- 1874 Major Walter Clopton Winfield patents a game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)
Boxing Title Fight
1906 Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
Baseball History
1934 Casey Stengel becomes manager of Brooklyn Dodgers
- 1952 Following his Nordic combined gold medal in St. Moritz (1948), Heikki Hasu takes his 2nd Olympic gold as part of Finland’s 4 x 10k cross country relay team at the Olso Winter Games
- 1952 Lydia Wideman of Finland becomes first female Olympic cross-country skiing champion; wins inaugural 10k event in Olso; Finnish medal sweep with minors to Mirja Hietamies and Siiri Rantanen
F1 World Champion
1958 5-time F1 World Drivers champion Juan Manuel Fangio is kidnapped by Cuban rebels from Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement; released soon after Cuban GP
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
Sports History
1985 Goaltender Patrick Roy makes his NHL debut for the Montreal Canadiens
- 1985 Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight throws a chair onto the court during a game
Sports History
1986 Despite losing, Boston Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration in MLB history, $1.35M
Sports History
1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94)
- 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
- 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
- 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
