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1900 - NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville & Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee)
1904 - Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match
1906 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ont) in 2 games
1930 - Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with NY Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"
1936 - The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
1941 - 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)
1951 - Intl Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel)
1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1959 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1967 - New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day)
1968 - 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Md)
1971 - Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title
1971 - Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record)
1976 - 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China
1981 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
1986 - Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
1987 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
1989 - Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 secs)
1992 - Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
