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Events in Sport

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1903 - Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias, 2 games to 1 & 1 tie
1924 - 1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France
1929 - Archie Jackson scores 164 on Test Cricket debut v England at Adelaide
1931 - National League adopts a deader baseball
1932 - 3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
1952 - 1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC NY)
1962 - Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
1968 - Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball
1969 - 41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cin-Det, SD-Bost
1969 - John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders
1971 - Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks
1976 - 12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria
1977 - 30th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 at Vancouver
1979 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
1980 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
1986 - 38th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford
1987 - Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup
1990 - Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69)
1990 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-21
1990 - Pat Bradley wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1990 - Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar)
1990 - St Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship
1993 - Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism
1995 - Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning
1996 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-13
1997 - Mario LeMieux is 7th NHL player to score 600 goals

Birthdays in Sport

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1884 - Rolland Beaumont, cricketer (S African batsman in 5 tests 1912-14)
1891 - Yuri Losmann, Estonia, marathon runner (Olympic-silver 1920)
1906 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (champ-1933)
1912 - Byron Nelson, Fort Worth Tx, PGA golfer (won 19 tournaments in 1945)
1913 - Woody Hayes, [Wayne], college football coach (Ohio, 1968 coach of yr)
1935 - Wallis Mathias, cricketer (1st non-Muslim to play for Pakistan)
1937 - John Devitt, Australia, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1960)
1937 - Magnar Solberg, Norway, 20K biathalete (Olympic-gold-1968, 72)
1946 - Mary Meyer, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-silver-1968)
1948 - Rakesh Shukla, cricket leg-spinner (1 Test India v Sri Lanka 1982)
1951 - Stan Papi, American baseball player
1959 - Lawrence Taylor, [LT], NFL's greatest linebacker (NY Giants)
1961 - Denis Savard, Pointe Gatineau Ca, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1961 - Vern Fleming, LIC NY, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
1962 - Dan Plesac, Gary IN, pitcher (Pitts Pirates)
1962 - Vern Fleming, NBA guard (NJ Nets)
1963 - Jane Leary, Sydney Australia, golfer (1992 Australian Amateur Champ)
1963 - Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier (Olympic-gold-1988)
1965 - John van Loen, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord, San Frecce)
1966 - Barry Klein, Grand Rapids Mich, rower (Olympics-1996)
1966 - Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist
1969 - Brad Cornett, US baseball pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1969 - Chris Crooms, WLAF safety (Barcelona Dragons)
1969 - Dallas Drake, Trail, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1969 - Joe Sacco, Medford, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1970 - John Frascatore, US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1970 - Todd Peterson, NFL kicker (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 - Kevin Farkas, NFL tackle (Carolina Panthers)
1971 - Maarten Atmodikoro, soccer player (Dordrecht '90, NAC)
1971 - Pete Pierson, NFL tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1971 - Sterling Palmer, NFL defensive end (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Kelvin Anderson, CFL running back (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Giovanni Silva De Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1973 - Oscar De La Hoya, LA Calif, boxer (Oly-gold-92)
1974 - Brandon Convery, Kingston, NHL center (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1974 - Chris Ward, defensive end (Baltimore Ravens)
1975 - Konstantinos Nebegleras, Greek footballer
1979 - Giorgio Pantano, Italian racing car driver
1981 - Tom Mastny, Indonesian baseball player
1981 - Johan Van Summeren, Belgian cyclist
1981 - Ben Hendrickson, American baseball player
1981 - Jason Kapono, America professional basketball player
1982 - Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist
1984 - Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer
1986 - Mohammad Mahmudullah, Bangladeshi cricketer
1987 - Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player
1988 - Eoin McDowell, Irish rugby player
1988 - Alexandros Pagalis, Greek footballer
1988 - Carly Patterson, American gymnast

Deaths in Sport

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1943 - Frank Calder, 1st NHL president, dies
1975 - Howard Hill, American archer (b. 1899)
1995 - Roel Wiersma, Dutch soccer star (PSV), dies at 62
2003 - André Noyelle, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
2007 - Steve Barber, American baseball pitcher (b. 1938)
2007 - José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian World Cup footballer (b. 1925)