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  1. Dec 19, 2022 #381
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    • 1891 Canadian Rugby Union forms
    • 1904 Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905

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    1913 Jack Johnson fights fellow African-American Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 rounds for the vacant world heavyweight boxing title in Paris, 1st time two black fighters compete for the title

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    World Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJack Johnson
    • 1917 1st NHL game played on artificial ice in Toronto
    • 1917 Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game
    • 1920 1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Mass)
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    1924 Test Cricket debut of Bill Ponsford, who scored 110 in 1st innings

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    CricketerBill Ponsford
    • 1926 National Football League Championship: Frankford Yellow Jackets (14-1-2) win first past the post title
    • 1927 National Football League Championship: New York Giants (11-1-1) win first past the post title
    • 1947 1948 NFL Draft: Harry Gilmer from University of Alabama first pick by Washington Redskins
    • 1948 Cleveland Browns beats Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game
    • 1948 National Football League Championship, Shribe Park, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Eagles shutout Chicago Cardinals, 7-0 in a snowstorm, 'the Philly Blizzard'
    • 1974 Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal
    • 1976 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Santiago, Chile: Paolo Bertolucci & Adriano Panatta give Italy unassailable 3-0 lead; beat Patricio Cornejo & Jaime Fillol of Chile 6-3, 2-6, 9-7, 6-3; ends, 4-1
    • 1976 John Lever takes 7-46 in 1st Test Cricket innings, v India Delhi
    • 1976 Piper Cherokee plane crashes into Baltimore Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Pittsburgh Steelers, no one seriously hurt
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    1980 "Raging Bull", directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro as boxer Jake LaMotta and Cathy Moriarty as his wife, is released in the United States

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    Film DirectorMartin Scorsese
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    ActressCathy Moriarty
    • 1983 The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro
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    1984 Scotty Bowman wins his 691st regular season game, the most wins by any coach in NHL history

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    NHL CoachScotty Bowman
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    1984 Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th & youngest NHL-er to score 1,000 points

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    Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky
    • 1986 Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers & accuses owners of collusion against free agency
    • 1986 Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hrs of community service & fined $500
    • 1987 NHL Boston Bruins Ken Linseman & St. Louis Blues Doug Gilmore set a record for the fastest two goals in league history, scoring 2 seconds apart
    • 1988 Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation
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    1989 Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games

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    NBA LegendLarry Bird
    • 1991 NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession
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    2000 Ballon d'Or: Real Madrid's Portuguese midfielder Luís Figo is named best football player in Europe ahead of Juventus midfielder Zinedine Zidane and Milan striker Andriy Shevchenko

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    Football Player and ManagerZinedine Zidane
    • 2009 Former Welsh and Lions captain Gareth Thomas is the first international rugby player to reveal he is gay
    • 2010 "Miracle at the New Meadowlands", Philadelphia Eagles trail New York Giants by 21 points with eight minutes to play, before scoring 4 touchdowns in final 7 minutes, including dramatic walk-off punt returned for a touchdown by DeSean Jackson
    • 2018 Houston Rockets set NBA single-game record with 26 three-pointers in 136-118 victory over Washington Wizards; 8 players hit from deep as Rockets shoot 26-of-55 (47.3%); James Harden leads charge, shooting 6-of-11 on 3s
     
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  2. Dec 20, 2022 #382
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    • 1894 England beat Australia by 10 runs in the 1st six-day Test Cricket, Australia needed 177 to win, all out at 166 on 6th day
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    1905 'Philadelphia' Jack O'Brien wins the World Light Heavyweight boxing title after defending champion Bob Fitzsimmons of England retires in round 13 of 20 in San Francisco

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    BoxerBob Fitzsimmons
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    Boxer'Philadelphia' Jack O'Brien

    • 1920 Bert Collins scores 104 on Test Cricket debut v England SCG
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    1921 AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9; Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7

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    1st MLB CommissionerKenesaw Mountain Landis
    • 1925 National Football League Championship: Chicago Cardinals (11-2-1) win controversial first past the post title; Pottsville Maroons suspended after playing unsanctioned game
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    1926 St. Louis Cardinals trade future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby to NY Giants for Frankie Frisch & Jimmy Ring; concerns over Hornsby's gambling

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    MLB Hall of Fame 2nd Baseman and ManagerRogers Hornsby
    • 1929 Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager
    • 1930 Cricketer Learie Constantine scores 100 runs in 52 mins West Indies v Tasmania (10x4, 1x6, 1x5)
    • 1932 50 year old Australian cricket Test spinner Bert Ironmonger captures 7-13 as Queensland dismissed for 74; Victoria wins by an innings & 139 runs in Melbourne
    • 1937 Australian cricket spin bowler Bill O'Reilly takes career best 9-41 for NSW in a Sheffield Shield match against South Australia at Adelaide Oval
    • 1938 Boston Bruins rookie goalie Frankie Brimsek records his 3rd straight shutout with a 3-0 win over the New York Americans, making it his incredible sixth shutout in his first 8 NHL games
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    1940 Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Athletics for $42,000

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    Baseball LegendConnie Mack
    • 1959 Indian cricket spin bowler Jasubhai Patel takes 9-69 in Australia's 1st innings 219 in 2nd Test at Kanpur
    • 1966 NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season
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    1973 AL president Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees

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    Baseball Player and ManagerJoe Cronin
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    1973 Montreal Canadien Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point

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    Ice Hockey GreatHenri Richard

    • 1979 Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Behn Wilson scores with 4:08 remaining in regulation to earn a 1-1 tie with the Pittsburgh Penguins and equal NHL record for longest undefeated streak of 28 games; go on to break record and extend to 35 games
    • 1981 Winnipeg left wing Doug Smail sets NHL record by scoring just 4 seconds into Jets' 5-4 win over the St Louis Blues; fastest goal from opening face-off to back of net in history; later tied by Bryan Trottier and Alex Mogilny
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    1983 Guy Lafleur, Montreal Canadiens, becomes 10th NHLer to score 500 goals

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    NHL LegendGuy Lafleur
    • 1983 NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Pitts Penguins
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    1985 Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points)

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    NHL StarDenis Potvin
    • 1985 Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC
    • 1987 76th Davis Cup: Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0)
    • 1991 NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning & Ottawa Senators
    • 1994 Ballon d'Or: FC Barcelona's Bulgarian forward Hristo Stoichkov is named Europe's best football player ahead of Juventus striker Roberto Baggio and Milan defender Paolo Maldini
    • 2001 90th Davis Cup: France beats Australia in Melbourne (3-2)
     
  3. Dec 21, 2022 #383
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    1891 1st game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts

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    Basketball InventorJames Naismith

    • 1918 Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore & Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell & Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters & $15,000
    • 1925 Test batsman Hunter "Stork" Hendry scores career best unbeaten 325 for Victoria against New Zealand in drawn tour match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
    • 1926 Soccer team DOS Struggle forms
    • 1932 Giants sign former outfielder Billy Southworth as a coach
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    1936 Bradman's 2nd consecutive Test Cricket duck! Australia all out for 80

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    Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
    • 1937 Chicago Black Hawks left wing Paul Thompson becomes first player in NHL history to score a goal against his brother; scores on goaltender Cecil Thompson of the Boston Bruins with just 9 seconds left in regulation; Bruins win though, 2-1
    • 1937 O'Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, NSW v South Australia
    • 1941 Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point
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    1941 National Football League Championship, Wrigley Field, Chicago: Chicago Bears beat New York Giants, 37-9; first team in NFL championship game era (since 1933) to win consecutive titles; Bears 5th title overall

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    American Football PlayerMel Hein
    • 1948 1949 NFL Draft: University of Pennsylvania linebacker/center Chuck Bednarik is selected first by Philadelphia Eagles
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    1959 Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)

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    NFL Head CoachTom Landry
    • 1969 Vince Lombardi (Washington Redskins) coaches his last football game, a 20-10 loss to the Cowboys in Dallas, for a 7-5-2 season and 105-35-6 career
    • 1973 3rd Fiesta Bowl: #10 Arizona State beats Pittsburgh, 28-7
    • 1975 Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Caps 14-2 scoring 5 goals vs Washington Caps in 4:57
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    1975 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Stockholm, Sweden: Home town hero Björn Borg beats Czech Jan Kodeš 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 to give Sweden unassailable 3-1 lead; ends 3-2

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    Tennis PlayerBjörn Borg

    • 1979 Garry Unger’s NHL record for consecutive games ends at 914, as his Atlanta Flames lose 5-1 to the St Louis Blues and he is benched by coach Al MacNeil; record eventually broken by Doug Jarvis (964)
    • 1980 Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
    • 1981 Cincinnati beats Bradley 75-73 in 7 OTs (NCAA record)
    • 1983 NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men's basketball free throw rule
    • 1984 Brigham Young University (BYU) beats Michigan, 24-17 in the Holiday Bowl at Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego to remain undefeated and secure their first ever NCAA Division I-A football title
    • 1995 SF Giants announce plans to build a new stadium to open in 2000
    • 1997 Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd to run for 2,000 yards in a season
    • 1997 Detroit Lions linebacker Reggie Brown, knocked unconscious in game
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    1999 Ballon d'Or: FC Barcelona's Brazilian midfielder Rivaldo is named best football player in Europe ahead of Manchester United midfielder David Beckham and Milan striker Andriy Shevchenko

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    Football PlayerDavid Beckham
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    2005 Joe Sakic is named captain of the 2006 Team Canada Olympic team

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    NHL LegendJoe Sakic
    • 2012 The NHL announces a further cancellation of games until January 14 bringing the total number of cancelled games to 625
    • 2018 Tennis Australia announces a 10-point tie break to be implemented in Australian Open when deciding set reaches 6-6; takes place of 2-game advantage final sets
     
  4. Dec 22, 2022 #384
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    • 1877 "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Mass)
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    1888 Heavyweight boxing champ John L. Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain

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    Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJohn L. Sullivan

    • 1894 United States Golf Association forms in New York
    • 1915 Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati; Federal Baseball League dissolves
    • 1917 In the NHL's first official week of play, 3 players score hat tricks in the same game, for the same team; Corb Denneny, Reg Noble, & Harry Meeking each score 3 for the Toronto Arenas in an 11-4 win over the Ottawa Senators
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    1923 Bill Ponsford & Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict

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    CricketerBill Ponsford
    • 1924 Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
    • 1941 1942 NFL Draft: Bill Dudley from University of Virginia first pick by Pittsburgh Steelers
    • 1943 Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
    • 1946 Cleveland Browns beat NY Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
    • 1951 Australia cricket all out 82 v West Indies at Adelaide
    • 1953 Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in Intl League, turns name over to newly relocated St Louis Browns
    • 1959 NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
    • 1962 1,000,000th NBA point scored
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    1964 Ballon d'Or: Manchester United striker Denis Law wins award for best European football player; beats Inter midfielder Luis Suárez and Real Madrid winger Amancio Amaro; first Scotsman to win the award

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    Football StarLuis Suárez Miramontes
    • 1969 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
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    1974 Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals

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    NHL StarPhil Esposito
    • 1980 MLB St. Louis Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
    • 1983 Indiana Pacers win, 133-132 in Denver to end a 28 NBA game losing streak on the road
    • 1983 NHL NY Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Washington Capitols
    • 1984 Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, v WI at the MCG
    • 1985 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
    • 1986 India score 7-676 v Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket
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    1990 Paul Coffey becomes the second NHL defenceman to record 1000 points, doing so in a record-breaking 770 games

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    NHL StarPaul Coffey
    • 1992 Ballon d'Or: Milan's Dutch striker Marco van Basten wins his 3rd title as best football player in Europe ahead of Barcelona forward Hristo Stoichkov and Ajax forward Dennis Bergkamp
    • 1995 David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with NY Yankees
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    1996 St Louis Blues’ right wing Brett Hull scores his 26th NHL career hat trick to reach 500 career goals in a 7-4 win over the LA Kings; with father Bobby Hull, first father/son combo to each record 500 goals

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    NHL LegendBrett Hull
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    NHL LegendBobby Hull
    • 1996 Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yds for TD
    • 1996 Zimbabwe & England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with England needing 1 run to win
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    1997 Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5

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    Figure SkaterTonya Harding
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    Figure SkaterNancy Kerrigan
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    1997 Scotty Bowman's Red Wings beat the Boston Bruins, 4-2 giving him 200 wins with Detroit, and making him the first NHL coach to record 200 wins with 3 different teams; also Montreal and Buffalo

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    NHL CoachScotty Bowman
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    1998 Ballon d'Or: Juventus' French midfielder Zinedine Zidane is named best football player in Europe ahead of Real Madrid striker Davor Šuker and Inter forward Ronaldo

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    Football StarRonaldo
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    Football Player and ManagerZinedine Zidane
    • 2003 Ballon d'Or: Juventus' Czech midfielder Pavel Nedvěd is named best football player in Europe ahead of Arsenal forward Thierry Henry and Milan defender Paolo Maldini
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    2003 The New York Knicks hire Isiah Thomas as President of Basketball Operations

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    NBA Point Guard and CoachIsiah Thomas
    • 2012 Tomasz Adamek outpoints Steve Cunningham in a split decision in the IBF heavyweight title eliminator at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
    • 2019 New Orleans wide receiver Michael Thomas sets NFL record for most catches in a season with his 144th as Saints beat Tennessee 38-28; breaks 17-year old record held by Marvin Harrison (143)
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    2020 Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi scores his 644th goal for FC Barcelona during 3-0 win over Real Valladolid to break Pele's record for most goals for one club; Pele, 643 goals for Santos 1956-74

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    Football StarLionel Messi
     
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    • 1866 First yacht race across the Atlantic won by the schooner Henrietta owned by Gordon Bennett of New York, first to reach Bishop Rock in the Scilly Isles after racing from NY
    • 1923 Yankees pitcher Carl Mays sold to Reds for $85,000

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    1933 Montreal Canadiens center Howie Morenz scores in 3-0 win v Detroit Red Wings; his NHL record 249th career goal

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    NHL StarHowie Morenz
    • 1951 National Football League Championship, LA Memorial Coliseum: Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns, 24-17; first coast-to-coast televised NFL title game
    • 1953 Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year
    • 1957 Test cricket debut for all-time great Australian wicketkeeper Wally Grout and future captain and coach Bobby Simpson, 1st Test v South Africa in Johannesburg
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    1969 Ballon d'Or: Milan midfielder Gianni Rivera wins award for best European football player ahead of Cagliari forward Luigi Riva and Bayern Munich striker Gerd Müller

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    Footballer and StrikerGerd Müller
    • 1972 "Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7 [1]
    • 1972 2nd Fiesta Bowl: #15 Arizona State beats Missouri, 49-35
    • 1972 New York Islanders end 15 games winless streak
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    1978 NY Islanders center Bryan Trottier sets NHL record scoring 6 points - 4 goals & 2 assists - in 2nd period of 9-4 win over rival NY Rangers; adds goal & assist for game total 8 points; Islanders undefeated home streak stands at 16 games

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    NHL StarBryan Trottier
    • 1979 NY Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
    • 1981 Geoffrey Boycott becomes leading run-scorer in Test Cricket with 8033
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    1984 West Indies batsman Viv Richards scores 208 vs Ausatralia in test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

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    Cricketer and Master BlasterViv Richards
    • 1987 Buffalo goaltender Tom Barrasso leads the Sabres to a 5-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings to record his 100th NHL victory; makes him the youngest player to reach milestone at just 22 years, 9 months
    • 1994 Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players
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    1997 Ballon d'Or: Barcelona/Inter's Brazilian striker Ronaldo wins his first of 2 best football player in Europe awards ahead of Real Madrid forward Predrag Mijatović and Juventus midfielder Zinedine Zidane

