Today's events in sports history

FEB 17

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

NHL Record

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


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


Swimmer and ActorJohnny Weissmuller

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

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


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


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


Ice Hockey LegendGordie Howe

• 1952 Montreal Canadiens center Elmer Lach picks up his 354th career assist in a 3-2 loss at the NY Rangers to become NHL's all-time assists leader; passes Bill Cowley's mark
• 1952 Trude Jochum-Beiser of Austria wins the downhill gold medal at the Oslo Winter Olympics; second career gold medal after taking out the combined event at St. Moritz (1948)
• 1953 DSB soccer team forms in Eindhoven (now PSV Eindhoven), Netherlands
• 1955 American golfer Mike Souchak sets PGA 72-hole record of 257 (not broken until 2001)
• 1955 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna Austria won by J Westwood/Demmy GRB
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• 1955 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Tenley Albright US
• 1956 Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB
• 1963 Japanese runner Toru Terasawa runs a world record marathon (2:15:15.8) at the Beppu Marathon on the island of Kyushu, Japan
• 1964 101st member elected to Baseball Hall of Fame, Chicago White Sox shortstop Luke Appling

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


Baseball Player In Major LeaguesMasanori Murakami

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

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


Auto RacerRichard Petty

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

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


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


Speed SkaterEric Heiden

• 1980 22nd Daytona 500: Buddy Baker wins ahead of Bobby Allison and Neil Bonnett
• 1980 Sapporo downhill silver medallist Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria goes one better with gold at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics
• 1980 Swedish cross-country skier Thomas Wassberg earns first of 4 career Olympic gold medals in the 15k at Lake Placid; wins by 0.01s from Finland's Juha Mieto; closest margin of victory ever in Olympic cross-country skiing
• 1982 Commencement of Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket match, v England
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• 1984 Biathletes Eirik Kvalfoss of Norway and West German Peter Angerer finish 2nd & 3rd respectively in the relay at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; both have complete sets of medals from biathlon events at the Games

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


Auto RacerBill Elliott

• 1985 Dutch speed skater Hein Vergeer becomes World Allround champion

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


JockeyLaffit Pincay Jr.
Sports History
1989 Former baseball player and manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash


Baseball Player and ManagerLeo Durocher

• 1991 33rd Daytona 500: Ernie Irvan, driving for Morgan-McClure Motorsports coasts to win after challengers crash on finals laps
• 1991 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
• 1993 Hartford right wing Pat Verbeek scores his 300th career NHL goal and adds his 300th career assist in a 5-3 Whalers' home loss to the Buffalo Sabres
• 1993 Mark Foster swims world record 50m free style (21.60 sec)

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


MLB Player and ManagerSparky Anderson

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

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


Chess Grandmaster and Political ActivistGarry Kasparov

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

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


Basketball PlayerLeBron James

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

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


BoxerManny Pacquiao

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

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


Figure SkaterYuzuru Hanyu

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

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


NFL Head Coach and NASCAR Team OwnerJoe Gibbs

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


Basketball ForwardKevin Durant

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

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


Formula 1 DriverLewis Hamilton

Football StarLionel Messi

GymnastSimone Biles

 

FEB 18

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

Sports History

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


MLB PitcherCy Young

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


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


1st MLB CommissionerKenesaw Mountain Landis

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

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


Figure SkaterSherwin Badger

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

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


Figure Skater and ActressSonja Henie

• 1928 USA 2 beats USA 1 by 0.5s for the 5-man bobsleigh gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; Germany 2 takes bronze
• 1932 Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title
• 1936 NHL record 32 points scored, NY Americans (28) & Mont Maroons (24)
• 1943 A syndicate headed by New York lumberman William D Cox buys MLB's Philadelphia Phillies for $850,000; 33 year-old Cox is youngest owner in baseball
• 1944 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall signs a contract to play baseball with the Cincinnati Reds just one day after playing in a high school basketball game; debuts later that year
• 1951 3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes
• 1952 Norwegian speed skater Hjalmar Anderson wins his 3rd gold medal of the Oslo Winter Olympics when he claims the 10,000m in Olympic record 16:45.8; also wins gold in 1,500m and 5,000m
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• 1960 VIII Winter Olympic Games open in Squaw Valley, California
• 1960 Walter O'Malley, LA Dodger owner, purchases Chavez Ravine for $494,000
• 1961 Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater
• 1962 4th Daytona 500: Race winner Fireball Roberts dominates the event, leading 144 of the 200 laps
• 1967 Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers
• 1968 After winning men's luge singles Olympic gold medal in Innsbruck (1964), Thomas Köhler of Germany teams with Klaus Bonsack to take out the doubles in Grenoble
• 1968 X Winter Olympic Games close in Grenoble, France
• 1969 Doug Walters scores 2nd innings century after 242 in 1st

