TODAY'S EVENTS IN SPORTS HISTORY 2024

FEB 29

Demaret's One Stroke Win

1940 American golfer Jimmy Demaret wins his third PGA Tour event within an 8-day span, taking the St. Petersburg Open by one stroke from Byron Nelson


GolferByron Nelson

GolferJimmy Demaret

• 1940 Detroit's Cecil "Tiny" Thompson becomes first goaltender in NHL history to play 40 (or more) games for 12 straight seasons; milestone comes in a 3-1 Red Wings loss at Toronto

Little's Leap Day PGA Win
1948 Lawson Little earns his first tournament victory since his US Navy discharge capturing the St. Petersburg Open by 3 strokes over Bobby Locke; last golfer to win a PGA Tour event on Leap Year Day


GolferBobby Locke

• 1952 Dick Button leads an unprecedented American sweep when he wins World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris; beats compatriots James Grogan and Hayes Alan Jenkins for his 5th straight world title
• 1952 Ice Dance Championship at Paris France won by Westwood & Demmy of Great Britain

Cleveland Indians Sold for $4M
1956 MLB's Cleveland Indians franchise is sold for nearly $4m; former player and the team’s general manager Hank Greenberg is part of the new ownership group


Baseball PlayerHank Greenberg
World Record
1964 Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser records the fastest 100m freestyle of her brilliant career; smashes her own world record 58.9s in Sydney; goes on to win her 3rd straight gold in the event at the Tokyo Olympics


SwimmerDawn Fraser
Sports History
1964 Cincinnati's Jerry Lucas and Oscar Robertson combine for a rare 40-40 performance as the Royals beat host Philadelphia 76ers, 117-114; NBA MVP Robertson has 43 points; Rookie of the Year Lucas, 40 rebounds


NBA ForwardJerry Lucas

NBA PlayerOscar Robertson

• 1964 NC high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime

Baseball Record
1972 Future Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder Hank Aaron becomes first player to earn $200,000 average annual salary; signs 3-year deal with Atlanta Braves after one of his best seasons – .327 average, 47 HRs and 118 RBIs


Baseball PlayerHank Aaron
Sports History
1976 American driver Richard Petty wins the only Winston Cup race run on Leap Day, taking the Carolina 500 at Rockingham by 2 laps over Darrell Waltrip


Auto RacerRichard Petty

Racing Car DriverDarrell Waltrip
NHL Record
1980 Future Hockey Hall of Fame right wing Gordie Howe scores in the 3rd period to become first NHL player to score 800 career goals as Hartford Whalers beat St. Louis Blues, 3-0 at Springfield Civic Center


Ice Hockey LegendGordie Howe

• 1984 Swedish center Patrik Sundström scores a goal and adds 6 assists as Vancouver Canucks beat the Penguins 9-5 in Pittsburgh; just the 3rd player in NHL history to record 6 assists in a road game
• 1988 New Zealand cricket batsman Mark Greatbatch scores an unbeaten 107 on debut to rescue a draw in 2nd Test v England at Eden Park, Auckland

Sports History
1992 Boston’s Ray Bourque becomes just the 3rd defenseman in NHL history to score 1,000 career points with a goal and 2 assists in the Bruins' 5-5 tie with Washington Capitals at Boston Garden


NHL LegendRay Bourque

• 1996 Chasing Kenya's 166, the West Indies are dismissed for a dismal 93 in Cricket World Cup at Pune, India; spinner Maurice Odumbe takes 3/15 and fast bowler Rajab Ali 3/17 for Kenya
• 2020 Watford beats Liverpool, 3-0 at Vicarage Road; first Reds loss since Manchester City January 2019; ends joint-longest winning streak (18) and second longest unbeaten run (44) in English top-flight football history

 

MAR 1

• 1843 5th Grand National: Tom Olliver aboard 12/1 Vanguard wins; first year race run as a handicap
• 1848 10th Grand National: Capt. Josey Little aboard 12/1 Chandler wins; race marred by fatal falls of 3 competitors
• 1854 16th Grand National: John Tasker wins aboard race favourite Bourton at 4/1

• 1903 Major League Baseball Rules Committee rule that pitcher's mound must not be more than 15 inches higher than the baselines or home plate
• 1910 National Baseball Commission prohibits giving mementos to players on winning World Series teams; decision later reversed, making way for traditional winners' watches, rings, and stickpins
• 1919 Future Hockey Hall of Fame center Newsy Lalonde sets a playoff record with 5 goals in the Canadiens' 6-3 win over Ottawa in NHL Championship Game 3 in Montreal
• 1921 Spin bowler Arthur Mailey takes 5 for 119 (record 36 wickets for series) to lead Australia to a 9 wicket 5th Test win over England in Sydney; first ever, 5-0 Ashes cricket series win for Australia

Carnera vs Loughran

1934 Italian boxer Primo Carnera beats American challenger Tommy Loughran by unanimous points decision at Madison Square Garden, NYC for the NYSAC and NBA heavyweight titles


BoxerPrimo Carnera

• 1938 Federal Trade Commission orders 8 manufacturers and the PGA of America to end their practice of golf ball price-fixing
• 1941 Former University of Notre Dame star fullback Elmer Layden is named first Commissioner of the NFL
• 1941 Rangers' goalie Dave Kerr becomes the 5th goaltender in NHL history to record 200 career victories when New York wins, 3-1 over the Canadiens at Montreal
• 1942 Major League Baseball owners decide not to allow players in the military to play for their clubs when on furlough

Indians Prepare for 1st Black Players
1947 MLB Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck sets up spring training camp in racially tolerant Phoenix, AZ in anticipation of signing team's first black players; Larry Doby is first acquisition later in the season


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck

Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderLarry Doby
Joe Louis Retires
1949 Former world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis retires with a 66-3-0 record including 52 KOs; defended the title a record 25 times


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJoe Louis
Golf Tournament
1953 American golfer Babe Zaharias wins a controversial Sarasota Women's Open by 7 strokes as playing partner Louise Suggs refuses to sign the scorecard after Zaharias given a beneficial ruling


Golfer and Co-Founder of the LPGALouise Suggs
Baseball History
1954 Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Ted Williams fractures his collarbone on the first day of Boston Red Sox spring training; injury keeps him out of Boston lineup until May 15


Baseball PlayerTed Williams

• 1955 Pakistan and India play out a draw in the 5th cricket Test at the National Stadium in Karachi; 5 Test series drawn 0-0

Cricket Record
1958 21-year-old West Indian cricket all-rounder Garfield Sobers turns his maiden Test century into a world record 365no in the Windies' 3rd Test win over Pakistan in Kingston, Jamaica; Sobers and Conrad Hunte (260) 446 run partnership for 2nd wicket


CricketerGarfield Sobers
Olympic Gold
1965 Australian swimming authorities suspend triple Olympic gold medal winning sprinter Dawn Fraser for 10 years for misconduct at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics


SwimmerDawn Fraser

• 1967 MLB Commissioner William Eckert approves the Baseball Writers Association of America's plan to name a Cy Young Award recipient from both the National and American Leagues
• 1968 High winds blow-off the Philadelphia Spectrum's roof, forcing the Flyers to play their final month of the NHL season on the road, with home games moved to Toronto, NYC and Quebec City

Sports History
1969 New York Yankees legend Mickey Mantle announces his retirement due to persistent knee injuries; finishes 18-season career with 536 home runs and .298 batting average


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle
NHL Record
1969 Phil Esposito has a goal and assist in Boston Bruins' 8-5 win over NY Rangers to give him 99 points for the season, breaking the NHL record for most points in a season (97) held by Stan Mikita


NHL StarPhil Esposito

Ice Hockey PlayerStan Mikita

• 1969 Tuesdee Testa becomes the first female jockey to win a race at a major American Thoroughbred track when she takes out the 3rd race at Santa Anita Park aboard Buz On

Sports History
1970 Boston's Bobby Orr becomes the first defenseman in NHL history to score 25 goals in a season during a 3-1 Bruins win over the visiting St. Louis Blues


Ice Hockey LegendBobby Orr

• 1970 Dutch speed skater Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes Women's Allround World Champion at West Allis, Wisconsin, US, winning her first of four titles
• 1970 Minnesota coach Charlie Burns becomes the final player/coach in NHL history, when he plays in the North Stars' 8-0 win over Toronto Maple Leafs; remains in role for final month of the season
• 1973 Robyn Smith rides North Sea to victory in the Paumanok Handicap at Aqueduct Race Track in NYC to become the first American female jockey to win a stakes race

Cricket Record
1974 Australian cricketing brothers Ian (145) and Greg Chappell (162no) record 264 partnership in 1st Test draw vs New Zealand at Wellington; Ian (121) and Greg (133) double up with centuries in 2nd innings


CricketerGreg Chappell

• 1975 Five Nations Rugby Championship match between Scotland and Wales at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh attracts a world record attendance of 104,000; Scots win 12-10

PGA Players Championship
1976 PGA Tournament Players Championship, Inverrary CC: Jack Nicklaus wins his second TPC title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up J. C. Snead


GolferJack Nicklaus

• 1977 PGA of America announces a sudden-death playoff format for the PGA Championship to be implemented; previously an 18-hole playoff applied after tie in regulation 72 holes
• 1980 21st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament, BJCC Coliseum, Birmingham, AL: LSU beats Kentucky, 80-78
• 1980 27th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament, Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC: Duke beats Maryland, 73-72
• 1981 Houston Rockets guard Calvin Murphy misses a free throw in a 102-86 loss in San Antonio, ending his NBA record consecutive free throw streak at 78
• 1983 Alpine skier Tamara McKinney becomes the first American woman to top the overall World Cup standings with 225 points
• 1985 Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases NBA's Milwaukee Bucks for $18 million

Sports History
1986 Quebec's Peter Šťastný becomes just the 2nd player in NHL history to score 100 points in each of his first 6 seasons, with an assist in an 8-4 Nordiques' loss to the visiting Buffalo Sabres


Ice Hockey PlayerPeter Šťastný
Sports History
1988 Edmonton's Wayne Gretzky picks up a 1st period assist in Oilers' 5-3 win over LA Kings to move ahead of Gordie Howe as NHL's all time leader in career assists; Howe 1,049 assists in 26 years, Gretzky 1,050 in 9 years


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky
Sports History
1988 For first time since 1956, the Special Veterans Committee does not elect anyone to the Baseball Hall of Fame; Phil Rizzuto, Leo Durocher, Joe Gordon and Gil Hodges passed over


Baseball Player and ManagerLeo Durocher

MLB First BasemanGil Hodges

Sportscaster and MLB ShortstopPhil Rizzuto

• 1989 Charlie Francis, coach of disqualified sprinter Ben Johnson tells federal inquiry into Canada's greatest sports scandal Johnson knowingly used steroids since 1981; Johnson first across line Olympic 100m 1988
• 1990 England cricket has its first win against West Indies in 16 years and 24 matches; 9 wicket victory in the 1st Test in Kingston, Jamaica; Allan Lamb's first overseas century 132

