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Results 1 - 104 of 104

Jan 1st - Rose & Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts
Jan 9th - Bert Olmstead, Mont Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game
Jan 17th - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-9
Jan 17th - Suggs Louise wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open (Cloister)
Jan 23rd - Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
Jan 24th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
Feb 1st - Soccer team The County froms in Doetinchem
Feb 2nd - Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game
Feb 14th - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
Feb 20th - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
Feb 28th - Patty Berg/Pete Cooper wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
Mar 1st - In spring training, Ted Williams breaks his collarbone
Mar 1st - Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War
Mar 7th - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
Mar 7th - Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition
Mar 13th - Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
Mar 14th - Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game
Mar 14th - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
Mar 14th - NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak
Mar 20th - 16th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: La Salle beats Bradley 92-76
Mar 28th - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
Mar 30th - Test Cricket debut of Garry Sobers v England at Kingston
Apr 4th - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open
Apr 6th - Mont Canadiens score 3 goals in 56 sec in playoff game against Det
Apr 11th - Marlene Bauer wins LPGA New Orleans Golf Open
Apr 12th - 18th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 289
Apr 12th - 8th NBA Championship: Min Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 3
Apr 13th - Balt Orioles 1st game, loses to Tigers in Detroit 3-0
Baseball Player Hank Aaron Apr 13th - Milwaukee Braves' Hank Aaron's 1st game
Apr 15th - Orioles 1st game in Baltimore beat White Sox 3-1
Apr 16th - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 3
Apr 18th - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
Apr 19th - 58th Boston Marathon won by Veikko Karvonen of Finland in 2:20:39
Apr 19th - 7-time winner of Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th
Apr 22nd - NBA adopts 24-second shot clock & 6 team-foul rule
Apr 23rd - Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers
May 1st - 80th Kentucky Derby: Raymond York aboard Determine wins in 2:03
May 2nd - Stan Musial hits 5 HRs in a doubleheader
May 8th - 1st shot-put over 60' (18.29 m)-Parry O'Brien, Los Angeles, CA
May 16th - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open
May 16th - Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone
May 22nd - 80th Preakness: Johnny Adams aboard Hasty Road wins in 1:57.4
May 30th - Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs
Jun 6th - Patty Berg wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
Jun 12th - 86th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard High Gun wins in 2:30.8
Jun 12th - Milwaukee Braves Jim Wilson no-hits Phillies, 2-0
Heavyweight Champion Boxer Rocky Marciano Jun 17th - Rocky Marciano beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for Heavyweight boxing title
Jun 19th - 54th US Golf Open: Ed Furgol shoots a 284 at Baltusrol GC in NJ
Jun 19th - Betty Jameson wins LPGA Western Golf Open
Jun 26th - Jim Peters runs marathon in 2:17:39.4
Jul 1st - Test Cricket debut of Khalid Hassan, 16 yrs 352, then world record
Jul 2nd - 68th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Drobny beats K Rosewall (13-11 46 62 97)
Jul 3rd - 61st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (62 75)
Jul 3rd - 9th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
Jul 4th - West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern
Jul 5th - Last day of Test Cricket for Khalid Hassan aged 16 yrs, 356 days
Jul 12th - Major League Baseball Players Association founded
Jul 13th - 21st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
Jul 17th - 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
Jul 18th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Inverness Four-Ball Golf Tournament
Jul 18th - Cards losing 8-1 to Phillies begin stalling in 5th, they forfeit game
Jul 20th - Tennis champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident
Jul 25th - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open
Jul 27th - 36th PGA Championship: Chick Herbert at Keller GC St Paul Minn
Jul 30th - Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles
Jul 31st - Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hrs, 1 double)
Aug 1st - Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France
Aug 5th - Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern & 15 pioneers
Aug 5th - Patty Berg wins LPGA World Golf Championshio
Aug 10th - Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins
Aug 13th - 21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470)
Aug 16th - "Sports Illustrated" magazine begins publishing
Aug 25th - Ivan Filin wins Berne marathon (2:25:26.6) (260m)
Sep 6th - 68th US Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (68 61 86)
Sep 6th - 74th US Mens Tennis: E V Seixas Jr beats Rex Hartwig (36 62 64 64)
Sep 8th - With a 3-2 count, Phillies Richie Ashburn fouls next 14, then walks
Sep 10th - Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls
Sep 12th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
Sep 12th - White Sox win 90th game, 1st time they win this many since 1920
Sep 14th - Giants' Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record
Sep 17th - Rocky Marciano KOs Ezzard Charles in 8 for Heavyweight boxing title
Sep 18th - Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2)
Sep 19th - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Wichita Golf Open
Sep 22nd - Bkln Dodger Karl Spooner strikes out 15 NY Giants in his 1st game
Sep 26th - Patty Berg wins LPGA Ardmore Golf Open
Sep 26th - Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3rd & Mickey Mantle plays shortstop
Sep 29th - Bennekom soccer team forms in Bennekom
Sep 29th - Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460' drive
Oct 2nd - 8th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Detroit 2-2 at Detroit
Oct 2nd - NY Giants sweep Cleve Indians, in 51st World Series
Oct 28th - Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Phila syndicate
Oct 30th - 1st use of 24-sec shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston)
Oct 31st - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Texas Golf Open
Nov 7th - Cleveland Browns' Chet Hanulak sets club record with 7 punt returns & win by their largest margin of victory (59) beating Wash 62-3
Nov 18th - Yanks trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada & Smith to Orioles for Turley, Larsen & Hunter as part of an 18 player deal
Nov 26th - Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba
Nov 27th - 42nd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 26-25
Nov 28th - Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 80-yard punt
Dec 1st - Yanks send Miller, Segrist, Leppert & 2 minors to Orioles for Blayzka, Kryhoski, Johnson, Fridley & Del Guercio (completing 18 player deal)
Dec 2nd - Frank Selvy of Milwaukee sets then NBA record of 24 of 26 free throws
Dec 10th - Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
Dec 11th - Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
Dec 26th - Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating Detroit 56-10
Dec 28th - 43rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Sydney (3-2)