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


Auto RacerRichard Petty

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

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


Auto RacerCale Yarborough

Auto RacerRichard Petty

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

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


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky

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

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


Ski JumperMatti Nykänen

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

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


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


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


Speed SkaterDan Jansen

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

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


CricketerSachin Tendulkar

• 1998 NY Rangers fire head coach Colin Campbell
• 2001 43rd Daytona 500: Michael Waltrip wins tragic race; last lap crash claims life of Dale Earnhardt, prompting sport to implement new safety procedures

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


MLB Pitching LegendGreg Maddux

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

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


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


Tennis ChampionRoger Federer

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

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


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


GymnastSimone Biles

Tennis ChampionNovak Đoković

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

 

FEB 19

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

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

Sports History

1970 AL Cy Young Award winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking


Baseball PitcherDenny McLain

• 1972 Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223* v WI at Kingston
• 1977 A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000
• 1977 Doug Walters scores 250 v NZ, 217 stand for 7th wicket with Gilmour
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• 1977 Right wing Rod Gilbert scores a goal and adds an assist in a 5-2 defeat at the NY Islanders to become first player in NY Rangers history (11th in NHL) to score 1,000 career points
• 1978 20th Daytona 500: Bobby Allison takes lead with 11 laps remaining; lowest starting position (33rd) for winner until 2007

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


Speed SkaterEric Heiden

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

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


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherFernando Valenzuela

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

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


Auto RacerCale Yarborough

Racing Car DriverDarrell Waltrip

• 1984 Soviet Union wins its 6th Olympic ice hockey gold medal with a 2-0 win over silver medallists Czechoslovakia at the Sarajevo Winter Games
• 1984 Swedish cross country skier Thomas Wassberg wins 50k event at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; his second gold of the Games (4 x 10k relay) and 3rd of his career (15k Lake Placid 1980)
• 1984 XIV Winter Olympic Games close in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
• 1987 Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires

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


Racing Car DriverDarrell Waltrip

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

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

• 2014 After winning the combined gold in Turin (2006), American alpine skier Ted Ligety has to wait 8 years for his next Olympic success, gold in the giant slalom in Sochi
• 2014 Canadian team Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyes win their second consecutive Olympic 2-woman bobsleigh gold medal at the Sochi Winter Games
• 2014 Czech speed skater Martina Sáblíková retains her Olympic 5,000m title (Vancouver 2010) in Sochi; also Vancouver 3,000m gold
• 2014 Norwegian biathletes Ole Einar Bjørndalen (sprint gold) and Emil Hegle Svendsen (mass start gold), each win their 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics in the mixed relay
• 2017 NBA All Star Game, Smoothie King Centre, New Orleans, LA: West beats East, 192-182; MVP: Anthony Davis, New Orleans Pelicans, F
• 2018 Canadian team of Justin Kripps & Alexander Kopacz dead-heat in 3:16.86 with Germans Francesco Friedrich & Thorsten Margis for the 2-man bobsleigh gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
• 2019 Four-time MLB All-Star at 3B Manny Machado agrees to the biggest free-agent contract in American sports history, a 10 year deal worth $300 million with the San Diego Padres
• 2021 In a softening of 4-year WADA ban on Russia from all international sport, Russia to compete under acronym "ROC" after name of the Russian Olympic Committee
• 2022 Alexander Bolshunov, representing Russian Olympic Committee, wins men's 50k freestyle cross country gold in Beijing to become only 2nd man to achieve 30k/50k double at a Winter Olympics

 

FEB 20

• 1912 Argentina beats the MCC in their inaugural 1st-class cricket fixture at the Buenos Aires Cricket Club; lose the second and third games of the series
• 1919 Foundation NHL club Toronto Arenas are permitted to cease operations due to financial difficulties; later become Toronto St. Patricks and then Maple Leafs

