- 1880 42nd Grand National: Tommy Beasley aboard Irish 8/1 chance Empress wins by 2 lengths from defending champion The Liberator
- 1892 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket England v South Africa (Cape Town)
- 1910 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Adelaide: Rodney Heath wins his 2nd and last Australasian title; beats fellow Australian Horace Rice 6-4, 6-3, 6-2
- 1914 Stanley Cup, Arena Gardens, Toronto ON: Toronto HC (NHA) defeat Victoria Aristocrats (PCHA), 2-1 for a 3-0 series sweep; final series of the "challenge" era
- 1915 VI Summer (Modern) Olympic Games: IOC President Pierre de Coubertin writes to Associated Press indicating 1916 Berlin Games won't take place because of WWI
- 1932 England beats Scotland, 16-3 at Twickenham, London to force a 3-way share with Wales and Ireland of renewed Home Nations Rugby Championship; France expelled, alleged professionalism
- 1937 96th Grand National: With King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in attendance, aptly-named Royal Mail ridden by jockey Evan Williams wins at odds of 100/6; estimated crowd, 300,000
- 1938 NHL Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Americans combine to score 8 goals in just under 5 minutes; Toronto wins game 8-5
- 1938 Scotland beats England, 21-16 at Twickenham, London to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup
- 1942 Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago
LaMotta Defeats Reeves
1943 In their third match, Jake LaMotta finally defeats Jimmy Reeves by knocking him out in the sixth round
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Win
1950 US Open Women's Golf, Rolling Hills CC: Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins by 9 strokes from amateur Betsy Rawls
Cricket History
1954 "The Three Ws" of West Indian cricket each score centuries in one innings; Clyde Walcott scores 124 following Everton Weekes (206) and Frank Worrell (167) in 1st innings of drawn 4th Test v England at Port of Spain
Sports History
1954 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
Sports History
1955 17th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: San Francisco beats La Salle, 77-63; Dons' future Hall of Fame center Bill Russell is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
Sports History
1958 Garfield Sobers completes a century in each innings for WI vs. Pakistan
Sports History
1960 22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ohio State beats California, 75-55; Buckeyes' future Hall of Fame forward Jerry Lucas is named tournament MOP
- 1966 28th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Kentucky, 72-65; Miners first title in first title game
- 1971 Philadelphia 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-80 in 2nd half enroute to a 147-127 victory
- 1972 1st AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48 in Normal
- 1972 LA Lakers beat Golden State Warriors, 162-99, by then record 63 pts
- 1975 Pennsylvania is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports
- 1977 France beats Ireland, 15-6 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to clinch its 6th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 2nd Grand Slam
PGA Players Championship
1978 PGA Tournament Players Championship, Sawgrass CC: Jack Nicklaus wins his 3rd TPC title, 1 stroke ahead of Lou Graham; 4th straight start for Nicklaus that ends with a top-2 finish
Sports History
1984 Two-time Cy Young Award winner Denny McLain is indicted on charges of drug trafficking, embezzlement and racketeering; 25 year sentence later quashed
- 1985 NSW wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket
World Record
1987 Bonnie Blair skates ladies' world record 500 m (39.43 sec)
World Record
1987 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85)
- 1988 France edges Wales, 10-9 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with the Welsh with 3-1 records
- 1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15:25.25)
- 1989 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USSR)
- 1989 Ice Pairs World Championship at Paris won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
Sports History
1989 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
PGA Players Championship
1989 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Tom Kite wins the title in gusty conditions, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Chip Beck
- 1989 Wales beats England, 12-9 at Cardiff Arms Park to allow France to claim it's 9th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship
- 1990 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)
Sports History
1991 KC Royals announce they are putting Bo Jackson on waivers
Super Bowl
1991 NFL owners strip Phoenix of the 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona not recognizing federal holiday Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- 1991 Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses
Sports History
1991 St Louis Blues Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season
Sports History
1994 Lara scores 167 for WI v England at Georgetown
- 1994 NJ Devils club record 41st win of the season
- 1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
Sports History
1995 Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers
- 1995 NBA NY Knicks beat NY Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
- 1997 Major League Baseball announces 5 year/$50M deal with Pepsi
- 2005 Wales beats Ireland, 32-20 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to win the Six Nations Rugby Championship and become the 1st team to complete a Grand Slam playing more games away than at home
- 2011 Despite a final round 24-8 defeat to Ireland at the new Aviva Stadium in Dublin, England wins the Six Nations Rugby Championship courtesy of their opening 4 straight victories
Sports History
2016 England beats France 31-21 at Stade de France, Paris to claim Six Nations Rugby Championship; secure their first Grand Slam since 2003; Owen Farrell with 7 goals, England's 2nd-highest points scorer behind Jonny Wilkinson
- 2019 Houston Rockets guard James Harden becomes first player in NBA history to score at least 30 points against all 29 opponents in a single season with 31 in a 121-105 win over the Atlanta Hawks
Sports History
2022 LeBron James moves past Karl Malone (36,909) into second on NBA's all-time scoring list with 38 points in LA Lakers' 127-119 loss to Washington Wizards; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar leads (38,387)
