Events in Sports History in 1983

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• Jan 1 12th Fiesta Bowl: #11 Arizona State beats #12 Oklahoma, 32-21
• Jan 1 49th Orange Bowl: #3 Nebraska beats #13 LSU, 21-20
• Jan 1 49th Sugar Bowl: #2 Penn State beats #1 Georgia, 27-23

• Jan 1 69th Rose Bowl: #5 UCLA beats #19 Michigan, 24-14
• Jan 1 PGA inaugurates all-exempt tour
• Jan 2 In a 35-27 win over the Houston Oilers, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson completes 20 consecutive passes and finishes the season winning his second consecutive passing title with an NFL record 70.55% completion percentage
• Jan 3 Dallas running back Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yard rush in the Cowboys' 31-27 defeat at Minnesota Vikings
• Jan 7 Australia regain the Ashes with a 2-1 series win v England
• Jan 10 NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring NY Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver

• Jan 11 Edmonton’s Pat Hughes sets NHL record for the fastest 2 shorthanded goals by one player at just 25 seconds apart in a 7-5 win at St. Louis; first player to break a Wayne Gretzky record

• Jan 12 NCAA creates football Kickoff Classic to begin in August
• Jan 12 Quebec Nordiques play 230th NHL game without being shut out

• Jan 15 Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand v India
• Jan 18 Dick Motta becomes the 5th NBA coach to record 600 wins as his Dallas Mavericks defeat the Golden State Warriors, 112-102 in Oakland, California

• Jan 22 Houston is 1st NBA team to be held scoreless in an overtime Portland Trail Blazers out score them 17-0 & win 113-96
• Jan 22 NFC Championship, RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.: Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys, 31-17
• Jan 23 "Mud Bowl", Miami Dolphins beat the New York Jets 14-0 in the AFC Championship Game on a wet, muddy field, which negated the Jets significant speed and skill advantage
• Jan 23 AFC Championship, Miami Orange Bowl: Miami Dolphins beat New York Jets, 14-0

• Jan 23 Portland Trail Blazers score all 17 points in overtime to beat the Houston Rockets 113-96

• Jan 30 Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ
• Jan 30 Super Bowl XVII, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA: Washington Redskins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17; MVP: John Riggins, Washington, RB

• Feb 6 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 20-19; MVPs: Dan Fouts, San Diego Chargers, QB; John Jefferson, Green Bay Packers, WR

• Feb 8 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in one period

• Feb 13 Opener Steve Smith with 117 and Geoff Lawson 3-11 guide Australia to 149 run win over New Zealand in cricket's World Series Cup 2nd Final in Melbourne; win series, 2-0
• Feb 18 Indiana Pacers lose, 121-94 in Milwaukee; begin a 28 NBA game losing streak on the road
• Feb 18 Right wing Lanny McDonald becomes the first player in NHL franchise Calgary Flames' history to score 50 goals in a season in a 5-1 loss to Buffalo Sabres

• Feb 19 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 m free style swimming record

• Feb 20 Roland Liboton becomes world champ cross-country cycling
• Feb 21 NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak
• Feb 22 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m free style swimming record
• Mar 1 Alpine skier Tamara McKinney becomes the first American woman to top the overall World Cup standings with 225 points
• Mar 3 Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw is admitted to hospital for surgery to repair his throwing arm under the alias 'Tom Brady'
• Mar 5 NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield

• Mar 11 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
• Mar 12 4th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Boston College, 85-77
• Mar 13 24th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia beats Alabama, 86-71
• Mar 13 30th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Virginia, 81-78
• Mar 15 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
• Mar 16 Smallest crowd of 1,814 attend NBA Cavaliers vs. NY Nets game at Cleveland Coliseum

• Mar 19 France (16-9 v Wales) and Ireland (25-15 v England) win final round matches to finish level and share the Five Nations Rugby Championship; no tie-break procedure exists before 1993

• Mar 28 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Hal Sutton comes from 4 strokes back with a final round 69 to win a rain-affected Monday finish by 1 stroke ahead of Bob Eastwood
• Apr 2 New York Islanders right wing Mike Bossy scores in a 6-3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins to become the first player in NHL history to score 60 goals in 3 consecutive seasons
• Apr 3 2nd NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: USC beats Louisiana Tech, 69-67; Trojans' forward Cheryl Miller tournament MOP