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    Football StarRonaldo
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    Football Player and ManagerZinedine Zidane
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    1997 Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson is quickest to reach 500 wins (682 games)

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    NBA CoachPhil Jackson
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    1997 Colorado Avalanche Jari Kurri is 8th NHLer to score 600 career goals

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    NHL StarJari Kurri
    • 2000 Cricket Women's World Cup: New Zealand defeats Australia by 4 runs
     
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    • 1889 Daniel Stover & William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake
    • 1921 Ottawa’s Harry Broadbent scores in 10-0 Senators blowout of the Montreal Canadiens; first in 16-game NHL record goal-scoring streak; Charlie Simmer’s 13 game streak (1979) is considered modern-day record

    • 1927 Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 & took 5-36 v S Af
    • 1950 National Football League Championship, Cleveland Stadium: Cleveland Browns beat LA Rams, 30-28; Cleveland has 5 interceptions, Rams 1
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    1961 AFL Championship, Balboa Stadium, San Diego: Houston Oilers beat San Diego Chargers 10-3; Billy Cannon scores game's only TD

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    NFL Running BackBilly Cannon
    • 1968 Ballon d'Or: Manchester United's winger George Best wins award for best European football player ahead of teammate Bobby Charlton and Red Star Belgrade winger Dragan Džajić; first Northern Irish national to win the award
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    1969 Curt Flood writes to baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn refusing to accept the Cardinals’ right to deal him and in favor of free agency [1]

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    MLB CommissionerBowie Kuhn
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    Baseball PlayerCurt Flood
    • 1974 MLB St Louis Cardinals Lou Brock is named Sportsman of the Year
    • 1982 Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic
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    1985 Ballon d'Or: Juventus' French midfielder Michel Platini is named Europe's best football player for the 3rd consecutive time; beats Verona striker Preben Elkjær and Barcelona midfielder Bernd Schuster

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    FootballerMichel Platini
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    1990 Expos trade Tim Raines to White Sox for Ivan Calderon & Barry Jones

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    MLB OutfielderTim Raines
    • 1991 Ballon d'Or: Marseille forward Jean-Pierre Papin is named Europe's best football player; first from the French League to win the trophy
    • 1995 Ballon d'Or: PSG/Milan's Liberian striker George Weah is named Europe's best football player; first edition where players born outside Europe permitted to receive votes
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    1996 Ballon d'Or: Borussia Dortmund's German sweeper Matthias Sammer is named best football player in Europe ahead of PSV/Barcelona striker Ronaldo and Newcastle United striker Alan Shearer

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    Football StarRonaldo
     
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    • 1862 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, South Carolina
    • 1888 First indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia; 2,000 watch the Uptowners beat the Downtowners, 6-1

    • 1930 Mt, Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, NY opens; first American bobsled run open to public
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    1940 Cricket master batsman Don Bradman is dismissed for a Xmas Day first ball duck (0) for South Australia v Victoria in a Sheffield Shield match at the Adelaide Oval

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    Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
    • 1951 West Indies wrap up 6 wicket defeat of Australia on first Christmas Day of Test cricket, the 3rd day of 3rd Test at the Adelaide Oval
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    1956 Detroit's future Hockey Hall of Fame right wing Gordie Howe picks up a Xmas hat-trick & 3 assists in Red Wings' 8-1 win over NY Rangers; most points he scores in a single game in entire 26-year NHL career

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    Ice Hockey LegendGordie Howe
    • 1971 Longest game in NFL history as Miami Dolphins beat KC Chiefs, 27-24 in 2OT in AFL playoff game; duration: 82 minutes and 40 seconds
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    1973 Ballon d'Or: Ajax forward Johan Cruyff wins his second award for best European football player ahead of Juventus goalkeeper Dino Zoff and Bayern Munich striker Gerd Müller

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    Soccer Player and CoachJohan Cruyff
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    Footballer and StrikerGerd Müller
    • 1976 6th Fiesta Bowl: #8 Oklahoma beats Wyoming, 41-7
    • 1977 7th Fiesta Bowl: #8 Penn State beats #15 Arizona State, 42-30
    • 1978 8th Fiesta Bowl: #8 Arkansas ties #15 UCLA, 10-10
    • 1979 9th Fiesta Bowl: #10 Pittsburgh beats Arizona, 16-10
    • 1979 Ballon d'Or: Hamburg's English forward Kevin Keegan wins his 2nd consecutive trophy as best football player in Europe; beats Bayern Munich forward Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Ajax sweeper Ruud Krol
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    1982 Mudassar Nazar scores 119 in Pakistan's 2nd innings 452 before Imran Khan takes 6 Indian wickets in 2nd Test in Karachi; he finished with 8/60 on the final day

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    Cricketer and Prime Minister of PakistanImran Khan
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    1984 Ballon d'Or: Juventus' French midfielder Michel Platini is named Europe's best football player for the 2nd consecutive time; beats Bordeaux midfielder Jean Tigana and Verona striker Preben Elkjær

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    FootballerMichel Platini
    • 1984 Knicks basketball forward Bernard King scores 60 points, but New York loses, 120-114 to the New Jersey Nets on Xmas Day at Madison Square Garden
    • 1990 Ballon d'Or: Inter's German sweeper Lothar Matthäus is named best football player in Europe ahead of Juventus striker Salvatore Schillaci and Inter defender Andreas Brehme
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    1995 Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith scores NFL record 25th touchdown of the season in 37-13 win against Arizona Cardinals at Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe AZ

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    American Football PlayerEmmitt Smith
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    2008 Phil Jackson becomes the sixth coach in NBA history to win 1,000 games as his LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 92-83 at the Staples Center, Los Angeles

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    NBA CoachPhil Jackson
    • 2020 New Orleans running back Alvin Kamara equals Ernie Nevers 1929 NFL record of 6 touchdowns in a match in the Saints' 52-33 win over the Minnesota Vikings at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome
     
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    • 1860 First ever inter-club football match between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England
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    1908 African-American boxer Jack Johnson stops Canadian defending champion Tommy Burns in the 14th round in Sydney, Australia, to become the first black man to win world heavyweight title; Burns is favourite in 12th title defence but Johnson dominates before police stop the bout

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    World Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJack Johnson
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    Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionTommy Burns

    • 1917 1st NHL defensemen to score a goal: Toronto Maple Leaf Harry Cameron
    • 1918 1st day of 1st-class cricket in Aust after WW I (Vic v NSW)
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    1919 Yankees and Boston Red Sox reach agreement to move future Baseball Hall of Fame pitching slugger Babe Ruth to New York

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    Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
    • 1925 1st East-West Shrine Bowl game of college football 'all-stars' played before 25,000 fans at Ewing Park, San Francisco. Proceeds continue to benefit Shriners Hospitals for Children.
    • 1925 NY Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates set an NHL record by recording a combined 141 shots on goal in Americans' 3-1 win; Roy Worters makes incredible 70 saves for Pittsburgh and Jake Forbes has 67 for NY
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    1928 Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming

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    Swimmer and ActorJohnny Weissmuller
    • 1934 Yomiuri Giants, Japan's 1st professional baseball team forms
    • 1938 Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England v South Africa
    • 1940 1st-class cricket debut of Arthur Morris, who scores 148
    • 1943 National Football League Championship, Wrigley Field, Chicago: Chicago Bears beat Washington Redskins, 41-21; Bears 6th title
    • 1950 Gillette & Mutual buy All Star & World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)
    • 1954 National Football League Championship, Cleveland Municipal Stadium: Cleveland Browns thrash Detroit Lions, 56-10; Browns' placekicker Lou Groza makes 8 extra points, a new title game record
    • 1955 National Football League Championship, LA Memorial Coliseum: Cleveland Browns beat Los Angeles Rams, 38-14; Browns defend title and win their 3rd NFL Championship of the 1950s in a second straight rout
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    1960 National Football League Championship, Franklin Field, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Eagles beat Green Bay Packers, 17-13; lone playoff defeat for Packers coach Vince Lombardi before Packers establish dynasty

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    NFL CoachVince Lombardi
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    NFL Player and SportscasterTom Brookshier

    • 1964 AFL Championship, War Memorial Stadium, Buffalo: Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7; defending champions can't overcome 1st quarter injury to star RB Keith Lincoln
    • 1965 AFL Championship, Balboa Stadium San Diego: Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0; repeat previous year's win over SD
    • 1967 Ballon d'Or: Ferencváros forward Flórián Albert wins award for best European football player ahead of Manchester United midfielder Bobby Charlton and Celtic winger Jimmy Johnstone
    • 1968 Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors & 2 game misconducts in a game against NY Rangers in NY's Madison Square Garden
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    1971 Muhammad Ali finishes off German Jürgen Blin with a thundering right cross for a 7th-round knockout in a non-title heavyweight boxing contest in Zurich, Switzerland

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    Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali
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    1972 Ballon d'Or: Bayern Munich defender Franz Beckenbauer wins award for best European football player ahead of tied fellow German duo of Gerd Müller and Günter Netzer

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    Footballer and StrikerGerd Müller
    • 1974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout
    • 1975 5th Fiesta Bowl: #7 Arizona State beats #6 Nebraska, 17-14
    • 1975 Crowd of 85,661 attend the 1st day of the Australia vs West Indies MCG cricket test
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    1976 AFC Championship, Oakland Coliseum: Oakland Raiders beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 24-7

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    NFL Coach and SportscasterJohn Madden
    • 1976 NFC Championship, Metropolitan Stadium, Bloomington: Minnesota Vikings beat Los Angeles Rams, 24-13
    • 1980 10th Fiesta Bowl: #10 Penn State beats #11 Ohio State, 31-19
    • 1981 One of the great day's Test Cricket at the MCG Australia v West Indies
    • 1983 Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews, v Pakistan at the MCG
    • 1985 Test Cricket debut of Steve Waugh, v India at the MCG
    • 1986 Hartford center Doug Jarvis sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games as the Whalers tie 1-1 after OT against his old club Montreal Canadiens
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    1986 Mark Messier is suspended for 10 games for instigating a fight with Jamie Macoun and breaking his cheekbone

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    NHL LegendMark Messier
    • 1989 Ballon d'Or: Milan's second straight 1-2-3; Dutch striker Marco van Basten wins his 2nd best football player in Europe title ahead of Franco Baresi and Frank Rijkaard
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    1989 ODI cricket debut for Australia's Mark Taylor and Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya at the MCG

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    CricketerSanath Jayasuriya
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    1990 Garry Kasparov defeats fellow Russian Anatoly Karpov to retain the world chess championship

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    Chess Grandmaster and Political ActivistGarry Kasparov
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    Chess GrandmasterAnatoly Karpov

    • 1990 Reggie Williams becomes 1st GM of WLAF's NY-NJ Knights
    • 1990 Senior Professional Baseball Association folds
    • 1991 Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years
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    1991 Future Hockey Hall of Fame right wing Joe Mullen scores 4 goals for the second straight NHL game as the Pittsburgh Penguins rout Toronto, 12-1; Mario Lemieux adds 2 goals & 5 assists and Kevin Stevens has 2 goals & 4 assists

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    NHL Legend and OwnerMario Lemieux
    • 1991 NY Islander Derek King ties NJ Devils 5-5 with ½ second left
    • 1992 New York Jets announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75
    • 1992 The NHL's San Jose Sharks end a 13-game losing streak with a 7-2 win over the LA Kings, albeit allowing 59 shots, the most in team history; Jeff Hacket makes 57 saves
    • 1995 Paul Adams becomes South Africa's youngest Test Cricket player at 18 yrs 340 days
    • 2006 At 40 years, 268 days, Teddy Sheringham scores for West Ham United in a 2-1 loss to Portsmouth at Upton Park, London; becomes oldest goalscorer in EPL history
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    2006 Spin bowling great Shane Warne becomes first bowler in Test cricket history to take 700 wickets; bowls England opener Andrew Strauss for 50 during Australia's 4th Test win in Melbourne

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    Cricketer and BroadcasterShane Warne
     
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    • 1892 Biddle University beats Livingstone College 5-0 in 1st black college football game, in Salisbury, North Carolina
    • 1897 Stanley Cup, Victoria Rink, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Victorias beat Ottawa Capitals, 15-2

    • 1919 Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces they will deal any player except Harry Hooper, Hooper is sent to the White Sox after 1920 season
    • 1937 German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos Zabala (Arg), 1932 Olympic marathon champion, from entering Germany
    • 1942 5th NFL All Star Game, Shribe Park, Philadelphia: NFL All-Stars beat Washington Redskins, 17-14
    • 1953 National Football League Championship, Briggs Stadium, Detroit: Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns, 17-16 to retain title
    • 1956 45th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Adelaide (5-0)
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    1956 Bill Sharman (Boston) ends NBA free throw streak of 55 games

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    NBA GuardBill Sharman
    • 1959 National Football League Championship, Memorial Stadium, Baltimore: Baltimore Colts beat New York Giants, 31-16; Colts score 24 straight points in 4th quarter
    • 1960 1961 NFL Draft: Tommy Mason from University of Tulane first pick by Minnesota Vikings
    • 1962 28th Heisman Trophy Award: Terry Baker, Oregon State (QB)
    • 1964 National Football League Championship, Cleveland Stadium: Cleveland Browns shutout Baltimore Colts, 27-0; last championship win by a major-league pro sports team from Cleveland until 2016 NBA Cavaliers
    • 1966 Ballon d'Or: Manchester United midfielder Bobby Charlton wins award for best European football player; claims award by a single point ahead of Benfica striker Eusébio
    • 1971 1st Fiesta Bowl: #8 Arizona State beats Florida State, 45-38
    • 1972 LA Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak
    • 1973 LA Dodgers announce night games will start at 7:30 instead of 8

    • 1974 40th Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)
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    1977 Ballon d'Or: Borussia Mönchengladbach's Danish forward Allan Simonsen is named Europe's best football player ahead of Hamburg forward Kevin Keegan and Nancy midfielder Michel Platini

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    FootballerMichel Platini
    • 1978 Ballon d'Or: Hamburg's English forward Kevin Keegan wins his 1st of 2 consecutive trophies as best football player in Europe; beats Barcelona striker Hans Krankl and Anderlecht winger Rob Rensenbrink
    • 1979 Los Angeles left wing Charlie Simmer scores in a Kings' 3-0 shutout of the Quebec Nordiques to extend his modern day NHL goal-scoring streak to 13 straight games (ends next game)
    • 1979 Red Army beats NY Rangers 5-2 at Madison Square Garden
    • 1980 Calvin Murphy (Rockets) begins longest NBA free throw streak of 78
    • 1981 Lillee becomes the leading wicket-taker in test cricket with 310
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    1981 Oiler Wayne Gretzky becomes fastest NHLer to get 100 pts (38th game)

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    Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky
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    1982 Imran Khan 8-60 to bring innings victory v India at Karachi

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    Cricketer and Prime Minister of PakistanImran Khan
    • 1983 Ballon d'Or: Juventus' French midfielder Michel Platini claims first of 3 trophies for Europe's best football player ahead of Liverpool midfielder Kenny Dalgleish and Vejle BK striker Allan Simonsen
    • 1984 Padres' free agent pitcher Ed Whitson signs with NY Yankees
    • 1987 Steve Largent sets all-time NFL record for career catches when he catches his 752nd pass
    • 1988 Ballon d'Or: Milan 1-2-3; Dutch striker Marco van Basten wins his 1st of 3 best football player in Europe awards ahead of Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard
    • 1989 Oregon begins taking bids on NBA games
    • 1990 Edmonton Oilers beat the Calgary Flames, 4-1 to record their 500th all-time NHL victory; set in just 915 games for a record of 500-295-120, good for a winning % of .612; best in history upon reaching milestone
    • 1991 Bengals hire Dave Shula as youngest NFL coach (32)
    • 1991 Chuck Knox retires as Seattle Seahawk coach
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    1995 Australian cricketer David Boon completes his 21st Test Cricket century (110 v SL, MCG)