Sports History
1991 37 year-old Pat Day becomes the 6th jockey in history whose mounts earned $100 million when he rides Wild Sierra to 2nd-place in the 1st race at Oaklawn Park, Arkansas


JockeyPat Day

• 1992 In a rematch of one of the most controversial decisions in boxing history, Ghana's WBC super featherweight champion Azumah Nelson KOs Australian Jeff Fenech in 8th round in Melbourne
• 1992 Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record 54.48s at the US Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, IN; passes famous GDR drug tainted record, Kristen Otto 1986 by 0.25s
• 1993 New expansion NHL team, owned in Anaheim, CA by Disney, receives its name, inspired by the 1992 Disney movie 'The Mighty Ducks'

Sports History
1993 New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner is reinstated as general partner of the team; banned because of his relationship with convicted gambler Howie Spira


New York Yankees OwnerGeorge Steinbrenner
Sports History
1993 Pavel Bure scores twice to become the first player in Vancouver's 23 year history to record 50 goals in an NHL season as Canucks beat the Buffalo Sabres, 5-2 in Hamilton


Ice Hockey GreatPavel Bure
NBA Record
1996 Atlanta's Lenny Wilkens becomes first coach in NBA history to reach 1,000 career victories when the Hawks beat Cleveland Cavaliers, 74-68


NBA Point Guard and CoachLenny Wilkens
Sports History
1997 Canadian Elvis Stojko hits the first quad-triple combination jump in the history of figure-skating competition to win the Championship Series final in Hamilton, Ontario


Figure-SkaterElvis Stojko
Sports History
1997 Puerto Rican boxer Héctor Camacho stops Sugar Ray Leonard in 5th round in Atlantic City, NJ to retain IBC middleweight title; only time Leonard's is KO'ed and sends him into permanent retirement


BoxerSugar Ray Leonard

• 1998 Mark Martin drives his Ford Taurus to victory in the inaugural NASCAR Winston Cup event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway; Martin finishes 1.6 seconds ahead of teammate Jeff Burton
• 1998 Miami's Pat Riley becomes the 5th head coach to record 900 NBA career wins with Heat's 85-84 win over the New Jersey Nets
• 1999 Daryll Cullinan scores South African cricket record 275no in the drawn 1st Test against New Zealand at Eden Park, Auckland; Gary Kirsten 128
• 2001 Carolina center Ron Francis scores a goal on his 38th birthday in Hurricanes' 3-1 win over NY Islanders to become only the 2nd player in NHL history to score 50+ points for 20 straight seasons
• 2003 Legendary Mount St. Mary's basketball head coach Jim Phelan wins final game of 49 year career as Mountaineers win 60-56 over Central Connecticut State; Phelan: 830 wins in NCAA record 1,354 games
• 2003 Nashville's Barry Trotz sets NHL record for most games coached with an expansion team from inception as Predators score a 5-4 OT win over Chicago; his 392nd game, Terry Crisp 391 with Tampa Bay
• 2003 World light heavyweight boxing champion Roy Jones Jr. wins a unanimous decision against champion John Ruiz to capture the WBA heavyweight crown in Las Vegas
• 2009 Steven Holcomb pilots USA-1 sled to victory in the 4-man competition at the World Bobsled Championships at Mt Van Hoevenberg, NY; first American win in the event in 50 years
• 2016 MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred sends a strong message on the issue of domestic violence; issues a 30-game suspension to NY Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman

 

MAR 2

• 1842 4th Grand National: Tom Olliver aboard 7/1 Gaylad wins by 4 lengths from Seventy Four
• 1853 15th Grand National: Tom Oliver aboard Peter Simple wins his third GN Steeplechase and the stallion's second; oldest horse to win event at 15
• 1859 21st Grand National: Chris Green aboard 7/1 Half Caste wins by only a short neck from Jean Du Quesne

• 1874 National Association of Professional Baseball Players officially adopts the batter's box; decide any player betting on his own team will be expelled; any player betting on any other team to forfeit his pay
• 1890 Norwegian speed skater Oskar Fredriksen sets inaugural 5,000m world record of 9:19.8 in Stockholm, Sweden

Best 9-Wicket Haul

1896 Best 9-wicket haul in cricket history; George Lohmann takes 9-28 as England beats South Africa by an innings and 197 runs in 2nd Test at Johannesburg


Cricket Medium Pace BowlerGeorge Lohmann

• 1898 Chasing winning target of 275, Australian cricket batsman Joe Darling bashes 160 in 171 minutes with 30 fours to lead Australia to a 6-wicket 5th Test win over England in Sydney; complete 4-1 series rout
• 1904 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers and Ottawa HC tie, 5-5; Montreal disqualified for refusing to play second game in Ottawa

Malone's 44 Goal Season
1918 Joe Malone goes scoreless in Montreal Canadiens' 5-3 season-ending loss to Toronto Arenas; finishes the first NHL season with 44 goals, a record that stands until 1944-45


Ice Hockey PlayerJoe Malone
Hainsworth's Shutout Record
1929 George Hainsworth becomes first NHL goaltender to record 20 shutouts in one season when the Montreal Canadiens beat the visiting Boston Bruins, 3-0; ends season with 22


NHL GoalieGeorge Hainsworth

• 1932 Australian golf trick-shot artist Joe Kirkwood posts an incredible 83 using only his putter over 18 holes at Belleaire, Florida; round includes 6 pars and 1 birdie

Bradman Scores 369
1936 Australian cricket's batting maestro Don Bradman scores 369 in 253 minutes (46 fours, 4 sixes) in South Australia's innings and 349 run win over Tasmania


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

• 1951 1st NBA All-Star Game, Boston Garden: East beats West, 111-94; MVP: Ed Macauley, Boston Celtics, G

Sports History
1962 Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points, most ever by an NBA player in a single game, in Warriors' 169-147 win over NY Knicks in Hershey; 36-of-63 from field, 28-of-32 from free-throw line


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain

• 1963 10th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament, Reynolds Coliseum, Raleigh, NC: Duke beats Wake Forest, 68-57

Sports History
1966 Chicago Black Hawks right wing Bobby Hull becomes the NHL's first 2-time 50-goal scorer when he strikes in a 5-4 win against the Detroit Red Wings at Chicago Stadium


NHL LegendBobby Hull

Sports History
1966 Jean Béliveau scores his 380th career NHL goal when Montreal ties Toronto, 3-3; moves him ahead of Ted Lindsay into the #3 spot all time, behind Gordie Howe and Maurice Richard


NHL LegendJean Béliveau
Sports History
1968 19 year-old American Peggy Fleming wins her 3rd consecutive World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva, Switzerland; announces her retirement, turns professional and eventually goes into broadcasting


Figure SkaterPeggy Fleming

• 1968 Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler & Ford of Great Britain

Sports History
1969 Boston center Phil Esposito becomes first player in NHL history to record 100 points in a season when he scores 2 3rd-period goals in the Bruins' 4-0 win over the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins


NHL StarPhil Esposito
Sports History
1972 American jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his record 555th stakes race aboard Royal Owl in the San Jacinto Stakes at Santa Anita; Eddie Arcaro 554


Racing Hall of Fame JockeyBill Shoemaker

Racing Hall of Fame JockeyEddie Arcaro
Cricket History
1974 Australian cricket batsman Greg Chappell makes 247no in drawn 1st Test vs NZ in Wellington; also hits 133 in 2nd innings; brother Ian 145 and 121 also scores twin centuries


CricketerGreg Chappell

• 1980 Phoenix point guard Mike Bratz ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games with a miss in the Suns' 123-115 home win over the LA Lakers

Sports History
1986 Edmonton's Finnish right wing Jari Kurri scores 2 goals, including the overtime winner, to lead Oilers to a 2-1 win over Philadelphia; Kurri, 100 points for the 4th straight NHL season


NHL StarJari Kurri

• 1986 Qualifier Kenny Knox is the last player to score in the 80’s (R3 80) and still win a PGA Tour event, the Honda Classic at TPC Eagle Trace; total 287 is highest winning score in PGA tournament history

Sports History
1986 The first million dollar purse for a handicap race is won by British bred 5-year old Greinton with Laffit Pincay Jr. aboard taking out the $1,359,500 Santa Anita Handicap


JockeyLaffit Pincay Jr.

• 1988 The flaming basketball is adopted as NBA franchise Miami Heat’s official logo from over 13,000 entries; Mark Henderson submits the winning entry

Sports History
1989 NY Mets stars Keith Hernandez and Darryl Strawberry famously nearly come to blows in front of reporters and TV crews at spring training


Baseball PlayerDarryl Strawberry

MLB First BasemanKeith Hernandez

• 1991 NC State point guard Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAA Div I player to record 1,000 career assists in a 89-84 loss to Wake Forest

Sports History
1991 St. Louis right wing Brett Hull becomes a 70-goal scorer for the 2nd straight season and has 3 assists to help the Blues earn a 4-4 tie in Philadelphia; finishes season with NHL career-best 86 goals


NHL LegendBrett Hull

• 1992 American swimmer Anita Hall breaks the 200m breaststroke world record twice in the one day at the US Swimming championships in Indianapolis; wins final in 2:25.35

Sports History
1993 Mario Lemieux undergoes his 22nd and final radiation treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma, then joins the Pittsburgh Penguins in Philadelphia and has a goal and assist in a 5-4 loss to the Flyers


NHL Legend and OwnerMario Lemieux

• 1993 Winnipeg Jets Finnish right wing Teemu Selänne breaks NHL record for goals by a rookie with a hat-trick in a 7-4 loss to the visiting Quebec Nordiques; passes Mike Bossy's mark of 52
• 1995 Joe Mullen becomes 2nd NHL player to appear in 300 NHL games with 3 different teams when he plays for the Penguins in a 6-3 loss in Buffalo; Pittsburgh 379, St. Louis 301, Calgary 345

Cricket World Cup
1996 Despite Sachin Tendulkar's masterful 137 in India's 3 for 272, Sri Lanka wins Cricket World Cup match in Delhi by 6 wickets; Sanath Jayasuriya 79, Hashan Tillakaratne 70no


CricketerSachin Tendulkar

CricketerSanath Jayasuriya

• 1997 Australians Greg Blewett (214) and Steve Waugh (160) bat for the entire 3rd day of the 1st cricket Test against South Africa in Johannesburg; set up Australian innings and 196 run victory
• 1997 Michael Andretti wins at Homestead in a Swift chassis, marking the first Champ Car victory in an American-built chassis since 1983; first-ever Champ Car start for the Swift

Sports History
2000 America's Cup, Auckland: Team New Zealand beats Italian yacht Prada Challenge by 0.48s for a 5-0 series sweep; NZ only the 2nd country in 150 years to successfully defend the Cup


YachtsmanRussell Coutts

Yachtsman and EnvironmentalistPeter Blake

• 2000 St. Louis Blues become just the 2nd team in NHL history to win 10 straight games on the road, with a 5-2 victory in Atlanta; tie mark set by Buffalo 1983-84
• 2002 40-year old South African boxer ‘Baby Jake’ Matlala ends his 22-year career with a 7th-round TKO win over Columbia’s Juan Herrera to retain his WBU junior flyweight title in Johannesburg
• 2003 America's Cup, Auckland: Swiss yacht Alinghi beats Team New Zealand by 0.44s to sweep series, 5-0; Alinghi's Russell Coutts wins last 14 America's Cup races he's competed in as skipper; most in history
• 2003 Fast bowler Andy Bichel takes career best 7 for 20 as Australia beats England by 2 wickets in a Cricket World Cup match in Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Australia unbeaten in record 12 ODI games

Sports History
2004 Indianapolis Colts sign quarterback Peyton Manning to a 7-year, $98 million deal with a $34.5 million signing bonus; largest package to date in the NFL


NFL QuarterbackPeyton Manning

• 2004 Pittsburgh Penguins end their NHL record 14-game home losing streak when they tie the visiting New York Islanders, 3-3
• 2004 Saint Joseph's Hawks finish their college basketball season with an 82-50 win over St. Bonaventure; Hawks undefeated with a perfect 27-0 record in A-10 East Conference
• 2011 One of cricket’s great upsets; Kevin O’Brien smokes fastest century in World Cup history off 50 balls (ends 113 off 63) to help Ireland beat England by 3 wickets in Bangalore
• 2012 Major League Baseball confirms the postseason will be expanded from 8 to 10 teams, with an extra wild card team in each league
• 2012 NFL establishes existence of a bounty program at the New Orleans Saints 2009-11; players given incentives to injure opposition; coach Sean Payton is suspended for 2012 season

Sports History
2019 37-year-old Swiss 20-time Grand Slam tennis champion Roger Federer beats Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-4 to win his 100th ATP Tour title at the Dubai Championships


Tennis ChampionRoger Federer

• 2019 Australian wonder horse Winx sets world record for Group 1 wins in the Chipping Norton Stakes in Sydney; stretches unbeaten run to 31 races, and her 23rd in the highest class of thoroughbred racing

 

MAR 3

• 1841 3rd Grand National: Horatio Powell wins aboard 14/1 Charity; first mare to win the race
• 1847 9th Grand National: Denny Wynne wins aboard 10/1 Mathew; regarded as the first Irish-trained horse to win the race
• 1852 14th Grand National: Alec Goodman wins first of 2 GN victories (1866) aboard Miss Mowbray

• 1869 31st Grand National: George Stevens wins his 4th GN aboard 100/7 outsider The Colonel; repeats with back-to-back victories the following year
• 1883 In the series decider England beats Scotland, 2 tries to 1 at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh to win the inaugural Home Nations Rugby Championship with an undefeated record
• 1904 England cricket all-rounder Bernard Bosanquet takes 6 for 51 as tourists dismiss Australia for 171 in the 4th Test in Sydney to regain the Ashes; take an unassailable, 3-1 series lead
• 1920 Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs
• 1950 National-American Football League reverts to calling itself the NFL after 3 months
• 1951 Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts
• 1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee
• 1956 3rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Wake Forest, 76-64
• 1956 Dutch swimmer Cockie Gastelaars breaks 20-year old world record for 100m freestyle (1:04.2)
• 1957 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Markham & Jones of Great Britain
• 1959 San Francisco Giants rename their stadium Candlestick Park
• 1962 9th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Wake Forest beats Clemson, 77-66
• 1967 White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game)

NHL Trade

1968 In a blockbuster trade, Toronto Maple Leafs send future Hockey Hall of Fame left wing Frank Mahovlich to the rival Detroit Red Wings


NHL LegendFrank Mahovlich
Sports History
1968 Jean Béliveau (Montreal) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 pts


NHL LegendJean Béliveau

• 1974 Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4
• 1977 Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal
• 1977 World Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
• 1978 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI v Australia)
• 1979 20th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Tennessee beats Kentucky, 75-69
• 1979 26th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Duke, 71-63

Sports History
1981 NHL New York Islanders Mike Bossy 9th & final hat trick of season, in his 4th career 4-goal game, an 8-8 tie with visiting Edmonton Oilers


Ice Hockey GreatMike Bossy

• 1981 NY Islanders & Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie
• 1983 Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw is admitted to hospital for surgery to repair his throwing arm under the alias 'Tom Brady'
• 1984 NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6)

Election of Interest
1984 Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1)


Olympic Executive and Commissioner of BaseballPeter Ueberroth
Sports History
1985 Bill Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million


Racing Hall of Fame JockeyBill Shoemaker

• 1987 Ray Dandridge, 3rd baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame

Cricket History
1991 David Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* v WI at Kingston


Cricket BatsmanDavid Boon
Sports History
1992 Charges are filed in Florida against NY Mets Darryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden of rape (dropped in April)


Baseball PitcherDwight Gooden

• 1992 Mike Bossy's #22 is 2nd jersey number retired by NHL New York Islanders
• 1993 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston (WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings)

Sports History
1994 US Internal Revenue Service investigates baseball player Darryl Strawberry


Baseball PlayerDarryl Strawberry

• 2009 The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by terrorists while on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for 2nd Test against Pakistan; match abandoned

 

MAR 4

• 1846 8th Grand National: William Taylor aboard outsider Pioneer wins by 3 lengths from Culverthorpe
• 1857 19th Grand National: Charlie Boyce wins aboard Emigrant at 10/1
• 1868 30th Grand National: George Ede victorious aboard Irish 9/1 shot The Lamb; horse wins second GN in 1871

• 1903 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal HC beats Winnipeg Victorias, 4-1 for a 2-1 challenge series victory
• 1913 NY Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda)

Ruth Highest-Paid

1927 Babe Ruth becomes the highest-paid player in MLB history when he signs 3-year, $70,000 per season contract with the New York Yankees


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
Bradman's Duck
1931 Don Bradman is bowled for a rare first ball duck by Herman Griffith (4-50) on the last day of 5th cricket Test vs West Indies in Sydney; Windies win by 31 runs but lose series to Australia, 4-1


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

• 1933 Noordwijk soccer team forms
• 1941 Chicago Black Hawks goaltender Sam LoPresti faces NHL record 83 shots in a 3-2 loss to the Bruins in Boston
• 1961 8th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Wake Forest beats Duke, 96-81
• 1967 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler & Ford (GRB)
• 1967 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT)

Peggy Fleming World Champion
1967 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (US)


Figure SkaterPeggy Fleming
Sports History
1968 Italian boxer Nino Benvenuti regains world middleweight title with a 15-round points decision over American champion Emile Griffith at Madison Square Garden, NY; last of famous trilogy of fights


BoxerNino Benvenuti

BoxerEmile Griffith
Boxing Title Fight
1968 Joe Frazier takes his record to 20-0 and captures vacant world heavyweight boxing title; stops Buster Mathis in 11th round TKO at Madison Square Garden, NYC


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJoe Frazier

• 1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
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• 1970 NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
• 1976 MLB's San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth
• 1977 West Indian cricket fast bowler Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan in 2nd Test win at Port-of-Spain; best Test figures by a pace bowler from the West Indies
• 1978 25th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Wake Forest, 85-77

Sports History
1980 40th hat trick in NHL New York Islander franchise history, scored by Mike Bossy


Ice Hockey GreatMike Bossy
Baseball Hall of Fame
1984 Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame


Baseball PlayerRick Ferrell
Sports History
1984 Tennis legend Martina Navratilova retains her WTA Tour Championship in NYC; beats Chris Evert 6–3, 7–5, 6–1 for her 5th overall Championship title


Tennis PlayerMartina Navratilova

Tennis LegendChris Evert
Sports History
1986 Allan Border completes twin Test tons (140 & 114*) v NZ


Test CricketerAllan Border

• 1989 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)

ESPY Awards
1993 1st ESPY Awards: Michael Jordan, Monica Seles win


Basketball SuperstarMichael Jordan

Tennis Player and Nine-Time Major ChampionMonica Seles
Boxing Title Fight
1995 George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker


Boxing ChampionGeorge Foreman

• 1995 Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1

 

MAR 5

• 1840 2nd Grand National: Bartholomew Bretherton wins aboard 16/1 Jerry; a then smallest field of 13
• 1845 7th Grand National: William Loft aboard outsider Cure-All wins in record time of 10 minutes, 47 seconds
• 1910 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1

Bradman's Last 1st Class Innings

1949 Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

• 1955 2nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Duke, 87-77
• 1960 7th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Wake Forest, 63-59
• 1960 Ice Dance Championship at Vancouver won by Denny & Jones (GRB)
• 1960 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (FRA)
• 1960 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champions in Vancouver won by Carol E Heiss (USA)
• 1964 Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr, announces a baseball team is moving there
• 1965 Ernie Terrell beats Eddie Machen by unanimous points decision over 15 rounds in Chicago, Illinois to win vacant WBA heavyweight boxing title
• 1966 13th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats NC State, 71-66
• 1966 Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record
• 1966 Player reps elect Marvin Miller as executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association
• 1972 Dutch speed skater Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes Women's Allround World Champion at Heerenveen, Netherlands, her second title in 3 years
• 1973 Yankee pitchers Peterson & Kekich announce they swapped wives
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• 1977 24th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Virginia, 75-69

Sports History
1981 Ice Dance Championship at Hartford won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)


Ice DancerChristopher Dean

Ice DancerJayne Torvill
Sports History
1981 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Hartford won by Scott Hamilton (USA)


Figure SkaterScott Hamilton
Sports History
1982 MLB pitcher Gaylord Perry (with 297 wins) signs with Seattle Mariners


Baseball PitcherGaylord Perry

• 1983 NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield

Sports History
1985 NHL New York Islanders Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons


Ice Hockey GreatMike Bossy

• 1991 Reggie Miller (Indiana Pacers) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games

Sports History
1993 Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery


NBA LegendLarry Bird

• 1993 Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game

Baseball Hall of Fame
1996 Earl Weaver & Jim Bunning, elected to Baseball Hall of Fame


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and SenatorJim Bunning

MLB ManagerEarl Weaver
Baseball Hall of Fame
1997 Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox and Willie Wells inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame


Baseball Pitcher and ManagerTommy Lasorda

• 2011 David Silva scores 38' winner as Manchester City scores 1-0 win over Wigan at City of Manchester Stadium to start EPL record 20 home game winning streak; streak ends 31/3/12
• 2022 Caitlin Clark scores 41 points in the semifinals of the Big Ten tournament for Iowa against Nebraska
• 2023 Caitlin Clark records 30 points, 17 assists, and 10 rebounds in the Big Ten tournament final for Iowa against Ohio State

 

MAR 6

• 1858 20th Grand National: William Archer wins aboard outsider Little Charley at 100/6
• 1867 29th Grand National: John Page wins aboard Irish 16/1 shot Cortolvin; trainer Harry Lamplugh's second GN victory
• 1895 England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2; Jack Brown hits the fastest 50 in test cricket in 28 mins

