April 27 On This Day in Sport
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1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out, Philadelphia A's win 6-01908 IV Summer (Modern) Olympic Games open in London1918 Giants' 9-0 winning start & Dodgers' 0-9 losing streak are stopped
1920 Sweden takes the figure skating double at the Antwerp Olympics when Gillis Grafström wins his first of 3 consecutive men's gold medals; Magda Julin earlier wins the women's singles event1924 Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-11926 In the Giants' 9-8 win over Phillies, Mel Ott , 17, 1st appearance1929 Ryder Cup Golf, Moortown GC: Great Britain beats US, 7-5 in bitterly cold and snowy conditions1930 White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis Browns [1] More Events in Sport
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1951 Philip Hands, South African cricket batsman (7 Tests, 2 x 50, HS 83; Western Province), dies at 611973 Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine auto racer (11 x F1 GP) and horse trainer, polo player, dies from diabetes and Parkinson's disease at 571973 Jim Sims, English cricket spin bowler (4 Tests, 11 wickets; Middlesex), dies at 691978 John Doeg, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1930), dies at 691999 Cyril Washbrook, English cricket batsman (37 Tests, 6 x 100, HS 195; Lancashire CCC), dies at 84 More Deaths in Sport
1996 Romanian gymnast and 5-time Olympic gold medalist Nadia Comăneci (35) weds American gymnast Bart Conner (38) in Bucharest, Romania2013 NBA great Michael Jordan (50) weds 2nd wife model Yvette Prieto at Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, Florida 
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