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    Cricket BatsmanDavid Boon
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    1999 Joe Sakic records his 1,000th career point, an assist against the St. Louis Blues

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    NHL LegendJoe Sakic
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    2000 Pittsburgh Penguins center and part-owner Mario Lemieux scores a goal and 2 assists in his return to the NHL after more than 3 years out with injury problems and lingering cancer issues; Penguins beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 5-0

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    NHL Legend and OwnerMario Lemieux
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    2017 Raheem Sterling scores to give Manchester City 1-0 win over Newcastle United at St. James' Park; EPL record 18th consecutive win; streak ends with 0-0 draw at Crystal Palace 31/12

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    FootballerRaheem Sterling
     
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    • 1887 John Layton Jarvis becomes first British race horse trainer to be knighted for services to racing
    • 1905 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)

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    1918 Montreal's Georges Vezina becomes the first NHL goalie to record an assist during the Canadiens’ 6-3 win over the Toronto Arenas

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    NHL GoalieGeorges Vezina
    • 1934 First ever Women's cricket international begins England vs Australia in Australia
    • 1938 Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa
    • 1940 Cricketer Arthur Morris scores 111 in 2nd innings of 1st game after 148
    • 1944 Former Wash 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross
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    1944 Montreal right wing Maurice 'Rocket' Richard becomes first player in NHL history to score 8 points in one game with 5 goals and 3 assists in the Canadiens' 9-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings

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    Ice Hockey PlayerMaurice Richard
    • 1946 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Melbourne, Australia: Jack Kramer & Ted Schroeder give US unassailable 3-0 lead; beat Australians John Bromwich & Adrian Quist 6-2, 7-5, 6-4; ends 5-0
    • 1947 Chic Cards beat Philadelphia Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game
    • 1947 National Football League Championship, Comiskey Park, Chicago: Chicago Cardinals beat Philadelphia Eagles, 28-21; Cardinals' only title victory
    • 1951 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, White City, Sydney: Frank Sedgman outclasses Vic Seixas 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 in the deciding rubber as Australia beats US, 3-2 in Sydney to retain Cup
    • 1952 National Football League Championship, Cleveland Municipal Stadium: Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns, 17-7
    • 1954 43rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Sydney (3-2)
    • 1955 44th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (5-0)
    • 1957 46th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Melbourne (3-2)

    • 1957 CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on
    • 1958 "The Greatest Game Ever Played": Baltimore Colts win the 26th NFL championship against the New York Giants 23-17 at Yankee Stadium, in the first ever sudden-death overtime game in NFL history. 17 future members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame were involved in the game.
    • 1960 49th Davis Cup: Australia beats Italy in Sydney (4-1)
    • 1961 50th Davis Cup: Australia beats Italy in Melbourne (5-0)
    • 1962 51st Davis Cup: Australia beats Mexico in Brisbane (5-0)
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    1963 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Adelaide: American Chuck McKinley beats Australia's John Newcombe 10-12, 6-2, 9-7, 6-2 in the deciding rubber to give US a thrilling 3-2 victory

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    Tennis Player and Wimbledon ChampionChuck McKinley
    • 1963 Scottish Lotus driver Jim Clark wins his record 7th Grand Prix of the F1 season, the South African event at Prince George Circuit; first Scotsman to win the World Drivers Championship
    • 1965 Ballon d'Or: Benfica striker Eusébio wins award for best European football player; first Portuguese national to win, and still only Benfica player
    • 1965 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Sydney: John Newcombe & Tony Roche beat José Luis Arilla & Manuel Santana of Spain 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 to give Australia unassailable 3-0 lead; ends 4-1
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    1966 55th Davis Cup, Melbourne: Australian Roy Emerson beats Ramanathan Krishnan of India 6-0, 6-2, 10-8 for an unassailable 3-1 lead; ends 4-1

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    Tennis PlayerRoy Emerson
    • 1967 56th Davis Cup: Australia beats Spain in Brisbane (4-1)
    • 1968 57th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (4-1)
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    1971 Ballon d'Or: Ajax forward Johan Cruyff wins award for best European football player ahead of Inter forward Sandro Mazzola and Manchester United winger George Best; first Dutch national and Ajax player to win award

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    Soccer Player and CoachJohan Cruyff
    • 1974 4th Fiesta Bowl: Oklahoma State beats #17 BYU, 16-6
    • 1975 "The Hail Mary", with 32 seconds left in the NFC Divisional Playoff Game, Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach throws a legendary 50-yard winning touchdown pass to Drew Pearson to defeat the Minnesota Vikings, and the "Hail Mary" play is born
    • 1975 Gary Cosier scores 109 v West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut
    • 1975 In the aftermath of the Cold War, the New York Rangers become first team in NHL history to face a touring Soviet hockey squad; Soviet Army beats the Rangers, 7-3 at Madison Square Garden
    • 1975 Red Army beats NY Rangers 7-3 at Madison Square Garden
    • 1976 Ballon d'Or: Bayern Munich defender Franz Beckenbauer wins title of Europe's best football player for a 2nd time; beats Anderlecht winger Rob Rensenbrink and Dukla Prague goalkeeper Ivo Viktor
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    1978 30th hat trick in Islander history (Mike Bossy)

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    Ice Hockey GreatMike Bossy

    • 1982 Ballon d'Or: Juventus striker Paolo Rossi is named best European football player; beats Bordeaux midfielder Alain Giresse and Juventus' Polish midfielder Zbigniew Boniek
    • 1983 72nd Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
    • 1986 75th Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2), helped by Pat Davis ranked 412th in the world
    • 1990 Blockbuster Bowl 1: Florida State beats Penn State, 24-17
    • 1991 8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, NYC
    • 1991 Blockbuster Bowl 2: Alabama beats Colorado, 30-25
    • 1993 Ballon d'Or: Juventus' Italian striker Roberto Baggio is named Europe's best football player ahead of Inter forward Dennis Bergkamp and Manchester United striker Eric Cantona
    • 1993 John Maclean passes Kirk Muller as all-time NJ Devils scorer (521 pts)
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    1994 David Boon completes his 20th Test Cricket century (131 v England, MCG)

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    Cricket BatsmanDavid Boon
    • 1996 India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in cricket 1st innings
    • 2008 Detroit Lions crash to a 31-21 loss to Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field; first team in NFL history to go winless in a 16-game season
    • 2013 Chris Weidman defeats Anderson Silva to retain the UFC Middleweight Championship
    • 2018 UFC bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes of Brazil moves up in weight and KOs dominant featherweight Cris "Cyborg" Justino just 51 seconds into the opening round at the Forum, Inglewood, CA; first female to win UFC titles in multiple weight classes
    • 2019 49th Fiesta Bowl (College Football Playoff semifinal), #3 Clemson beats #2 Ohio State, 29-23
    • 2019 52nd Peach Bowl (College Football Playoff semi final): #1 LSU beats #4 Oklahoma, 63-28
    • 2021 Test cricket debutant Scott Boland takes 6 for 7 as Australia retain the Ashes (3-0) with an innings & 14 run win against England in the 3rd Test in Melbourne
     
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    • 1906 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS), 7-2 for 17-5 aggregate challenge series victory
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    1933 New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert refuses to release future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth to manage the Cincinnati Reds

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    Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

    • 1934 First collegiate basketball doubleheader is played at Madison Square Garden, NYC; New York University beats Notre Dame, 25-18; Westminster edges St. John's, 37-33
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    1937 Lou Thesz beats Everett Marshall in St Louis, to win NWA World heavyweight title - youngest ever

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    Professional WrestlerLou Thesz
    • 1940 3rd NFL All Star Game: Chicago Bears beats NFL All-Stars, 28-14
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    1945 Montreal right wing Maurice Richard scores twice in Canadiens' 5-4 loss to Chicago Black Hawks to record his 100th NHL career goal; reaches mark in 145 games, then fastest in history; since broken by Mike Bossy, 100 goals in 129 games

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    Ice Hockey PlayerMaurice Richard
    • 1955 NHL officials wear new vertically striped black-and-white sweaters for the first time in Montreal Canadiens' 5-2 win over Toronto Maple Leafs
    • 1957 National Football League Championship, Briggs Stadium, Detroit: Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns, 50-14; Lions score 2 touchdowns in each quarter
    • 1962 Australian cricket batting champion Doug Walters makes 1st-class debut for NSW v Queensland in Sydney at just 17 years, 8 days; scores 50 in NSW 2nd innings
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    1962 British driver Graham Hill wins the South African Grand Prix at Prince George Circuit in a BRM; takes out his first F1 World Drivers Championship by 12 points from Scotsman Jim Clark

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    Auto RacerGraham Hill
    • 1963 National Football League Championship, Wrigley Field, Chicago: Chicago Bears beat New York Giants, 14-10; Giants 3rd consecutive championship defeat; played in temperatures under 10 °F (−12 °C)
    • 1965 CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year
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    1968 AFL Championship, Shea Stadium, NYC: New York Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23; Joe Namath 3 TD passes sparks Jets to win

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    NFL Coach and SportscasterJohn Madden
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    NFL QuarterbackJoe Namath
    • 1968 NFL Championship, Cleveland Municipal Stadium: Baltimore Colts shutout Cleveland Browns, 34-0
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    1970 Ballon d'Or: Bayern Munich striker Gerd Müller wins award for best European football player ahead of West Ham United defender Bobby Moore and Cagliari forward Luigi Riva

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    Footballer and StrikerGerd Müller
    • 1972 Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson and Max Walker v Pakistan at MCG

    • 1974 AFC Championship, Oakland Coliseum: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Oakland Raiders, 24-13
    • 1974 NFC Championship, Metropolitan Stadium, Bloomington: Minnesota Vikings beat Los Angeles Rams, 14-10
    • 1978 Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, v England at the MCG
    • 1979 Red Army beats NY Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
    • 1981 Ballon d'Or: German 1-2-3 with Bayern Munich forward Karl-Heinz Rummenigge taking title of Europe's best football player for the 2nd straight year; beats teammate Paul Breitner and Barcelona midfielder Bernd Schuster
    • 1982 American college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ends his career with University of Alabama (323 wins)
    • 1983 2nd College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 19-18 in Memphis
    • 1983 Australian cricket batsman Graham Yallop completes a painstaking 268 (716 mins) v Pakistan in the drawn 4th Test in Melbourne
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    1983 Indian cricket opening batsman Sunil Gavaskar scores an unbeaten 236 in drawn 6th Test v West Indies at Chennai; his 4th Test double century and 30th century, surpassing Don Bradman's record of 29

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    Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
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    CricketerSunil Gavaskar
    • 1984 Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
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    1984 Wayne Gretzky scores his NHL career 32nd hat trick & adds 3 assists in Edmonton's 6-3 win over Detroit Red Wings for his 100th point in just 35 games; 2nd fastest in history - recorded 100 points in 34 games in 1983

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    Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky
    • 1987 Ballon d'Or: Milan's Dutch midfielder Ruud Gullit wins best football player in Europe award ahead of Paulo Futre (Porto/Atlético Madrid) and Real Madrid striker Emilio Butragueño
    • 1988 Soviet Red Army Team edges NY Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
    • 1988 Toronto’s Ed Olczyk and Gary Leeman score goals just 4 seconds apart in the 3rd period, tying the NHL record for fastest 2 goals by one team; Leafs beat the Quebec Nordiques, 6-5.
    • 1989 Wayne Gretzky and Martina Navratilova, named athletes of decade by the Associated Press
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    1994 Australian cricket's spin king Shane Warne dismisses England's Phil DeFreitas, Darren Gough and Devon Malcolm for a famous hat-trick in 2nd Test win in Melbourne

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    Cricketer and BroadcasterShane Warne
    • 1997 Cricket Women's World Cup: Australia defeats New Zealand by 5 wickets
    • 2007 American boxer Steve Cunningham defends his IBF cruiserweight title for the first time with a 12th-round TKO of local favourite Marco Huck in Bielefeld, Germany
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    2007 Tom Brady sets a then-NFL record, throwing his 50th TD pass, and the New England Patriots become the first team in NFL history to finish the regular season 16-0

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    NFL QuarterbackTom Brady
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    2013 7-time world F1 motor racing champion Michael Schumacher suffers a serious head injury in a ski accident in the French Alps; his condition still remains unclear

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    Formula 1 DriverMichael Schumacher
    • 2018 85th Orange Bowl: #1 Alabama beats #4 Oklahoma, 45-34
    • 2020 Milwaukee Bucks break NBA record for most 3-pointers made by a team in a single game with 29 in a dominant 144-97 victory over the Heat in Miami
     
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    • 1896 Stanley Cup, Granite Rink, Winnipeg, Manitoba: Ernie McLea scores a hat-trick as Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-5; first SC Challenge game played outside of Montreal
    • 1907 Abraham Mills' Mills Committee declares baseball was invented in 1839 by future American Civil War general Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York; widely disproven, now known as 'the Doubleday myth'

    • 1908 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers outscore Edmonton HC, 14-9 in 2 game challenge series
    • 1911 English cricketer Sydney Barnes takes 5-6 in 1st 11 overs v Australia at MCG
    • 1926 Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substantiated)
    • 1934 New York Rangers and Boston Bruins battle out a 0-0 tie; first of a 37-game overtime undefeated streak for the Bruins, the longest in NHL history; streak spans over 4 years and includes 27 ties
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    1939 Bradman scores 267 South Australia v Vic, world record 34th double cricket century

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    Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
    • 1943 Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps & cash
    • 1956 National Football League Championship, Yankee Stadium, NYC: New York Giants beat Chicago Bears, 47-7; Giants' 4th NFL title
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    1962 National Football League Championship, Yankee Stadium, NYC: Green Bay Packers beat NY Giants, 16-7; MVP: Ray Nitschke, Green Bay, LB

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    NFL LegendRay Nitschke
    • 1971 Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders)
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    1973 AFC Championship, Miami Orange Bowl: Miami Dolphins beat Oakland Raiders, 27-10

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    NFL Coach and SportscasterJohn Madden
    • 1973 NFC Championship, Texas Stadium, Irving: Minnesota Vikings beat Dallas Cowboys, 27-10
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    1975 Ballon d'Or: FC Dynamo Kyiv forward Oleg Blokhin claims award for best European football player ahead of former winners, Bayern Munich defender Franz Beckenbauer and Ajax forward Johan Cruyff

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    Soccer Player and CoachJohan Cruyff
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    1977 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Evonne Goolagong Cawley wins her 6th career Grand Slam title; beats fellow Australian Helen Gourlay Cawley 6-3, 6-0

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    Tennis PlayerEvonne Goolagong Cawley
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    1980 Ballon d'Or: Bayern Munich forward Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is named best European football player; beats German international teammate Bernd Schuster of FC Barcelona and Saint-Étienne midfielder Michel Platini

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    FootballerMichel Platini

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    1981 Wayne Gretzky scores 5 goals and an assist in Edmonton's 7-5 win over Philadelphia; gives Gretzky 50 goals in 39 games, the fastest 50 in 50 in NHL history; also sets NHL record with 15-game assist streak