• 1906 Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance
• 1919 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie

Babe Ruth's Yankee Contract

1922 Babe Ruth signs 3 year contract with NY Yankees at $52,000 a year


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1923 MLB St. Louis Cardinals announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms

Trampoline Patented
1945 George Nissen of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, receives a patent for the first modern trampoline


Inventor and GymnastGeorge Nissen

• 1954 1st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Wake Forest, 82-80 (OT)

Muhammad Ali
1964 Boxing legend Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and changes his name to "Muhammad Ali", calling his former title a "slave name"


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali

• 1965 12th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Duke, 91-85
• 1965 Bruce Taylor hits 105 for NZ v India in 1st Test Cricket innings
• 1967 Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted

Cricket Debut
1971 Test Cricket debut of Indian cricket great Sunil Gavaskar versus West Indies at Port-of-Spain; 125 Tests, 10,122 runs @ 51.12; 34 Test centuries


CricketerSunil Gavaskar
Golf Record
1972 Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner


GolferJack Nicklaus

GolferArnold Palmer
Cricket History
1974 Australian cricketing brothers Ian (145 & 121) and Greg Chappell (247no and 133) score unique twin centuries in drawn 1st Test vs New Zealand in Wellington


CricketerGreg Chappell

• 1976 23rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Virginia beats North Carolina, 67-62
• 1976 European Men's Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden won by John Curry (Great Britain)
• 1976 Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)

Sports History
1976 In his 10th title defense, WBA light welterweight champion Antonio Cervantes of Colombia is beaten by 17-year-old Puerto Rican boxer Wilfred Benítez in a 15-round split decision in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Benitez youngest ever world champion


BoxerWilfred Benítez

• 1976 Wales clinch their 7th Five Nations Rugby Championship title, 7th Grand Slam and 13th Triple Crown with a 19-13 win over France at the National Stadium, Cardiff

Sports History
1976 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by American Dorothy Hamill


Figure SkaterDorothy Hamill

• 1981 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Hartford won by Denise Biellmann
• 1982 23rd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Kentucky, 48-46
• 1982 NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT)

Baseball Hall of Fame
1985 Enos Slaughter and Arky Vaughan elected to baseball's Hall of Fame


Baseball PlayerEnos Slaughter
Boxing Title Fight
1985 Future undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes at 1:47 in round 1 of 4 in Albany, NY in his first professional fight


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

• 1988 Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories)
• 1989 Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985)
• 1992 Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine
• 1994 Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec)
• 1996 Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 v Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lanka score 5-398 in 50 overs in World Cup v Kenya
• 1999 20th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Connecticut beats St. John's, 82-63

Sports History
2000 Long-time Boston Bruin defenseman Ray Bourque is traded to the Colorado Avalanche


NHL LegendRay Bourque
Sports History
2019 LeBron James scores his 32,293rd point in the 2nd quarter of a Lakers' 115-99 loss to Denver in LA to pass Michael Jordan into 4th place on the NBA all-time point scoring list

 

MAR 7

• 1855 17th Grand National: John Hanlon wins aboard Irish horse Wanderer at 25/1
• 1857 Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
• 1860 22nd Grand National: Tommy Pickernell wins aboard Irish horse Anatis at 5/1

• 1866 28th Grand National: 1852 winner Alec Goodman wins his second GN aboard Irish 40/1 outsider Salamander
• 1870 Cincinnati Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest & East
• 1922 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard

Badger US Champion

1922 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger


Figure SkaterSherwin Badger

• 1930 Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball

Bluebird Sets Land Speed Record
1935 Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 276.71 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car; last record set at Daytona Beach, Florida


Motor RacerMalcolm Campbell

• 1940 Montreal Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home

Sauer Wrestling Champion
1940 Peter Saur, fighting as Ray Steele, beats Bronko Nagurski in St Louis, to become National Wrestling Association Heavyweight Champion


Hall of Fame American Football PlayerBronko Nagurski

• 1950 Men's Figure Skating World Championship in London won by Dick Button (USA)

Boxing Title Fight
1951 Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for 2nd time to win National Boxing Association world heavyweight title, at the Olympia in Detroit, Michigan


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionEzzard Charles

Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJersey Joe Walcott

• 1953 South African cricket opening batsman Jackie McGlew scores an unbeaten 255 in 1st Test win against New Zealand in Wellington
• 1954 Russia wins their 1st international ice hockey competition
• 1955 Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter
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• 1959 6th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats North Carolina, 80-56

Sports History
1959 West Indies all out 76 v Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34


CricketerFazal Mahmood

• 1964 11th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Wake Forest, 80-59
• 1970 17th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats South Carolina, 42-39 (2 OT)
• 1970 Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)
• 1970 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA)
• 1978 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
• 1979 Baseball exhibition season opens with semi-pro & amateur umpires

Baseball Hall of Fame
1979 Warren Giles and Hack Wilson selected for the Baseball Hall of Fame


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderHack Wilson

• 1981 22nd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Ole Miss beats Georgia, 66-62
• 1981 28th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Maryland, 61-60
• 1982 29th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Virginia, 47-45
• 1982 NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time

NHL Record
1986 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky

• 1987 Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs

Boxing Title Fight
1987 Mike Tyson beats James 'Bonecrusher' Smith by unanimous decision in 12 rounds in Las Vegas for WBC / WBA heavyweight boxing titles


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

• 1988 Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the US, becoming 1st baseball player to win the award

Sports History
1989 Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Minnesota North Stars to the Washington Capitals


NHL StarDino Ciccarelli

• 1992 England routs Wales, 24-0 at Twickenham for it's 2nd straight outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, Grand Slam and Triple Crown titles; fullback Jonathan Webb 2 penalties and 3 conversions
• 1992 Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.78)

Sports History
1996 Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists


NBA LegendMagic Johnson

• 1997 Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome & Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site
• 1998 19th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Connecticut beats Syracuse, 69-64
• 1999 40th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Arkansas, 76-63
• 1999 46th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #1 Duke beats #15 North Carolina, 96-73

Neymar Debuts
2009 Despite only being 17 years old, Brazilian soccer star Neymar makes his professional debut for Santos


FootballerNeymar
Sports History
2016 Peyton Manning announces his retirement from the Denver Broncos and the NFL


NFL QuarterbackPeyton Manning
Sports History
2016 Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova reveals failed drug test for meldonium at Australian Open in January, subsequently suspended for 15 months


Tennis PlayerMaria Sharapova
Sports History
2021 NBA All-Star Game, State Farm Arena, Atlanta, GA: Team LeBron beats Team Durant, 170-150; MVP: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks F


Basketball PlayerGiannis Antetokounmpo

 

MAR 8

• 1865 27th Grand National: Captain Henry Coventry wins aboard French outsider Alcibiade at 100/7
• 1900 NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville & Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee)
• 1904 Australian cricket spin bowler Hugh Trumble dismisses England batsmen Bernard Bosanquet, Plum Warner and Dick Lilley for his second Test hat-trick in 5th Test victory in Melbourne; Trumble's final Test

• 1906 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa HC beats Smiths Falls (ON), 8-2 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
• 1913 MLB Federal League organizes with 6 teams, including the Chicago Whales, who built and played at Weeghman Park (now Wrigley Field); League folded after 3 seasons

Babe Ruth's 2-Year Yankee Deal

1930 Baseball slugger Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for a then huge $160,000 with NY Yankees; GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
Crawford's 1st Australian Title
1931 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Jack Crawford wins 1st of 4 Australian titles; beats fellow Australian Harry Hopman 6-4, 6-2, 2-6, 6-1


Tennis Player and CoachHarry Hopman

• 1931 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Coral McInnes Buttsworth beats Marjorie Cox Crawford 1-6, 6-3, 6-4
• 1936 The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
• 1941 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)
• 1958 5th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Maryland beats North Carolina, 86-74

Hall of Fame
1966 Baseball player, manager and coach Casey Stengel elected to Baseball Hall of Fame in a surprise ceremony


Baseball Hall of Fame ManagerCasey Stengel

• 1967 New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day)
• 1968 6-year-old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Maryland)
• 1969 16th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Duke, 85-74

Sinatra Snaps the Fight of the Century
1971 Joe Frazier ends Muhammad Ali's 31-fight winning streak at Madison Square Garden, NYC; retains heavyweight boxing title by unanimous points decision over 15 rounds in the "Fight of the Century"


Sinatra is the focus of attention as he prepares to take his ringside shots and, right, the controversial Life magazine cover picture that the singer took

• 1971 Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record)
• 1975 22nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats NC State, 70-66

Sports History
1980 Greg Chappell 235 & Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad


CricketerGreg Chappell
Sports History
1981 Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game


Cricketer and Fast BowlerDennis Lillee

• 1985 6th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats St. John's, 92-80
• 1985 Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
• 1986 27th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Alabama, 83-72
• 1986 7th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Syracuse, 70-69

Sports History
1986 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million


Tennis PlayerMartina Navratilova

• 1987 28th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats LSU, 69-62
• 1987 34th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats North Carolina, 68-67
• 1987 8th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 69-59
• 1987 David Hookes (306*) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for S Aust
• 1989 Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 secs)
• 1998 39th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats South Carolina, 86-56
• 1998 45th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #4 North Carolina beats #1 Duke, 83-68
• 2019 US national women's soccer team sue for equal pay by filing a federal gender discrimination lawsuit against United States Soccer Federation
• 2020 BNP Paribas Open international tennis tournament in Indian Wells, California, dubbed 'the 5th Grand Slam' is cancelled due to concerns surrounding COVID-19 and the safety of participants and attendees
• 2020 ICC Women's Cricket T20 World Cup, Melbourne: Defending champions Australia beats India by 85 runs; Beth Mooney [77no] Player of the Series; Alyssa Healy 75 off 39 balls MVP; crowd 86,174

Agreement of Interest
2022 Reigning NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers agrees to remain with the Green Bay Packers in a reported 4-year, $200m deal that would make him the highest paid player in NFL history


NFL QuarterbackAaron Rodgers

 

MAR 9

• 1864 26th Grand National: George Stevens wins his 3rd GN aboard 10/1 Emblematic; winning mare's full sister Emblem the race winner the previous year
• 1870 32nd Grand National: George Stevens wins consecutive GN's aboard 7/2 favourite The Colonel; his 5th and final GN victory
• 1895 Stanley Cup, Victoria Rink, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Victorias clinches trophy as Montreal HC beats Queens University (Kingston, Ontario), 5-1

• 1897 Cleveland Indians fans start calling the team "Indians" (in 1915 becomes official)
• 1897 MLB Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot
• 1904 Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal
• 1908 Italian football club Inter Milan founded as Foot-Ball Club Internazionale
• 1923 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2

Babe Ruth's Comeback

1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
Williams' Mexican League Offer
1946 Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican Baseball League, he refuses


