- 1896 Western Conference forms to be first Western college football season, later renamed Big 10 Conference
- 1908 Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert, Netherlands
- 1932 American speed skater Irving Jaffee wins the 10,000m at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; clinches distance double after also taking out the 5,000m
- 1936 1st ski jumping tournament at Red Wing, Minnesota
- 1936 First-ever NFL Draft: Jay Berwanger from the University of Chicago is first pick by Philadelphia Eagles
- 1936 German alpine skier Christi Cranz wins the inaugural Olympic women’s combined gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games ahead of teammate Käthe Grasegger
Brown to Coach Cleveland
1945 Paul Brown agrees to coach the new American football expansion team in Cleveland, which would later be named the Cleveland Browns after their coach
- 1948 Canada beats Switzerland 3-0, to regain the Olympic ice hockey title at the St. Moritz Winter Games; forward Walter Halder top scores with 29 points in Canada’s 5th Olympic title
- 1948 V Winter Olympic Games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
Russell's 50 Rebounds
1960 Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)
Baseball Hall of Fame
1972 Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
- 1975 Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders
Jazz End Losing Streak
1975 Pete Maravich scores 47 points as the New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game NBA road losing streak with a 106-102 win over the Hawks in Atlanta
Hamilton US Champion
1981 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
- 1982 Los Angeles Dodgers trade 2B Davey Lopes to Oakland A's, breaking up MLB's longest-playing infield (Garvey-Lopes-Russell-Cey) after 8 1/2 seasons
35th NHL All-Star Game
1983 35th NHL All-Star Game, Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale: Campbell Conference beats Wales Conference, 9-3; MVP: Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oilers, C
Mantel to Sever Casino Ties
1983 Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino
- 1983 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in one period
- 1984 A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation
- 1984 XIV Winter Olympic Games open in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
- 1985 1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica v Barbados
- 1985 Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5½" basketball shot
- 1985 Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75)
- 1986 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition
Boitano US Champion
1986 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
- 1987 37th NBA All-Star Game, Kingdome, Seattle, WA: West beats East, 154-149 (OT); MVP: Tom Chambers, Seattle SuperSonics, C
- 1989 American jockey Chris Antley begins record 64-day consecutive winning streak; ends 1 May and includes 147 winners from 486 mounts
Clemens Signs Contract
1991 Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract
- 1992 XVI Winter Olympic Games opens in Albertville, France
Nicholson Attacks Car
1994 Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
Cleveland To Lose Browns Name
1996 NFL & Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Baltimore but he had to leave the Browns' name behind
48th NBA All-Star Game
1998 48th NBA All-Star Game, Madison Square Garden, NYC: East beats West, 135-114; MVP: Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls, F
- 1998 Finland beats Sweden, 6-0 at the Aqua Wing Arena in Nagano, Japan in the first female ice hockey game played in Olympic history
- 1998 NHL stops season stops to accommodate the Nagano Winter Olympics; returns February 24
- 2002 XIX Winter Olympic Games open in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
54th NHL All-Star Game
2004 54th NHL All-Star Game, Xcel Energy Centre, Saint Paul, Minnesota: East beats West, 6-4; MVP: Joe Sakic, Colorado Avalanche, C
- 2004 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, Hawaii: NFC beats AFC, 55-52; MVP: Mark Bulger, St. Louis Rams, QB, HI
- 2009 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 30-21; MVP: Larry Fitzgerald, Arizona Cardinals, WR
- 2014 Justine and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe claim gold and silver medals in the moguls freestyle skiing event at the Sochi Winter Olympics; first Canadian sisters to stand together on the podium
- 2014 Netherlands sweeps the medals in the men's 5,000m speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Sven Kramer retains title ahead of teammates Jan Blokhuijsen and Jorrit Bergsma
- 2014 Ole Einar Bjørndalen equals the Winter Olympics medal record with 12
- 2014 Slopestyle snowboarding event makes Olympic debut at Sochi Winter Games; American Sage Kotsenburg is inaugural men's gold medallist
- 2018 Noriaki Kasai of Japan becomes first athlete in history to participate in 8 Winter Olympics in the ski jumping qualification prior to the Pyeongchang Games
- 2019 Fire at Ninho de Urubu football training center for Flamengo football club, Rio de Janeiro, kills 10
- 2022 Austrian alpine skier Matthias Mayer narrowly retains his Olympic Super-G title from American Ryan Cochran-Siegle at the Beijing Winter Games; Mayer's 3rd Olympic gold medal
Election of Interest
2024 Pakistan election: In an upset independents backed by imprisoned Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party win the most seats with 97, PML-N win 76, PPP 54 [1]