• Apr 4 45th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Houston, 54-52; Wolfpack win with buzzer-beating dunk by Lorenzo Charles off a desperation 30 foot shot from Dereck Whittenburg

• Apr 9 137th Grand National: Ben de Haan wins aboard 13/1 bet Corbiere; Jenny Pittman first female GN winning trainer

• Apr 13 Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault
• Apr 14 NY Islanders tie own record with 2 shorthanded playoff goals (vs NY Rangers)

• Apr 17 Grete Waltz runs female world record marathon (2:25:29)

• Apr 17 NY Islanders tie NHL record with 3 shorthanded playoff goals vs NY Rangers
• Apr 18 87th Boston Marathon: American double; Greg Meyer men's champion in 2:09:00; Joan Benoit takes women's race in 2:22:43; her 2nd event title
• Apr 22 Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy)
• Apr 23 David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* v Sri Lanka

• Apr 26 San Antonio spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 152-133 in NBA playoff game
• Apr 27 Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson
• May 3 NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final: Edmonton Oilers beat Chicago Black Hawks, 4 games to 0
• May 7 109th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye wins aboard Sunny's Halo for consecutive Derby victories (1982 Gato Del Sol)
• May 7 NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: New York Islanders beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2
• May 11 Aberdeen of Scotland win 23rd European Cup Winner's Cup against Real Madrid of Spain 2-1 in Gothenburg

• May 17 Stanley Cup Final, Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY: 4 consecutive titles for NY Islanders; sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games with a 4-2 Game 4 win
• May 20 American heavyweight boxer Larry Holmes beats countryman Tim Witherspoon by split decision to retain his WBC title at the Dunes Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas

• May 21 108th Preakness: Donald Miller Jr on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4
• May 22 Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit HR
• May 25 27th European Cup: Hamburg beats Juventus 1-0 at Athens
• May 25 Kirk Gibson (Tigers) & Jorge Orta (Blue Jays) hit inside park HRs
• May 26 29th Walker Cup: US, 13½ - 10½
• May 26 LA Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws
• May 29 Indianapolis 500: Tom Sneva wins his first Indy 500; represents record 7th Indy victory for chief mechanic George Bignotti
• May 29 Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m

• May 31 37th NBA Championship: Philadelphia 76ers sweep LA Lakers in 4 games

• Jun 6 Twins draft pitcher Tim Belcher #1
• Jun 7 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Steve Carlton temporarily passes Houston Astro Nolan Ryan with his 3,552 strike out
• Jun 8 Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal
• Jun 8 East German sprinter Marlies Göhr sets world record for 100m (10.81) in Berlin, Germany
• Jun 9 Zimbabwe win their 1st one-day cricket international, v Australia

• Jun 11 MLB Cardinals outfielder Lonnie Smith checks into Hyland Center in St. Louis, a drug rehabilitation facility
• Jun 11 Zhu Jianhua of China set a new world record in high jump at 7-9 14

• Jun 12 Senior Tournament Players Championship Men's Golf, Canterbury GC: Miller Barber inaugural champion by 1 stroke from Gene Littler
• Jun 12 Winston Davis takes 7-51 in Cricket World Cup match v Australia

• Jun 16 Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal
• Jun 20 New York Yankees 5-time MLB All Star outfielder Bobby Murcer retires

• Jun 22 NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period

• Jun 25 Cricket World Cup, Lord's, London: India upsets West Indies by 43 runs to win first title; Mohinder Amarnath 3/12 off 7 overs, Player of the Match
• Jun 25 ICC Men's Cricket ODI World Cup, Lord's, London: India beats West Indies by 43 runs to win their first trophy; Player of Match: Mohinder Amarnath (IND) 3/12 from 7 overs
• Jun 25 Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m
• Jun 27 MLB Seattle Mariners bat out of order against Chicago White Sox in 2nd inning

• Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Andrea Jaeger 6-0, 6-3 for the 4th of 9 Wimbledon singles titles

• Jul 3 Canadian Open Women's Golf (Peter Jackson Classic), Beaconsfield GC: Hollis Stacy wins by 2 strokes from JoAnn Carner and Alice Miller
• Jul 3 Texas Rangers explode for MLB single extra innings record 12 runs in 15th inning of 16-4 win v Oakland

