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1903 - Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buys Phila Phillies for $170,000
1906 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Queen's U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games
1912 - Victor Trumper's last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50
1929 - Chic Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home
1931 - Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
1940 - 1st televised basketball game (U of Pitts beats Fordham U, 50-37)
1954 - Patty Berg/Pete Cooper wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
1957 - Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory
1958 - West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket
1959 - NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players
1960 - 8th winter Olympic games close at Squaw Valley, Colo
1960 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1960 - US wins Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4
1966 - Sandy Koufax & Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Dodgers
1967 - Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal
1970 - Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
1970 - Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53)
1971 - 53rd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA Natl FL Jack Nicklaus wins his 2nd golf grand slam
1981 - Calvin Murphy (Hou), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws
1982 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
1986 - Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs
1988 - 15th Winter Olympic games close at Calgary, Canada
1988 - Pat Verbeek becomes 1st NJ Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game
1989 - Red Schoendienst & Al Barlick elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
1991 - Don Mattingly named 10th NY Yankee Captain
1993 - Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m)
1998 - Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points
