- 1869 1st professional baseball exhibition game - Cincinnati Red Stockings 24, Cincinnati amateurs 15
- 1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) win their first game; beat Washington Senators, 7-2 at American League Park
- 1914 MLB Chicago Federals host the Kansas City Packers in the 1st game played at Weeghman Park (now Wrigley Field)
Hubbell Continues Streak
1937 New York Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell's first start of season, a 3-0 win over the Boston Bees, is his 17th straight win; streak continues for league record 24 victories in a row
Williams 1st Home Run
1939 Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st HR
- 1940 NY Yankees dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert
- 1946 Brooklyn Dodger Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
- 1950 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5)
- 1950 NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 110-95 to take series, 4 games to 2
- 1950 Stanley Cup Final, Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI: Pete Babando scores Cup-winning goal in double overtime of Game 7 as Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers, 4-3 for a 4-3 series win
Sports History
1952 Bob Cain of St. Louis Browns and Bob Feller of Cleveland Indians each pitch a one-hitter, as the home team wins 1-0 at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, Missouri
Sports History
1952 New York Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st game in relief & hits his only HR
Baseball Record
1954 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers
Sports History
1958 Gil Hodges hits his 300th HR & Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game
NBA Finals
1969 LA Lakers guard Jerry West scores 53 points in 120-118 NBA Finals Game 1 win over Boston Celtics at the LA Forum
- 1977 ADO Den Haag soccer team forms in The Hague, Netherlands
- 1977 Czech chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously & only loses 10
Sports History
1978 Reds Joe Morgan ends record streak of 91 consecutive errorless games at 2nd
- 1983 David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* v Sri Lanka
- 1985 Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational
- 1987 NJ Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY
Sports History
1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores 10 points in his last game as a Laker in a 121-117 win over Seattle SuperSonics at the LA Forum
- 1989 NFL Draft: #1 pick UCLA quarterback Troy Aikman by Dallas Cowboys
Sports History
1989 Nolan Ryan blows a no hitter in 9th inning
Sports History
1991 Björn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after an 8 year lay off without practising or playing any exhibition matches
- 1991 Outstanding West Indian cricket opening batsman Gordon Greenidge scores 226 in his final Test innings at home in Bridgetown, Barbados; WI win 4th Test v Australia by 343 runs
- 2005 NFL Draft: University of Utah quarterback Alex Smith first pick by San Francisco 49ers
- 2012 38,000 London Marathon entrants have their home and email contacts published in a data protection breach
Cricket History
2013 West Indian cricketer, Chris Gayle, smashes the fastest century in history (30 balls)
Sports History
2015 Kawhi Leonard is named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year for the first time
- 2017 Adam Ondra sets a new highpoint for the Project indoor sport route in Stockholm, Sweden
- 2019 Southampton striker Shane Long scores fastest goal in English Premier League history when he nets after 7.69 seconds in 1-1 draw at Watford
Sports History
2020 NFL Draft: LSU quarterback Joe Burrow first pick by Cincinnati Bengals
- 2023 Brooke Raboutou wins a gold medal in bouldering at the IFSC World Cup in Hachioji, Japan
- 2023 Chevron Championship Women's Golf, The Club at Carlton Woods: Lilia Vu wins her first major beating fellow American Angel Yin on the first playoff hole
- 2023 MLB Boston Red Sox outfielder Masataka Yoshida hits a solo home run and a grand slam in the eight inning in 12-5 win over the Brewers in Milwaukee