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    Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky
    • 1982 England defeat Australia by three runs at cricket MCG
    • 1986 Ballon d'Or: Dynamo Kyiv's Ukrainian forward Igor Belanov is named best football player in Europe ahead of Barcelona striker Gary Lineker and Real Madrid forward Emilio Butragueño
    • 1989 Dmitri Volkov swims world record 50m freestyle (27.15 sec)
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    1992 Australian cricket spin bowling great Shane Warne takes 7/52 to lead Australia to 139 run win v West Indies in 2nd Test in Melbourne

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    Cricketer and BroadcasterShane Warne
    • 1992 Last day of Test Cricket for Michael Whitney
    • 1992 Washington defenseman Al Iafrate becomes first player in NHL history to have his shot officially break 100 miles per hour; records 101.4 mph during the Capitals Superskills competition
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    2008 NFL head coach Mike Shanahan is fired by the Denver Broncos

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    NFL Head CoachMike Shanahan
    • 2013 NFL head coach Mike Shanahan is fired by the Washington Redskins
    • 2016 83rd Orange Bowl: #10 Florida State beats #6 Michigan, 33-32
    • 2017 84th Orange Bowl: #6 Wisconsin beats #11 Miami (Florida), 34-24
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    2018 Patrick Mahomes becomes only the 2nd quarterback in NFL history to throw for 5,000 yards and 50 touchdowns during KC Chiefs' 35-3 win over Oakland Raiders; achieves both marks with 3rd quarter 89-yard TD pass to Demarcus Robinson

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    NFL QuarterbackPatrick Mahomes
    • 2019 86th Orange Bowl: #6 Florida beats #24 Virginia, 36-28
    • 2020 San Antonio assistant Becky Hammon becomes first female to coach an NBA team after Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich is ejected in a 121-107 loss to the LA Lakers
     
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    • 1906 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Christchurch, NZ: All-NZ final; Antony Wilding beats Francis Fisher 6-0, 6-4, 6-4
    • 1918 Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as Chicago White Sox manager; reach World Series but lose in the "Black Sox" betting scandal; Gleason not involved

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    1920 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Auckland, NZ: Bill Johnson & Bill Tilden (US) beat Norman Brookes & Gerald Patterson (Australasia) 6-4, 4-6, 6-0, 6-4 for an unassailable 3-0 lead; ends 5-0

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    Tennis PlayerBill Tilden
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    Tennis PlayerGerald Patterson
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    Tennis PlayerNorman Brookes
    • 1920 Victorian all-rounder Roy Park makes Test cricket debut for Australia v England in 2nd Test in Melbourne; bowled by Harry Howell for a first ball 'golden duck' in his first and only Test innings
    • 1921 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Perth: Australian Rhys Gemmell beats countryman Alf Hedeman 7-5, 6-1, 6-4
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    1945 Before the biggest Adelaide Oval crowd of the season, batting maestro Don Bradman scores his first post-WWII century; 112 for South Australia v Australian Services

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    Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
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    1950 American thoroughbred jockeys Bill Shoemaker and Joe Culmone end the year tied, leading the nation with record 388 wins

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    Racing Hall of Fame JockeyBill Shoemaker
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1952 Danny Nardico stops former world middleweight champion Jake LaMotta in 7 rounds in a light heavyweight non-title bout in Coral Gables, Florida; LaMotta is knocked down for the only time in his career, his corner stopping fight after the round

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    World Middleweight Boxing ChampionJake LaMotta
    [​IMG]Davis Cup
    1952 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Memorial Drive, Adelaide: Vic Seixas beats Ken McGregor in 4 sets but Australia retains title for third straight year; beats US, 4-1 in Adelaide

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    Tennis PlayerVic Seixas
    • 1953 42nd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Melbourne (3-2)
    • 1953 Bill Shoemaker shatters record, riding 485 winners in a year
    • 1958 47th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Brisbane (3-2)
    • 1958 Bill Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X
    [​IMG]NFL Championship
    1961 National Football League Championship, City Stadium, Green Bay: Green Bay Packers shutout NY Giants 37-0; first of 5 NFL titles won in 7-season span by Packers and head coach, Vince Lombardi

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    NFL CoachVince Lombardi
    • 1962 American Basketball League announces suspension of operation
    • 1966 Test Cricket debut of Bishen Singh Bedi, India v WI Calcutta, 2-92

    • 1967 1st NBA game at Great Western Forum, LA Lakers beat Houston 147-118
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    1967 AFL Championship, Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland: Oakland Raiders beat Houston Oilers 40-7; George Blanda 4 field goals for Raiders in club's 1st AFL Championship

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    NFL Coach and SportscasterJohn Madden
    • 1967 NFL Championship, Lambeau Field, Green Bay: Green Bay Packers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17; "The Ice Bowl", -13°F
    • 1968 NY Jets win AFL championship
    • 1970 Would have been start of Aust/Eng Test Cricket at MCG, washed out
    • 1972 39th Sugar Bowl: #2 Oklahoma beats #5 Penn State, 14-0
    • 1972 AFC Championship, Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh: Miami Dolphins beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 21-7
    [​IMG]Australian Open Women's Tennis
    1972 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beats Evonne Goolagong Cawley 6-4, 7-5 for her record 11th and final Australian singles crown

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    Tennis PlayerEvonne Goolagong Cawley
    • 1972 NFC Championship, RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.: Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 26-3
    • 1973 40th Sugar Bowl: #3 Notre Dame beats #1 Alabama, 24-23
    [​IMG]Australian Open Women's Tennis
    1973 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley beats Chris Evert 7-6, 4-6, 6-0 for her first of 4 home singles titles

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    Tennis LegendChris Evert
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    Tennis PlayerEvonne Goolagong Cawley
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1973 Johan Cruyff chosen European Football Player of theYear

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    Soccer Player and CoachJohan Cruyff
    • 1974 41st Sugar Bowl: #8 Nebraska beats #18 Florida, 13-10
    [​IMG]Australian Open Women's Tennis
    1974 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley retains her title; beats Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia 6-3, 6-2

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    Tennis PlayerMartina Navratilova
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    Tennis PlayerEvonne Goolagong Cawley
    • 1974 Ballon d'Or: Ajax forward Johan Cruyff wins back-to-back awards, and his 3rd overall, for best European football player ahead of Bayern Munich defender Franz Beckenbauer and Legia Warsaw midfielder Kazimierz Deyna
    • 1974 New York Yankees sign Cy Young Award winner Jim "Catfish" Hunter for 5 years for a record $3.75 million from the Oakland A's
    • 1975 42nd Sugar Bowl: #3 Alabama beats #7 Penn State, 13-6
    [​IMG]Australian Men's Tennis Open
    1977 Australian Open Men's Tennis: American Vitas Gerulaitis wins his first and only Grand Slam event; beats Englishman John Lloyd 6-3, 7-6, 5-7, 3-6, 6-2

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    Tennis PlayerVitas Gerulaitis
    • 1980 NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
    • 1984 Test Cricket debut of Mohammad Azharuddin, v England at Calcutta
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1988 Pittsburgh NHL center Mario Lemieux accounts for all his team's goals in Penguins 8-6 win over the NJ Devils; famously scores 5 goals, each in a different way: even strength, power play, shorthanded, penalty shot and empty net; also 3 assists

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    NHL Legend and OwnerMario Lemieux
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1989 Jockey Kent Desormeaux sets record with 598 wins in a year

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    JockeyKent Desormeaux
    • 1991 Daniel R. McCarthy elected NY Yankee managing general partner
    • 1991 J. Donald Crump resigns as CFL Commissioner
    • 1995 62nd Sugar Bowl: #13 Virginia Tech beats #9 Texas, 28-10
    • 1995 Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria
    • 1996 63rd Orange Bowl: #6 Nebraska beats #10 Virginia Tech, 41-21
    • 1997 27th Fiesta Bowl: #10 Kansas State beats #14 Syracuse, 35-18
    • 1997 72 year-old Marv Levy retires as coach of the NFL Buffalo Bills after 12 seasons, including 4 consecutive losing Super Bowl appearances
    • 1997 Buffalo's Czech NHL goalie Dominik Hasek stops 36 shots for his 27th career shutout in Sabres' 3-0 win over Ottawa Senators; his 6th shutout in month of December; first since George Hainsworth in 1928-29 to achieve the feat
    • 2006 The final contest at the old Lansdowne Road Stadium in Dublin is a rugby match with Leinster beating Ulster 20-12 in a Celtic League game
    • 2014 44th Fiesta Bowl: #20 Boise State beats #10 Arizona, 38-30
    • 2014 81st Orange Bowl: #10 Georgia Tech beats #8 Mississippi State, 49-34
    • 2015 82nd Orange Bowl: #1 Clemson beats #4 Oklahoma, 37-17
    • 2017 Cleveland Browns crash to a 28-24 loss to Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz Field to become only the 2nd team in NFL history to finish season with 0-16 record
    • 2018 Houston guard James Harden scores 43 points in Rockets' 113-101 win over Memphis Grizzlies; 4th straight NBA game with 40+ points and 8th straight with 35+; joins Oscar Robertson as only player with at least 35 points & 5 assists in 8 straight games
     
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    • 1838 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide
    • 1902 1st Rose Bowl, Tournament Park, Pasadena, California: Michigan beats Stanford, 49-0; MVP: Neil Snow, Michigan, FB

    • 1907 Joe Gans lands a devastating right to the head of Canadian challenger Kid Herman to retain his world lightweight boxing title with an 8th round knockout in Tonopah, Nevada
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    1908 Jack Hobbs makes his international debut in England's 2nd Test win over Australia at the MCG, scoring 83 and 28 in his two innings. Goes onto become the leading run scorer and century maker in 1st-class cricket history.

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    CricketerJack Hobbs
    • 1909 American Robert Fowler runs then world record marathon (2:52:45.4) at Yonkers, NY
    • 1910 England cricket underhand bowler George Simpson-Hayward takes 6-43 on debut with underarm lobs in 1st Test against South Africa in Johannesburg; SA wins by 19 runs
    • 1913 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Hastings, NZ: Irishman James Cecil Parke beats Alfred Beamish of England 3-6, 6-3, 1-6, 6-1, 7-5
    • 1916 2nd Rose Bowl, Tournament Park, Pasadena, California: Washington State beats Brown, 14-0; MVP: Carl Dietz, Washington State
    • 1917 3rd Rose Bowl, Tournament Park, Pasadena, California: Oregon beats Pennsylvania, 14-0; MVP: John Beckett, Oregon
    • 1918 4th Rose Bowl, Tournament Park, Pasadena, California: Mare Island, USMC beats Camp Lewis, US Army, 19-7; MVP: Hollis Huntington, USMC
    [​IMG]Rose Bowl
    1919 5th Rose Bowl, Tournament Park, Pasadena, California: Great Lakes, US Navy beats Mare Island, USMC, 17-0; MVP: George Halas, US Navy

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    American Football Coach and Team OwnerGeorge Halas
    • 1920 6th Rose Bowl: Harvard beats Oregon 7-6
    • 1921 7th Rose Bowl: California beats Ohio State 28-0
    • 1923 9th Rose Bowl: Southern California beats Penn State, 14-3
    • 1924 10th Rose Bowl: Washington ties Navy, 14-14
    • 1925 11th Rose Bowl: Notre Dame beats Stanford, 27-10
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1925 Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford becomes the first batsman to score a century in each of his first 2 Tests when he hits 128 against England in the 2nd Test in Melbourne; Australia wins by 81 runs

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    CricketerBill Ponsford
    • 1926 12th Rose Bowl: Alabama beats Washington, 20-19
    • 1927 13th Rose Bowl: Stanford ties Alabama, 7-7
    • 1927 Brooklyn announces release of future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Zack Wheat after 18 consecutive seasons with Robins; Wheat hits .324 in final season with Philadelphia A's
    • 1929 15th Rose Bowl: Georgia Tech beats California, 8-7 (Roy Riegels runs 60 yds the wrong way with fumble recovery)
    • 1930 16th Rose Bowl: Southern California beats Pittsburgh, 47-11
    • 1931 17th Rose Bowl: Alabama beats Washington State, 24-0
    • 1932 18th Rose Bowl: Southern California beats Tulane, 21-12
    • 1934 20th Rose Bowl: Columbia beats Stanford, 7-0
    • 1935 1st Orange Bowl: Bucknell beats Miami (FL), 26-0
    • 1935 1st Sugar Bowl: Tulane beats Temple, 20-14
    • 1935 21st Rose Bowl: Alabama beats Stanford, 29-13
    • 1936 22nd Rose Bowl: Stanford beats SMU, 7-0
    • 1936 2nd Orange Bowl: Catholic University beats Mississippi, 20-19
    • 1936 2nd Sugar Bowl: TCU beats LSU, 3-2
    • 1937 23rd Rose Bowl: #3 Pittsburgh beats #5 Washington, 21-0
    • 1937 3rd Orange Bowl: #14 Duquesne beats Mississippi State, 13-12
    • 1937 3rd Sugar Bowl: Santa Clara beats LSU, 21-14
    • 1938 24th Rose Bowl: #2 California beats #4 Alabama, 13-0
    • 1938 4th Orange Bowl: Auburn beats Michigan State, 6-0

    • 1938 4th Sugar Bowl: Santa Clara beats LSU, 6-0
    • 1939 25th Rose Bowl: #7 Southern California beats #3 Duke, 7-3
    • 1940 26th Rose Bowl: #3 Southern California beats #2 Tennessee, 14-0
    • 1940 6th Orange Bowl: #16 Georgia Tech beats #6 Missouri, 21-7
    • 1940 6th Sugar Bowl: #1 Texas A&M beats #5 Tulane, 14-13
    • 1941 27th Rose Bowl: #2 Stanford beats #7 Nebraska, 21-13
    • 1941 7th Orange Bowl: #9 Mississippi State beats #13 Georgetown, 14-7
    • 1941 7th Sugar Bowl: #4 Boston College beats #6 Tennessee, 19-13
    • 1942 28th Rose Bowl: #12 Oregon State beats #2 Duke, 20-16 (played in North Carolina due to Japanese threat)
    • 1942 8th Orange Bowl: #14 Georgia beats TCU, 40-26
    • 1942 8th Sugar Bowl: #6 Fordham beats #7 Missouri, 2-0
    • 1943 29th Rose Bowl: #2 Georgia beats #13 UCLA, 9-0
    • 1943 9th Orange Bowl: #10 Alabama beats #8 Boston College, 37-21
    • 1943 9th Sugar Bowl: #7 Tennessee beats #4 Tulsa, 14-7
    • 1943 Chicago Black Hawks field first trio of brothers to play together in an NHL game; Max, Doug and Reggie Bentley appear for the Hawks in a 6-5 win over the New York Rangers at Chicago Stadium
    • 1943 Negro Baseball League star Josh Gibson suffers a nervous breakdown; admitted to hospital for rest and treatment; released in time for pre-season training
    • 1944 10th Orange Bowl: LSU beats Texas A&M, 19-14
    • 1944 10th Sugar Bowl: Georgia Tech beats Tulsa, 20-18
    • 1944 30th Rose Bowl: Southern California beats #12 Washington, 29-0
    • 1945 11th Orange Bowl: Tulsa beats #13 Georgia Tech, 26-12

