- 1931 Chicago White Sox & NY Giants play 1st exhibition night game
- 1948 NASCAR is incorporated
- 1951 South Carolina House of Representatives urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated by Major League Baseball
- 1953 Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81
- 1957 Dodgers (Fort Worth) & Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises
- 1960 Biathlon debuts at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics; Klas Lestander from Sweden becomes the first Olympic champion ahead of Finland's Antti Tyrväinen and Soviet Aleksandr Privalov
- 1968 Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000
Contract of Interest
1969 Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Washington Senators
Olympic Gold
1980 American speed skater Eric Heiden wins 1,500m in Olympic record 1:55.44; 4th of record 5 gold medal sweep of events at Lake Placid
- 1980 British figure skater Robin Cousins wins men's singles gold medal at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; goes on to pro career, TV analysis and stage performance & production
- 1980 East German cross country skier Barbara Petzold wins her second gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics as part of the women's 4 x 5k relay team; also wins 10k gold
- 1980 Liechtenstein becomes the smallest country to produce an Olympic champion as Hanni Wenzel wins the women's giant slalom at the Lake Placid Winter Games
- 1983 NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak
- 1985 Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)
Sports History
1985 National League baseball player Tim Raines is awarded a $1.2 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator
Olympic Gold
1992 Kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympic gold medal in women's figure skating
NBA All-Star Game
1993 43rd NBA All-Star Game, Delta Center, Salt Lake City, UT: West beats East, 135-132 (OT); MVPs: Karl Malone, Utah Jazz F; John Stockton, Utah Jazz, PG
- 1993 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m)
- 1995 CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners become San Antonio Texans
- 2002 Canadian world champion women's ice hockey team wins first of 4 consecutive Winter Olympic gold medals with a 3-2 win over the United States at Salt Lake City
- 2014 Canada take the curling double at the Sochi Winter Olympics beating Great Britain, 9-3 in the final; also win women's gold medal
- 2014 Park Seung-hi wins Olympic women's 1,000m short track speed skating gold medal in Sochi for her 2nd gold medal of the Games; 3,000m relay winner
- 2014 Viktor An of Russia wins 6th career Olympic short track speed skating gold medal as part of the 5,000m relay team in Sochi; 2nd gold of the day (500m) and 3rd of Games (1,000m)
- 2016 58th Daytona 500: Denny Hamlin wins closest finish in race history - by just 0.01s from Martin Truex Jr
- 2017 Alex Puccio completes the first female ascent of Nagual V13 (8B) at Hueco Tanks
- 2018 Norwegian cross country skiers Martin Johnsrud Sundby, Johannes Høsflot & Klæbo win their 2nd Olympic gold medals in Pyeongchang in the men's team sprint freestyle; trio also wins gold in 4 x 10k relay
- 2018 Winter Olympics: Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall become the first Americans in history to win a cross country gold medal (team sprint)
Australian Men's Tennis Open
2021 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković of Serbia wins a record extending 9th Australian title; dominates Russian Daniil Medvedev 7-5, 6-2, 6-2
