


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherRed Ruffing

• 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
Sports History
1973 West Indies v Australia at Kingston, 1st time since 1955 without Garfield Sobers


CricketerGarfield Sobers
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
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• 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

Sports History
1985 Livingston Bramble defeats Ray Mancini to win WBA lightweight championship, in Buffalo, New York


BoxerRay Mancini

• 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

Senior PGA Championship
1986 Senior PGA Championship, 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

 

FEB 17

• 1818 Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle)
• 1882 Australian cricket opening bowlers Joey Palmer (7/68) and Edwin Evans (3/64) dismiss England for 133 in 2nd Test; first Test match played at Sydney Cricket Ground

NHL Record

1923 Ottawa left wing Cy Denneny passes Joe Malone as all-time NHL goal scoring leader; scores his 143rd career goal in Senators' 2-0 win over Montreal Canadiens


NHL StarCy Denneny

Sports History
1924 American swimmer Johnny Weissmuller sets 100m world freestyle record 57.4s at Miami, Florida


Swimmer and ActorJohnny Weissmuller

• 1927 Toronto Maple Leafs beat the New York Americans, 4-1 in the team's first game since changing name from "St. Patricks"
• 1928 American brothers, Jennison and John Heaton fight out the top placings in the cresta (now known as skeleton) at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; Jennison takes the gold by 1.0s
• 1928 Johan Grøttumsbråten leads a Norwegian sweep of the medals in the 18k cross country at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; he also wins the Nordic combined gold the following day
• 1939 Katwijk soccer team forms in the Netherlands

Boxing Title Fight
1941 In his 14th title defense Joe Louis KOs Gus Dorazio in the 2nd round at the Convention Center, Philadelphia to retain NYSAC heavyweight boxing crown


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJoe Louis
Sports History
1943 NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio enlists into the US army


Baseball PlayerJoe DiMaggio
Sports History
1951 Detroit right wing Gordie Howe scores his 100th career NHL goal and adds an assist in a 2-1 Red Wings' victory over the Canadiens, in Montreal, Quebec


Ice Hockey LegendGordie Howe

• 1952 Montreal Canadiens center Elmer Lach picks up his 354th career assist in a 3-2 loss at the NY Rangers to become NHL's all-time assists leader; passes Bill Cowley's mark
• 1952 Trude Jochum-Beiser of Austria wins the downhill gold medal at the Oslo Winter Olympics; second career gold medal after taking out the combined event at St. Moritz (1948)
• 1953 DSB soccer team forms in Eindhoven (now PSV Eindhoven), Netherlands
• 1955 American golfer Mike Souchak sets PGA 72-hole record of 257 (not broken until 2001)
• 1955 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna Austria won by J Westwood/Demmy GRB

Sports History
1955 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Tenley Albright US


Figure SkaterTenley Albright

• 1956 Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB
• 1963 Japanese runner Toru Terasawa runs a world record marathon (2:15:15.8) at the Beppu Marathon on the island of Kyushu, Japan
• 1964 101st member elected to Baseball Hall of Fame, Chicago White Sox shortstop Luke Appling

Sports History
1965 US-Japan baseball relations suspended over Masanori Murakami dispute


Baseball Player In Major LeaguesMasanori Murakami

• 1968 Frenchman Jean Claude-Killy completes a clean sweep of the alpine skiing events at the Grenoble Winter Olympics when he wins the slalom; also takes out the downhill and giant slalom
• 1968 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield, Massachusetts opens
• 1968 Norwegian cross country skier Ole Ellefsæter wins 50k event at the Grenoble Winter Olympics; 2nd gold medal of the Games (4 x 10k relay)
• 1968 Soviet Union wins its 3rd Olympic ice hockey gold medal in Grenoble; clinch title with final round, 5-0 win over Canada; Soviet LW Anatoli Firsov top scores with 16 points
• 1971 England regains cricket Ashes with a 2-0 series win
• 1973 Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut v Pakistan, his only Test Cricket

Daytona 500
1974 16th Daytona 500: Richard Petty first driver to win back-to-back titles at Daytona; his 5th Great American race


Auto RacerRichard Petty

• 1974 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
• 1976 NZ scores their 1st innings win in Test Cricket, v India

Sports History
1976 Richard Hadlee takes 7-23 New Zealand v India, his 1st match-winning spell


CricketerRichard Hadlee

World Record
1979 American speed skater Eric Heiden equals world record 1000m (1:14.99)


Speed SkaterEric Heiden
Daytona 500
1980 22nd Daytona 500: Buddy Baker wins ahead of Bobby Allison and Neil Bonnett


Auto RacerBobby Allison

• 1980 Sapporo downhill silver medallist Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria goes one better with gold at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics
• 1980 Swedish cross-country skier Thomas Wassberg earns first of 4 career Olympic gold medals in the 15k at Lake Placid; wins by 0.01s from Finland's Juha Mieto; closest margin of victory ever in Olympic cross-country skiing
• 1982 Commencement of Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket match, v England
• 1984 Biathletes Eirik Kvalfoss of Norway and West German Peter Angerer finish 2nd & 3rd respectively in the relay at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; both have complete sets of medals from biathlon events at the Games

Daytona 500
1985 27th Daytona 500: After taking pole at then-record speed of 205.114 mph Bill Elliott dominates race leading 136 of 200 laps


Auto RacerBill Elliott

• 1985 Dutch speed skater Hein Vergeer becomes World Allround champion

Sports History
1985 Panamanian jockey Laffit Pincay Jr.is third to ride 6,000 winners; wins aboard Doria's Delight in the 5th race at Santa Anita Park


JockeyLaffit Pincay Jr.
Sports History
1987 New York Yankees Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year)


Baseball Player and ManagerDon Mattingly
Sports History
1989 Former baseball player and manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash


Baseball Player and ManagerLeo Durocher

• 1991 33rd Daytona 500: Ernie Irvan, driving for Morgan-McClure Motorsports coasts to win after challengers crash on finals laps

Sports History
1991 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge


Figure SkaterTodd Eldredge

• 1993 Hartford right wing Pat Verbeek scores his 300th career NHL goal and adds his 300th career assist in a 5-3 Whalers' home loss to the Buffalo Sabres

Sports History
1995 Tiger Manager Sparky Anderson takes unpaid leave due to baseball strike


MLB Player and ManagerSparky Anderson

• 1996 1st full ODI for the Netherlands, v NZ, cricket World Cup Nolan Clarke makes ODI debut for Netherlands at age 47

Sports History
1996 Garry Kasparov defeats chess-playing computer Deep Blue 4-2


Chess Grandmaster and Political ActivistGarry Kasparov

• 1998 USA Women's Ice Hockey Team beats Canada and wins the first Olympic Gold medal
• 2002 44th Daytona 500: Ward Burton's win first for Dodge since Richard Petty's victory in the 1974 race
• 2008 50th Daytona 500: Ryan Newman wins shootout going into the final turn from Tony Stewart, and the Busch brothers, Kurt and Kyle

NBA All-Star Game
2008 57th NBA All-Star Game, New Orleans Arena, New Orleans, LA: East beats West, 134-128; MVP: LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers, F


Basketball PlayerLeBron James

• 2012 Approximately 70 ancient Olympic artifacts are stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Greece
• 2013 62nd NBA All-Star Game, Toyota Centre, Houston, TX: West beats East, 143-138; MVP: Chris Paul, LA Clippers, G
• 2013 Jess Cameron with 75 and Elise Perry 3-27 lead Australia to 114 run win over West Indies in the Women's Cricket World Cup Final in Bombay, India
• 2014 American pair Meryl Davis and Charlie White win the first Olympic gold medal for the US in ice dance at the Sochi Winter Games
• 2014 Belarus takes the aerials double at the Sochi Winter Olympics when Anton Kushnir wins the men's event; Alla Tsuper claims the women's section
• 2014 Belarusian biathlete Darya Domracheva wins her 3rd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the mass start; also wins individual and pursuit gold

Sports History
2016 Nike ends endorsement deal with Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao after he made TV comments gay people are "worse than animals."


