Events in Sports History on March 6

  • 1858 20th Grand National: William Archer wins aboard outsider Little Charley at 100/6
  • 1867 29th Grand National: John Page wins aboard Irish 16/1 shot Cortolvin; trainer Harry Lamplugh's second GN victory
  • 1895 England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2; Jack Brown hits the fastest 50 in test cricket in 28 mins
  • 1906 Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance
  • 1919 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie

Babe Ruth's Yankee Contract

1922 Babe Ruth signs 3 year contract with NY Yankees at $52,000 a year

  • 1923 MLB St. Louis Cardinals announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms

Trampoline Patented

1945 George Nissen of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, receives a patent for the first modern trampoline

  • 1954 1st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Wake Forest, 82-80 (OT)

Muhammad Ali

1964 Boxing legend Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and changes his name to "Muhammad Ali", calling his former title a "slave name"

  • 1965 12th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Duke, 91-85
  • 1965 Bruce Taylor hits 105 for NZ v India in 1st Test Cricket innings
  • 1967 Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted

Cricket Debut

1971 Test Cricket debut of Indian cricket great Sunil Gavaskar versus West Indies at Port-of-Spain; 125 Tests, 10,122 runs @ 51.12; 34 Test centuries

Golf Record

1972 Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner

Cricket History

1974 Australian cricketing brothers Ian (145 & 121) and Greg Chappell (247no and 133) score unique twin centuries in drawn 1st Test vs New Zealand in Wellington

  • 1976 23rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Virginia beats North Carolina, 67-62
  • 1976 European Men's Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden won by John Curry (Great Britain)
  • 1976 Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)

Sports History

1976 In his 10th title defense, WBA light welterweight champion Antonio Cervantes of Colombia is beaten by 17-year-old Puerto Rican boxer Wilfred Benítez in a 15-round split decision in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Benitez youngest ever world champion

  • 1976 Wales clinch their 7th Five Nations Rugby Championship title, 7th Grand Slam and 13th Triple Crown with a 19-13 win over France at the National Stadium, Cardiff

Sports History

1976 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by American Dorothy Hamill

  • 1981 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Hartford won by Denise Biellmann
  • 1982 23rd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Kentucky, 48-46
  • 1982 NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT)

Baseball Hall of Fame

1985 Enos Slaughter and Arky Vaughan elected to baseball's Hall of Fame

Boxing Title Fight

1985 Future undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes at 1:47 in round 1 of 4 in Albany, NY in his first professional fight

  • 1988 Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories)
  • 1989 Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985)
  • 1992 Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine
  • 1994 Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec)
  • 1996 Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 v Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lanka score 5-398 in 50 overs in World Cup v Kenya
  • 1999 20th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Connecticut beats St. John's, 82-63

Sports History

2000 Long-time Boston Bruin defenseman Ray Bourque is traded to the Colorado Avalanche

Sports History

2019 LeBron James scores his 32,293rd point in the 2nd quarter of a Lakers' 115-99 loss to Denver in LA to pass Michael Jordan into 4th place on the NBA all-time point scoring list