Events in Sports History in January 1984

Chappell's 182* Last Inning

Jan 5 Greg Chappell scores 182* for Australia in his last Test innings

Jan 6 Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh & Lillee
Jan 8 AFC Championship, LA Memorial Coliseum: Los Angeles Raiders beat Seattle Seahawks, 30-14
Jan 8 NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams
Jan 8 NFC Championship, RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.: Washington Redskins beat San Francisco 49ers, 24-21
Jan 8 Washington Capitals Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Philadelphia 7-1
Jan 9 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession

Baseball Hall of Fame

Jan 10 Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew and Don Drysdale elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame

Jan 11 Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game

Mancini vs. Chacon

Jan 14 Ray Mancini scores a 3rd-round TKO of Bobby Chacon to retain his WBA lightweight title in Reno, Nevada; Chacon so severely battered he thanks referee Richard Steele for stopping the fight

McEnroe's 2nd ATP

Jan 15 John McEnroe reverses previous year's result with a 6–3, 6–4, 6–4 win over Ivan Lendl to claim his second season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis title at Madison Square Garden, NYC

Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major Champion Ivan Lendl

Navratilova’s Winning Streak Ends

Jan 15 Martina Navratilova’s 54-match winning streak ends when beaten by Hana Mandlíková 7-6, 3-6, 6-4 in the final of the Virginia Slims of California tennis event in Oakland; after loss Navratilova wins next 74 matches for new record

Tennis Player and Four-Time Major Champion Hana Mandlikova

Jan 19 Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km

Hamilton US Champion

Jan 21 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton

Jan 22 Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's basketball record with 70 pts

Sports History

Jan 22 Apple's seminal ad for the new Microsoft computer, directed by Ridley Scott, loosely based on George Orwell's "1984", plays during the Super Bowl [1]

Palmer Wins 3rd Title

Jan 22 Senior PGA Championship, PGA National GC: Arnold Palmer wins third of 5 Champions Your major titles by 2 strokes from Don January

Jan 22 Super Bowl XVIII, Tampa Stadium, Tampa, FL: LA Raiders beat Washington Redskins, 38-9; MVP: Marcus Allen, Los Angeles, RB
Jan 23 Buffalo Sabres become the first team in NHL history to win 10 straight road games with a 5-3 victory at Boston
Jan 23 Greatest unpaced 1-hr bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km

Hogan's 1st WWF Title

Jan 23 Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to win his 1st World Wrestling Federation title at Madison Gardens, New York

Apple Macintosh Personal Computer

Jan 24 Apple Computer Inc unveils its revolutionary Macintosh personal computer in a Super Bowl TV ad directed by Ridley Scott

Apple's revolutionary personal computer, the Macintosh

Jan 26 Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders

Gretzky Scoring Streak Ends

Jan 28 Edmonton center Wayne Gretzky's NHL record point scoring streak ends at 51 games when Oilers beaten 4-2 by LA Kings; Gretzky totals 61-92-153 during the period

First NBA All-Star Saturday

Jan 29 34th NBA All-Star Game, Denver: East beats West, 154-145 (OT); MVP: Isiah Thomas, Detroit Pistons, G; first All-Star Saturday; Legends Classic, West wins, 64-63; first Slam-Dunk winner, Larry Nance

Jan 29 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 45-3; MVP: Joe Theismann, Washington Redskins, QB
Jan 31 36th NHL All-Star Game, Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 7-6; MVP: Don Maloney, NY Rangers, LW