BoxerManny Pacquiao

• 2018 10k freestyle cross country champion Ragnhild Haga and 30k classical winner Marit Bjørgen win their 2nd Olympic gold medal in Pyeongchang as part of Norway's 4 x 5k relay team
• 2018 Britain's Lizzy Yarnold wins her 2nd consecutive Olympic women's skeleton gold medal in Pyeongchang; also wins event in Sochi (2014)
• 2018 Czech skier Ester Ledecká wins super-G gold medal at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; later wins parallel giant slalom snowboarding to be first female to win gold in different sports at a single Games

Olympic Gold
2018 Japanese defending champion Yuzuru Hanyu retains his Olympic men's figure skating title by winning the gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; first wins gold at Sochi (2014)


Figure SkaterYuzuru Hanyu

• 2018 Polish ski jumper Kamil Stoch retains his Olympic individual large hill title (Sochi 2014) with gold in Pyeongchang; beats normal hill winner Andreas Wellinger of Germany by 3.4m
• 2018 Russian biathlete Anastasiya Kuzmina wins her 3rd career Olympic gold medal in women's 12.5k mass start in Pyeongchang; 7.5k sprint champion in Vancouver (2010) and Sochi (2014)

Daytona 500
2019 61st Daytona 500: Joe Gibbs Racing goes 1-2-3; Denny Hamlin holds off reigning Cup Series champion Joey Logano and teammate Kyle Busch to win his 2nd Great American Race


NFL Head Coach and NASCAR Team OwnerJoe Gibbs

Auto RacerKyle Busch
NBA All-Star Game
2019 NBA All-Star Game, Spectrum Centre, Charlotte, NC: Team LeBron beats Team Giannis, 178-164; MVP: Kevin Durant GS Warriors, F

• 2020 62nd Daytona 500: Denny Hamlin wins second straight title by 0.014 seconds over Ryan Blaney on the second restart in overtime; his third Daytona victory

Laureus Awards
2020 Laureus World Sports Awards, Berlin, Germany: Sportsman: Lewis Hamilton & Lionel Messi; Sportswoman: Simone Biles; Team: South Africa National Rugby Union team


GymnastSimone Biles

 

FEB 18

• 1899 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias, 3-2 to sweep series, 2-0 for CAHL

Baseball Trade

1909 Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps


MLB PitcherCy Young

NHL Record
1919 Cy Denneny of NHL Ottawa Senators scores record 52nd goal


NHL StarCy Denneny
Sports History
1922 Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his federal judgeship to give full attention to job as Major League Baseball Commissioner


1st MLB CommissionerKenesaw Mountain Landis

• 1924 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard

Sports History
1924 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger


Figure SkaterSherwin Badger

• 1928 Johan Grøttumsbråten of Norway wins the Nordic combined gold at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; doubles up with the 18k cross country gold the previous day
• 1928 Norway goes 1-2 in the ski jumping at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics with Alf Andersen taking gold ahead of Sigmund Ruud

Olympic Gold
1928 Sonja Henie of Norway wins the women’s figure skating gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Olympic Games; her first of 3 consecutive titles in the event


Figure Skater and ActressSonja Henie

• 1928 USA 2 beats USA 1 by 0.5s for the 5-man bobsleigh gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; Germany 2 takes bronze
• 1932 Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title
• 1936 NHL record 32 points scored, NY Americans (28) & Mont Maroons (24)
• 1943 A syndicate headed by New York lumberman William D Cox buys MLB's Philadelphia Phillies for $850,000; 33 year-old Cox is youngest owner in baseball
• 1944 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall signs a contract to play baseball with the Cincinnati Reds just one day after playing in a high school basketball game; debuts later that year
• 1951 3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes
• 1952 Norwegian speed skater Hjalmar Anderson wins his 3rd gold medal of the Oslo Winter Olympics when he claims the 10,000m in Olympic record 16:45.8; also wins gold in 1,500m and 5,000m

Sports History
1960 Continental League President Branch Rickey and Toronto team owner Jack Kent Cooke announce the opening date of their new baseball league as April 18, 1961


Baseball Player and Sports ExecutiveBranch Rickey

• 1960 VIII Winter Olympic Games open in Squaw Valley, California
• 1960 Walter O'Malley, LA Dodger owner, purchases Chavez Ravine for $494,000
• 1961 Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater
• 1962 4th Daytona 500: Race winner Fireball Roberts dominates the event, leading 144 of the 200 laps
• 1967 Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers
• 1968 After winning men's luge singles Olympic gold medal in Innsbruck (1964), Thomas Köhler of Germany teams with Klaus Bonsack to take out the doubles in Grenoble
• 1968 X Winter Olympic Games close in Grenoble, France
• 1969 Doug Walters scores 2nd innings century after 242 in 1st

Daytona 500
1973 15th Daytona 500: Richard Petty wins his 4th Great American Race by more than 2 laps from Bobby Isaac


Auto RacerRichard Petty

• 1977 West Indies cricket fast bowlers Joel Garner (4/130) and (Colin Croft 3/85) debut in drawn 1st Test v Pakistan at Bridgetown, Barbados
• 1978 1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii

Daytona 500
1979 21st Daytona 500: Richard Petty wins after race leaders Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison collide with each other on final lap; first 500 mile race broadcast from start to finish


Auto RacerCale Yarborough

Auto RacerRichard Petty

• 1980 East German cross country skier Barbara Petzold wins first of 2 gold medals at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics in women's 10k; also takes gold as part of 4 x 5k relay team
• 1980 Soviet figure skater Irina Rodnina wins her 3rd consecutive Olympic pairs title at Lake Placid; gold medals with husband Alexander Zaitsev (1976, 80) and Alexei Ulanov (1972)

Sports History
1981 20-year-old Edmonton center Wayne Gretzky becomes first player in NHL history to score 5 career hat-tricks before age 21; scores 5 goals and 2 assists in 9-2 Oilers' home win against St. Louis


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky

• 1983 Indiana Pacers lose, 121-94 in Milwaukee; begin a 28 NBA game losing streak on the road
• 1983 Right wing Lanny McDonald becomes the first player in NHL franchise Calgary Flames' history to score 50 goals in a season in a 5-1 loss to Buffalo Sabres
• 1984 East German figure skater Katarina Witt wins first of 2 consecutive women's singles gold medals at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; also wins gold in Calgary (1988)
• 1984 Finnish cross-country skier Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen wins the 20k gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; sweeps all 3 individual events, also winning 5k and 10k events

Olympic Gold
1984 Finnish ski jumper Matti Nykänen wins first of 4 career Olympic gold medals in the Large Hill individual event at the Sarajevo Winter Games


Ski JumperMatti Nykänen

• 1986 San Antonio guard Alvin Robertson scores NBA's 2nd quadruple double-20 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists & 10 steals in 120-114 win over Phoenix Suns

Daytona 500
1990 32nd Daytona 500: Derrike Cope wins after Dale Earnhardt shreds right rear tyre on last lap


Auto RacerDale Earnhardt
Sports History
1991 Edmonton Oiler goalie Grant Fuhr returns to NHL after season-long suspension for substance abuse & shuts out NJ Devils 4-0


NHL GoalieGrant Fuhr
World Record
1994 Dan Jansen skates world record 1000m (1:12.43)


Speed SkaterDan Jansen

• 1994 Shreveport Pirates join Canadian Football League as 4th US-based team; fold 1995
• 1996 38th Daytona 500: Dale Jarrett wins his 2nd Great American race ahead of Dale Earnhardt and Ken Schrader

Cricket World Cup
1996 First ODI for Kenya national cricket team in Cricket World Cup v India: Sachin Tendulkar scores 127*


CricketerSachin Tendulkar

• 2001 43rd Daytona 500: Michael Waltrip wins tragic race; last lap crash claims life of Dale Earnhardt, prompting sport to implement new safety procedures

Sports History
2004 Greg Maddux signs with the Chicago Cubs, the team he began his career with


MLB Pitching LegendGreg Maddux

• 2007 49th Daytona 500: Kevin Harvick wins by 0.02s over Mark Martin in the closest finish since the first race at Daytona in 1959