• 1923 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson becomes President and owner of Boston Braves; buys the team for $300,000 with NY attorney Judge Emil Fuchs and Bostonian James McDonough
• 1926 Montreal and Ottawa battle out just the second 0-0 tie in NHL history; dominant goalies are Clint Benedict (Maroons) and Alex Connell (Senators)
• 1929 Boston Red Sox announce they will play Sunday MLB games at Braves Field; Fenway Park located too close to a church
• 1952 American alpine skier Andrea Mead-Lawrence is only multi-gold medallist at the Oslo Winter Olympics when she wins the slalom, after taking out the inaugural giant slalom
• 1952 Britain's Jeannette Altwegg wins the Olympic women’s figure skating gold medal at the Olso Winter Games ahead of American Tenley Albright, who goes on to win in Cortina d'Ampezzo (1956)
• 1952 Emmett Ashford is certified to be first black umpire in organised baseball; has to wait until 1966 for MLB debut
• 1953 August A. Busch buys St. Louis Cardinals MLB club from Fred Saigh for $3.75 million; pledges not to move the team from St. Louis, Missouri
• 1953 US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling

Sports History

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


Racing Hall of Fame JockeyEddie Arcaro

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

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


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


Ice Hockey LegendGordie Howe

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


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


Racing Car DriverA. J. Foyt

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

Sports History
1972 Ard Schenk wins world championship for speed skating


Speed SkaterArd Schenk

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

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


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


Auto RacerCale Yarborough

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

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


Cross-Country SkierNikolay Zimyatov

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

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


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


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


Figure SkaterBrian Boitano

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

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


MLB LegendBarry Bonds

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

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


Ice Hockey GreatPavel Bure

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

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


Auto RacerBill Elliott

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

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


NBA GuardKobe Bryant

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

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


Tennis PlayerNaomi Osaka

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

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


Basketball SuperstarStephen Curry

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

 

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• 1931 Chicago White Sox & NY Giants play 1st exhibition night game
• 1948 NASCAR is incorporated

• 1951 South Carolina House of Representatives urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated by Major League Baseball
• 1953 Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81
• 1957 Dodgers (Fort Worth) & Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises
• 1960 Biathlon debuts at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics; Klas Lestander from Sweden becomes the first Olympic champion ahead of Finland's Antti Tyrväinen and Soviet Aleksandr Privalov
• 1968 Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000

Contract of Interest

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


Baseball PlayerTed Williams

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

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


Speed SkaterEric Heiden

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

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


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


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

• 1992 Kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympic gold medal in women's figure skating

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


NBA Point GuardJohn Stockton

Basketball PlayerKarl Malone

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

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


Tennis ChampionNovak Đoković

 

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

• 1892 Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
• 1893 1st Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 32-22 in Birmingham
• 1927 ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
• 1933 Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 272.46 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car at Daytona Beach, Florida

Figure Skating World Championship

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


Figure Skater and ActressSonja Henie

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

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


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain

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

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


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


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


Ice Hockey PlayerMike Eruzione

Ice Hockey Player & CoachHerb Brooks

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

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


Ice Hockey PlayerPeter Šťastný

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

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


Speed SkaterBonnie Blair

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

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


CricketerSanath Jayasuriya

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

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


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


Football StarCristiano Ronaldo

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

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

Skating Record

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


Cyclist and Speed SkaterJaap Eden

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


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


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


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


Professional WrestlerLou Thesz

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

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


Cuban Revolutionary and PresidentFidel Castro

Auto RacerJuan Manuel Fangio

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

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


Auto RacerRichard Petty

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

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


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain

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

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


Speed SkaterEric Heiden

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

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


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


NHL Goalie and CoachPatrick Roy

• 1985 Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game

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


Baseball PlayerWade Boggs

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

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


Speed SkaterYvonne van Gennip

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

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


NHL StarJohn Tavares

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

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


Football StarLionel Messi

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

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


GolferTiger Woods

 

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• 1917 Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleveland for $15,000
• 1932 Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 253.96 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car at Daytona Beach, Florida

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

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


Ice Hockey Player & CoachHerb Brooks

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

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


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


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


Ski JumperMatti Nykänen

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

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


BoxerRoberto Durán

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

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


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


CricketerSachin Tendulkar

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

 