    • 1945 11th Sugar Bowl: #11 Duke beats Alabama, 29-26
    • 1945 31st Rose Bowl: #7 Southern California beats #12 Tennessee, 25-0
    • 1946 12th Orange Bowl: Miami (FL) beats #16 Holy Cross, 13-6
    • 1946 12th Sugar Bowl: #5 Oklahoma State beats #7 Saint Mary's (CA), 33-13
    • 1946 32nd Rose Bowl: #2 Alabama beats #11 Southern California, 34-14
    • 1947 13th Orange Bowl: #10 Rice beats #7 Tennessee, 8-0
    • 1947 13th Sugar Bowl: #3 Georgia beats #9 North Carolina, 20-10
    • 1947 33rd Rose Bowl: #5 Illinois beats #4 UCLA, 45-14
    • 1948 14th Orange Bowl: #10 Georgia Tech beats #12 Kansas, 20-14
    • 1948 14th Sugar Bowl: #5 Texas beats #6 Alabama, 27-7
    • 1948 34th Rose Bowl: #2 Michigan beats #8 Southern California, 49-0
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    1948 Australian cricket master batsman Don Bradman scores 132 on first day of 3rd Test v India; follows up with 127no in 2nd innings; Australia wins by 233

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    Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
    • 1949 15th Orange Bowl: Texas beats #8 Georgia, 41-28
    • 1949 15th Sugar Bowl: #5 Oklahoma beats #3 North Carolina, 14-6
    • 1949 35th Rose Bowl: #7 Northwestern beats #4 California, 20-14
    • 1949 Arguably cricket's greatest ever batsman, ex-Australian captain Don Bradman is knighted; first time a cricketer is bestowed with the honour solely for his contribution to the game
    • 1951 17th Orange Bowl: #10 Clemson beats #15 Miami (FL), 15-14
    • 1951 17th Sugar Bowl: #7 Kentucky beats #1 Oklahoma, 13-7
    • 1951 37th Rose Bowl: #9 Michigan beats #5 California, 14-6
    • 1952 18th Orange Bowl: #6 Georgia Tech beats #9 Baylor, 17-14

    • 1952 18th Sugar Bowl: #3 Maryland beats #1 Tennessee, 28-13
    • 1952 38th Rose Bowl: #4 Illinois beats #7 Stanford, 40-7
    • 1953 19th Orange Bowl: #9 Alabama beats #14 Syracuse, 61-6
    • 1953 19th Sugar Bowl: #2 Georgia Tech beats #7 Mississippi, 24-7
    • 1953 39th Rose Bowl: #5 Southern California beats #11 Wisconsin, 7-0
    • 1954 20th Orange Bowl: #4 Oklahoma beats #1 Maryland, 7-0
    • 1954 20th Sugar Bowl: #8 Georgia Tech beats #10 West Virginia, 42-19
    • 1954 40th Rose Bowl: #3 Michigan State beats #5 UCLA, 28-20
    • 1954 Rose & Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts
    • 1955 21st Orange Bowl: #14 Duke beats Nebraska, 34-7
    • 1955 21st Sugar Bowl: #5 Navy beats #6 Mississippi, 21-0
    • 1955 41st Rose Bowl: #1 Ohio State beats #17 Southern California, 20-7
    • 1957 23rd Orange Bowl: #20 Colorado beats #19 Clemson, 27-21
    • 1957 23rd Sugar Bowl: #11 Baylor beats #2 Tennessee, 13-7
    • 1957 43rd Rose Bowl: #3 Iowa beats #10 Oregon State, 35-19
    • 1958 24th Orange Bowl: #4 Oklahoma beats #16 Duke, 48-21
    • 1958 24th Sugar Bowl: #7 Mississippi beats #11 Texas, 39-7
    • 1958 44th Rose Bowl: #2 Ohio State beats Oregon, 10-7
    • 1959 25th Orange Bowl: #5 Oklahoma beats #9 Syracuse, 21-6
    • 1959 25th Sugar Bowl: #1 LSU beats #12 Clemson, 7-0

    • 1959 45th Rose Bowl: #2 Iowa beats #16 California, 38-12
    • 1960 26th Orange Bowl: #5 Georgia beats #18 Missouri, 14-0
    • 1960 26th Sugar Bowl: #2 Mississippi beats #3 LSU, 21-0
    • 1960 46th Rose Bowl: #8 Washington beats #6 Wisconsin, 44-8
    • 1961 1st AFL Championship, Jeppesen Stadium, Houston; Houston Oilers beat Los Angeles Chargers, 24-16; QB George Blanda 3 TD passes, 3 conversions and a field goal
    • 1961 Briggs Stadium, home of baseball's Detroit Tigers is officially renamed Tigers Stadium
    • 1962 28th Orange Bowl: #4 LSU beats #7 Colorado, 25-7
    • 1962 28th Sugar Bowl: #1 Alabama beats #9 Arkansas, 10-3`
    • 1962 48th Rose Bowl: #6 Minnesota beats #16 UCLA, 21-3
    • 1963 29th Orange Bowl: #5 Alabama beats #8 Oklahoma, 17-0
    • 1963 29th Sugar Bowl: #3 Mississippi beats #6 Arkansas, 17-13
    • 1963 49th Rose Bowl: #1 Southern California beats #2 Wisconsin, 42-37
    • 1964 30th Orange Bowl: #6 Nebraska beats #5 Auburn, 13-7
    • 1964 30th Sugar Bowl: #8 Alabama beats #7 Mississippi, 12-7
    • 1964 50th Rose Bowl: #3 Illinois beats Washington, 17-7
    • 1965 31st Orange Bowl: #5 Texas beats #1 Alabama, 21-17
    • 1965 31st Sugar Bowl: #7 LSU beats Syracuse, 13-10
    • 1965 49 year old former England international soccer forward Stanley Matthews becomes only player to be awarded a knighthood while still playing (Stoke City)
    • 1965 51st Rose Bowl: #4 Michigan beats #8 Oregon State, 34-7
    • 1966 32nd Orange Bowl: #4 Alabama beats #3 Nebraska, 39-28

    • 1966 32nd Sugar Bowl: #6 Missouri beats Florida, 20-18
    • 1966 52nd Rose Bowl: #5 UCLA beats #1 Michigan State, 14-12
    • 1967 AFL Championship, War Memorial Stadium, Buffalo: Kansas City Chiefs beat Buffalo Bills, 31-7; QB Len Dawson passes for 2 TDs, RB Mike Garrett runs for 2 TDs
    • 1967 Canadian Amateur Football Association formally becomes successor to Canadian Rugby Football Union; turns over the Grey Cup trophy to the CFL
    • 1967 NFL Championship, Cotton Bowl, Dallas: Green Bay Packers beat Dallas Cowboys, 34-27
    • 1967 Second day's play in Calcutta 2nd cricket Test, India v W Indies is cancelled by riots; ticket holders denied access starts trouble outside ground; escalates with fires in stands and pitch damage; WI win by 45
    • 1968 34th Orange Bowl: #3 Oklahoma beats #2 Tennessee, 26-24
    • 1968 34th Sugar Bowl: LSU beats #5 Wyoming, 20-13
    • 1968 54th Rose Bowl: #1 Southern California beats #4 Indiana, 14-3
    • 1969 35th Orange Bowl: #3 Penn State beats #6 Kansas, 15-14
    • 1969 35th Sugar Bowl: #9 Arkansas beats #4 Georgia, 16-2
    • 1969 55th Rose Bowl: #1 Ohio State beats #2 Southern California, 27-16
    • 1969 Jack Kent Cooke, owner of NHL's LA Kings, fines each player $100 for "NOT" arguing with the referee
    • 1970 36th Orange Bowl: #2 Penn State beats #6 Missouri, 10-3
    • 1970 36th Sugar Bowl: #13 Mississippi beats #3 Arkansas, 27-22
    • 1970 56th Rose Bowl: #5 Southern California beats #7 Michigan, 10-3
    • 1970 Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League
    • 1971 37th Orange Bowl: #3 Nebraska beats #5 LSU, 17-12
    • 1971 37th Sugar Bowl: #4 Tennessee beats #11 Air Force, 34-13
    • 1971 57th Rose Bowl: #12 Stanford beats #2 Ohio State, 27-17

    • 1972 38th Orange Bowl: #1 Nebraska beats #2 Alabama, 38-6
    • 1972 38th Sugar Bowl: #3 Oklahoma beats #5 Auburn, 40-22
    • 1972 58th Rose Bowl: #16 Stanford beats #4 Michigan, 13-12
    • 1973 39th Orange Bowl: #9 Nebraska beats #12 Notre Dame, 40-6
    • 1973 59th Rose Bowl: #1 Southern California beats #3 Ohio State, 42-17
    • 1973 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Home favourite John Newcombe beats Onny Parun of New Zealand 6-3, 6-7, 7-5, 6-1 for his first Australian title
    • 1974 40th Orange Bowl: #6 Penn State beats #13 LSU, 16-9
    • 1974 60th Rose Bowl: #4 Ohio State beats #7 Southern California, 42-21
    [​IMG]Australian Men's Tennis Open
    1974 Australian Open Men's Tennis: American Jimmy Connors wins his only Australian title; beats home favourite Phil Dent 7-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3

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    Tennis LegendJimmy Connors
    • 1974 Ernie DiGregorio of Buffalo hands out 25 assists in the Braves' 120-119 win over Portland, establishing an NBA single-game record for assists by a rookie
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    1974 Lee MacPhail takes over as AL president, succeeding Joe Cronin

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    Baseball Player and ManagerJoe Cronin
    • 1975 41st Orange Bowl: #9 Notre Dame beats #2 Alabama, 13-11
    • 1975 61st Rose Bowl: #5 Southern California beats #3 Ohio State, 18-17
    • 1975 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Home favourite John Newcombe wins 7th and last career Grand Slam singles title; beats Jimmy Connors of the US 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6
    • 1976 42nd Orange Bowl: #3 Oklahoma beats #5 Michigan, 14-6
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    1976 After 45 years of coaching, Paul Brown (Cleveland Browns; Cincinnati Bengals) announces his retirement from the National Football League

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    American Football CoachPaul Brown
    • 1977 43rd Orange Bowl: #11 Ohio State beats #12 Colorado, 27-10
    • 1977 43rd Sugar Bowl: #1 Pittsburgh beats #4 Georgia, 27-3; Tony Dorsett runs for record 202 yards
    • 1977 63rd Rose Bowl: #3 Southern California beats #2 Michigan, 14-6
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    1978 AFC Championship, Mile High Stadium, Denver: Denver Broncos beat Oakland Raiders, 20-17

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    NFL Coach and SportscasterJohn Madden

    • 1978 NFC Championship, Texas Stadium, Irving: Dallas Cowboys beat Minnesota Vikings, 23-6
    • 1979 45th Orange Bowl: #4 Oklahoma beats #6 Nebraska, 31-24
    • 1979 45th Sugar Bowl: #2 Alabama beats #1 Penn State, 14-7
    • 1979 65th Rose Bowl: #3 Southern California beats #5 Michigan, 17-10
    • 1979 John Y. Brown attends his first game as owner of the Boston Celtics NBA franchise after trading the Buffalo Braves to previous Celtics owner, Irving H. Levin
    • 1980 46th Orange Bowl: #5 Oklahoma beats #4 Florida State, 24-7
    • 1980 46th Sugar Bowl: #2 Alabama beats #6 Arkansas, 24-9
    • 1980 66th Rose Bowl: #3 Southern California beats #1 Ohio State, 17-16
    • 1980 Australian Open Women's Tennis: In an all-American final Barbara Jordan wins her first and only Grand Slam singles title; beats Sharon Walsh 6-3, 6-3
    • 1981 47th Orange Bowl: #4 Oklahoma beats #2 Florida State, 18-17
    • 1981 47th Sugar Bowl: #1 Georgia beats #7 Notre Dame, 17-10
    • 1981 67th Rose Bowl: #5 Michigan beats #16 Washington, 23-6
    • 1982 11th Fiesta Bowl: #7 Penn State beats #8 Southern California, 26-10
    • 1982 48th Orange Bowl: #1 Clemson beats #4 Nebraska, 22-15
    • 1982 48th Sugar Bowl: #10 Pittsburgh beats #2 Georgia, 24-20
    • 1982 68th Rose Bowl: #12 Washington beats #13 Iowa, 28-0
    • 1983 12th Fiesta Bowl: #11 Arizona State beats #12 Oklahoma, 32-21
    • 1983 49th Orange Bowl: #3 Nebraska beats #13 LSU, 21-20
    • 1983 49th Sugar Bowl: #2 Penn State beats #1 Georgia, 27-23
    • 1983 69th Rose Bowl: #5 UCLA beats #19 Michigan, 24-14

    • 1983 PGA inaugurates all-exempt tour
    • 1985 14th Fiesta Bowl: #14 UCLA beats #13 Miami, 39-37
    • 1985 51st Orange Bowl: #4 Washington beats #2 Oklahoma, 28-17
    • 1985 51st Sugar Bowl: #5 Nebraska beats #11 LSU, 28-10
    • 1985 71st Rose Bowl: #18 Southern California beats #6 Ohio State, 20-17
    • 1986 15th Fiesta Bowl: #5 Michigan beats #7 Nebraska, 27-23
    • 1986 52nd Orange Bowl: #3 Oklahoma beats #1 Penn State, 25-10
    • 1986 52nd Sugar Bowl: #8 Tennessee beats #2 Miami, 35-7
    • 1986 72nd Rose Bowl: #13 UCLA beats #4 Iowa, 45-28; Iowa's All-American running back, Ronnie Harmon, fumbles the ball 4 times in his last game.
    • 1987 53rd Orange Bowl: #3 Oklahoma beats #9 Arkansas, 42-8
    • 1987 53rd Sugar Bowl: #6 Nebraska beats #5 LSU, 30-15
    • 1987 73rd Rose Bowl: #7 Arizona State beats #4 Michigan, 22-15
    • 1988 17th Fiesta Bowl: #3 Florida State beats #5 Nebraska, 31-28
    • 1988 54th Orange Bowl: #2 Miami (FL) beats #1 Oklahoma, 20-14
    • 1988 54th Sugar Bowl: #4 Syracuse ties #6 Auburn, 16-16
    • 1988 74th Rose Bowl: #8 Michigan State beats #16 Southern California, 20-17
    • 1988 Czech born tennis star Hana Mandikova becomes an Australian Citizen
    • 1988 Miami beats Oklahoma for college football championship
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    1989 1st Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Helena Suková & Miloslav Mečíř win inaugural event for Czechoslovakia; beat Australian pair Hana Mandlíková & Pat Cash 6-2, 6-4 for 2-0 victory

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    Tennis Player and Gold MedalistMiloslav Mecir
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    Tennis Player and Four-Time Major ChampionHana Mandlikova
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    Tennis Player & Wimbledon ChampionPat Cash
    • 1990 19th Fiesta Bowl: #5 Florida State beats #6 Nebraska, 41-17

    • 1990 56th Orange Bowl: #4 Notre Dame beats #1 Colorado, 21-6
    • 1990 56th Sugar Bowl: #2 Miami beats #7 Alabama, 33-25
    • 1990 76th Rose Bowl: #12 Southern California beats #3 Michigan, 17-10
    [​IMG]Hopman Cup
    1990 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario beats American Pam Shriver 6-3, 6-3 to clinch 2-1 win for Spain's first title