56th NBA All-Star Game
2007 56th NBA All-Star Game, Thomas & Mack Center, Paradise, NV: West beats East, 153-132; MVP: Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers, F


NBA GuardKobe Bryant
Laureus Awards
2008 Laureus World Sports Awards, Marinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia: Sportsman: Roger Federer; Sportswoman: Justine Henin; Team: South African Men's National Rugby Union team


Tennis ChampionRoger Federer

Tennis PlayerJustine Henin

• 2014 American snowboarder David Wise wins first of 2 consecutive Olympic halfpipe gold medals in Sochi; wins again in Pyeongchang (2018)
• 2014 Netherlands sweeps the medals in the men's 1,000m speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Jorrit Bergsma wins gold ahead of teammates Sven Kramer and Bob de Jong
• 2018 60th Daytona 500: Austin Dillon wins after multi-car wreck sends race into overtime (207 laps) ahead of rookie Darrell Wallace Jr
• 2018 After taking out the men's combined gold medal, Austrian alpine skier Marcel Hirscher wins the giant slalom at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
• 2018 Frenchman Martin Fourcade wins his 2nd of 3 gold medals at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the 15k mass start biathlon; also wins men's 12.5k pursuit & mixed relay

NBA All-Star Game
2018 NBA All-Star Game, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA: Team LeBron beats Team Curry, 148-145; MVP: LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers, F

Laureus Awards
2019 Laureus World Sports Awards, Monte-Carlo Sporting, Monaco: Sportsman: Novak Đoković; Sportswoman: Simone Biles; Team: French Men's National Football team


GymnastSimone Biles

Tennis ChampionNovak Đoković

• 2019 NHL hockey team Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon agrees to invest $250 million into the Alliance of American Football; named new chairman of the AAF
• 2022 Johannes Thingnes Bø of Norway wins his 4th biathlon gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics when he takes out the men's mass start

 

FEB 19

• 1928 Canada retains the Olympic ice hockey title when they rout Switzerland, 13-0 in the final round in St. Moritz; Canadian left-wing Dave Trottier top scores with 15 points
• 1928 Gillis Grafström of Sweden wins his 3rd consecutive Olympic men’s figure skating gold medal at St. Moritz; one of only 2 athletes to win gold at both Winter & Summer Games (won figure skating Antwerp 1920)
• 1928 II Winter Olympic Games close at St Moritz, Switzerland

• 1928 World champion French team Andrée Joly and Pierre Brunet win the Olympic pairs figure skating gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Games; the couple marry in 1929 and take 2nd straight gold in 1932
• 1942 NY Yankees announce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games
• 1946 New York Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican Baseball League for a fee of $10,000
• 1952 American defending champion Dick Button becomes 1st figure-skater to land a triple jump in competition; performs triple loop in Olympic free skate in Oslo; wins gold medal ahead of Austria’s Helmut Seibt
• 1960 Swedish cross country skier Sixten Jernberg follows his 50k gold medal in Cortina d'Ampezzo (1956) with victory in 30k event at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics
• 1960 Three time Canadian world champions Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul win the pairs figure skating Olympic gold medal at Squaw Valley, California
• 1961 Henk van der Grift (Neth) becomes world champ all-round skater
• 1965 NFL adds 6th official - the line judge
• 1967 Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater

Sports History

1970 AL Cy Young Award winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking


Baseball PitcherDenny McLain

• 1972 Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223* v WI at Kingston
• 1977 A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000
• 1977 Doug Walters scores 250 v NZ, 217 stand for 7th wicket with Gilmour
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• 1977 Right wing Rod Gilbert scores a goal and adds an assist in a 5-2 defeat at the NY Islanders to become first player in NY Rangers history (11th in NHL) to score 1,000 career points

Daytona 500
1978 20th Daytona 500: Bobby Allison takes lead with 11 laps remaining; lowest starting position (33rd) for winner until 2007


Auto RacerBobby Allison
Olympic Gold
1980 American speed skater Eric Heiden wins 1,000m in Olympic record 1:15.18; third of record 5 gold medal sweep of events at Lake Placid


Speed SkaterEric Heiden

• 1980 Botham a century & 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay
• 1980 Swedish alpine skier Ingemar Stenmark wins the giant slalom from Andreas Wenzel of Liechtenstein at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; also takes slalom gold
• 1980 Ulrich Wehling of East Germany wins his third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the Nordic combined event at Lake Placid; winner Sapporo (1972), Innsbruck (1976)
• 1980 Washington beats Montreal, 3-1 to end the Canadiens' 34 game unbeaten streak against Capitals; Caps 0-32-2 against Montreal since entering NHL in 1974

Sports History
1983 Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherFernando Valenzuela

• 1983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 m free style swimming record
• 1984 1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)

Daytona 500
1984 26th Daytona 500: Cale Yarborough wins for 2nd consecutive year and 4th time in career; last-lap pass to beat Darrell Waltrip


Auto RacerCale Yarborough

Racing Car DriverDarrell Waltrip

• 1984 Soviet Union wins its 6th Olympic ice hockey gold medal with a 2-0 win over silver medallists Czechoslovakia at the Sarajevo Winter Games
• 1984 Swedish cross country skier Thomas Wassberg wins 50k event at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; his second gold of the Games (4 x 10k relay) and 3rd of his career (15k Lake Placid 1980)
• 1984 XIV Winter Olympic Games close in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

Sports History
1987 Less than a month after re-signing, Oakland A's pitcher Vida Blue retires


Major League Baseball pitcherVida Blue

Daytona 500
1989 31st Daytona 500: Darrell Waltrip wins when Hendrick Racing team decides to use fuel strategy, being the only car not to pit in the closing laps


Racing Car DriverDarrell Waltrip

• 1992 In a blockbuster NHL trade, Pittsburgh Penguins send Mark Recchi, Brian Benning & LA's 1st round 1992 pick (Jason Bowen) to the Philadelphia Flyers for Kjell Samuelsson, Rick Tocchet & Ken Wregget
• 1995 37th Daytona 500: Sterling Marlin wins for 2nd straight year; 3rd driver to achieve back-to-back titles (Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough)
• 1998 US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan
• 2006 48th Daytona 500: Jimmie Johnson driving from Hendrick Motorsports wins 203 lap race; goes on to win his first championship

NBA All-Star Game
2006 55th NBA All-Star Game, Toyota Centre, Houston, TX: East beats West, 122-120; MVP: LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers, F

• 2014 After winning the combined gold in Turin (2006), American alpine skier Ted Ligety has to wait 8 years for his next Olympic success, gold in the giant slalom in Sochi
• 2014 Canadian team Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyes win their second consecutive Olympic 2-woman bobsleigh gold medal at the Sochi Winter Games
• 2014 Czech speed skater Martina Sáblíková retains her Olympic 5,000m title (Vancouver 2010) in Sochi; also Vancouver 3,000m gold
• 2014 Norwegian biathletes Ole Einar Bjørndalen (sprint gold) and Emil Hegle Svendsen (mass start gold), each win their 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the mixed relay

NBA All-Star Game
2017 NBA All-Star Game, Smoothie King Centre, New Orleans, LA: West beats East, 192-182; MVP: Anthony Davis, New Orleans Pelicans, F


Basketball PlayerAnthony Davis

• 2018 Canadian team of Justin Kripps & Alexander Kopacz dead-heat in 3:16.86 with Germans Francesco Friedrich & Thorsten Margis for the 2-man bobsleigh gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
• 2019 Four-time MLB All-Star at 3B Manny Machado agrees to the biggest free-agent contract in American sports history, a 10 year deal worth $300 million with the San Diego Padres
• 2021 In a softening of 4-year WADA ban on Russia from all international sport, Russia to compete under acronym "ROC" after name of the Russian Olympic Committee
• 2022 Alexander Bolshunov, representing Russian Olympic Committee, wins men's 50k freestyle cross country gold in Beijing to become only 2nd man to achieve 30k/50k double at a Winter Olympics
• 2023 65th Daytona 500: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wins for JTG Daugherty Racing in double overtime and under caution over a record 212 laps; former NBA player Brad Daugherty first Black car owner to win the race