Baseball PlayerTed Williams

• 1952 Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title
• 1957 4th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats South Carolina, 95-75
• 1958 Detroit Pistons forward George Yardley III scores 26 points in 111-90 defeat to Syracuse Nationals; 1st NBA player to score 2,000 points in a season

Sports History
1961 Philadelphia Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain scores 67 points in 135-126 win over NY Knicks at Philadelphia Civic Center


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain

• 1968 15th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats NC State, 87-50
• 1972 Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary
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• 1974 21st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Maryland, 103-100 (OT)
• 1978 Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk & Karponosov

Sports History
1979 MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters


MLB CommissionerBowie Kuhn

• 1984 Philadelphia 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record
• 1984 Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1985 26th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Auburn beats Alabama, 53-49
• 1985 Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (East Germany)
• 1986 33rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Georgia Tech, 68-67

NHL Record
1986 Gilbert Perreault of the Buffalo Sabres becomes the 12th NHLer to score 500 career goals, in a 4-3 win over New Jersey Devils


NHL StarGilbert Perreault

• 1989 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec)
• 1991 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games
• 1993 Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak
• 1995 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
• 1996 Javed Miandad's last international in Pakistan's Cricket World Cup Quarter Final loss to India

Cricket World Cup
1996 Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) v England in Cricket World Cup Quarter Final


CricketerSanath Jayasuriya

• 1997 38th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Georgia, 95-68
• 1997 44th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #5 North Carolina beats NC State, 64-54

Sports History
2002 Joe Sakic plays his 1,000th career game


NHL LegendJoe Sakic
Cricket History
2012 Indian batsman Rahul Dravid announces his retirement from Test and domestic cricket


CricketerRahul Dravid

• 2013 Bernard Hopkins defeats Tavoris Cloud to win IBF light heavyweight title

 

MAR 10

Sullivan vs Mitchell

1888 Heavyweight Boxing champ John L. Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJohn L. Sullivan

• 1900 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Shamrocks outclass Halifax Crescents, 11-0 to sweep challenge series, 2-0
• 1913 Stanley Cup, Quebec Skating Rink, Quebec City, Quebec: Quebec Bulldogs retain trophy; defeat Sydney Millionaires (NS), 6-2 for a 2-0 sweep of the challenge series

Malone Scores 6
1920 NHL's Quebec Bulldog Joe Malone scores 6 goals vs Ottawa Senators


Ice Hockey PlayerJoe Malone

• 1934 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history ends - 18 games with 15 wins, 3 ties
• 1941 Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets
• 1951 Ireland clinches their 7th Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-3 draw against Wales at the National Stadium, Cardiff
• 1957 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy

Sports History
1959 Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, sells her 54% share of MLB Chicago White Sox to Bill Veeck, for a reported $27M


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck

• 1962 Due to its no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel & move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida

Sports History
1963 MLB infielder Pete Rose debuts with Cincinnati at spring training in Tampa, Florida; hits in his first 2 at bats


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose
Sports History
1963 SF Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain scores 70 points in 163-148 defeat to Syracuse Nationals at Onondaga War Memorial


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain

• 1970 South Africa cricket team complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia in South Africa, in the country's last official international cricket test for 22 years
• 1973 20th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Maryland, 76-74
• 1982 Saleem Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL)
• 1982 Travis Jackson and former commissioner Happy Chandler elected to baseball's Hall of Fame

Baseball Hall of Fame
1983 Former Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers manager Walter Alston is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame


Baseball ManagerWalter Alston

• 1984 25th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Auburn, 51-49
• 1984 5th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 82-71 (OT)
• 1984 Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
• 1985 32nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia Tech beats North Carolina, 57-54
• 1985 Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
• 1985 India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"

Baseball Hall of Fame
1986 Ernie Lombardi (NL MVP in 1938) and Bobby Doerr, elected to Baseball Hall of Fame


Hall of Fame Baseball PlayerBobby Doerr
Sports History
1988 NHL New York Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night


Ice Hockey GreatMike Bossy

• 1990 Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (Soviet Union)
• 1990 Ice Pairs World Championship at Halifax won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)

Sports History
1990 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (CAN)


Figure SkaterKurt Browning

• 1991 12th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Seton Hall beats Georgetown, 74-62
• 1991 32nd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Tennessee, 88-69
• 1991 38th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 North Carolina beats #6 Duke, 96-74
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• 1991 Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs
• 1995 Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues" premieres in Arnhem
• 1996 37th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Mississippi State beats Kentucky, 84-73
• 1996 43rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #12 Wake Forest beats #18 Georgia Tech, 75-74
• 2001 22nd Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Boston College beats Pittsburgh, 79-57
• 2002 43rd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Mississippi State beats Alabama, 61-58
• 2002 49th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats NC State, 91-61
• 2007 28th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Pittsburgh, 65-42

Laureus Awards
2010 Laureus World Sports Awards, Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, UAE: Sportsman: Usain Bolt; Sportswoman: Serena Williams; Team: Brawn F1 team


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt

Tennis PlayerSerena Williams

• 2012 33rd Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Louisville beats Cincinnati, 50-44
• 2018 Two girls aged 8 and 6 become the first female weightlifters to appear on Iranian television after a protest
• 2022 After a 99-day lockout, Major League Baseball and MLB Players Association reach a new collective bargaining agreement; MLB teams set to play full 162 game season in 2022

 

MAR 11

• 1863 25th Grand National: George Stevens wins his 2nd GN aboard 4/1 Emblem; winning mare's full sister Emblematic wins the following year
• 1876 English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers and Old Etonians draw, 1-1; Wanderers win replay, 3-0 for 3rd title
• 1892 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachusetts)

• 1901 Cincinnati Enquirer reports Baltimore manager John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant
• 1904 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games
• 1905 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators beat Rat Portage Thisles, 5-4 for 2-1 challenge series victory

Hobbs Scores 187

1910 English cricketer Jack Hobbs scores 187 vs South Africa, his 1st international test hundred only to then get out hit wicket


CricketerJack Hobbs

• 1912 First Stanley Cup challenge game to be played in three 20-minute periods (formerly 30-minute halves), Quebec beats Moncton, 9-3 on way to series sweep
• 1917 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
• 1924 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games

Nagurski vs Steele
1941 Bronko Nagurski regains the World Wrestling title from Ray Steele in Minnesota, after losing to him a year earlier


Hall of Fame American Football PlayerBronko Nagurski
Golf Tournament
1956 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her 3rd Titleholders title by 1 stroke from Patty Berg


Golfer and Co-Founder of the LPGALouise Suggs

GolferPatty Berg

• 1961 Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks & Maple Leafs (20 each)
• 1967 14th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Duke, 82-73
• 1972 19th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Maryland, 73-64
• 1979 Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game
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• 1980 Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Aust v Pak cricket draw
• 1981 Johnny Mize and Rube Foster are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1982 Detroit Pistons play the Chicago Bulls, with final score of Detroit 152 to Chicago 144 and Detroit having 20 blocked shots

Sports History
1983 Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki, Finland won by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean (Great Britain)


Ice DancerChristopher Dean

Ice DancerJayne Torvill
Sports History
1983 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA)


Figure SkaterScott Hamilton

• 1984 31st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Maryland beats Duke, 74-62

Sports History
1986 New York Islanders Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons


Ice Hockey GreatMike Bossy

• 1986 NFL adopts instant replay rule
• 1990 11th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Connecticut beats Syracuse, 78-75
• 1990 31st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Ole Miss, 70-51
• 1990 37th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #14 Georgia Tech beats Virginia, 70-61
• 1991 John Smith, US amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award

Sports History
1991 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1


Tennis Player and Nine-Time Major ChampionMonica Seles

Tennis PlayerSteffi Graf
Sports History
1993 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning CAN


Figure SkaterKurt Browning

• 1997 San Francisco Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch
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• 2000 21st Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Connecticut, 80-70
• 2001 42nd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Ole Miss, 77-55
• 2001 48th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats #6 North Carolina, 79-53
• 2006 27th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats Pittsburgh, 65-61
• 2007 48th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Florida beats Arkansas, 77-56
• 2007 54th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #8 North Carolina beats NC State, 89-80
• 2012 53rd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Vanderbilt beats Kentucky, 71-64
• 2012 59th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #17 Florida State beats #4 North Carolina, 85-82

Laureus Awards
2013 Laureus World Sports Awards, Municipal Theater, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Sportsman: Usain Bolt; Sportswoman: Missy Franklin; Team: FC Bayern Munich


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt

Football StarThomas Müller

• 2017 England retains the Six Nations Rugby Championship with 61-21 win over Scotland at Twickenham; England's 11th consecutive Six Nations win and equals NZ's record of 18 consecutive international wins
• 2020 NBA suspends 2019-20 season until further notice after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tests positive for COVID-19

 

MAR 12

• 1862 24th Grand National: Harry Lamplugh wins aboard The Huntsman; first French trained winner; only human fatality recorded in the event, jockey Joe Wynne
• 1881 Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain
• 1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) baseball franchise is approved as a member of the American League

• 1908 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat Winnipeg Maple Leafs, 9-3 for 2-0 sweep of challenge series
• 1910 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin Dutchmen (ON), 7-3
• 1912 Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria - Botev Plovdiv
• 1949 Ireland retains Five Nations Rugby Championship & Triple Crown with a 5-0 win over Wales at St. Helen's Ground, Swansea

NHL Record

1966 Chicago Black Hawks Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record


NHL LegendBobby Hull
Sports History
1966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)


Hall of Fame JockeyJohnny Longden

• 1967 Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet

World Record
1978 American speed skater Eric Heiden sets world record in 1000m (1:14.99)


Speed SkaterEric Heiden

• 1980 NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin

Sports History
1982 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica v Leeward Islands


West Indian CricketerCourtney Walsh

• 1983 4th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Boston College, 85-77

Sports History
1985 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points


NBA LegendLarry Bird
Sports History
1987 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game


NBA CenterDavid Robinson

• 1987 Ice Pairs World Championship at Cincinnati won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
• 1987 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)
• 1989 10th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 88-79
• 1989 30th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Florida, 72-60
• 1989 36th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #9 North Carolina beats #7 Duke, 77-74
• 1995 16th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Villanova beats Connecticut, 94-78
• 1995 36th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Arkansas, 95-93 (OT)
• 1995 42nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 Wake Forest beats #4 North Carolina, 82-80 (OT)
• 1995 Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)

Cricket History
1995 West Indies cricketer Brian Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain


CricketerBrian Lara

• 2000 41st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Arkansas beats Auburn, 75-67
• 2000 47th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats #20 Maryland, 81-68
• 2005 26th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats West Virginia, 68-59
• 2006 47th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Florida beats South Carolina, 49-47
• 2006 53rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #1 Duke beats #7 Boston College, 78-76
• 2011 32nd Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: #9 Connecticut beats #3 Louisville, 69-66
• 2020 2020 NCAA men's basketball tournament is cancelled over concerns of the spread of COVID-19; first time 'March Madness' not held since it began in 1939; women's tournament also cancelled
• 2020 NHL announces the pausing of the 2019-20 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic

PGA Players Championship
2023 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Scottie Scheffler becomes third golfer, after Jack Nicklaus & Tiger Woods, to hold Masters & Players titles at same time; wins by 5 from England's Tyrrell Hatton


GolferScottie Scheffler

 

MAR 13

• 1861 23rd Grand National: Joseph Kendall wins aboard Jealousy at 5/1
• 1875 English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Royal Engineers and Old Etonians draw 1-1; replay won by Engineers, 2-0
• 1878 Oxford University defeats Cambridge University in their 1st golf match

• 1894 J. L. Johnstone of England invents horse racing's starting gate
• 1901 Amidst increasing anti-gambling sentiment, wagering on horse racing is banned in San Francisco, CA; Ingleside Race Track closes March 15
• 1911 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (ON), 7-4
• 1912 Stanley Cup, Quebec Skating Rink, Quebec City, Quebec: Quebec Bulldogs rout Moncton Victorias (NB), 8-0 for a 2-0 sweep of the challenge series
• 1915 Brooklyn Robins manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit
• 1918 1st NHL championship: Toronto Arenas beat Montreal Canadiens, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set
• 1922 NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games
• 1925 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games

Bradman's Second Test 100

1929 20-year-old Australian cricket super-batsman Don Bradman scores 123 in 5th Test vs England at MCG; his second Test century


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

• 1936 Irish-bred Golden Miller with Evan Williams aboard wins record 5th consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cup steeplechase at 21/20 favourite; only horse to complete Gold Cup-Grand National double
• 1943 Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
• 1948 Ireland beats Wales, 6-3 at Ravenhill Stadium, Belfast to clinch the Five Nations Rugby Championship and first Grand Slam

Thomson Beaks Ankle
1954 Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron


Baseball PlayerHank Aaron

Golf Tournament
1955 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Patty Berg wins her 6th Titleholders title by 2 strokes from Mary Lena Faulk


GolferPatty Berg

• 1956 NZ bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
• 1960 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Fay Crocker of Uruguay wins by 7 strokes ahead of Kathy Cornelius
• 1960 NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St Louis
• 1960 White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number

Boxing Title Fight
1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavyweight boxing title


Boxing ChampionFloyd Patterson

BoxerIngemar Johansson

• 1971 18th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: South Carolina beats North Carolina, 52-51
• 1971 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Margaret Court wins her 10th Australian singles title; beats fellow Australian Evonne Goolagong 2-6, 7-6, 7-5
• 1974 Glenn Turner scores twin tons for NZ's 1st win against Aust

Sports History
1977 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test


Cricketer and Fast BowlerDennis Lillee
NHL Record
1979 NHL New York Islanders Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick


Ice Hockey GreatMike Bossy
World Record
1980 American speed skater Eric Heiden sets world record 1000m (1:13.60)


Speed SkaterEric Heiden
Sports History
1982 Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean (Great Britain)


Ice DancerChristopher Dean

Ice DancerJayne Torvill
Sports History
1982 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)


Figure SkaterScott Hamilton

• 1982 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA) who lands 6 triple jumps
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• 1983 24th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia beats Alabama, 86-71
• 1983 30th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Virginia, 81-78
• 1984 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
• 1984 WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
• 1987 Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
• 1988 29th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Georgia, 62-57
• 1988 35th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats North Carolina, 65-61
• 1988 9th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats Villanova, 85-68

Sports History
1992 Martina Navratilova and Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit


Tennis PlayerMartina Navratilova

• 1994 15th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Providence beats Georgetown, 74-64
• 1994 35th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Florida, 73-60
• 1994 41st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #4 North Carolina beats Virginia, 73-66
• 2004 25th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Connecticut beats Pittsburgh, 61-58
• 2005 46th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Florida beats Kentucky, 70-53
• 2005 52nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats Georgia Tech, 69-64
• 2009 30th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: #5 Louisville beats #10 Villanova, 69-55
• 2010 31st Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 West Virginia beats #22 Georgetown, 60-58
• 2011 52nd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Florida, 70-54
• 2011 58th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #5 Duke beats #6 North Carolina, 75-58
• 2019 Australian cricketers beat India by 35 runs in Delhi to win ODI series, 3-2; first Australian team to recover from 0-2 in a 5-match series; Usman Khawaja 100, Adam Zampa 3/46
• 2020 12 hours after PGA Tour cancelled its flagship event, The Players Championship, Augusta National announces postponement of the Masters Tournament to a date to be fixed because of COVID-19 pandemic
• 2020 Elite football in Britain, including England's Premier League, EFL, Women's Super League plus in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is suspended until at least 3 April because of COVID-19 pandemic

Sports History
2022 After a 40-day retirement, record breaking quarterback Tom Brady announces he will play at least one more season in the NFL with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers


NFL QuarterbackTom Brady

 

MAR 14

• 1874 English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Oxford University beats Royal Engineers, 2-0
• 1899 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Shamrocks beat Queens University, 6-2 to clinch trophy for CAHL
• 1903 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, Ontario: Ottawa HC beats Rat Portage Thisles, 4-2 for a 2-0 challenge series sweep

• 1908 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat Toronto Professionals, 6-4
• 1936 Wales beats Ireland, 3-0 in Cardiff to clinch the Home Nations Rugby Championship with a 2-1-0 record

Golf Tournament

1954 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her second Titleholders title by 7 strokes from Patty Berg


Golfer and Co-Founder of the LPGALouise Suggs

GolferPatty Berg
Baseball Record
1954 Milwaukee Braves future home run king Hank Aaron homers in his debut exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox


Baseball PlayerHank Aaron
Contract of Interest
1956 50-year-old baseball pitching star Satchel Paige signs a contract to play for and manage the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro National League


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherSatchel Paige
NBA Record
1960 Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA playoff record of 53 points in Warriors' 132-112 win over Syracuse Nationals at Philadelphia Civic Center


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain
Sports History
1961 Former New York Yankees general manager George Weiss becomes first President of New York Mets after MLB expansion franchise formed


Baseball Hall of Fame ExecutiveGeorge Weiss
NHL Record
1962 Red Wings' forward Gordie Howe becomes second player in NHL history to score 500 career goals in Detroit's 3-2 loss to NY Rangers


Ice Hockey LegendGordie Howe

• 1967 1967 NFL Draft: Michigan State defensive end Bubba Smith first pick by Baltimore Colts
• 1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes first female jockey to win at Aqueduct Racetrack, NYC aboard 2-year-old bay Bravy Galaxy at 13 to 1
• 1969 West Indies cricket batsman Seymour Nurse scores career high 258 in his last Test innings in 3rd Test win over NZ at Christchurch

Australian Men's Tennis Open
1971 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Ken Rosewall of Australia beats American defending champion Arthur Ashe 6-1, 7-5, 6-3; first man to win an Open era Grand Slam singles title without dropping a set


Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionKen Rosewall

Tennis PlayerArthur Ashe

• 1972 NBA's Cincinnati Royals, plagued by poor home attendance, announce they are moving franchise to Kansas City

Sports History
1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race


Racing Hall of Fame JockeyBill Shoemaker

• 1978 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
• 1980 Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund West Germany won by Regoczy & Sallay
• 1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
• 1981 NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul 49-48

Sports History
1987 NY Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl


Baseball PlayerDarryl Strawberry

• 1987 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt
• 1991 Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA)

Sports History
1991 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (CAN)


Figure SkaterKurt Browning
Sports History
1992 NY Met Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape


Baseball PitcherDwight Gooden

• 1993 14th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Seton Hall beats Syracuse, 103-70
• 1993 34th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats LSU, 82-65
• 1993 40th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia Tech beats #1 North Carolina, 77-75
• 1993 Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
• 1996 Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi
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• 1997 Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E Sullivan Award
• 2004 45th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Florida, 89-73
• 2004 51st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Maryland beats #5 Duke, 95-87
• 2009 Canterbury winger Hazem El Masri becomes highest point scorer in Australian Rugby League history; 33rd minute penalty in Bulldogs' 34-12 win over Manly at ANZ Stadium, Sydney takes him to 2,178; Andrew Johns, 2,176
• 2010 51st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Mississippi State, 75-74 (OT)
• 2010 57th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #4 Duke beats Georgia Tech, 65-61
• 2015 36th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Villanova beats Xavier, 69-52
• 2015 62nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Notre Dame beats North Carolina, 90-82
• 2017 World's oldest golf club Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for 1st time in 273 years
• 2021 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: American Justin Thomas edges Lee Westwood of England by 1 stroke; Thomas wins $2.7m winner's share of the $15m purse
• 2022 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Australian Cameron Smith wins $3.6m, biggest individual event purse in golf history; beats Anirban Lahiri of India by 1 stroke
• 2023 Czech free diver David Vencl completes record dive beneath ice to 52.1 meters, without a wetsuit, in Switzerland’s Lake Sils in temperatures between 1C and 4C (34F to 39F) [1]

 

MAR 15

• 1869 With 10 salaried players, Cincinnati Red Stockings become baseball's first professional team
• 1877 Australian batsman Charles Bannerman completes first Test century in cricket history in 1st Test v England in Melbourne; retires hurt on 165 the following day
• 1877 Cricket's inaugural Test match commences as Australia plays England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground; Australia wins by 45 runs in 4 days

Cy Young Retires

1912 Legendary pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511-315 win-loss record


MLB PitcherCy Young
Headley Steers WI Win
1935 Brilliant batsman George Headley steers West Indies to an innings victory over England in 4th cricket Test at Kingston, Jamaica with a patient, unbeaten 270


West Indian CricketerGeorge Headley

• 1945 As a symbol of wartime baseball, Bert Shepard (one-legged WWII veteran) begins a successful tryout as a pitcher for the Washington Senators

Don Bradman Knighted
1949 Cricket's master batsman Don Bradman receives his knighthood from the Governor-General of Australia, the Rt Hon. WJ McKell at the investiture in Queen’s Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
Golf Tournament
1953 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Patty Berg wins her 5th Titleholders title by 9 strokes from Betsy Rawls


LPGA GolferBetsy Rawls

GolferPatty Berg

• 1953 West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1
• 1958 England retains the Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-3 draw against Scotland at Murrayfield, Edinburgh; England’s 16th FN title

NBA Record
1958 Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati Royals scores a NBA midwest region-record 56-point game


NBA PlayerOscar Robertson

• 1958 Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapses during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled

Golf Tournament
1959 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her 4th Titleholders title by 1 stroke from Betsy Rawls


Golfer and Co-Founder of the LPGALouise Suggs

LPGA GolferBetsy Rawls
Sports History
1962 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain

• 1968 Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27'2-3/4")
• 1975 Wales trounce Ireland, 32-4 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to clinch their 18th Five Nations Rugby Championship

Baseball Trade
1978 Oakland A's trade pitcher Vida Blue to San Francisco Giants for 7 players & $390,000