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    Tennis PlayerArantxa Sánchez Vicario
    • 1990 Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV
    • 1991 20th Fiesta Bowl: #18 Louisville beats #25 Alabama, 34-7
    • 1991 57th Orange Bowl: #1 Colorado beats #5 Notre Dame, 10-9
    • 1991 57th Sugar Bowl: #6 Tennessee beats Virginia, 23-22
    • 1991 77th Rose Bowl: #8 Washington beats #17 Iowa, 46-34
    • 1992 21st Fiesta Bowl: #6 Penn State beats #10 Tennessee, 42-17
    • 1992 58th Orange Bowl: #1 Miami (FL) beats #11 Nebraska, 22-0
    • 1992 58th Sugar Bowl: #18 Notre Dame beats #3 Florida, 39-28
    • 1992 78th Rose Bowl: #2 Washington beats #4 Michigan, 34-14
    • 1993 22nd Fiesta Bowl: #6 Syracuse beats #10 Colorado, 26-22
    • 1993 59th Orange Bowl: #3 Florida State beats #11 Nebraska, 27-14
    • 1993 59th Sugar Bowl: #2 Alabama beats #1 Miami, 34-13
    • 1993 79th Rose Bowl: #7 Michigan beats #9 Washington, 38-31
    • 1993 Blockbuster Bowl 3: Stanford beats Penn State, 24-3
    • 1994 23rd Fiesta Bowl: #16 Arizona beats #10 Miami, 29-0
    • 1994 60th Orange Bowl: #1 Florida State beats #2 Nebraska, 18-16

    • 1994 60th Sugar Bowl: #8 Florida beats #3 West Virginia, 41-7
    • 1994 80th Rose Bowl: #9 Wisconsin beats #14 UCLA, 21-16
    • 1994 Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.83)
    • 1995 61st Orange Bowl: #1 Nebraska beats #3 Miami (FL), 24-17
    • 1995 Raman Lamba (312) & Ravi Sehgal (216) put on an Indian 1st-class record opening partnership 464 in Delhi's innings & 310 run win over Himachal Pradesh in a Ranji Trophy cricket match in Delhi
    • 1996 62nd Orange Bowl: #6 Florida State beats #8 Notre Dame, 31-26
    • 1996 82nd Rose Bowl: #17 Southern California beats #3 Northwestern, 41-32
    • 1997 26th Fiesta Bowl: #7 Penn State beats #20 Texas, 38-15
    • 1997 83rd Rose Bowl: #4 Ohio State beats #2 Arizona State, 20-17
    • 1998 64th Sugar Bowl: #4 Florida State beats #9 Ohio State, 31-14
    • 1998 84th Rose Bowl: #1 Michigan beats #8 Washington State, 21-16
    • 1999 65th Sugar Bowl: #3 Ohio State beats #8 Texas A&M, 24-14
    • 1999 85th Rose Bowl: #9 Wisconsin beats #6 UCLA, 38-31
    • 2000 66th Orange Bowl: #8 Michigan beats #5 Alabama, 35-34
    • 2000 86th Rose Bowl: #4 Wisconsin beats #22 Stanford, 17-9
    • 2001 30th Fiesta Bowl: #5 Oregon State beats #10 Notre Dame, 41-9
    • 2001 87th Rose Bowl: #4 Washington beats #14 Purdue, 34-24
    • 2002 31st Fiesta Bowl: #2 Oregon beats #3 Colorado, 38-16
    • 2002 68th Sugar Bowl: #12 LSU beats #7 Illinois, 47-34
    • 2003 69th Sugar Bowl: #4 Georgia beats #16 Florida State, 26-13

    • 2003 89th Rose Bowl: #8 Oklahoma beats #7 Washington State, 34-14
    • 2004 70th Orange Bowl: #10 Miami (FL) beats #9 Florida State, 16-14
    • 2004 90th Rose Bowl: #1 Southern California beats #4 Michigan, 28-14
    • 2004 St. Louis head coach Joel Quenneville records his 300th NHL win with the Blues, a 5-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers at Savvis Center, St. Louis; Quenneville is Blues coaching games and wins leader
    • 2005 34th Fiesta Bowl: #5 Utah beats #19 Pittsburgh, 35-7
    • 2005 91st Rose Bowl: #6 Texas beats #13 Michigan, 38-37
    • 2007 36th Fiesta Bowl: #9 Boise State beats #7 Oklahoma, 43-42 (OT)
    • 2007 93rd Rose Bowl: #8 Southern California beats #3 Michigan, 32-18
    • 2008 74th Sugar Bowl: #5 Georgia beats #10 Hawai'i, 41-10
    • 2008 94th Rose Bowl: #6 Southern California beats #13 Illinois, 49-17
    • 2009 75th Orange Bowl: #21 Virginia Tech beats #12 Cincinnati, 20-7
    • 2009 95th Rose Bowl: #5 Southern California beats #6 Penn State, 38-24
    • 2010 76th Sugar Bowl: #5 Florida beats #3 Cincinnati, 51-24
    • 2010 96th Rose Bowl: #8 Ohio State beats #7 Oregon, 26-17
    • 2010 Suicide car bomb detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100
    • 2011 40th Fiesta Bowl: #9 Oklahoma beats #25 Connecticut, 48-20
    • 2011 97th Rose Bowl: #3 TCU beats #4 Wisconsin, 21-19
    • 2013 79th Orange Bowl: #13 Florida State beats #16 Northern Illinois, 31-10
    • 2013 99th Rose Bowl: #8 Stanford beats Wisconsin, 20-14
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    2013 Magnus Carlsen breaks Garry Kasparov's chess FIDE rating, reaching 2,861

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    Chess GrandmasterMagnus Carlsen

    • 2013 Phil Taylor claims his 16th and last PDC World Darts Championship title with a 7–4 victory over Dutchman Michael van Gerwen in the final in London
    • 2014 100th Rose Bowl: #4 Michigan State beats #5 Stanford, 24-20
    • 2014 43rd Fiesta Bowl: #15 UCF beats #6 Baylor, 52-42
    • 2014 Dutchman Michael van Gerwen wins his first PDC World Darts Championship beating Peter Wright of Scotland, 7-4; first time no Englishman in the final
    • 2014 New Zealand cricket batsman Corey Anderson smashes a record century off just 36 balls in the Black Caps' 159 run ODI win over the West Indies in Queenstown; finishes on 131 not out off 47 balls
    • 2015 101st Rose Bowl: #2 Oregon beats #3 Florida State, 59-20 (National Championship Playoff Semi-Final)
    • 2015 81st Sugar Bowl: #4 Ohio State beats #1 Alabama, 42-35 (National Championship Playoff Semi-Final)
    • 2017 Indian provincial cricket team Vidarbha wins first Ranji Trophy title in their first final appearance in 61 years beating Delhi by 9 wickets in Indore; medium pacer Rajneesh Gurbani stars with the ball taking 6 wickets
    • 2018 16-time world darts champion Phil Taylor loses, 7-2 to fellow Englishman Rob Cross in the final of his last World Championship in London
    • 2018 World Darts Championship: Retiring 16-time title holder Phil Taylor loses 7-2 to fellow Englishman Rob Cross in the Final at the Alexandra Palace, London.
    • 2019 105th Rose Bowl: #5 Ohio State beats #9 Washington, 28-23; MVPs: Dwayne Haskins (QB, Ohio State) and Brendon White (S, Ohio State)
    • 2019 Dutchman Michael van Gerwen wins his 3rd PDC World Darts Championship; beats Englishman Michael Smith 7-3 at the Alexandra Palace in London
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    2019 Level at 1-1 in Hopman Cup tennis tie, Roger Federer and Serena Williams (combined 43 major singles titles) matchup in deciding mixed doubles; with teammate Belinda Bencic, Federer wins 4-2, 4-3 for 2-1 Swiss victory over US

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    Tennis ChampionRoger Federer
    • 2020 106th Rose Bowl: #6 Oregon beats #8 Wisconsin, 28-27; MVPs: Justin Herbert (QB, Oregon) & Brady Breeze (S, Oregon)
    • 2020 86th Sugar Bowl: #5 Georgia beats #7 Baylor, 26-14
    • 2020 Scotland's Peter Wright beats Dutch defending champion Michael Van Gerwen, 7-3 with 102.79 average, 34 x 140s, 11 maximums and 53% on doubles to seal his first PDC World Darts Championship in London
    • 2021 107th Rose Bowl: #1 Alabama beats #4 Notre Dame, 31-14; MVPs: DeVonta Smith (WR, Alabama) & Patrick Surtain II (CB, Alabama)
    • 2022 Chicago Bulls forward DeMar DeRozen becomes first player in NBA history to hit buzzer-beaters on consecutive days; hits 3-pointers to beat Washington Wizards, 120-119 and previous night Indiana Pacers, 108-106
     
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    • 1832 1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens
    • 1865 Welterweight Con Orem & heavyweight Hugh O'Neill brawl for 185 rounds before darkness ends legendary bare knuckle boxing match in Virginia City, Montana

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    1879 Australian fast bowler Fred Spofforth dismisses 3 English batsmen with consecutive deliveries during the 3rd Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for Test cricket's first "hat-trick"

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    CricketerFred Spofforth
    • 1912 Brookyln Superbas Baseball Club President Charles Ebbets announces purchase of 4.5 acres of land to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 23,000; Ebbets Field opens in 1913
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    1912 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Christchurch, NZ: Norman Brookes & Alfred Dunlop beat Americans Maurice McLoughlin & Beals Wright 6-4, 5-7, 7-5, 6-4; Australasia unassailable 3-0 lead; win 4-0

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    Tennis PlayerNorman Brookes
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    1918 After repeated clashes over pay with the Brooklyn Robins owner Charlie Ebbets, star right fielder and future Baseball Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengel is traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates

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    Baseball Hall of Fame ManagerCasey Stengel
    • 1918 Montreal Arena in Westmount, Quebec, the home rink of 4-time Stanley Cup winners the Montreal Wanderers burns down leading to the club disbanding
    • 1922 8th Rose Bowl: California ties Washington & Jefferson, 0-0
    • 1928 14th Rose Bowl: Stanford beats Pittsburgh, 7-6
    • 1933 19th Rose Bowl: Southern California beats Pittsburgh, 35-0
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    1933 Don Bradman holds off England's hostile pace bowling to score an unbeaten 103 leading Australia to a 111 run victory in the 2nd 'Bodyline' Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

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    Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
    • 1936 Australian master batsman Don Bradman scores 357 (424 minutes, 40 fours) for South Australia v Victoria in a Sheffield Shield match in Melbourne; his 5th 300+ score in first-class cricket
    • 1939 5th Orange Bowl: #2 Tennessee beats #4 Oklahoma, 17-0
    • 1939 5th Sugar Bowl: #1 TCU beats #6 Carnegie Tech, 15-7
    • 1939 Master batsman Don Bradman scores 107 for South Australia in a Sheffield Shield match against Victoria for his 4th consecutive century in first-class cricket
    • 1943 University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team begins 129 home game winning streak that only ends in 1955; incorporates NCAA titles in 1948, 1949 and 1951

    • 1950 16th Orange Bowl: #15 Santa Clara beats #11 Kentucky, 21-13
    • 1950 16th Sugar Bowl: #2 Oklahoma beats #9 LSU, 35-0
    • 1950 36th Rose Bowl: #6 Ohio State beats #3 California, 17-14
    • 1953 NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a record 32 game road losing streak (12 games in 1952-53; 20 games in 1953-54) with a 73-66 defeat at the Indianapolis Olympians
    • 1956 22nd Orange Bowl: #1 Oklahoma beats #3 Maryland, 20-6
    • 1956 22nd Sugar Bowl: #7 Georgia Tech beats #11 Pittsburgh, 7-0
    • 1956 42nd Rose Bowl: #2 Michigan State beats #4 UCLA, 17-14
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    1957 In the first of 4 meetings between the fighters, Gene Fullmer wins the world middleweight boxing title with a 15-round unanimous decision over Sugar Ray Robinson at New York’s Madison Square Garden

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    • 1961 27th Orange Bowl: #5 Missouri beats #4 Navy, 21-14
    • 1961 27th Sugar Bowl: #2 Mississippi beats Rice, 14-6
    • 1961 47th Rose Bowl: #6 Washington beats #1 Minnesota, 17-7
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    1965 New York Jets sign future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath to a $427,000 contract over three years (pro football record at the time)

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    NFL QuarterbackJoe Namath
    • 1966 National Football League Championship, Lambeau Field, Green Bay: Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns, 23-12; first NFL title game televised in colour; last one played before Super Bowl era
    • 1967 33rd Orange Bowl: Florida beats #8 Georgia Tech, 27-12
    • 1967 33rd Sugar Bowl: #6 Alabama beats #3 Nebraska, 34-7
    • 1967 53rd Rose Bowl: #7 Purdue beats Southern California, 14-13
    • 1969 Once influential daily sports newspaper, 'Soviet Sport' declares Czech super-star distance runner Emil Zatopek a "public enemy" after he supports democratic wing of the Communist Party at start of the Prague Spring
    • 1971 Spectator crush at Ibrox Park in Glasgow, Scotland as Rangers supporters leave the ground with home team 0-1 behind to Old Firm rivals Celtic; 66 deaths and more than 200 injuries; Rangers score late for 1-1
    • 1972 AFC Championship, Miami Orange Bowl: Miami Dolphins beat Baltimore Colts, 21-0
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    1972 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Virginia Wade of England wins her first Grand Slam title; beats home favourite Evonne Goolagong 6-4, 6-4

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    Tennis Player and Three-Time Major ChampionVirginia Wade

    • 1972 NFC Championship, Texas Stadium, Irving: Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers, 14-3
    • 1973 Japanese boxer Masao Ohba retains his WBA flyweight title with a 12th-round knockout of Chartchai Chionoi of Thailand in Tokyo; Ohba dies three weeks later in a car accident
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    1977 MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspends Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing

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    Businessman and SailorTed Turner
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    MLB CommissionerBowie Kuhn
    • 1978 44th Orange Bowl: #6 Arkansas beats #2 Oklahoma, 31-6
    • 1978 44th Sugar Bowl: #3 Alabama beats #9 Ohio State, 35-6
    • 1978 64th Rose Bowl: #13 Washington beats #4 Michigan, 27-20
    • 1979 Australian Open Women's Tennis: unseeded Australian Christine O'Neil wins her first and only Grand Slam event; beats American Betsy Nagelsen 6-3, 7-6
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    1980 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Guillermo Vilas retains title for 4th and last Grand Slam win; beats American John Sadri 7-6, 6-3, 6-2

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    Tennis Player and Four-Time Major ChampionGuillermo Vilas
    • 1982 "The Epic in Miami", in 85 degree heat (Fahrenheit), the San Diego Chargers defeat the Miami Dolphins 41-38 in overtime in the AFC Divisional Playoff Game, a game that set numerous playoff scoring records
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    1982 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins her 1st of 3 Australian singles crowns; beats Chris Evert-Lloyd 6-7, 6-4, 7-5

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    Tennis LegendChris Evert
    • 1982 New York Islanders beat Philadelphia Flyers, 3-1 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum to start 23 NHL game undefeated home streak (21-0-2), 14 straight wins
    • 1983 In a 35-27 win over the Houston Oilers, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson completes 20 consecutive passes and finishes the season winning his second consecutive passing title with an NFL record 70.55% completion percentage
    • 1984 13th Fiesta Bowl: #14 Ohio State beats #15 Pittsburgh, 28-23
    • 1984 16 year old future South African Test cricket batsman Darryl Cullinan scores his 1st first-class century (106 no) for Border against Natal B in East London
    • 1984 50th Orange Bowl: #5 Miami (FL) beats #1 Nebraska, 31-30
    • 1984 50th Sugar Bowl: #3 Auburn beats #8 Michigan, 9-7
    • 1984 70th Rose Bowl: UCLA beats #4 Illinois, 45-9
    • 1985 Nevada Las Vegas basketball gives coach Jerry Tarkanian his 600th career victory with a 142-140 win over Utah State in triple overtime; total of 282 points breaks NCAA men's record of 275 set in 1976
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    1986 Islanders right wing Mike Bossy scores his 499th and 500th career goals in the final 2:22 to lift the New York to a 7-5 victory over the Boston Bruins; 11th player in NHL history to score 500 goals