 

FEB 20

• 1912 Argentina beats the MCC in their inaugural 1st-class cricket fixture at the Buenos Aires Cricket Club; lose the second and third games of the series
• 1919 Foundation NHL club Toronto Arenas are permitted to cease operations due to financial difficulties; later become Toronto St. Patricks and then Maple Leafs
• 1923 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson becomes President and owner of Boston Braves; buys the team for $300,000 with NY attorney Judge Emil Fuchs and Bostonian James McDonough

• 1926 Montreal and Ottawa battle out just the second 0-0 tie in NHL history; dominant goalies are Clint Benedict (Maroons) and Alex Connell (Senators)
• 1929 Boston Red Sox announce they will play Sunday MLB games at Braves Field; Fenway Park located too close to a church
• 1952 American alpine skier Andrea Mead-Lawrence is only multi-gold medallist at the Oslo Winter Olympics when she wins the slalom, after taking out the inaugural giant slalom

Altwegg wins Gold

1952 Britain's Jeannette Altwegg wins the Olympic women’s figure skating gold medal at the Olso Winter Games ahead of American Tenley Albright, who goes on to win in Cortina d'Ampezzo (1956)


Figure SkaterTenley Albright

• 1952 Emmett Ashford is certified to be first black umpire in organised baseball; has to wait until 1966 for MLB debut
• 1953 August A. Busch buys St. Louis Cardinals MLB club from Fred Saigh for $3.75 million; pledges not to move the team from St. Louis, Missouri
• 1953 US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling

Arcaro's 4,000th Winner
1958 American future Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner on Riding Ban in the 8th race at Santa Anita


Racing Hall of Fame JockeyEddie Arcaro

• 1958 LA Coliseum approves 2-year pact allowing LA Dodgers to use facility whilst Dodger Stadium is completed in time for the 1962 MLB season
• 1960 Soviet females sweep the 10k cross country event at Squaw Valley; first medal sweep for the Soviets at a Winter Olympics; Maria Gusakova wins from Lyubov Kozyreva and Radya Yeroshina
• 1963 Australian cricket greats Neil Harvey and Alan Davidson play final Test match in drawn 5th Test vs England at the Sydney Cricket Ground

Mays Signs Record Contract
1963 Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Mays becomes the highest-paid player in MLB, signing a record $100,000 contract with the San Francisco Giants


MLB LegendWillie Mays
Howe's Scores #1,800 Point
1971 "Mr. Hockey," Gordie Howe scores a goal and adds 3 assists, including his 1,800th career NHL point, in 6-5 Red Wings' win over Buffalo in Detroit; Howe's 1,670th game


Ice Hockey LegendGordie Howe

Esposito's Magical Season
1971 Bruin Phil Esposito is NHL's quickest to score 50 goals in a season


NHL StarPhil Esposito
Daytona 500
1972 14th Daytona 500: A .J. Foyt dominates the race, winning by almost 2 laps over his closest competitor Charlie Glotzbach


Racing Car DriverA. J. Foyt

• 1972 1st time Cleveland Cavaliers beat NY Knicks (111-109)

Speed Skating Championship
1972 Ard Schenk wins world championship for speed skating


Speed SkaterArd Schenk

• 1973 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins
• 1974 Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1M from Houston Aeros, WHA
• 1975 Leonard Baichan scores 105* on Test Cricket debut, v Pakistan Lahore

Ali KOs Coopman
1976 Muhammad Ali's bout against Belgian boxer Jean Pierre Coopman in San Juan, Puerto Rico is often regarded as a glorified sparring session; Ali wins by 5th round KO


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali
Daytona 500
1977 19th Daytona 500: Cale Yarborough wins his 2nd Great American Race; Janet Guthrie first female NASCAR Cup Series driver; finishes 12th


Auto RacerCale Yarborough

• 1980 Soviet 2-time world champion team Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karponosov win the Olympic ice dance gold medal at Lake Placid by just 0.96 from Krisztina Regőczy & András Sallay of Hungary

Olympic Gold
1980 Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins his 2nd gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics as part of the 4 x 10k relay; also wins 30k and 50k gold


Cross-Country SkierNikolay Zimyatov

• 1981 Quebec's Czech rookie brothers Peter and Anton Šťastný each score first career NHL hat-tricks in Nordiques' 9-3 win at Vancouver; Peter adds 3 assists and Anton 2
• 1982 NY Islanders win then NHL record 15th straight game by beating Colorado Rockies, 3-2 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
• 1983 25th Daytona 500: 3rd win in the event for Cale Yarborough; first time an in-car camera goes into victory lane before a national CBS Sports audience
• 1983 Roland Liboton becomes world champ cross-country cycling
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• 1985 After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket

Sports History
1986 LA Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1M salary by arbitration


Baseball PitcherOrel Hershiser
Sports History
1986 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany, New York


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson
Olympic Gold
1988 Brian Boitano wins Olympic gold medal in figure skating


Figure SkaterBrian Boitano

• 1988 Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50m (6.58 sec)
• 1988 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jumps indoor world record (2.06 m)
• 1993 Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp
• 1993 NY Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31
• 1994 36th Daytona 500: Sterling Marlin wins his first NASCAR race; Neil Bonnett and Rodney Orr killed in separate practice incidents
• 1994 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)

Baseball Record
1997 San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds signs record $22.9M 2 year contract


MLB LegendBarry Bonds

• 1998 American world champion Tara Lipinski wins Olympic figure skating gold medal ahead of teammate Michelle Kwan at the Nagano Winter Games

Olympic Games
1998 Vancouver Canucks' right wing Pavel Bure scores 5 goals for Russia in a 7-4 semi-final win over Finland at the Nagano Winter Olympics


Ice Hockey GreatPavel Bure

• 1999 Toronto Maple Leafs play their first NHL home game at Air Canada Centre; Steve Thomas scores overtime winner in a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens

Daytona 500
2000 42nd Daytona 500: Polesitter Dale Jarrett wins his 3rd Great American Race ahead of Jeff Gordon and Bill Elliott


Auto RacerBill Elliott

• 2005 47th Daytona 500: Jeff Gordon able to hold off Kurt Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr over 3 extra laps to win his third Daytona 500
• 2005 54th NBA All-Star Game, Pepsi Center, Denver, CO: East beats West, 125-115; MVP: Allen Iverson, Philadelphia 76ers, G
• 2011 53rd Daytona 500: 20-year-old Trevor Bayne, driving for Wood Brothers Racing, wins to become the youngest Daytona 500 winner

NBA All-Star Game
2011 60th NBA All-Star Game, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA: West beats East, 148-143; MVP: Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers, F


NBA GuardKobe Bryant

• 2014 Adelina Sotnikova convincingly wins the women's singles figure skating gold medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics for Russia's first title in the ladies event
• 2014 After winning the individual large hill 10k Nordic combined title Jørgen Graabak of Norway wins his 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the team large hill / 4 x 5 km relay
• 2014 Canada beats Sweden, 6-3 in final to become first women's curling team to go through the Olympics undefeated as they win Sochi gold medal; first Manitoba based team to win Olympic gold
• 2014 France sweeps the medals in the men's ski cross at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Jean-Frédéric Chapuis takes the gold ahead of teammates Arnaud Bovolenta and Jonathan Midol
• 2014 Marie-Philip Poulin scores in overtime to lead Canada to a 3-2 win over the US and 4th consecutive Olympic women's ice hockey gold medal at the Sochi Winter Games
• 2018 After winning the Olympic ice dance gold medal in Vancouver (2010), Canadian pair Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir follow their team event gold by taking the ice dance title at the Pyeongchang Winter Games
• 2018 Dutch skater Jorien ter Mors becomes first female to win Olympic medals in 2 different sports at a single Winter Games (Pyeongchang); 1,000m speed skating gold, 3000m short track relay bronze
• 2018 Dutch women’s short track speed skating 3000m relay team skates a world record 4:03.471 in the B Final at the Pyeongchang Olympics; South Korea takes the gold medal in an inferior time, 4:07.361; Dutch win bronze by default
• 2018 Frenchman Martin Fourcade wins his 3rd gold medal of Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the biathlon mixed relay; also wins 12.5k pursuit & 15k mass start; 5th career gold (2 Sochi 2014)