Major League Baseball pitcherVida Blue
NHL Record
1979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick


NHL StarBryan Trottier

• 1980 England beats Scotland, 30-18 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh to claim it's 18th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 8th Grand Slam and 15th Triple Crown
• 1982 Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's first Test Cricket century (157) in 2nd Test v Pakistan in Faisalabad
• 1983 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy

Boxing Title Fight
1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title


WBC Heavyweight ChampionLarry Holmes

• 1986 Scotland (10-9 v Ireland) and France (29-10 v England) win their final round matches to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with 3-1 records
• 1987 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
• 1987 NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
• 1987 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
• 1988 NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
• 1989 NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
• 1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4)
• 1992 13th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats Georgetown, 56-54
• 1992 33rd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Alabama, 80-54
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• 1992 39th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #1 Duke beats #20 North Carolina, 94-74
• 1994 Experts from AL certify the Cleveland Indians Jacobs Field is properly lit
• 1997 France beats Scotland, 47-20 at Parc des Princes, Paris to claim an 11th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 5th Triple Crown; fly-half Christophe Lamaison lands 6 penalties and 3 conversions
• 1997 Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
• 2003 24th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Pittsburgh beats Connecticut, 74-56
• 2008 29th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Pittsburgh beats Georgetown, 74-65
• 2008 Wales beats France, 29-12 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship with a 19th Triple Crown
• 2009 50th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Mississippi State beats Tennessee, 64-61
• 2009 56th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #9 Duke beats #22 Florida State, 79-69
• 2013 Patrick Chan of Canada wins the men’s 2013 World Figure Skating Championships
• 2014 35th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Providence beats Creighton, 65-58

Sports History
2014 Ireland edges France, 22-20 at Stade de France, Saint-Denis to beat England on points difference and win Six Nations Rugby Championship; final international match for Ireland centre Brian O'Driscoll with record 141 caps


Rugby Union PlayerBrian O'Driscoll

• 2015 56th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Arkansas, 78-63

 

• 1872 1st English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers defeat Royal Engineers, 1-0; Morton Betts scores winner
• 1875 English FA Cup Final Replay, Kennington Oval, London: Royal Engineers beat Old Etonians, 2-0 after initial 1-1 draw
• 1876 Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)

American League Reorganized

1900 AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces AL league will be Chicago White Stockings, Washington Senators, Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Blues, Boston Americans, Philadelphia Athletics and Baltimore Orioles


Founder of Baseball's American LeagueBan Johnson

• 1907 First 1st-class cricket game between NSW & Western Australia
• 1911 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur Bearcats (ON), 13-4
• 1935 Scotland beats England, 10-7 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh to allow Ireland to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship with a 2-1 record
• 1939 NHL record 10 goals in 1 period-NY Rangers (7), NY Americans (3) & a record 26 points in the 3rd period

Golf Tournament
1952 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins her 3rd Titleholders title by 7 strokes from Betsy Rawls


LPGA GolferBetsy Rawls

All-Round Athlete and GolferBabe Didrikson Zaharias
Sports History
1953 AL rejects St Louis Browns owner Bill Veeck's request to move his team to Baltimore


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck
Sports History
1955 NHL President Clarence Campbell suspends Montreal Canadiens superstar Maurice "Rocket" Richard for the remainder of the season after he viciously attacked an opponent; Riots ensued in Montreal


Ice Hockey PlayerMaurice Richard

3rd President of the NHLClarence Campbell
Sports History
1956 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright


Figure SkaterTenley Albright

• 1957 England clinches its 15th Five Nations Rugby Championship, the Grand Slam, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup with a 16-3 win over Scotland at Twickenham, London

Golf Tournament
1957 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Patty Berg wins her 7th Titleholders title by 3 strokes from amateur Anne Quast


GolferPatty Berg

• 1957 Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating NY Rangers 14-1
• 1958 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Beverly Hanson wins by 5 strokes ahead of Betty Dodd
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• 1963 England edges Scotland, 10-8 at Twickenham, London to win its 17th Five Nations Rugby Championship
• 1964 Paul Hornung & Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension
• 1969 Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
• 1974 Both Wales (12-16 v England) and France (6-19 v Scotland) lose their final round matches handing Ireland their 8th Five Nations Rugby Championship
• 1983 Smallest crowd of 1,814 attend NBA Cavaliers vs. NY Nets game at Cleveland Coliseum

Sports History
1985 Two-time Cy Young Award winner Denny McLain is convicted of embezzlement and drug trafficking; sentenced to 25 years but conviction later reversed


Baseball PitcherDenny McLain

• 1991 England beats France, 21-19 at Twickenham for it's 19th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 9th Grand Slam and 16th Triple Crown; fullback Simon Hodgkinson 4 penalties and a conversion
• 1991 NJ Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games

Sports History
1991 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi


Figure SkaterKristi Yamaguchi
Sports History
1994 American figure skater Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on former Olympic teammate Nancy Kerrigan


Figure SkaterTonya Harding

Figure SkaterNancy Kerrigan

• 1996 England beats Ireland, 28-15 at Twickenham for a second consecutive Five Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown; fly-half Paul Grayson lands 6 penalties, a conversion and drop goal

Boxing Title Fight
1996 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain heavyweight title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

BoxerFrank Bruno

• 1996 Montreal Canadien's 1st game in their new arena (Bell Center)
• 1997 NJ Devils' Dave Andreychuk is 26th NHL to score 500 goals
• 2003 44th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Mississippi State, 64-57
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• 2003 50th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #12 Duke beats NC State, 84-77
• 2008 49th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia beats Arkansas, 66-57
• 2008 55th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #1 North Carolina beats #22 Clemson, 86-81

Cricket History
2012 Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar becomes first cricketer to score 100 international centuries


CricketerSachin Tendulkar

• 2013 34th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Louisville beats Syracuse, 78-61
• 2013 Kim Yu-Na of South Korea wins the women’s 2013 World Figure Skating Championships
• 2013 Wales routs England by a record 30-3 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to retain their Six Nation Rugby Championship; Welsh winger Alex Cuthbert scores 2 tries and fullback Leigh Halfpenny lands 4/4 penalties
• 2014 55th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Florida beats Kentucky, 61-60
• 2014 61st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #6 Virginia beats #7 Duke, 72-63
• 2020 Major League Baseball suspends remainder of Spring Training and delays start of regular season in response to COVID-19 pandemic; return dependent on recommendations by Centers for Disease Control
• 2022 After 20 seasons as Fox's NFL lead broadcast team, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman join ESPN as new lead commentators of Monday Night Football

 

MAR 17

• 1876 British high jump champion Marshall Jones Brooks clears 1.83m at Oxford, England for unofficial world record; thought to be first leap over 6'
• 1877 Australia's English born all-rounder Billy Midwinter completes Test cricket's first 5-wicket haul, 5-78 in the first ever Test match v England in Melbourne
• 1893 Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup (Stanley Cup): Montreal Hockey Club claim inaugural trophy after finishing top of final Amateur Hockey Association of Canada standings with a 7–1–0 record

Fitzsimmons vs Corbett

1897 British boxer Bob Fitzsimmons KOs American champion 'Gentleman' Jim Corbett in the 14th round to win World Heavyweight title in Carson City, Nevada


BoxerBob Fitzsimmons

• 1906 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: ECAHA playoff: Montreal Wanderers lose, 9-3 to Ottawa HC but win challenge series, 12-10 on aggregate

Burns vs Roche
1908 Canadian champion Tommy Burns KOs Irish challenger Jem Roche in 1:28s of the 1st round at the Theatre Royal, Dublin; then quickest world heavyweight boxing title fight


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionTommy Burns
Niles US Champion
1918 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles


Figure Skater and Tennis PlayerNathaniel Niles
Morenz Surpasses Denneny
1932 Montreal Canadiens center Howie Morenz registers his 334th career point with an assist in a 10-4 win v NY Americans; passes Cy Denneny as NHL leader for career points


NHL StarHowie Morenz

• 1934 England beats Scotland, 6-3 at Twickenham, London to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown
• 1951 Test cricket debut of great English fast bowler Brian Statham, England v NZ at Christchurch; goes on to play 70 Tests, 252 wickets @ 24.84

Baseball History
1953 Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck
Radio History
1955 After Maurice Richard is suspended for the remainder of the season, riots break out in Montreal. 37 people are injured and over 100 are arrested. The following morning, Richard goes on the radio to ask citizens to stop vandalizing the city.


Ice Hockey PlayerMaurice Richard

• 1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers
• 1976 Boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried in the US after being convicted of murder in 1967 (sentence is upheld but overturned 1985)
• 1977 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
• 1979 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR
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• 1979 Wales beats England, 27-3 at the National Stadium, Cardiff for its 2nd consecutive Five Nations Rugby Championship and record 21st outright title; record 4th straight Triple Crown
• 1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms

NBA History
1983 70th hat trick in NHL New York Islander franchise history, scored by Mike Bossy


Ice Hockey GreatMike Bossy

• 1984 Scotland beats France, 21-12 at Murrayfield to win the Five Nations Rugby Championship outright and Triple Crown for first time since 1938; Grand Slam first time since 1925

Sports History
1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'


Ski JumperMatti Nykänen
Cricket History
1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak


CricketerSunil Gavaskar

• 1988 Then highest scoring NCAA basketball game to date; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115
• 1990 Scotland beats England, 13-7 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh for it's 14th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 3rd Grand Slam title and 10th Triple Crown
• 1994 It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark

Cricket World Cup
1996 Cricket World Cup, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan: Aravinda de Silva scores 107 no and takes 3/42 as Sri Lanka beats Australia by 7 wickets; Sanath Jayasuriya, Player of Series


CricketerSanath Jayasuriya

• 1996 ICC Men's Cricket ODI World Cup, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan: Sri Lanka upset Australia by 7 wickets for their first title; Player of the Match: Aravinda de Silva (SL) 107 no (124), 3/42 & 2 catches
• 2012 Bolton Wanderer footballer Fabrice Muamba collapses and is rushed to hospital during a live football match against Tottenham Hotspur
• 2012 Wales beats France, 16-9 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to wrap up the Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship; Welsh fullback Leigh Halfpenny kicks 3 penalties and a conversion
• 2013 54th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Ole Miss beats Florida, 66-63
• 2013 60th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Miami beats North Carolina, 87-77
• 2018 Ireland beats England, 24-15 at Twickenham to wrap up Six Nations Rugby Championship; 3rd Grand Slam & 11th Triple Crown

PGA Players Championship
2019 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland wins biggest cheque in golf ($2.25m) by 1 stroke from Jim Furyk


GolferJim Furyk

GolferRory McIlroy

• 2019 Wales beats Ireland, 25-7 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to clinch the Six-Nations Rugby Championship and Grand Slam; Welsh fly-half Gareth Anscombe kicks 6 penalties and a conversion
• 2020 French Open becomes first Grand Slam tennis tournament to be postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic; moves from May 24-June 7 to September 20-October 4; conflicts with Laver Cup men’s team event

