- 1857 Early ice hockey game played between teams from Swavesey and Over on Mare Fen, England [1]
- 1876 Albert Spalding invests $800 to start sporting goods company, manufacturing first official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball and football
- 1894 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched at Bath, Maine
1st Winter Olympics
1924 Canada beats United States, 6-1 to retain the Olympic ice hockey gold medal (won at 1920 Summer Games) at the Chamonix Games; Canadian LW Harry Watson top scores with 46 points
- 1924 Switzerland claims the inaugural Olympic bobsleigh gold medal at the Chamonix Games, ahead of Great Britain and Belgium
Bradman Scores 212
1937 Don Bradman scores 212 (in 441 minutes!) in 5th cricket test v England
- 1942 Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
- 1947 Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket
- 1951 Dick Button wins US skating title for 6th time
- 1951 Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
- 1956 Toni Sailer of Austria wins the downhill at the Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics; becomes first athlete to sweep all 3 alpine skiing events in a single Olympics
- 1962 John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm
- 1964 French sisters Marielle Goitschel (gold) and Christine Goitschel (silver) repeat (in reverse order) their top-2 finish in the slalom 2 days earlier, in the giant slalom at the Innsbruck Winter Olympics
- 1965 Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down
"Purple Haze"
1967 Jimi Hendrix adds vocals and overdubs for "Purple Haze" at Olympic Studios in London; basic track had been recorded by the band in January
- 1972 XI Winter Olympic Games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
Baseball Hall of Fame
1975 Billy Herman, Earl Averill, & Bucky Harris elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
30th NBA All-Star Game
1980 30th NBA All-Star Game, Capital Centre, Landover, Md: East beats West, 144-136 (OT); MVP: George Gervin, San Antonio Spurs, SF
Holmes vs. Holmes
1980 Larry Holmes TKOs Lorenzo Holmes in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
Strawberry to Rehab
1990 Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation
Shoemaker Retires
1990 Jockey Bill Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
Ciccarelli's 600th Goal
1998 Florida Panther Dino Ciccarelli is 9th NHLer to score 600 career goals
- 1998 NY Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman
Super Bowl XXXVI
2002 Super Bowl XXXVI, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA: New England Patriots beat St. Louis Rams, 20-17; MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB
Super Bowl XLII
2008 Super Bowl XLII, University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, AZ: New York Giants beat New England Patriots, 17-14; MVP: Eli Manning, New York, QB
- 2013 Super Bowl XLVII, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, New Orleans, LA: Baltimore Ravens beat San Francisco 49ers, 34-31; MVP: Joe Flacco, Baltimore, QB
- 2019 Super Bowl LIII, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA: New England Patriots beat Los Angeles Rams, 13-3; MVP: Julian Edelman, NE Patriots, WR; Patriots' 6th SB victory
- 2019 Wreckage from light aircraft carrying EPL team Cardiff City's record signing Emiliano Sala is discovered on seabed of the English Channel; cause of death, head and trunk injuries
