Trumper's Final Test
1912 Australian batting great Victor Trumper scores 50 in his final Test innings in 5th Test loss v England at Sydney Cricket Ground
- 1925 Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
- 1929 Chic Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home
- 1931 Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
- 1936 Karl Schäfer of Austria follows up his Winter Olympics victory with his 7th consecutive men’s figure skating World Championship title in Paris, France
- 1936 Olympic champions Ernst Baier and Maxi Herber of Germany win their 4th consecutive pairs figure skating gold medal at the World Championships in Paris, France
- 1940 1st televised basketball game (U of Pitts beats Fordham U, 50-37)
Sports History
1957 Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory
- 1958 West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket
The Ollie Matson Trade
1959 Chicago Cardinals trade running back Ollie Matson to the LA Rams for an unprecedented 9 players
- 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
- 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
NBA Record
1967 Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal
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
- 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)
- 1989 10-time All Star second baseman and manager Red Schoendienst and umpire Al Barlick are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
Sports History
1991 New York Yankees Don Mattingly named 10th team captain
- 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
- 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
Sports History
2024 Lewis Koumas makes his first team debut for Liverpool and scores his first senior goal against Southampton in the FA Cup fifth round