America's Cup
2021 America's Cup, Auckland: Emirates Team New Zealand beats Italian yacht Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli by 46s in race 10 for a 7-3 series victory and retain the cup


YachtsmanPeter Burling

• 2022 Claude Giroux, NHL Philadelphia Flyers longest-serving captain, becomes only 2nd player in franchise history to play 1,000th game for the team, joining Bobby Clarke

 

MAR 18

• 1875 37th Grand National: Tommy Pickernell wins his 3rd GN aboard 100/6 chance Pathfinder
• 1876 English FA Cup Final Replay, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers beat Old Etonians, 3-0 after initial 1-1 draw; Wanderers 3rd title
• 1892 Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)

• 1900 Ajax soccer club forms in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (33 Eredivisie titles, 18 KNVB Cups, 4 Champions League); named after legendary Greek hero
• 1910 72nd Grand National: Bob Chadwick wins aboard 100/8 chance Jenkinstown; earliest Grand National to which there are moving images
• 1918 Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms
• 1921 80th Grand National: Fred Rees wins aboard 100/9 bet Shaun Spadah; winner is only horse to complete the course without falling
• 1930 Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game
• 1932 91st Grand National: Tim Hamey wins aboard 50/1 outsider Forbra

Maribel Vinson US Champion

1933 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson


Figure SkaterMaribel Vinson

• 1939 England beats Scotland, 9-6 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh to force a share of the Home Nations Rugby Championship with Wales and Ireland

Black Players Try Out
1942 2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out


Baseball PlayerJackie Robinson
Richard 1st to Score 50
1945 Montreal Canadien Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals


Ice Hockey PlayerMaurice Richard

• 1951 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Pat O'Sullivan wins her only major title by 2 strokes from fellow amateur Beverly Hanson
• 1953 15th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas, 69-68; Jayhawks' center B. H. Born is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
• 1953 MLB National League approves Boston Braves move to Milwaukee (1st shift since 1903)
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• 1958 MLB Los Angeles Dodgers announce their mascot and clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958

NBA Record
1959 Boston Celtic's Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws


NBA GuardBill Sharman

• 1970 NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time
• 1972 Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for 1st time in 225 games (Boston U)
• 1978 Wales beats France, 16-7 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to clinch its 20th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, a record 8th Grand Slam and record 3rd consecutive Triple Crown
• 1981 Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in 1 period (vs Toronto)

Sports History
1985 Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle


Olympic Executive and Commissioner of BaseballPeter Ueberroth

Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

MLB LegendWillie Mays

• 1986 Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Queensland

Sports History
1989 Dino Ciccarelli sets Washington Capital record of 7 pts in a game


NHL StarDino Ciccarelli

• 1990 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends
• 1990 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Jodie Mudd wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Mark Calcavecchia; winner's cheque $270,000

Sports History
1991 Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson
Sports History
1991 Philadelphia '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain

• 1991 Reggie Miller (Indiana Pacers) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games
• 1995 In a final round title decider, England beats Scotland, 24-12 at Twickenham to claim the Five Nations Rugby Championship, Grand Slam, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup

Sports History
1995 Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement


Basketball SuperstarMichael Jordan

• 1996 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT's Swimathon '96

Sports History
2000 England clinch inaugural Six Nations Rugby Championship with 59-12 thrashing of Italy at Stadio Flaminio, Rome; England flyhalf Jonny Wilkinson kicks 7 goals and winger Austin Healey scores 3 tries


Rugby PlayerJonny Wilkinson

• 2006 France wins Six Nations Rugby Championship on points difference over Ireland, with a 21-16 win over Wales at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff; Ireland receives consolation prize of the Triple Crown Trophy
• 2007 Former England Test cricket batsman, and Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer is found dead one day after his team's defeat to Ireland puts them out of the World Cup in the West Indies; cause of death remains suspicious
• 2012 Superleague Greece football match between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos is abandoned after fans set fire to Athens' Olympic Stadium

Contract of Interest
2014 Phil Jackson signs a five-year contract to be president of the New York Knicks


NBA CoachPhil Jackson
Sports History
2018 Portuguese soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo records his 50th career hat-trick in Real Madrid's 6-3 win over Girona


Football StarCristiano Ronaldo

• 2019 40-year old Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki overtakes Wilt Chamberlain to go 6th with 31,424 points on the NBA scorers' list; Mavs suffer 129-125 OT loss to New Orleans Pelicans

 

MAR 19

• 1880 42nd Grand National: Tommy Beasley aboard Irish 8/1 chance Empress wins by 2 lengths from defending champion The Liberator
• 1892 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket England v South Africa (Cape Town)
• 1910 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Adelaide: Rodney Heath wins his 2nd and last Australasian title; beats fellow Australian Horace Rice 6-4, 6-3, 6-2

• 1914 Stanley Cup, Arena Gardens, Toronto ON: Toronto HC (NHA) defeat Victoria Aristocrats (PCHA), 2-1 for a 3-0 series sweep; final series of the "challenge" era
• 1915 VI Summer (Modern) Olympic Games: IOC President Pierre de Coubertin writes to Associated Press indicating 1916 Berlin Games won't take place because of WWI
• 1932 England beats Scotland, 16-3 at Twickenham, London to force a 3-way share with Wales and Ireland of renewed Home Nations Rugby Championship; France expelled, alleged professionalism
• 1937 96th Grand National: With King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in attendance, aptly-named Royal Mail ridden by jockey Evan Williams wins at odds of 100/6; estimated crowd, 300,000
• 1938 NHL Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Americans combine to score 8 goals in just under 5 minutes; Toronto wins game 8-5
• 1938 Scotland beats England, 21-16 at Twickenham, London to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup
• 1942 Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago

LaMotta Defeats Reeves

1943 In their third match, Jake LaMotta finally defeats Jimmy Reeves by knocking him out in the sixth round


World Middleweight Boxing ChampionJake LaMotta
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Win
1950 US Open Women's Golf, Rolling Hills CC: Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins by 9 strokes from amateur Betsy Rawls


LPGA GolferBetsy Rawls

All-Round Athlete and GolferBabe Didrikson Zaharias
Cricket History
1954 "The Three Ws" of West Indian cricket each score centuries in one innings; Clyde Walcott scores 124 following Everton Weekes (206) and Frank Worrell (167) in 1st innings of drawn 4th Test v England at Port of Spain


West Indian CricketerEverton Weekes
Sports History
1954 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright


Figure SkaterTenley Albright
Sports History
1955 17th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: San Francisco beats La Salle, 77-63; Dons' future Hall of Fame center Bill Russell is named tournament Most Outstanding Player


Basketball PlayerBill Russell

• 1956 Biggest NBA margin of victory - Minn Lakers-133, St Louis Hawks-75
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• 1957 Indians reject Boston's offer of $1 million for Herb Score

Sports History
1958 Garfield Sobers completes a century in each innings for WI vs. Pakistan


CricketerGarfield Sobers
Sports History
1960 22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ohio State beats California, 75-55; Buckeyes' future Hall of Fame forward Jerry Lucas is named tournament MOP


NBA ForwardJerry Lucas

• 1966 28th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Kentucky, 72-65; Miners first title in first title game
• 1971 Philadelphia 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-80 in 2nd half enroute to a 147-127 victory
• 1972 1st AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48 in Normal
• 1972 LA Lakers beat Golden State Warriors, 162-99, by then record 63 pts
• 1975 Pennsylvania is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports
• 1977 France beats Ireland, 15-6 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to clinch its 6th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 2nd Grand Slam

PGA Players Championship
1978 PGA Tournament Players Championship, Sawgrass CC: Jack Nicklaus wins his 3rd TPC title, 1 stroke ahead of Lou Graham; 4th straight start for Nicklaus that ends with a top-2 finish


GolferJack Nicklaus

• 1981 Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4
• 1983 France (16-9 v Wales) and Ireland (25-15 v England) win final round matches to finish level and share the Five Nations Rugby Championship; no tie-break procedure exists before 1993

Sports History
1984 Two-time Cy Young Award winner Denny McLain is indicted on charges of drug trafficking, embezzlement and racketeering; 25 year sentence later quashed


Baseball PitcherDenny McLain

• 1985 NSW wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket

World Record
1987 Bonnie Blair skates ladies' world record 500 m (39.43 sec)


Speed SkaterBonnie Blair

World Record
1987 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85)


Speed SkaterYvonne van Gennip

• 1988 France edges Wales, 10-9 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with the Welsh with 3-1 records
• 1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15:25.25)
• 1989 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USSR)
• 1989 Ice Pairs World Championship at Paris won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)

Sports History
1989 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Kurt Browning (CAN)


Figure SkaterKurt Browning
PGA Players Championship
1989 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Tom Kite wins the title in gusty conditions, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Chip Beck


GolferTom Kite

• 1989 Wales beats England, 12-9 at Cardiff Arms Park to allow France to claim it's 9th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship
• 1990 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)

Sports History
1991 KC Royals announce they are putting Bo Jackson on waivers


NFL Running Back and Baseball OutfielderBo Jackson
Super Bowl
1991 NFL owners strip Phoenix of the 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona not recognizing federal holiday Martin Luther King Jr. Day


Civil Rights ActivistMartin Luther King Jr.

• 1991 Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses

Sports History
1991 St Louis Blues Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season


NHL LegendBrett Hull

• 1993 Ice Dance Championship in Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (RUS)
• 1994 England beats Wales, 15-8 at Twickenham, London but the Welsh take the Five Nations Rugby Championship as title decided by using points difference for the first time

Sports History
1994 Lara scores 167 for WI v England at Georgetown


CricketerBrian Lara

• 1994 NJ Devils club record 41st win of the season
• 1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)

Sports History
1995 Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers


Basketball SuperstarMichael Jordan

• 1995 NBA NY Knicks beat NY Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
• 1997 Major League Baseball announces 5 year/$50M deal with Pepsi
• 2005 Wales beats Ireland, 32-20 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to win the Six Nations Rugby Championship and become the 1st team to complete a Grand Slam playing more games away than at home
• 2011 Despite a final round 24-8 defeat to Ireland at the new Aviva Stadium in Dublin, England wins the Six Nations Rugby Championship courtesy of their opening 4 straight victories

Sports History
2016 England beats France 31-21 at Stade de France, Paris to claim Six Nations Rugby Championship; secure their first Grand Slam since 2003; Owen Farrell with 7 goals, England's 2nd-highest points scorer behind Jonny Wilkinson


Rugby PlayerJonny Wilkinson

• 2019 Houston Rockets guard James Harden becomes first player in NBA history to score at least 30 points against all 29 opponents in a single season with 31 in a 121-105 win over the Atlanta Hawks

Sports History
2022 LeBron James moves past Karl Malone (36,909) into second on NBA's all-time scoring list with 38 points in LA Lakers' 127-119 loss to Washington Wizards; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar leads (38,387)


Basketball PlayerLeBron James

Basketball PlayerKarl Malone