Australian Open Women's Tennis
2021 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Naomi Osaka of Japan wins her 4th major and second Australian title; beats American Jennifer Brady 6-4, 6-3


Tennis PlayerNaomi Osaka

• 2022 64th Daytona 500: On owner Roger Penske's 85th birthday, 23 year-old rookie Austin Cindric works his way through numerous crashes over the closing laps to win from Bubba Wallace
• 2022 Hannah Green of Australia becomes first woman to win a mix-gender golf tournament over 72 holes; closes with 5-under 66 for a 4-stroke win in TPS Murray River on the PGA Tour of Australasia

NBA All-Star Game
2022 NBA All-Star Game, Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse Arena, Cleveland: Team LeBron beats Team Durant, 163-160; MVP: Stephen Curry (50 points, record 16 x 3s)


Basketball SuperstarStephen Curry

• 2022 Therese Johaug of Norway wins women's 30 kilometre freestyle cross-country for the individual golden trifecta (10k, 15k, 30k) at the Beijing Winter Olympics; her fourth career Olympic gold medal
• 2022 XXIV Olympic Winter Games close in Beijing, China; Norway finishes with record 16 gold medals

 

FEB 21

• 1931 Chicago White Sox & NY Giants play 1st exhibition night game
• 1948 NASCAR is incorporated
• 1951 South Carolina House of Representatives urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated by Major League Baseball

• 1953 Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81
• 1957 Dodgers (Fort Worth) & Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises
• 1960 Biathlon debuts at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics; Klas Lestander from Sweden becomes the first Olympic champion ahead of Finland's Antti Tyrväinen and Soviet Aleksandr Privalov
• 1968 Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000

Contract of Interest

1969 Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Washington Senators


Baseball PlayerTed Williams

• 1973 Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out
• 1979 2 Iowa girls HS basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters game was won 4-2 in 4th overtime period

Olympic Gold
1980 American speed skater Eric Heiden wins 1,500m in Olympic record 1:55.44; 4th of record 5 gold medal sweep of events at Lake Placid


Speed SkaterEric Heiden

• 1980 British figure skater Robin Cousins wins men's singles gold medal at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; goes on to pro career, TV analysis and stage performance & production
• 1980 East German cross country skier Barbara Petzold wins her second gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics as part of the women's 4 x 5k relay team; also wins 10k gold
• 1980 Liechtenstein becomes the smallest country to produce an Olympic champion as Hanni Wenzel wins the women's giant slalom at the Lake Placid Winter Games
• 1983 NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak
• 1985 Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)

Sports History
1985 National League baseball player Tim Raines is awarded a $1.2 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator


MLB OutfielderTim Raines
Meeting of Interest
1989 Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose
Olympic Gold
1992 Kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympic gold medal in women's figure skating


Figure SkaterKristi Yamaguchi
NBA All-Star Game
1993 43rd NBA All-Star Game, Delta Center, Salt Lake City, UT: West beats East, 135-132 (OT); MVPs: Karl Malone, Utah Jazz F; John Stockton, Utah Jazz, PG


NBA Point GuardJohn Stockton

Basketball PlayerKarl Malone

• 1993 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m)
• 1995 CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners become San Antonio Texans
• 2002 Canadian world champion women's ice hockey team wins first of 4 consecutive Winter Olympic gold medals with a 3-2 win over the United States at Salt Lake City
• 2014 Canada take the curling double at the Sochi Winter Olympics beating Great Britain, 9-3 in the final; also win women's gold medal
• 2014 Park Seung-hi wins Olympic women's 1,000m short track speed skating gold medal in Sochi for her 2nd gold medal of the Games; 3,000m relay winner
• 2014 Viktor An of Russia wins 6th career Olympic short track speed skating gold medal as part of the 5,000m relay team in Sochi; 2nd gold of the day (500m) and 3rd of Games (1,000m)
• 2016 58th Daytona 500: Denny Hamlin wins closest finish in race history - by just 0.01s from Martin Truex Jr
• 2018 Norwegian cross country skiers Martin Johnsrud Sundby, Johannes Høsflot & Klæbo win their 2nd Olympic gold medals in Pyeongchang in the men's team sprint freestyle; trio also wins gold in 4 x 10k relay
• 2018 Winter Olympics: Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall become the first Americans in history to win a cross country gold medal (team sprint)

Australian Men's Tennis Open
2021 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković of Serbia wins a record extending 9th Australian title; dominates Russian Daniil Medvedev 7-5, 6-2, 6-2


Tennis ChampionNovak Đoković

 

FEB 22

• 1860 Organized baseball played in San Francisco for 1st time between the Eagles and the Red Rovers
• 1888 “Father of American Golf” John Reid first demonstrates golf on a Yonkers cow pasture to friends
• 1892 Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms

• 1893 1st Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 32-22 in Birmingham
• 1927 ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine

Land Speed Record

1933 Malcolm Campbell sets a world land speed record of 272.46 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car at Daytona Beach, Florida


Motor RacerMalcolm Campbell
Figure Skating World Championship
1936 Sonja Henie of Norway follows up her Winter Olympics victory with an incredible 10th consecutive women’s World Championship figure skating gold medal in Paris, France


Figure Skater and ActressSonja Henie

• 1952 German husband and wife team Ria and Paul Falk win the mixed pairs gold medal at the Oslo Winter Olympics; defeat American siblings, Karol and Peter Kennedy
• 1952 Germany takes the Olympic bobsleigh double with gold in the 4-man event at the Oslo Winter Games; Adreas Ostler and Lorenz Niebert score their 2nd gold medals after winning the 2-man a week earlier
• 1956 1st English soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
• 1957 Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
• 1957 Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958
• 1958 Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days
• 1959 Inaugural Daytona 500: Lee Petty and Johnny Beauchamp cross finish line side by side; Beauchamp declared unofficial winner; ruling overturned after 3 days by NASCAR founder Bill France Sr
• 1960 German skier Georg Thoma becomes the first non-Nordic athlete to win the Nordic combined event at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics

NBA Record
1962 Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free-throw attempts (converts 19) in Warriors 139-121 win over St. Louis Hawks at Philadelphia Civic Center


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain

• 1967 Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL
• 1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at an American parimutuel race at a major US track aboard Cohesian at Charles Town, West Virginia

Daytona 500
1970 12th Daytona 500: Pete Hamilton wins by just 3 car lengths over David Pearson, after passing him with 9 laps to go


Auto RacerDavid Pearson

• 1972 Red Wings rookie Henry Boucha scores in his first NHL Game in 5-4 win over Toronto Maple Leafs at Olympias Arena in Detroit, Michigan

Baseball History
1979 Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's


Baseball Player and ManagerBilly Martin
Miracle on Ice
1980 "Miracle on Ice": US ice hockey team beats heavily favoured Soviet Union, 4-3 at Lake Placid in one of the biggest upsets in Olympic history; Americans go on to win gold medal


Ice Hockey PlayerMike Eruzione

Ice Hockey Player & CoachHerb Brooks

• 1980 Aleksandr Tikhonov of the Soviet Union earns his 4th straight gold medal as part of the 4 x 7.5k biathlon relay team at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics
• 1980 Soviet biathlete Anatoly Alyabyev wins his 2nd gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics as part of the 4 x 7.5k relay team; also wins individual gold
• 1980 Swedish World Cup and World champion Ingemar Stenmark wins his 2nd gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics, taking out the slalom; follows-on from giant slalom success

NHL Record
1981 Slovak brothers Anton & Peter Šťastný score NHL rookie record 8 points each in Quebec Nordiques, 11-7 win over Washington Capitals at Capital Centre


Ice Hockey PlayerPeter Šťastný

• 1983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m free style swimming record

Skating Word Record
1988 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec)


Speed SkaterBonnie Blair

• 1990 1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps

Cricket Debut
1991 Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs NZ at Hamilton


