- 1875 Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
- 1900 Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
- 1906 C. W. Gregory out for 383 as NSW make 763 v Queensland, in record cricket innings by an Australian
- 1907 French cyclist Paul Cornu flies 1st helicopter (twin rotor)
Lefty O'Doul's All-Stars
1951 Lefty O'Doul's all-stars, including Joe DiMaggio and Billy Martin, lose 3-1 to Pacific League all-star team (Japan)
- 1954 1st Rugby League World Cup, Parc des Princes, Paris: Great Britain beats France, 16-12; Man of The Match: GB second rower Don Robinson
- 1958 NYC Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball league called the Continental League, to fill the void created by the city's Giants and Dodgers moving to the west coast
- 1964 Bob Petit (St Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points
Elvin Hayes
1968 As a rookie, future Basketball Hall of Fame forward Elvin Hayes scores 54 points in San Diego Rockets' 122-120 win over Detroit Pistons, a career-high
Jackson AL MVP
1973 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP unanimously
Garvey NL MVP
1974 Dodgers Steve Garvey wins NL MVP
NL MVP Shared
1979 Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Willie Stargell and St Louis Cardinals first baseman Keith Hernandez share National League MVP Award
Sports History
1982 WBA lightweight champion Ray Mancini beats South Korean challenger Duk Koo Kim by TKO in 14th round in Las Vegas; Kim collapses, falls into a coma and dies 4 days later; as a result, WBC shortens title bouts to 12 rounds; WBA & WBO follow in 1988, and IBF in 1989
Sandberg NL MVP
1984 Ryne Sandberg wins the NL MVP Award
Gooden Cy Young Award
1985 Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
Ayrton Senna
1988 Brazilian McLaren driver Ayrton Senna finishes 2nd in the season ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide to win his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins title by 3 points from Alain Prost
Clemens AL Cy Young
1991 Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award
Bowe vs. Holyfield
1992 Riddick Bowe wins the undisputed world heavyweight boxing crown with a unanimous points decision over Evander Holyfield in Las Vegas; first of their 3 meetings
NASCAR Cup
1994 44th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Dale Earnhardt wins
Michael Schmacher
1994 Title contenders Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill famously collide on lap 35 of the season ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide; Schumacher wins his first F1 World Drivers Championship by 1 point from Hill
- 1996 Padres third baseman Ken Caminiti is 4th unanimous winner of NL MVP
Griffey AL MVP
1997 Ken Griffey Jr. unanimously wins AL MVP
Mauresmo WTA Champion
2005 French tennis star Amélie Mauresmo beats countrywoman Mary Pierce 5–7, 7–6, 6–4 for the season ending WTA Tour Championship at the Staples Center, Los Angeles
- 2014 Clayton Kershaw and Mike Trout wins the MVP awards in MLB for 2014
- 2014 Indian cricket batsman Rohit Sharma sets new world ODI record of 264 runs off 173 balls against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens in Kolkata
- 2016 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Strasbourg, France: Czech pair Karolína Plíšková & Barbora Strýcová beats Caroline Garcia & Kristina Mladenovic of France 7-5, 7-5 to wrap up 3-2 win and 3rd straight title
- 2017 First Barbie doll to wear a hijab, modeled on Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad unveiled in New York
- 2017 Italy fails to qualify for 2018 Football World Cup (first time since 1958), after play-off defeat against Sweden
- 2020 Fly-half Nicolas Sanchez scores all the Pumas points as Argentina claim their 1st ever win over New Zealand's All Blacks, winning 25-15 in a Rugby Championship game in Sydney
- 2022 Billie Jean King Cup Women's Tennis, Glasgow, Scotland: Belinda Bencic & Jill Teichmann score singles victories to lead Switzerland to a 2-0 win over Australia; first BJKC title for Switzerland
- 2022 ICC Men's Cricket T20 World Cup, Melbourne: England beats Pakistan by 5 wickets to win their WC second title; Player of the match & series: England fast bowler Sam Curran; crowd 80,462
- 2022 Joel Embiid scores a career-high 59 points in a victory over the Utah Jazz
