Events in Sport on 22nd February

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1860 - Organized baseball played in SF for 1st time
1888 - John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY)
1892 - Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
1927 - ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
1956 - 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
1957 - Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
1957 - Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in Calif in 1958
1959 - 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH)
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts
1967 - Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL
1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track
1976 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1980 - USA beats USSR in Olympic hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal
1981 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
1984 - Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Quebec
1990 - 1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
1991 - Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs NZ at Hamilton
1992 - Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Open Golf Tournament
1997 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open
1998 - 18th Winter Olympic games close at Nagano Japan

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