CricketerSanath Jayasuriya

• 1998 Petr Svoboda scores the winner as the Czech Republic claims its first ever Olympic ice hockey gold medal with a 1-0 victory over Russia in Nagano, Japan
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• 1998 XVIII Winter Olympic Games close in Nagano Japan
• 2003 Pakistani pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar bowls the fastest ball recorded in cricket history at 100.2 mph (161.3 km/h)
• 2014 After winning the men's parallel giant slalom at the Sochi Winter Olympics, Russian snowboarder Vic Wild wins his 2nd gold in the parallel slalom
• 2014 At age 34, Mario Matt of Austria becomes the oldest champion in Olympic alpine skiing history with the slalom gold medal at Sochi
• 2014 Dutch speed skaters Jorien ter Mors (1,500m champion) and Ireen Wüst (3,000m winner) each claim their 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics as part of the women's pursuit team
• 2014 Norway sweeps the medals in the women's 30k cross country skiing at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Marit Bjørgen wins her 6th career gold ahead of teammates Therese Johaug and Kristin Størmer Steira
• 2014 Snowboard Olympic parallel special slalom event debuts and is run for the only time at the Sochi Winter Games; Russian Vic Wild and Julia Dujmovits of Canada win unique gold medals
• 2015 57th Daytona 500: Joey Logano wins event for 2nd time after taking lead with 10 laps to go; is ahead of Kevin Harvick before caution flag on last lap ends race in his favour
• 2018 Chinese short track speed skater Wu Dajing beats men's 500m world record twice en route to winning the gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; 2nd man in history under 40 seconds (39.584s)
• 2018 German individual Nordic combined 10k large hill champion Johannes Rydzek and normal hill winner Eric Frenzel win their 2nd gold medals of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the 4 x 5k team event
• 2018 US wins Olympic women's ice hockey gold medal for the first time in 20 years with a 4-3 shootout victory over Canada in Pyeongchang; scores tied 3-3 after overtime
• 2018 Women's big air snowboarding event makes Olympic debut at Pyeongchang; Austria's Anna Gasser is inaugural gold medallist

NFL History
2019 Robert Kraft, owner of NFL team the New England Patriots, charged with soliciting prostitution, as part of human-trafficking sting operation in Jupiter, Florida


Business Magnate and NFL OwnerRobert Kraft
Ronaldo's 1,000th Game
2020 Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo marks his 1,000th senior appearance by scoring in Juventus' 2-1 Serie A win over SPAL; 725 career goals in 836 club games and 164 internationals


Football StarCristiano Ronaldo

• 2022 US Women soccer players settle their lawsuit with US soccer federation for $24 million and a promise to equalise pay [1]

 

FEB 23

• 1874 Major Walter Clopton Winfield patents a game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)

Skating Record

1895 Jaap Eden skates world record 10km (17:56)


Cyclist and Speed SkaterJaap Eden

Boxing Title Fight
1906 Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart in 20 for heavyweight boxing title


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionTommy Burns
Baseball History
1934 Casey Stengel becomes manager of Brooklyn Dodgers


Baseball Hall of Fame ManagerCasey Stengel
Boxing Title Fight
1938 Joe Louis retains his world heavyweight boxing title by knocking out Nathan Mann in round 3 at Madison Square Garden, New York; second defense by Louis


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJoe Louis
Pro Wrestling
1939 Lou Thesz beats Everett Marshall in St Louis, to win the National Wrestling Association World Heavyweight C'ship for a 2nd time


Professional WrestlerLou Thesz

• 1952 Following his Nordic combined gold medal in St. Moritz (1948), Heikki Hasu takes his 2nd Olympic gold as part of Finland’s 4 x 10k cross country relay team at the Olso Winter Games
• 1952 Lydia Wideman of Finland becomes first female Olympic cross-country skiing champion; wins inaugural 10k event in Olso; Finnish medal sweep with minors to Mirja Hietamies and Siiri Rantanen

F1 World Champion
1958 5-time F1 World Drivers champion Juan Manuel Fangio is kidnapped by Cuban rebels from Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement; released soon after Cuban GP


Cuban Revolutionary and PresidentFidel Castro

Auto RacerJuan Manuel Fangio

• 1960 Carol Heiss wins the women's figure skating gold medal at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics; US takes the singles double after David Jenkins wins men's event

Daytona 500
1964 6th Daytona 500: Race winner Richard Petty leads for record 184 of the 200 laps


Auto RacerRichard Petty

• 1964 Charlie Finley signs a 4 year lease to keep MLB A's in Kansas City
• 1967 Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner

NBA Record
1968 Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain

• 1969 11th Daytona 500: LeeRoy Yarbrough driving for Junior Johnson, catches Charlie Glotzbach on final lap to win; first Daytona 500 won on a last lap pass
• 1971 Boston Bruins begin 13 NHL game winning streak

World Record
1980 American speed skater Eric Heiden wins Olympic 10,000m in world record 14:28.13; sweeps all 5 speed skating events at Lake Placid; only athlete to win 5 gold medals at one Winter Games


Speed SkaterEric Heiden

• 1980 Olympic giant slalom champion Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein wins the women's slalom, her second gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Games

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


Cross-Country SkierNikolay Zimyatov
Sports History
1985 Goaltender Patrick Roy makes his NHL debut for the Montreal Canadiens


NHL Goalie and CoachPatrick Roy

• 1985 Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight throws a chair onto the court during a game

Sports History
1986 Despite losing, Boston Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration in MLB history, $1.35M


Baseball PlayerWade Boggs

• 1987 Baseball World Series winning manager (1985) Dick Howser retires from Kansas City Royals role due to brain tumor
• 1988 Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights & play up to 18 night games

Sports History
1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94)


Speed SkaterYvonne van Gennip

• 1991 NC is 1st NCAA basketball team to win 1,500 games
• 1992 Cricketer Andy Flower scores 115* on ODI debut as Zimbabwe lose to Sri Lanka
• 1992 XVI Winter Olympic Games close in Albertville, France
• 1993 Sacramento Gold Miners admitted as CFL's 9th franchise (1st US team)
• 1994 Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay $10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs Field) at Gateway (becomes official 3/23)
• 2014 56th Daytona 500: Dale Earnhardt Jr. breaks a 55-race winless streak to win his 2nd Great American Race

Olympic Gold
2014 Canada wins the Olympic ice hockey double with a 3-0 victory over Sweden in the men's gold medal game in Sochi; first team to finish the tournament undefeated since 1984


NHL StarJohn Tavares

• 2014 Russia sweeps the medals in the men's 50k cross country skiing at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Alexander Legkov wins gold ahead of teammates Maxim Vylegzhanin and Ilia Chernousov
• 2014 XXII Winter Olympic Games close in Sochi, Russia
• 2018 Dutch speed skater Kjeld Nuis wins his second gold medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the 1,000m; also 1,500m champion
• 2018 Russian figure skater Alina Zagitova wins the women's singles gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; earlier sets a new ISU best short program score of 82.92

Sports History
2019 Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi scores the 50th hat-trick of his career as Barcelona beats Sevilla, 4-2 in the Spanish La Liga


Football StarLionel Messi

• 2019 Roy Hodgson overtakes Sir Bobby Robson as the oldest man to manage a Premier League football club when at 71 years, 198 days his Crystal Palace beats Leicester City, 4-1
• 2019 Sri Lanka becomes first Asian cricket team to clinch a Test series in South Africa chasing down 197 in the 2nd Test in Port Elizabeth; Kusal Mendis 84no, Oshada Fernando 75no

Sports History
2021 Tiger Woods crashes his car driving south of Los Angeles, injuring both his legs


GolferTiger Woods

 

FEB 24

• 1917 Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleveland for $15,000

Sports History

1932 Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 253.96 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car at Daytona Beach, Florida