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    Ice Hockey GreatMike Bossy
    • 1987 16th Fiesta Bowl: #2 Penn State beats #1 Miami, 14-10

    • 1987 Indiana Pacers beat the Los Angeles Clippers, 116-106 to give coach Jack Ramsay his 800th NBA victory; at the time Ramsey is one of only 2 coaches (with Red Auerbach) to reach milestone
    • 1989 18th Fiesta Bowl: #1 Notre Dame beats #3 West Virginia, 34-21 for the national title
    • 1989 55th Orange Bowl: #2 Miami (FL) beats #6 Nebraska, 23-3
    • 1989 55th Sugar Bowl: #4 Florida State beats #7 Auburn, 13-7
    • 1989 75th Rose Bowl: #11 Michigan beats #5 Southern California, 22-14
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    1992 Australian cricket spin bowling great Shane Warne (145 Tests, 708 wickets; 194 ODIs) makes Test debut v India in 3rd Test at Sydney Cricket Ground

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    Cricketer and BroadcasterShane Warne
    • 1995 24th Fiesta Bowl: #4 Colorado beats Notre Dame, 41-24
    • 1995 61st Sugar Bowl: #7 Florida State beats #5 Florida, 23-17
    • 1995 81st Rose Bowl: #2 Penn State beats #12 Oregon, 38-20
    • 1996 25th Fiesta Bowl: #1 Nebraska beats #2 Florida, 62-24
    • 1997 63rd Sugar Bowl: #3 Florida beats #1 Florida State, 52-20
    • 1998 64th Orange Bowl: #2 Nebraska beats #3 Tennessee, 42-17
    • 1999 65th Orange Bowl: #7 Florida beats #18 Syracuse, 31-10
    • 2000 19,600 fans watch the Miami Heat beat the Orlando Magic, 111-103 in the first NBA game at the Heat's new American Airlines Arena in Miami
    • 2000 29th Fiesta Bowl: #3 Nebraska beats #6 Tennessee, 31-21
    • 2001 67th Sugar Bowl: #3 Miami beats #7 Florida, 37-20
    • 2002 68th Orange Bowl: #5 Florida beats #6 Maryland, 56-23
    • 2003 69th Orange Bowl: #5 Southern California beats #3 Iowa, 38-17
    • 2004 33rd Fiesta Bowl: #7 Ohio State beats #8 Kansas State, 35-28
    • 2006 35th Fiesta Bowl: #4 Ohio State beats #5 Notre Dame, 34-20

    • 2006 72nd Sugar Bowl: #11 West Virginia beats #7 Georgia, 38-35
    • 2007 73rd Orange Bowl: #5 Louisville beats #15 Wake Forest, 24-13
    • 2008 37th Fiesta Bowl: #11 West Virginia beats #3 Oklahoma, 48-28
    • 2009 75th Sugar Bowl: #6 Utah beats #4 Alabama, 31-17
    • 2012 41st Fiesta Bowl: #3 Oklahoma State beats #4 Stanford, 41-38 (OT)
    • 2012 98th Rose Bowl: #6 Oregon beats #9 Wisconsin, 45-38
    • 2012 Englishman Adrian Lewis retains his PDC World Darts Championship with a 7-3 win over Andy Hamilton at the Alexandra Palace, London
    • 2013 79th Sugar Bowl: #21 Louisville beats #3 Florida, 33-23
    • 2014 80th Sugar Bowl: #11 Oklahoma beats #3 Alabama, 45-31
    • 2017 Michael van Gerwen of the Netherlands wins his 2nd PDC World Darts Championship beating defending champion Gary Anderson, 7-3 at the Alexandra Palace, London
    • 2019 United States international Christian Pulisic becomes the most expensive American soccer player when he moves from Borussia Dortmund to Chelsea for £57.6M ($73M); remains at Dortmund on loan until the end of the season
     
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    Agreement of Interest
    1920 Boston Red Sox baseball club owner Harry Frazee announces agreement to sell slugger Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 in cash and a $350,000 loan; start of the 84 year "Curse of the Bambino"

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    Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

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    1929 Australian cricket icon Don Bradman follows up a 1st innings of 79 to score 112 in 3rd Test v England in Melbourne; his 1st of 29 Test centuries

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    Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
    • 1931 Montreal Maroons centre Nels Stewart scores fastest 2 goals in NHL history with a pair 4 seconds apart in a 5-3 win over Boston Bruins at Montreal Arena
    • 1943 Max and Doug Bentley assist on brother Reg's only NHL goal in Chicago Blackhawks' 3-3 tie with the Rangers in NYC; only time in NHL history trio of family members score and assist on a scoring play
    • 1948 Australian cricket batting maestro Don Bradman completes dual Test centuries (132 & 127* [26th Test 100]) in 3rd Test v India in Melbourne
    • 1949 West Indian cricket batsman Everton Weekes scores 101 in 3rd Test against India in Calcutta; his world record fifth consecutive Test century
    • 1958 Australian cricket fast bowler Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick (Eddie Fuller, Hugh Tayfield, Neil Adcock) as South Africa dismissed for 99 in follow-on 2nd Test at Cape Town
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    1971 1st AFC Championship, Memorial Stadium, Baltimore: Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders, 27-17

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    NFL Coach and SportscasterJohn Madden
    • 1971 1st NFC Championship, Kezar Stadium, SF: Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers, 17-10
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    1972 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Ken Rosewall retains title for his 4th overall Australian crown; beats fellow Australian Mal Anderson 7-6, 6-3, 7-5

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    Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionKen Rosewall
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    1973 A 12-man syndicate led by Michael Burke and George Steinbrenner III buys MLB's New York Yankees from CBS for US$10 million

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    New York Yankees OwnerGeorge Steinbrenner
    [​IMG]Australian Open Women's Tennis
    1976 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley beats Renata Tomanova of Czechoslovakia 6-2, 6-2 for her 3rd straight home singles title

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    Tennis PlayerEvonne Goolagong Cawley
    • 1978 Indian cricket spin bowler B. S. Chandrasekhar becomes first in Test history to register identical figures in both innings (6 for 52) in Indian innings win over Australia in 3rd Test in Melbourne
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    1979 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Guillermo Vilas of Argentina wins 3rd Grand Slam title; beats Australian John Marks 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3

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    Tennis Player and Four-Time Major ChampionGuillermo Vilas
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    1981 American golfer Johnny Miller wins the sport's first $1 million tournament when he beats Seve Ballesteros of Spain in a playoff in the inaugural Million Dollar World Challenge at Sun City, South Africa

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    Golfer and Five-Time Major WinnerSeve Ballesteros
    • 1981 Australian cricket captain Greg Chappell scores a masterly 204 v India in the 1st Test in Sydney; home side wins by an innings and 4 runs
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    1981 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Czech teenager Hana Mandlíková wins her 1st of 4 career Grand Slam singles titles; beats home favourite Wendy Turnbull 6-0, 7-5

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    Tennis Player and Four-Time Major ChampionHana Mandlikova
    • 1981 NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 34, Austin Carr
    • 1982 Australian Open Men's Tennis: South African Johan Kriek wins first career Grand Slam title; beats American Steve Denton 6-2, 7-6, 6-7, 6-4
    • 1983 Dallas running back Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yard rush in the Cowboys' 31-27 defeat at Minnesota Vikings
    • 1985 Future Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin scores 110 on debut in drawn 3rd Test against England in Kolkata
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    1991 Wayne Gretzky becomes fastest and youngest player in NHL history to score 700 goals (886 games at age 29 years, 342 days) in LA Kings’ 6-3 win over the NY Islanders at the Nassau Veteran Memorial Coliseum

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    Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky
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    1992 Australian cricket batsman David Boon scores an unbeaten 129 in drawn 3rd Test against India in Sydney; his 11th Test century

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    Cricket BatsmanDavid Boon
    • 1992 English club Wigan pays Widnes a world record rugby league transfer fee of £440,000 for Great Britain international winger Martin Offiah
    • 1992 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Jakob Hlasek beats Karel Nováček of Czechoslovakia 6-4, 6-4 for a 2-0 lead (ends 2-1) and Switzerland's first title
    • 1993 "The Comeback", QB Frank Reich leads Buffalo Bills back from a 32-point deficit, to defeat the Houston Oilers 41-38 in overtime in a wild card playoff game, the greatest comeback ever in NFL history
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    1994 Steve Young of the San Francisco 49ers becomes first quarterback to win 3 straight NFL passing titles despite a 37-34 OT loss to the Philadelphia Eagles; first to lodge 3 consecutive passer ratings of 100+

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    NFL QuarterbackSteve Young
    • 1997 Texas-El Paso head basketball coach Don Haskins becomes 10th coach in NCAA Division I history to record 700 career wins when the Miners edge SMU, 66-64
    • 1997 Zimbabwe cricket fast bowler Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick as home team scores another upset against England, winning by 131 runs and sweeping series, 3-0 in Harare
    • 1998 Los Angeles Clippers Bill Fitch coaches his 2,000th NBA game, a 97-88 win against the Dallas Mavericks at the LA Memorial Sports Arena
    • 2001 College Football, 3rd BCS National Championship, Pro Player Stadium, Miami Gardens: #1 Oklahoma beats #2 Florida State, 13-2, at 67th Orange Bowl
    • 2002 College Football, 4th BCS National Championship, Rose Bowl, Pasadena: #1 Miami beats #2 Nebraska, 37-14, at 88th Rose Bowl
    • 2003 College Football, 5th BCS National Championship, Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, AZ: #2 Ohio State beats #1 Miami, 31-24, at 32nd Fiesta Bowl
    • 2004 Panthers kicker John Kasay ties NFL-playoff record with 5 field goals to lead Carolina to a 29-10 win over Dallas Cowboys in the Wild Card round of playoffs in Charlotte, North Carolina
    • 2005 71st Sugar Bowl: #3 Auburn beats #9 Virginia Tech, 16-13; first perfect season in school history
    • 2006 72nd Orange Bowl: #3 Penn State beats #22 Florida State, 26-23 in 3OT

    • 2007 73rd Sugar Bowl: #4 LSU beats #11 Notre Dame, 41-14
    • 2007 High profile Miami Dolphins NFL head coach Nick Saban resigns after agreeing to return to college football and take head coaching job at Alabama
    • 2008 74th Orange Bowl: #8 Kansas beats #5 Virginia Tech, 24-21
    • 2010 Phil Taylor successfully defends his PDC World Darts title with a 7–3 victory over Simon Whitlock of Australia in the final in London; Taylor's 13th PDC and 15th overall world championship
    • 2011 77th Orange Bowl: #5 Stanford beats #12 Virginia Tech, 40-12
    • 2011 Adrian Lewis of England wins his first PDC World Darts Championship with a 7-5 win over Scotsman Gary Anderson at the Alexandra Palace, London
    • 2012 78th Sugar Bowl: #13 Michigan beats #11 Virginia Tech, 23-20
    • 2013 42nd Fiesta Bowl: #5 Oregon beats #7 Kansas State, 35-17
    • 2014 80th Orange Bowl: #12 Clemson beats #7 Ohio State, 40-35
    • 2016 Jimmy Butler breaks Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls record for points in an NBA half, scoring 40 of his 42 points in the second half to lead the Bulls in a 115-113 victory over the Toronto Raptors
    • 2016 Scotsman Gary Anderson retains his PDC World Darts Championship beating Adrian Lewis of England, 7-5 at the Alexandra Palace, London
    • 2021 Welshman Gerwyn Price wins his first PDC World Darts Championship; beats Gary Anderson of Scotland, 7-3 at the Alexandra Palace in London
    • 2022 Scotsman Peter Wright wins his second PDC World Darts Championship; beats Michael Smith of England, 7-5 at the Alexandra Palace in London
     
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    • 1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms
    • 1887 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (San Francisco to San Francisco)

    • 1902 Australian cricket spin bowler Hugh Trumble dismisses England batsmen Arthur Jones, John Gunn and Sydney Barnes in successive balls to complete 2nd Test rout by 229 runs in Melbourne; Trumble's first of 2 Test hat-tricks
    • 1904 Stanley Cup, Aberdeen Pavilion, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa HC beats Winnipeg Rowing Club, 2-0 for 2-1 challenge series victory
    • 1942 4th NFL All Star Game, Polo Grounds, NYC: Chicago Bears beat NFL All-Stars, 35-24
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    1942 7 x NL batting champion Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame

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    MLB Hall of Fame 2nd Baseman and ManagerRogers Hornsby
    • 1957 Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000
    • 1966 Doug Walters scores second Test century in his second Test
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    1970 AFL Championship, Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland: Kansas City Chiefs beat Oakland Raiders, 17-7; Chiefs defence forces 4 interceptions

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    NFL Coach and SportscasterJohn Madden
    • 1970 NFL Championship, Metropolitan Stadium, Bloomington: Minnesota Vikings beat Cleveland Browns, 27-7
    • 1975 Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
    • 1975 New Orleans Jazz set a then NBA record (with 24-second shot clock) by scoring only 20 points in the first half of a 111-89 loss in Seattle; unwanted record stands for nearly 25 years
    • 1976 AFC Championship, Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Oakland Raiders, 16-10
    • 1976 Australian Open Men's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Mark Edmondson upsets John Newcombe 6-7, 6-3, 7-6, 6-1 for his first and only Grand Slam title
    • 1976 NFC Championship, LA Memorial Coliseum: Dallas Cowboys beat Los Angeles Rams, 37-7
    • 1977 Mary Shane hired by Chicago White Sox as 1st woman TV play-by-play announcer

    • 1981 Australian Open Men's Tennis: American Brian Teacher wins his first and only Grand Slam event; beats home favourite Kim Warwick 7-5, 7-6, 6-3
    • 1984 Adrian Dantley ties Wilt Chamberlain's NBA record for most free throws made in a game by converting 28 of 29 free throws in Utah's 116-111 win over Houston at Las Vegas
    • 1984 Edmonton beats Minnesota 12-8 highest-scoring modern NHL game
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    1986 David Boon's second Test century, 131 v India at Adelaide

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    Cricket BatsmanDavid Boon
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    1986 Los Angeles Rams running back Eric Dickerson scores twice as he rushes for an NFL postseason record 248 yards in 20-0 victory over Dallas Cowboys in NFC divisional playoff in Anaheim, California

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    NFL Running BackEric Dickerson
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    1986 NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots

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    NBA CenterDavid Robinson
    • 1991 12 year old Chinese diver Fu Mingxia wins 10m platform gold medal at World Swimming Championships in Perth, Australia; youngest world champion in the history of any aquatic event
    • 1991 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Goran Prpić beats American David Wheaton 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 for an unassailable 2-0 lead, (ends 2-1) and Yugoslavia's first title
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    1992 Boston's Robert Parish becomes 5th player in NBA history to register 2,000 career blocks during Celtics' 100-96 loss at Minnesota - others Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mark Eaton, Wayne Rollins and George Johnson

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    Basketball PlayerRobert Parish
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    NBA LegendKareem Abdul-Jabbar
    • 1997 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Justin Gimelstob & Chanda Rubin clinch first title for the US; beat South African pair Wayne Ferreira & Amanda Coetzer 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 for a 2-1 victory
    • 1999 College Football, 1st BCS National Championship, Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, AZ: #1 Tennessee beats #2 Florida State, 23-16, at 28th Fiesta Bowl
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    2000 A day after accepting the head coaching position at the New York Jets, Bill Belichick resigns and moves to the New England Patriots