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

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


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


West Indian CricketerGeorge Headley

• 1933 Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)
• 1933 New York industrialist Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox for $1.25 million
• 1941 Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
• 1952 VI Winter Olympic Games close at Oslo, Norway
• 1957 US Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport
• 1961 Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak
• 1962 Mike O'Hara completes record 97th marathon

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


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


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali

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


Auto RacerCale Yarborough

• 1969 Pension plan for baseball is agreed to

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


Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton

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

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


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


CricketerIan Botham

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

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


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

BoxerFrank Bruno

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

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


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky

Actor and ComedianJohn Candy

• 1993 Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"

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


Sportscaster and MLB ShortstopPhil Rizzuto

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

 

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

Chess History

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


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


Cricket Medium Pace BowlerGeorge Lohmann

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

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


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

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

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


Racing Car DriverMario Andretti

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

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


CricketerRichard Hadlee

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

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


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


Basketball SuperstarMichael Jordan

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

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


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


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


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherTom Seaver

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

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


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck

Baseball PlayerTony Lazzeri

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

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


Test CricketerAllan Border

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

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


Basketball ForwardKevin Durant

• 2017 59th Daytona 500: Kurt Busch wins after Kyle Larson runs out of gas on last lap; Jeffrey Earnhardt makes NASCAR history, 1st ever 4th generation driver to compete in Daytona 500

 

FEB 27

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

• 1874 Baseball 1st played in England at Lord's Cricket Ground

Figure Skating History

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


Figure SkaterSherwin Badger

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

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


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


NBA Point GuardBob Cousy
NFL History
1959 Chicago Cardinals trade running back Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players


American Football PlayerOllie Matson

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

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


Ice Hockey PlayerBob Cleary

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

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


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


Auto RacerRichard Petty

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

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


Figure SkaterPeggy Fleming

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

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


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

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

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


Speed SkaterBonnie Blair

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

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


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


Tennis PlayerSerena Williams

Tennis ChampionRoger Federer

 

FEB 28

• 1844 6th Grand National: John Crickmere wins aboard 5/1 co-favourite Discount
• 1849 11th Grand National: Tom Cunningham wins aboard 20/1 Peter Simple; 2nd consecutive year there are 3 equine fatalities during the race

• 1903 Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buy Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000
• 1904 Football club Sport Lisboa (Benfica) founded in Lisbon, Portugal
• 1906 Stanley Cup: Ottawa HC beats Queen's University (Kingston, ON), 12-7 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series

Cricket History

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


CricketerVictor Trumper

• 1925 Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
• 1929 Chic Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home
• 1931 Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
• 1936 Karl Schäfer of Austria follows up his Winter Olympics victory with his 7th consecutive men’s figure skating World Championship title in Paris, France
• 1936 Olympic champions Ernst Baier and Maxi Herber of Germany win their 4th consecutive pairs figure skating gold medal at the World Championships in Paris, France
• 1940 1st televised basketball game (U of Pitts beats Fordham U, 50-37)
• 1957 Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory
• 1958 West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket

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


American Football PlayerOllie Matson

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

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


Ice Hockey PlayerBob Cleary

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

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


Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax

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


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain

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

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


GolferJack Nicklaus

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

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


Speed SkaterYvonne van Gennip

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

Sports History
1991 Don Mattingly named 10th NY Yankee Captain


Baseball 1st basemanDon Mattingly

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

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


NHL LegendMark Messier

• 2010 XXI Winter Olympic Games close in Vancouver, Canada
• 2012 54th Daytona 500: Rain affected race stopped for 2 hours because of fuel on track; Matt Kenseth leads for final 34 laps to win
• 2020 Court of Arbitration for Sport bans Chinese triple Olympic gold medallist Sun Yang from swimming for 8 years for breaking anti-doping rules

 

MAR 1

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

• 1854 16th Grand National: John Tasker wins aboard race favourite Bourton at 4/1
• 1903 Major League Baseball Rules Committee rule that pitcher's mound must not be more than 15 inches higher than the baselines or home plate
• 1910 National Baseball Commission prohibits giving mementos to players on winning World Series teams; decision later reversed, making way for traditional winners' watches, rings, and stickpins
• 1919 Future Hockey Hall of Fame center Newsy Lalonde sets a playoff record with 5 goals in the Canadiens' 6-3 win over Ottawa in NHL Championship Game 3 in Montreal
• 1921 Spin bowler Arthur Mailey takes 5 for 119 (record 36 wickets for series) to lead Australia to a 9 wicket 5th Test win over England in Sydney; first ever, 5-0 Ashes cricket series win for Australia

