- 1869 With 10 salaried players, Cincinnati Red Stockings become baseball's first professional team
- 1877 Australian batsman Charles Bannerman completes first Test century in cricket history in 1st Test v England in Melbourne; retires hurt on 165 the following day
- 1877 Cricket's inaugural Test match commences as Australia plays England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground; Australia wins by 45 runs in 4 days
Headley Steers WI Win
1935 Brilliant batsman George Headley steers West Indies to an innings victory over England in 4th cricket Test at Kingston, Jamaica with a patient, unbeaten 270
- 1945 As a symbol of wartime baseball, Bert Shepard (one-legged WWII veteran) begins a successful tryout as a pitcher for the Washington Senators
Don Bradman Knighted
1949 Cricket's master batsman Don Bradman receives his knighthood from the Governor-General of Australia, the Rt Hon. WJ McKell at the investiture in Queen’s Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne
Golf Tournament
1953 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Patty Berg wins her 5th Titleholders title by 9 strokes from Betsy Rawls
- 1953 West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1
- 1958 England retains the Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-3 draw against Scotland at Murrayfield, Edinburgh; England’s 16th FN title
NBA Record
1958 Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati Royals scores a NBA midwest region-record 56-point game
- 1958 Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapses during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
Golf Tournament
1959 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her 4th Titleholders title by 1 stroke from Betsy Rawls
Sports History
1962 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season
NHL Record
1979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
- 1980 England beats Scotland, 30-18 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh to claim it's 18th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 8th Grand Slam and 15th Triple Crown
- 1982 Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's first Test Cricket century (157) in 2nd Test v Pakistan in Faisalabad
- 1983 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
Boxing Title Fight
1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1986 Scotland (10-9 v Ireland) and France (29-10 v England) win their final round matches to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with 3-1 records
- 1987 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
- 1987 NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
- 1987 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
- 1988 NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
- 1989 NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
- 1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4)
- 1992 13th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats Georgetown, 56-54
- 1992 33rd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Alabama, 80-54
- 1992 39th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #1 Duke beats #20 North Carolina, 94-74
- 1994 Experts from AL certify the Cleveland Indians Jacobs Field is properly lit
- 1997 France beats Scotland, 47-20 at Parc des Princes, Paris to claim an 11th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 5th Triple Crown; fly-half Christophe Lamaison lands 6 penalties and 3 conversions
- 1997 Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
- 2003 24th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Pittsburgh beats Connecticut, 74-56
- 2008 29th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Pittsburgh beats Georgetown, 74-65
- 2008 Wales beats France, 29-12 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship with a 19th Triple Crown
- 2009 50th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Mississippi State beats Tennessee, 64-61
- 2009 56th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #9 Duke beats #22 Florida State, 79-69
- 2013 Patrick Chan of Canada wins the men’s 2013 World Figure Skating Championships
- 2014 35th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Providence beats Creighton, 65-58
Sports History
2014 Ireland edges France, 22-20 at Stade de France, Saint-Denis to beat England on points difference and win Six Nations Rugby Championship; final international match for Ireland centre Brian O'Driscoll with record 141 caps
- 2015 56th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Arkansas, 78-63