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    NFL CoachBill Belichick
    • 2000 American businessman and investor Mark Cuban purchases a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks NBA franchise for $285m from H. Ross Perot, Jr.
    • 2000 College Football, 2nd BCS National Championship, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans: #1 Florida State beats #2 Virginia Tech, 46-29, at 66th Sugar Bowl
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    2001 Washington Wizards forward Michael Jordan becomes 4th player in NBA history to score 30,000 career points; hits a free throw in 2nd quarter of an 89-83 win against his old team, the Chicago Bulls

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    Basketball SuperstarMichael Jordan
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    2003 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Serena Williams & James Blake beat Australian pair Alicia Molik & Lleyton Hewitt 6-3, 6-2 for a 3-0 win, and 2nd American title

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    Tennis PlayerSerena Williams
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    Tennis PlayerJames Blake
    • 2004 College Football, 6th BCS National Championship, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans: #2 LSU beats #1 Oklahoma, 21-14 at 70th Sugar Bowl
    • 2005 Adam Gilchrist of Australia becomes the most prolific century scoring wicket keeper in cricket history when he smashes 113 from just 120 balls in the 3rd Test against Pakistan in Sydney
    • 2005 College Football, 7th BCS National Championship, Pro Player Stadium, Miami Gardens: #1 Southern California beats #2 Oklahoma, 55-19, at 71st Orange Bowl (USC later vacates Championship)
    • 2006 College Football, 8th BCS National Championship: #2 Texas beats #1 Southern California, 41-38, at 92nd Rose Bowl

    • 2008 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Americans Serena Williams & Mardy Fish beat Serbian pair Novak Đoković & Jelena Janković 7-6, 6-2 for an unassailable 2-0 lead, and the 5th US title
    • 2009 Phil Taylor, with a 7–1 victory in the final over Dutchman Raymond van Barneveld wins his 12th PDC World Darts title, his 14th in all; his 110.94 average remains a record for the PDC World Darts Championship final
    • 2010 39th Fiesta Bowl: #6 Boise State beats #3 TCU, 17-10
    • 2011 77th Sugar Bowl: #6 Ohio State beats #8 Arkansas, 31-26
    • 2012 78th Orange Bowl: #23 West Virginia beats #14 Clemson, 70-33
    • 2014 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: France wins first title; Alizé Cornet & Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Poland's Agnieszka Radwańska & Grzegorz Panfil 6-0, 6-2 to clinch 2-1 victory
    • 2015 Gary Anderson of Scotland beats 16-time world champion Phil Taylor, 7-6 to win his first PDC World Darts Championship at the Alexandra Palace, London
    • 2018 Liverpool and Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah is named African Football Player of the Year
    • 2019 Indian cricket batsmen Cheteshwar Pujara scores 193 and Rishabh Pant 159no as the tourists declare at 622/7 on Day 2 of 4th Test against Australia in Sydney; Pant, first Indian wicketkeeper to hit a century in Australia
     
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    • 1681 First recorded boxing match is engineered by Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle; his butler vs his butcher
    • 1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union forms

    • 1896 1st US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
    [​IMG]Sports History

    1925 Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile & 14:44.6 5,000m

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    Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi
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    1930 Australian cricket icon Don Bradman scores 452 not out for New South Wales v Queensland in Sydney; then world record individual score in a first-class match; runs scored in 415 minutes

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    Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
    • 1937 Bradman scores 270 Aust v England at the MCG, incl 110 singles
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    1942 Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia

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    Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherBob Feller
    • 1951 Indianapolis Olympians beat Rochester Royals, 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes; also the longest game in NBA history
    • 1970 Australian boxer Johnny Famechon retains his WBC featherweight title with a 14th-round knockout of Fighting Harada in Tokyo; re-match of questionable 15-round decision in 1969 in his first title defence
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1976 Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million

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    Businessman and SailorTed Turner
    • 1980 AFC Championship, Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Houston Oilers, 27-13
    • 1980 NFC Championship, Tampa Stadium: Los Angeles Rams beat Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 9-0
    • 1980 Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat
    • 1984 Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh & Lillee
    • 1985 AFC Championship, Miami Orange Bowl: Miami Dolphins beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 45-28
    • 1985 NFC Championship, Candlestick Park, SF: San Francisco 49ers beat Chicago Bears, 23-0

    • 1986 Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland
    • 1991 Portland Trail Blazers beat the Seattle SuperSonics, 114-111 before a sellout crowd at the Portland Memorial Coliseum; marks the Blazers' 600th consecutive sellout at home
    • 1992 NY Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1992 Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* v Australia at the SCG

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    CricketerSachin Tendulkar
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1994 US figure skating champion Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard at the US Championships in Detroit

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    Figure SkaterTonya Harding
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    Figure SkaterNancy Kerrigan
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1995 Atlanta Hawks' coach Lenny Wilkens passes the legendary Red Auerbach to become the NBA's all-time winningest coach, with 939 career victories; Hawks beat Washington, 112-90 at the Omni

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    NBA Point Guard and CoachLenny Wilkens
    [​IMG]Hopman Cup
    1996 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Goran Ivanišević & Iva Majoli win Croatia's first title; at 1 rubber apiece Switzerland's Marc Rosset & Martina Hingis forced to retire at 3-6, 7-6, 4-5 in the deciding doubles rubber

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    Tennis Player and French Open ChampionIva Majoli
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    Tennis PlayerMartina Hingis
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    Tennis PlayerGoran Ivanišević
    • 1998 Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame
    • 1999 An agreement is reached by the NBA and the players union to end a 204-day lockout which shortened the season by 50 games
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    2001 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Roger Federer beats American Jan-Michael Gambill 6-4, 6-3 to clinch Switzerland's unassailable 2-0 lead, (ends 2-1)

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    Tennis ChampionRoger Federer
    • 2006 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Lisa Raymond & Taylor Dent beat Dutch pair Michaëlla Krajicek & Peter Wessels 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 for a 2-1 win and 4th American title
    • 2013 The NHL reaches an agreement to end a 113 day lockout
    • 2014 College Football, 16th BCS National Championship, Rose Bowl, Pasadena: #1 Florida State beats #2 Auburn, 34-31
    • 2015 Randy Johnson, Pedro Martínez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
    • 2018 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Swiss pair Roger Federer & Belinda Bencic clinch 2-1 win over Germany; beat Angelique Kerber & Alexander Zverev 4-3, 4-2; Switzerland's 3rd event success
    • 2018 Jon Gruden returns to the NFL as Oakland Raiders head coach after nearly a decade of broadcasting (ESPN Monday Night Football 2009-17)
    • 2018 Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota scores a touchdown off own pass in 22-21 victory over Kansas City Chiefs, second NFL quarterback to do so
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    2022 Tennis world No. 1 Novak Đoković's visa into Australia cancelled after uproar over his COVID-19 vaccination exemption

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    Tennis ChampionNovak Đoković
     
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    • 1899 Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's
    • 1910 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (ON), 3-1 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series

    • 1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game in Hinckley, Illinois
    • 1932 1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Mich
    • 1936 Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)
    • 1947 Australia v England at MCG drawn in 6 days, 1st cricket draw in Australia since 1882
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    1955 20 year-old future world heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson scores a 5th-round TKO of Willie Troy in a non-title super middleweight bout at New York’s Madison Square Garden

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    Boxing ChampionFloyd Patterson
    • 1961 1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16
    • 1962 1st AFL All Star Game, Balboa Stadium, San Diego, California: Western Division beats Eastern Division, 47-27; MVP Cotton Davidson, Dallas Texans, QB
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    1963 The rift between Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell and head coach Paul Brown reaches a boiling point, and Brown is fired

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    American Football CoachPaul Brown
    • 1972 Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Atlanta Hawks, 134-90 for their 33rd straight win, the longest winning streak in major professional sports
    • 1973 British Darts Organisation founded in North London
    • 1979 AFC Championship, Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Houston Oilers, 34-5
    • 1979 NFC Championship, LA Memorial Coliseum Dallas Cowboys beat Los Angeles Rams, 28-0
    • 1980 Minnesota ends Philadelphia Flyers' NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak ends
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    1982 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick

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    NHL StarBryan Trottier

    • 1983 Australia regain the Ashes with a 2-1 series win v England
    • 1985 Lou Brock & Hoyt Wilhelm are elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
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    1987 Indian bowler Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest

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    CricketerKapil Dev
    • 1989 Cleveland Cavaliers block 21 NY Knicks shots tying NBA regulation game record
    • 1989 NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers then longest winning streak (11 games)
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    1992 Last day of Test cricket for Pakistan's Imran Khan

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    Cricketer and Prime Minister of PakistanImran Khan
    [​IMG]Hall of Fame
    1992 Tom Seaver & Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame

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    Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherTom Seaver
    • 1994 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Petr Korda defeats Bernd Karbacher of Germany 6-3, 6-3 for an unassailable 2-0 lead (ends 2-1) and the Czech Republic's first title
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1994 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding

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    Figure SkaterTonya Harding
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    1995 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Boris Becker beats Andrei Medvedev of the Ukraine 6-3, 6-7, 6-3 for a 2-0 win, and Germany's second title

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    Tennis LegendBoris Becker
    • 1995 Larry Brown posts his 500th career NBA coaching victory, following the Indiana Pacers' 88-83 road win at the Houston Rockets
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    1998 Los Angeles Lakers center Shaquille O'Neal blocks 3 shots in a 114-102 win over Milwaukee to bring his career total to 1,002

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    Basketball PlayerShaquille O'Neal
    • 1999 NBA Board of Governors unanimously ratifies a new 6-year collective bargaining agreement between the league and the National Basketball Players Association
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    2007 Phil Jackson wins his 900th game as a head coach, becoming the fastest coach to reach 900 career wins

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    NBA CoachPhil Jackson
    • 2008 College Football, 10th BCS National Championship Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans: #2 LSU beats #1 Ohio State, 38-24
    • 2010 College Football, 12th BCS National Championship, Rose Bowl, Pasadena: #1 Alabama beats #2 Texas, 37-21
    • 2012 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Tomáš Berdych beats Frenchman Richard Gasquet 7-6, 6-4 for an unassailable 2-0 lead; 2nd title for Czech Republic
    • 2013 College Football, 15th BCS National Championship, Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens: #2 Alabama beats #1 Notre Dame, 42-14
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    2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or: Barcelona forward Lionel Messi wins award for a record 4th consecutive year; US forward Abby Wambach wins women's award

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    Football StarLionel Messi
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    Soccer PlayerAbby Wambach
    • 2017 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: French pair Kristina Mladenovic & Richard Gasquet beat Americans Coco Vandeweghe & Jack Sock 4-1, 4-3 to clinch 2-1 win; 2nd French title
    • 2019 College Football, National Championship, Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara: #2 Clemson beats #1 Alabama, 44-16
    • 2019 Rain ruins last 2 days of 4th cricket Test in Sydney as India wins series 2-1; become first Asian side to win a Test series in Australia, 71 years after the first Indian touring team in 1947-48
     
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    • 1913 Frank Chance becomes NY Yankees manager
    • 1925 England cricket opening batsman Herbert Sutcliffe follows his 1st innings 176 with 127 in the 2nd innings but his team cannot avoid an 81 run defeat to Australia in the 2nd Test in Melbourne

    • 1945 University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team sets an NCAA record by holding Arkansas State to 6 points in a 75-6 win
    • 1947 Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game
    • 1955 Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt
    • 1955 Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak
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    1962 21 year old future Hall of Fame golfer Jack Nicklaus makes his first professional appearance; tied 50th in Los Angeles Open

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    GolferJack Nicklaus
    • 1972 NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall
    • 1973 Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 v Pakistan at SCG
    • 1977 Australian Open Women's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Kerry Melville Reid wins her first and only Grand Slam singles title; beats Dianne Fromholtz Balestrat 7-5, 6-2
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    1978 American Jimmy Connors beats Björn Borg of Sweden 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 to win his first and only season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis title at Madison Square Garden, NYC

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    Tennis LegendJimmy Connors
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    Tennis PlayerBjörn Borg
    • 1980 Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0
    • 1980 NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports
    • 1981 MLB Cincinnati Reds become last team to sign a free agent (Larry Biitner)
    • 1984 AFC Championship, LA Memorial Coliseum: Los Angeles Raiders beat Seattle Seahawks, 30-14
    • 1984 NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams

    • 1984 NFC Championship, RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.: Washington Redskins beat San Francisco 49ers, 24-21
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    1986 San Francisco Giants Willie McCovey is 16th elected to MLB Hall of Fame in his 1st year of eligibility

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    Baseball Hall of Fame 1st BasemanWillie McCovey
    • 1987 Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
    • 1988 9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit
    • 1989 AFC Championship, Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati: Cincinnati Bengals beat Buffalo Bills, 21-10
    • 1989 NFC Championship, Soldier Field, Chicago: San Francisco 49ers beat Chicago Bears, 28-3
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    1991 Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins & Rod Carew elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

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    Baseball Hall of Fame InfielderRod Carew
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    Baseball PitcherGaylord Perry
    • 1991 Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try
    • 1991 Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36)
    • 1993 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Michael Stich beats Emilio Sánchez of Spain 7-5, 6-3 for a 2-0 win, and Germany's first title
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    1993 Michael Jordan's game-high 35 points leads Chicago to 120-95 win over Milwaukee; gives him exactly 20,000 points in 620th game of his NBA career; 2nd-fastest to reach milestone after Wilt Chamberlain (499)

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    Basketball SuperstarMichael Jordan
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    1995 Philadelphia Phillies 12-time All Star third baseman Mike Schmidt is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame

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    MLB Third BasemanMike Schmidt
    • 1996 For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
    • 1998 NY Giant GM George Young resigns to accept NFL position
    • 2000 "Music City Miracle", in AFC Wild Card Playoff, Tennessee Titans defeat Buffalo Bills 22-16 in last 16 seconds with Kevin Dyson, running length of the field for a game-winning touchdown
    • 2000 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Amanda Coetzer & Wayne Ferreira wrap up South Africa's first title (3-0) with an abbreviated 8-1 mixed doubles win over Tamarine Tanasugarn & Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand
    • 2005 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Dominik Hrbatý beats Guillermo Coria of Argentina 6-4, 6-1 for an unassailable 2-0 lead, and 2nd Slovakian title
    • 2007 9th BCS National Championship: #2 Florida beats #1 Ohio State, 41-14
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    2008 Joe Gibbs retires, for the second time, as head coach of the Washington Redskins

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    NFL Head Coach and NASCAR Team OwnerJoe Gibbs
    • 2009 College Football, 11th BCS National Championship, Dolphin Stadium, Miami Gardens: #2 Florida beats #1 Oklahoma, 24-14
    • 2011 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Americans Bethanie Mattek-Sands & John Isner beat Belgian pair Justine Henin & Ruben Bemelmans 6-1, 6-3 to clinch a 2-1 victory; 6th title for the United States
    • 2012 "The 3:16 Game" AFC Wild Card Playof, underdogs Denver Broncos defeat Pittsburgh Steelers 29–23 with Tim Tebow connecting with Demaryius Thomas on an 80-yard touchdown pass on first scrimmage play of overtime
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    2013 Steve Nash records his 10,000th career assist against Houston

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    Basketball PlayerSteve Nash
    • 2018 College Football National Championship, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta: #4 Alabama beats #3 Georgia, 26-23
     
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