Boxing Title Fight

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


BoxerPrimo Carnera

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

Baseball History
1947 Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck sets up spring training camp in racially tolerant Phoenix, AZ in anticipation of signing team's first black players; Larry Doby is first acquisition later in the season


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck
Boxing Title Fight
1949 Former world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis retires with a 66-3-0 record including 52 KOs; defended the title a record 25 times


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


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


Baseball PlayerTed Williams

• 1955 Pakistan and India play out a draw in the 5th cricket Test at the National Stadium in Karachi; 5 Test series drawn 0-0
• 1958 21 year old West Indian cricket all-rounder Gary Sobers turns his maiden Test century into a world record 365no in the Windies' 3rd Test win over Pakistan in Kingston, Jamaica; Sobers and Conrad Hunte (260) 446 run partnership for 2nd wicket
• 1965 Australian swimming authorities suspend triple Olympic gold medal winning sprinter Dawn Fraser for 10 years for misconduct at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics
• 1967 MLB Commissioner William Eckert approves the Baseball Writers Association of America's plan to name a Cy Young Award recipient from both the National and American Leagues
• 1968 High winds blow-off the Philadelphia Spectrum's roof, forcing the Flyers to play their final month of the NHL season on the road, with home games moved to Toronto, NYC and Quebec City

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


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


NHL StarPhil Esposito

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

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


Ice Hockey LegendBobby Orr

• 1970 Dutch speed skater Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes Women's Allround World Champion at West Allis, Wisconsin, US, winning her first of four titles
• 1970 Minnesota coach Charlie Burns becomes the final player/coach in NHL history, when he plays in the North Stars' 8-0 win over Toronto Maple Leafs; remains in role for final month of the season
• 1973 Robyn Smith rides North Sea to victory in the Paumanok Handicap at Aqueduct Race Track in NYC to become the first American female jockey to win a stakes race
• 1974 Australian cricketing brothers Ian (145) and Greg Chappell (162no) record 264 partnership in 1st Test draw vs New Zealand at Wellington; Ian (121) and Greg (133) double up with centuries in 2nd innings
• 1975 Five Nations Rugby Championship match between Scotland and Wales at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh attracts a world record attendance of 104,000; Scots win 12-10

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


GolferJack Nicklaus

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

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


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


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


Baseball Player and ManagerLeo Durocher

MLB First BasemanGil Hodges

Sportscaster and MLB ShortstopPhil Rizzuto

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

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


JockeyPat Day

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

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


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


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


NBA Point Guard and CoachLenny Wilkens

• 1997 Canadian Elvis Stojko hits the first quad-triple combination jump in the history of figure-skating competition to win the Championship Series final in Hamilton, Ontario

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


BoxerSugar Ray Leonard

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

 

MAR 2

• 1842 4th Grand National: Tom Olliver aboard 7/1 Gaylad wins by 4 lengths from Seventy Four
• 1853 15th Grand National: Tom Oliver aboard Peter Simple wins his third GN Steeplechase and the stallion's second; oldest horse to win event at 15

• 1859 21st Grand National: Chris Green aboard 7/1 Half Caste wins by only a short neck from Jean Du Quesne
• 1874 National Association of Professional Baseball Players officially adopts the batter's box; decide any player betting on his own team will be expelled; any player betting on any other team to forfeit his pay
• 1890 Norwegian speed skater Oskar Fredriksen sets inaugural 5,000m world record of 9:19.8 in Stockholm, Sweden

Cricket History

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


Cricket Medium Pace BowlerGeorge Lohmann

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

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


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


NHL GoalieGeorge Hainsworth

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

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


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

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

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


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain

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

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


NHL LegendBobby Hull

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


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


Figure SkaterPeggy Fleming

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

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


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


Racing Hall of Fame JockeyBill Shoemaker

Racing Hall of Fame JockeyEddie Arcaro

• 1974 Australian cricket batsman Greg Chappell makes 247no in drawn 1st Test vs NZ in Wellington; also hits 133 in 2nd innings; brother Ian 145 and 121 also scores twin centuries
• 1980 Phoenix point guard Mike Bratz ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games with a miss in the Suns' 123-115 home win over the LA Lakers

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


NHL StarJari Kurri

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

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


JockeyLaffit Pincay Jr.

