Events in Sport on 4th February

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1903 - Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias, 2 games to 1 & 1 tie
1924 - 1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France
1929 - Archie Jackson scores 164 on Test Cricket debut v England at Adelaide
1931 - National League adopts a deader baseball
1932 - 3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
1952 - 1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC NY)
1962 - Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
1968 - Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball
1969 - 41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cin-Det, SD-Bost
1969 - John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders
1971 - Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks
1976 - 12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria
1977 - 30th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 at Vancouver
1979 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
1980 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
1986 - 38th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford
1987 - Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup
1990 - Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69)
1990 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-21
1990 - Pat Bradley wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1990 - Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar)
1990 - St Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship
1993 - Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism
1995 - Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning
1996 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-13
1997 - Mario LeMieux is 7th NHL player to score 600 goals

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