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Events in Sport

Results 1 - 39 of 39

1661 - 1st Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James
1890 - 1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh
1898 - Dutch soccer team Receiver forms
1914 - 34th US Mens Tennis: R Norris W III beats M E McLoughlin (63 86 10-8)
1918 - Baseball season ends due to WW I
1918 - Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns
1923 - 18th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1923 - US beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup
1925 - Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of Intl Olympic Committee
1926 - British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms
1933 - Soccer team DVS '33 forms
1936 - Middleweight Staff Roth KOs Heinz Lazek
1937 - 4th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 6, Green Bay 0 (84,560)
1939 - Last day of 1st-class cricket in England for 6 years
1945 - Phillies Vince DiMaggio ties NL record with 4th grand slam of season
1946 - 1st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Berg
1947 - NY Giants 183-185 HR of year breaks Yankee mark of 182 in 1936
1948 - Bradman scores 143 Aust v South of England, 17 fours 1 six
1958 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open
1960 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1964 - Masanori Murakami is 1st Japanese player in majors (NY Mets)
1967 - SF Giants beat Cincinnati Reds, 1-0, in 21 innings
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Willow Park Ladies Golf Invitational
1971 - John Newcombe is 1st top-seed man to lose in 1st round of US Open
Boxing Champ George Foreman 1973 - George Foreman KOs Jose "King" Roman in 1 for Heavyweight boxing title
1974 - Jane Blalock/Sue Roberts wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1975 - NY Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons
1980 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1980 - Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
1985 - Cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes world champion
1986 - Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1986 - Texas Rangers O McDowell & Porter are 7th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1987 - 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win US Tennis Open match
1990 - Gelindo Bordin sets European marathon record (2:14:02)
1990 - Highest combined CFL score (111), Toronto Argonauts beat BC 68-43
1991 - Hiromi Taniguchi wins 3rd world championship marathon (2:14:57)
1993 - Goran Ivanisevic & Daniel Nestor play longest tie-break in US Tennis
1996 - Balt Ravens (Cleveland Browns) 1st NFL game, beat Oakland Raiders, 17-14
1997 - Cindy Figg-Currier wins LPGA State Farm Rail Classic

Birthdays in Sport

Results 1 - 63 of 63

1866 - James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, Heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97)
1883 - Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1934)
1897 - Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)
1904 - Ray Flaherty, AFL/NFL/AAFC coach (NY Giants)
1908 - Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1980)
1923 - Rocky Marciano, Brockton, Massachusetts, Heavyweight champion boxer (1952-56), (d. 1969)
1937 - Al Geiberger, Red Bluff CA, PGA golfer (1962 Ontario Open)
1939 - Heinrich Messner, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1943 - Pat Connolly-Daniels-Winslow-Banks, US pentathlete (Olympics-7th-1968)
1950 - Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
1951 - David Bairstow, England cricketer (d. 1998)
1954 - Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 - Duško Ivanović, Montenegrin basketball coach
1959 - Keith Allen Clearwater, Long Beach CA, PGA golfer (1987 Colonial Natl)
1959 - Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist
1961 - Bam Bam Bigelow, Secaucus NJ, WWF wrestler (Wrestlemania XI)
1962 - Ruud Gullit, Suriname/Dutch soccer star (Feyenoord, PSV, AC Milan)
1962 - Tony Cascarino, Irish footballer
1963 - David Zhuang, China, US Table Tennis player (Olympics-96)
Heavyweight Champion Boxer Rocky Marciano (1923) 1964 - Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 - Aldo Swager, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1965 - Hardy Nickerson, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1966 - Stephane Talbot, Greenfield Park Que, golfer (1992 Quebec PGA)
1966 - Tim Hardaway, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1968 - Mardi Lunn, Liverpool Australia, LPGA golfer (1994 McDonald's-17th)
1968 - Michelle Buckingham, LA California, Canadian 61 kg judoka (Olymp-20-92, 96)
1969 - Florence Descampe, Brussels Belgium, LPGA golfer (1992 McCall)
1969 - Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer
1970 - Barbara Paulus, Vienna Austria, tennis star
1970 - Flora Perfetti, Faenza Italy, tennis star
1970 - Jodi Lambert, Australian 100m/200m sprinter (Olympics-96)
1971 - Gabe Wilkins, NFL defensive end (GB Packers-Super Bowl 31)
1971 - Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer
1972 - Josh Davis, US, 800m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1972 - Louise Dobson, Shepparton Aust, field hockey fullback (Olympics-96)
1972 - Matt O'Dwyer, NFL guard (NY Jets)
1973 - Gillian Boxx, Fontana CA, softball catcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Trent Bray, NZ, 100m/200m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 - Zach Thomas, American football player
1974 - Jason Taylor, American football player
1975 - Cuttino Mobley, American basketball player
1976 - Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer
1976 - Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver
1976 - Erik Morales, Mexican boxer
1976 - Clare Connor, England Woman cricketer
1977 - Raffaele Giammaria, Italian racing driver
1977 - Aaron Schobel, American football player
1977 - David Albelda, Spanish footballer
1978 - Max Vieri, Australian soccer player
1979 - James O'Connor, Irish footballer
1980 - Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer
1980 - Chris Riggott, English footballer
1981 - Clinton Portis, American football player
1981 - Adam Quick, Australian basketball player
1982 - Paul Dumbrell, Australian racing driver
1982 - Ryan Gomes, American basketball player
1982 - Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
1983 - José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
1984 - Nick Noble, American soccer player
1986 - Gaël Monfils, French tennis player
1986 - Anthony Allen, English rugby union player
1988 - Gabriel Ferrari, American soccer player
1988 - Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer

Deaths in Sport

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1941 - Benjamin Dwight, US tennis championship umpire, dies
1983 - Lennox Brown, cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa), dies
1985 - Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
1985 - Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (b. 1955)
1989 - A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner, dies of heart attack at 51
1994 - Wallis Mathias, cricketer (scored 783 in 21 Tests for Pakistan), dies
1998 - Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
2001 - Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)