Motor RacerMalcolm Campbell

• 1952 Canada wins 6th Olympic ice hockey title courtesy of a final round 3-3 tie with the US at the Oslo Winter Games; Canadian center Billy Gibson top scores with 19 points
• 1952 Norway goes 1-2 in the men’s ski jumping event at the Oslo Winter Olympics with Arnfinn Bergmann winning gold ahead of teammate Torbjørn Falkanger
• 1960 Austria goes 1-2 in the men's slalom at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics; Ernst Hintersteer wins gold ahead of teammate Hias Leitner
• 1963 5th Daytona 500: Tiny Lund driving for Wood Bros Racing, wins on 4 pit stops as first 10 laps run under caution flag because of rain
• 1968 Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games
• 1974 Dutch speed skater Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes Women's Allround World Champion at Heerenveen, Netherlands, her third consecutive title and fourth in 5 years
• 1978 Kevin Porter, NJ, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game
• 1980 Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders

Olympic Gold
1980 US ice hockey team clinches gold medal with 4-2 win over Finland at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; comes after 4-3 "Miracle on Ice" victory against hot favorite Soviet Union


Ice Hockey Player & CoachHerb Brooks

• 1980 XIII Winter Olympic Games close in Lake Placid, New York
• 1982 Boston Celtics begin an 18 NBA game winning streak

Sports History
1982 Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky
Sports History
1987 LA Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point in a 97-93 win over the Suns in Phoenix


NBA LegendKareem Abdul-Jabbar
Olympic Gold
1988 Finnish ski jumper Matti Nykanen wins his 3rd gold medal of the Calgary Winter Olympics as part of the winning large hill team; normal and large hill individual champion


Ski JumperMatti Nykänen

• 1989 Harold E Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley

Sports History
1989 Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Durán wins 4th world title in different weight divisions when he beats Iran Barkley in a 12 round split decision in Atlantic City; 37-year-old Durán wins WBC middleweight title


BoxerRoberto Durán

• 1991 End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
• 1994 Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleveland Indians' park (Jacobs Field)
• 2002 IXX Winter Olympic Games close in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Olympic Gold
2002 Joe Sakic and Jerome Iginla each score twice as Canada defeats the United States, 5-2 to win the men's ice hockey Olympic gold medal at Salt Lake City


NHL LegendJoe Sakic
Cricket History
2010 Sachin Tendulkar scores the first double century in One Day International cricket


CricketerSachin Tendulkar

• 2013 55th Daytona 500: Jimmie Johnson wins 2nd Great American Race; Danica Patrick first female to start from pole position; also best-ever finish by a woman at Daytona (8th)
• 2018 2016 world mass start speed skating champion Lee Seung-hoon of South Korea wins the event at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; also Olympic 10,000m champion Vancouver (2010)
• 2018 After taking gold in the Olympic team sprint in Sochi (2014), Finnish cross country skier Iivo Niskanen wins the 50k classical event in Pyeongchang
• 2018 Ester Ledecká of the Czech Republic becomes first female to win Olympic gold medals in 2 different sports at a single Winter Games (Pyeongchang); skiing super-G and snowboarding parallel giant slalom
• 2018 Japanese speed skater Nana Takagi wins her 2nd gold medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the women's mass start event; also member Japan's successful pursuit team
• 2018 Men's big air snowboarding event makes Olympic debut at Pyeongchang; Canada's Sébastien Toutant is inaugural gold medallist
• 2018 Swiss alpine skiers Luca Aerni, Denise Feierabend, Wendy Holdener, Daniel Yule & Ramon Zenhäusern win the inaugural Olympic team event at Pyeongchang
• 2020 Memorial service for NBA star Kobe Byrant held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles

 

FEB 25

• 1904 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games
• 1924 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)

Sports History
1925 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles


Figure Skater and Tennis PlayerNathaniel Niles

Cricket History
1930 Brilliant West Indian cricket batsman George Headley completes twin tons (114 & 112) in 3rd Test win against England at Georgetown, British Guiana


West Indian CricketerGeorge Headley

• 1933 Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)
• 1933 New York industrialist Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox for $1.25 million
• 1940 1st televised hockey game in US - New York Rangers defeat visiting Montreal Canadians 6-2 at Maison Square Garden; W2XBS broadcasts to up to 300 receivers in NYC
• 1941 Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
• 1952 VI Winter Olympic Games close at Oslo, Norway
• 1957 US Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport
• 1961 Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak
• 1962 Mike O'Hara completes record 97th marathon

Sports History
1962 Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain scores 67 points against NY Knicks at Philadelphia Civic Center for the second successive year; Warriors lose 149-135


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain
Boxing Title Fight
1964 Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] wins his first world heavyweight boxing title when Sonny Liston fails to come out for round 7 at the Convention Center, Miami Beach


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali

Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionSonny Liston
Daytona 500
1968 10th Daytona 500: Cale Yarborough driving for Wood Brothers Racing wins by less than a second from LeeRoy Yarbrough; grid set exclusively by qualifying times


Auto RacerCale Yarborough

• 1969 Pension plan for baseball is agreed to

Baseball Trade
1972 Lopsided MLB trade - St. Louis Cardinals trade pitcher Steve Carlton to Philadelphia Phillies for pitcher Rick Wise; both players were involved in salary disputes with their teams


Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton

• 1973 Dutch speed skater Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes Women's Allround World Champion at Strömsund, Sweden her second consecutive title and third in 4 years
• 1974 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975

NBA Record
1977 New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts


NBA GuardPete Maravich
Cricket History
1978 England cricket all-rounder Ian Botham scores first Test century, 103 v New Zealand in Christchurch


CricketerIan Botham

• 1981 Exec Board of Baseball Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved
• 1981 NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 mins)
• 1981 NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames
• 1989 Javed Miandad scores 271 v NZ at Eden Park

Boxing Title Fight
1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

BoxerFrank Bruno

• 1990 Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup
• 1991 Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons v Sri Lanka (122 & 100*)

Sports History
1991 Businessman Bruce McNall, hockey legend Wayne Gretzky and actor John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky

Actor and ComedianJohn Candy

• 1993 Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"

Baseball Hall of Fame
1994 New York Yankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame


Sportscaster and MLB ShortstopPhil Rizzuto

• 1995 British super middleweight Nigel Benn puts opponent Gerard McClellan in hospital
• 2018 2-man bobsleigh champions Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis of Germany win their 2nd gold medals of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics as part of the German 4-man team
• 2018 Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen wins gold in women's 30k at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; brings her total Games medal haul to 15, most won by any athlete in Winter Games history
• 2018 Russian national team, competing under the name of Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR), wins Olympic ice hockey gold medal in Pyeongchang; beat Germany, 4-3 in overtime in the final
• 2018 Winter Olympics: Marit Bjoergen (Norway) becomes the most successful winter athlete of all time (15 medals) with gold in the 30k cross country
• 2018 XXIII Winter Olympic Games close in Pyeongchang, Korea; Norway wins a record 39 medals, 14 gold
• 2019 James Harden's scoring streak of games with at least 30 points ends at 32 as he scores 28 in the Rockets' 119-111 win over Atlanta in Houston; 2nd longest mark in NBA history

 

FEB 26

• 1839 1st Grand National steeplechase, Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool: Jem Mason wins aboard 5/1 favourite Lottery
• 1851 13th Grand National: Terry Abbott wins aboard Irish stallion Abd-El-Kader at 7/1; first dual winner and first to win back-to-back

Chess History

1859 Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins


Chess PlayerPaul Morphy

Cricket History
1887 George Lohmann took 1st 8-wkt haul in test cricket, 8-35 at Sydney Cricket Ground


Cricket Medium Pace BowlerGeorge Lohmann

• 1918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604
• 1930 West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England

Baseball History
1935 NY Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1938 Rie Van Veen swims world record 200m free style (2:24.6)
• 1938 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
• 1960 David Jenkins wins the men's figure skating gold medal at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics; US takes the singles double after Carol Heiss wins women's event
• 1960 USA's David Jenkins wins Olympic Gold for men's figure skating
• 1961 3rd Daytona 500: Marvin Panch wins in a 1960 Pontiac owned by Smokey Yunick when race leader Fireball Roberts' car suffered a blown engine with 13 laps remaining

Daytona 500
1967 9th Daytona 500: Mario Andretti wins his first and only NASCAR Grand National event; only time driver born outside the US has ever won the Great American Race


