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1876 - Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
1894 - 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me
1937 - Bradman scores 212 (in 441 minutes!) in 5th Test Cricket v England
1942 - Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
1947 - Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket
1951 - Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
1956 - Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events
1957 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
1962 - John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
1965 - Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down
1972 - 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
1974 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1976 - 26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia
1979 - Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players
1980 - 30th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 144-136 (OT) at Washington
1980 - Larry Holmes TKOs Lorenzo Holmes in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1981 - Australia beats NZ 3-1 to win World Series Cup
1985 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1987 - SD Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup
1989 - Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head
1989 - Start 1st Test Cricket, NZ v Pak, washed out
1990 - Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
1990 - NY Met Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Alcohol rehab center
1991 - Meg Mallon wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1991 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-21
1998 - Fla Panther Dino Ciccarelli's is 9th NHLer to score 600 career goals
1998 - NY Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman
2002 - Super Bowl XXXVI: New England Patriots beat St. Louis Rams, 20-17 at the Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB