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

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


Baseball PlayerDarryl Strawberry

MLB First BasemanKeith Hernandez

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

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


NHL LegendBrett Hull

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

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


NHL Legend and OwnerMario Lemieux

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

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


CricketerSachin Tendulkar

CricketerSanath Jayasuriya

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

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


YachtsmanRussell Coutts

Yachtsman and EnvironmentalistPeter Blake

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

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


NFL QuarterbackPeyton Manning

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

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


Tennis ChampionRoger Federer

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

 

MAR 3

• 1841 3rd Grand National: Horatio Powell wins aboard 14/1 Charity; first mare to win the race
• 1847 9th Grand National: Denny Wynne wins aboard 10/1 Mathew; regarded as the first Irish-trained horse to win the race

• 1852 14th Grand National: Alec Goodman wins first of 2 GN victories (1866) aboard Miss Mowbray
• 1869 31st Grand National: George Stevens wins his 4th GN aboard 100/7 outsider The Colonel; repeats with back-to-back victories the following year
• 1883 In the series decider England beats Scotland, 2 tries to 1 at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh to win the inaugural Home Nations Rugby Championship with an undefeated record
• 1904 England cricket all-rounder Bernard Bosanquet takes 6 for 51 as tourists dismiss Australia for 171 in the 4th Test in Sydney to regain the Ashes; take an unassailable, 3-1 series lead
• 1920 Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs
• 1950 National-American Football League reverts to calling itself the NFL after 3 months
• 1951 Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts
• 1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee
• 1956 3rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Wake Forest, 76-64
• 1956 Dutch swimmer Cockie Gastelaars breaks 20-year old world record for 100m freestyle (1:04.2)
• 1957 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Markham & Jones of Great Britain
• 1959 San Francisco Giants rename their stadium Candlestick Park
• 1962 9th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Wake Forest beats Clemson, 77-66
• 1967 White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game)

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


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


NHL LegendJean Béliveau

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

Sports History
1981 Isle's Mike Bossy 9th & final hat trick of season-4 goals


Ice Hockey GreatMike Bossy

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

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


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


Racing Hall of Fame JockeyBill Shoemaker

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

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


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


Baseball PitcherDwight Gooden

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

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


Baseball PlayerDarryl Strawberry

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

 

MAR 4

• 1846 8th Grand National: William Taylor aboard outsider Pioneer wins by 3 lengths from Culverthorpe
• 1857 19th Grand National: Charlie Boyce wins aboard Emigrant at 10/1

• 1868 30th Grand National: George Ede victorious aboard Irish 9/1 shot The Lamb; horse wins second GN in 1871
• 1903 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal HC beats Winnipeg Victorias, 4-1 for a 2-1 challenge series victory
• 1913 NY Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda)

Contract of Interest

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


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


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

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

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


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


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


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJoe Frazier

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

Sports History
1980 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy


Ice Hockey GreatMike Bossy

• 1984 Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame

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


Tennis PlayerMartina Navratilova

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


Test CricketerAllan Border

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

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


Basketball SuperstarMichael Jordan

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


Boxing ChampionGeorge Foreman

• 1995 Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1

 

MAR 5

• 1840 2nd Grand National: Bartholomew Bretherton wins aboard 16/1 Jerry; a then smallest field of 13
• 1845 7th Grand National: William Loft aboard outsider Cure-All wins in record time of 10 minutes, 47 seconds

• 1910 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1

Cricket History

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


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

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

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


Ice DancerChristopher Dean

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


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


Baseball PitcherGaylord Perry

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

Sports History
1985 NY Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons


Ice Hockey GreatMike Bossy

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

Sports History
1993 Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery


NBA LegendLarry Bird

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

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


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and SenatorJim Bunning

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


Baseball Pitcher and ManagerTommy Lasorda

• 2011 David Silva scores 38' winner as Manchester City scores 1-0 win over Wigan at City of Manchester Stadium to start EPL record 20 home game winning streak; streak ends 31/3/12