Auto RacerMario Andretti

• 1972 Ireland-Wales Five Nations Rugby match scheduled for Lansdowne Road, Dublin is cancelled because of escalating political situation; Championship not completed for first time since World War II

Cricket History
1980 New Zealand cricket captain Geoff Howarth 147 and Richard Hadlee 103 hold off West Indies pace quartet of Roberts, Garner, Holding and Croft during famous 2nd Test draw at Christchurch


CricketerRichard Hadlee

• 1981 84 penalties (406 mins) assessed for a brawl between NHL Minn & Bost

Cricket Debut
1982 Test Cricket debut of batsman Martin Crowe, playing for New Zealand v Australia in Wellington, run out for 9


CricketerMartin Crowe
Sports History
1987 NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points in one game is a Chicago Bulls record


Basketball SuperstarMichael Jordan

• 1987 Wash blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record

Contract of Interest
1989 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of-contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs


Baseball PlayerWade Boggs
Sports History
1989 NFL Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career


NFL Head CoachTom Landry
Sports History
1989 NY Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherTom Seaver

• 1991 Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons v NZ (119 & 102)

Baseball Hall of Fame
1991 Bill Veeck & Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck

Baseball PlayerTony Lazzeri

• 1991 NY-NJ Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together

Cricket Record
1993 Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123


Test CricketerAllan Border

• 1994 St Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1
• 1998 Steven M Gluckstern completes sale of NY Islanders
• 2006 XX Winter Olympic Games close in Turin, Italy

NBA All-Star Game
2012 61st NBA All-Star Game, Amway Centre, Orlando, FL: West beats East, 152-149; MVP: Kevin Durant, OKC Thunder, F


Basketball ForwardKevin Durant

• 2017 59th Daytona 500: Kurt Busch wins after Kyle Larson runs out of gas on last lap; Jeffrey Earnhardt makes NASCAR history, 1st ever 4th generation driver to compete in Daytona 500
• 2023 Caitlin Clark records 34 points, nine rebounds, and nine assists for Iowa against Indiana
• 2023 ICC Women's Cricket T20 World Cup, Cape Town: Defending champions Australia score a 19-run victory over South Africa to win their sixth title; Player of the series: Australian all-rounder Ash Gardner

 

FEB 27

• 1850 12th Grand National: Chris Green wins aboard Irish outsider Abd-El-Kader; goes on to become first dual winner and first to win in consecutive years
• 1856 18th Grand National: George Stevens wins aboard 25/1 Freetrader; first of Stevens' record 5 GN victories
• 1874 Baseball 1st played in England at Lord's Cricket Ground

Figure Skating History

1921 US Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard; US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger


Figure SkaterSherwin Badger

• 1925 Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 & 6-37 v England
• 1936 Dutch swimmer Willy den Ouden sets new women's world 100m freestyle record (1:04.6) in Amsterdam; lasts 22 years until broken in 1956 by Dawn Fraser of Australia

Cricket History
1937 Australian cricketer Don Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test match v England in 223 minutes, ensuring Australia wins the Ashes 3-2


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
NBA Record
1959 Boston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists Boston Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers


NBA Point GuardBob Cousy

• 1960 Five Nations Rugby Championship is won jointly by England and France with the pivotal game a 3-3 draw between the teams at Stade Colombes, Paris

Olympic Games
1960 US Olympic ice hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal


Ice Hockey PlayerBob Cleary

• 1960 Veikko Hakulinen of Finland wins his 3rd career Olympic cross country gold medal as part of Finland's 4 x 10k relay team at Squaw Valley, CA; winner: 50k (Oslo, 1952) and 30k (Cortina d’Ampezzo, 1956)

Contract of Interest
1963 Mickey Mantle of NY Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle
Daytona 500
1966 8th Daytona 500: Polesitter Richard Petty comes from 2 laps down to win the event after 198 laps were completed because of rain


Auto RacerRichard Petty

• 1966 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler and Bernard Ford of great Britain

Sports History
1966 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of US


Figure SkaterPeggy Fleming

• 1973 White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3 year $750,000 contract
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• 1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw

World Record
1984 Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8.675 m)


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

• 1987 American Mike Conley sets world indoor triple jump record (17.76m) in New York
• 1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption

Sports History
1988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speed skating in record 39.1


Speed SkaterBonnie Blair

• 1988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating
• 1992 Larry Smith named 9th Commissioner of the CFL
• 1994 XVII Winter Olympic Games close in Lillehammer, Norway
• 1999 Aston Villa are the last Premier League team to play a match with an all-English starting XI in a 4-1 defeat by Coventry

Oilers Retire Messier's #11
2007 Mark Messier's #11 jersey is retired by the Edmonton Oilers


NHL LegendMark Messier
Laureus Awards
2018 Laureus World Sports Awards, Monte-Carlo Sporting, Monaco: Sportsman: Roger Federer; Sportswoman: Serena Williams; Team: Mercedes F1 team


Tennis PlayerSerena Williams

Tennis ChampionRoger Federer

 

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• 1844 6th Grand National: John Crickmere wins aboard 5/1 co-favourite Discount
• 1849 11th Grand National: Tom Cunningham wins aboard 20/1 Peter Simple; 2nd consecutive year there are 3 equine fatalities during the race
• 1903 Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buy Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000

• 1904 Football club Sport Lisboa (Benfica) founded in Lisbon, Portugal
• 1906 Stanley Cup: Ottawa HC beats Queen's University (Kingston, ON), 12-7 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series

Cricket History

1912 Australian batting great Victor Trumper scores 50 in his final Test innings in 5th Test loss v England at Sydney Cricket Ground


CricketerVictor Trumper

• 1925 Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
• 1929 Chic Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home
• 1931 Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
• 1936 Karl Schäfer of Austria follows up his Winter Olympics victory with his 7th consecutive men’s figure skating World Championship title in Paris, France
• 1936 Olympic champions Ernst Baier and Maxi Herber of Germany win their 4th consecutive pairs figure skating gold medal at the World Championships in Paris, France
• 1940 1st televised basketball game (U of Pitts beats Fordham U, 50-37)

Sports History
1957 Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory


Hall of Fame JockeyJohnny Longden

• 1958 West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket

Baseball Trade
1959 Chicago Cardinals trade running back Ollie Matson to the LA Rams for an unprecedented 9 players


American Football PlayerOllie Matson

• 1959 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs USA won by Denny & Jones of Great Britain

Olympic Gold
1960 Home team United States wins its first Olympic ice hockey gold medal at Squaw Valley; with 9-4 win over Czechoslovakia


Ice Hockey PlayerBob Cleary

• 1960 VIII Winter Olympic Games close in Squaw Valley, California

Baseball History
1966 Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against the Los Angeles Dodgers


Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax

MLB PlayerDon Drysdale
NBA Record
1967 Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain

• 1969 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Towler & Ford of Great Britain
• 1969 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Tim Wood of USA
• 1970 Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
• 1970 Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53)

PGA Championship
1971 PGA Championship Men's Golf, PGA National East: Jack Nicklaus leads wire-to-wire for his 2nd career grand slam; wins by 2 from Billy Casper


GolferJack Nicklaus

GolferBilly Casper

• 1981 Calvin Murphy (Hou), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws
• 1986 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs
• 1988 Pat Verbeek becomes 1st NJ Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game
• 1988 XV Winter Olympic Games close in Calgary, Canada

World Record
1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (7:14.13)


Speed SkaterYvonne van Gennip

• 1989 10-time All Star second baseman and manager Red Schoendienst and umpire Al Barlick are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame

Sports History
1991 New York Yankees Don Mattingly named 10th team captain


Baseball Player and ManagerDon Mattingly

• 1993 Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m)

Sports History
1998 Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points


NHL LegendMark Messier

• 2010 XXI Winter Olympic Games close in Vancouver, Canada
• 2012 54th Daytona 500: Rain affected race stopped for 2 hours because of fuel on track; Matt Kenseth leads for final 34 laps to win
• 2020 Court of Arbitration for Sport bans Chinese triple Olympic gold medallist Sun Yang from swimming for 8 years for breaking anti-doping rules
• 2021 Caitlin Clark scores 18 points and has a season-high 14 assists in a game for Iowa against Wisconsin