• Jul 8 Rudi Koopmans retains European middleweight title

• Jul 18 Despite being in 1st place tie in NL East, Philadelphia Phillies (43-42) fire manager Pat Corrales, replacing him with GM Paul Owens, eventually getting to World Series (losing to Baltimore)
• Jul 22 MLB California Angels outfielder Brian Downing's error ends his record streak at 244 games
• Jul 24 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switzerland (2-1)
• Jul 24 70th Tour de France won by Laurent Fignon of France

• Jul 27 Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts, also winning his 1st game as a Kansas City Royal
• Jul 29 Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
• Jul 30 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg
• Jul 31 Brooks Robinson, Juan Marichal, George Kell and Walter Alston are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
• Jul 31 US Open Women's Golf, Cedar Ridge CC: Australian Jan Stephenson wins her 3rd major title; beats JoAnne Carner and Patty Sheehan by 1 stroke

• Aug 6 First NFL exhibition game in Europe; Minnesota Vikings beat St Louis Cardinals 28-10 at London's Wembley Stadium

• Aug 10 1st World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in Men's Long Jump
• Aug 14 Robert de Castella wins Helsinki marathon (2:10:03)

• Aug 19 Dodgers trade Dave Stewart & Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut

• Aug 25 Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark

• Sep 4 US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, North Shore CC: Jay Sigel successfully defends title 8 & 7 over Chris Perry
• Sep 9 Vitas Gerulaitis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat 100th ranked male tennis player
• Sep 10 Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
• Sep 10 US Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert-Lloyd 6-1, 6-3 for her first US singles title
• Sep 11 Pittsburgh running back Franco Harris runs for 118 yards in Steelers 25-21 win at Green Bay to become the only the third player in NFL history to rush for 11,000 yards

• Sep 13 Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save

• Sep 13 US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
• Sep 17 Chicago White Sox clinch their 1st-ever AL West championship
• Sep 18 New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chicago Bears 34-31
• Sep 20 3,112 turn out to see Pirates play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
• Sep 22 Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4"
• Sep 23 Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa KOs American Michael Dokes in 10 rounds in Richfield. Ohio for WBA heavyweight boxing title
• Sep 23 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to wins 300 game, beating Cardinals 6-2 in St. Louis

• Sep 26 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks 56 yard field goal, a NY Giants record
• Sep 26 Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race - 1st non-US winner

• Sep 29 Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0
• Oct 2 Green Bay Packers erupt for NFL record 49 points in the first half (35 in the second quarter) to clobber the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 55-14 at Tampa Stadium
• Oct 2 Wide receiver Art Monk begins NFL streak of 183 consecutive games with a reception in the Washington Redskins' 37-35 win over the LA Raiders
• Oct 5 Edmonton super star Wayne Gretzky scores a goal and assist in 5-4 win over Toronto in the Oilers season opener; starts NHL record 51-game scoring streak; ends 28/1/84
• Oct 5 Panamanian jockey Jorge Velasquez wins his 5,000th career race, riding Banquet Scene to victory in the 4th race at Belmont Park
• Oct 6 NHL New York Islanders Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick
• Oct 6 NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands
• Oct 8 MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat Chicago White Sox, 3 games to 1
• Oct 8 MLB National League Championship: Philadelphia Phillies beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 3 games to 1
• Oct 8 Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7
• Oct 9 NFL Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes for 419 yards with 5 TDs, winning 38-35, in overtime, over Dolphins, in Miami
• Oct 10 Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers

• Oct 15 NHL Chicago Black Hawks & Toronto Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds), in a 10-8 Leaf win in Toronto
• Oct 16 Baseball World Series: Baltimore Orioles beat Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0 for 4 games to 1 series victory; MVP: Baltimore catcher Rick Dempsey
• Oct 16 Ryder Cup Golf, PGA National GC: US wins 14½-13½; Bernard Gallacher's missed 3-foot putt for bogey gives Tom Watson 2 & 1 win and the US winning point
• Oct 19 NHL Philadelphia Flyers begin 13-game winning streak
• Oct 23 13th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:00
• Oct 23 14th NYC Marathon won by Rod Dixon in 2:08:59
• Nov 4 Washington Capitals first NHL overtime victory beating Vancouver 5-4
• Nov 5 NY Rangers & Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 secs of 3rd period

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