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00000101 1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California. (1902)%i19020101
00000101 1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles) (1912)%i19120101
00000101 All registered thoroughbred and quarter horses are "born" on this day
00000116 First college basketball game, Iowa vs Chicago (1896)%i18960116
00000129 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team. (1904)%i19040129
00000202 National Baseball League formed with 8 teams. (1876)%i18760202
00000204 1st Winter Olympics held (At Lake Placid, NY). (1932)%i19320204
00000212 The six cars entered in the New York to Paris road race set off on their 12116 mile race through Alaska and Russia. America won. (1908)%i19080212
00000311 1st public game of basketball. (1892)%i18920311
00000328 A New York judge rules that the contest between the American catamaran and the Australian monohull was not fair competition and the America's Cup was returned to the Australians (1989)%i19890328
00000404 President William Howard Taft throws out the first ball of the season to a game between Washington and Philadelphia. Thus starting a tradition (1910)%i19100404
00000404 Hank Aaron of Atlanta Braves ties Babe Ruth's home run record at 714 (1974)%i19740404
00000408 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record. (1974)%i19740408
00000411 Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier in baseball when he plays for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1947)%i19470411
00000412 The catcher's mask was first used in a baseball game. (1877)%i18770412
00000414 President Taft starts the tradition of throwing out the 1st baseball (1910)%i19100414
00000416 Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians pitched a no-hitter on opening day of the American League season (1940)%i19400416
00000423 Hank Aaron hits his first home run (1954)%i19540423
00000428 Muhammad Ali (Heavyweight Champ) refused to be inducted into Army (1967)%i19670428
00000502 Lou Gehrig sets record for being in most consecutive games (2130). (1939)%i19390502
00000517 First Kentucky Derby held (1875)%i18750517
00000517 The first Kentucky Derby was run at Churchill Downs. (1875)%i18750517
00000525 Babe Ruth hits his 714th and final home run of his career (1935)%i19350525
00000530 Indianapolis 500 car race run for 1st time. (1911)%i19110530
00000601 Lou Gehrig starts in 1st of 2130 consecutive games, a record. (1925)%i19250601
00000611 1st auto race. (1895)%i18950611
00000612 The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated. (1939)%i19390612
00000612 the 1st baseball game is played in America (1839)%i18390612
00000612 the 3rd baseball strike starts. (1981)%i19810612
00000705 New York Mets defeated Atlanta Braves, 16-13, in 19 inning game that lasted 6 hours and 10 min. ending just before 4 a.m. (1985)%i19850705
00000706 1st All-Star baseball game.  American League won 5-2. (1933)%i19330706
00000711 Houston Astros pitcher, Nolan Ryan struck out 4000 batters. (1985)%i19850711
00000713 Women first compete in Olympic games (1908)%i19080713
00000718 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit (1927)%i19270718
00000720 admission fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents). (1859)%i18590720
00000721 Eddy Merckx won his first of five Tour de France victories (1969)%i19690721
00000723 Greg LeMond wins his second Tour de France, beating Laurent Fignon in the final 15 mile time trial by turning a 50 second deficit into a win by 8 seconds! (1989)%i19890723
00000729 King George VI opened the Olympic games in London (1948)%i19480729
00000801 Adolph Hitler opened the Olympic Games in Berlin. (1936)%i19360801
00000802 Several former members of the Chicago White Sox and two others were acquitted in the "Black Sox" scandal (1921)%i19210802
00000806 Cy Young pitches first major league game (1890)%i18900806
00000806 Gertrude Ederle of New York is the first American woman to swim the English Channel (1926)%i19260806
00000808 the first America's Cup race (1870)%i18700808
00000810 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's record of 3630 hits. (1981)%i19810810
00000820 Diana Nyad becomes the first woman to swim the 89 miles from the Bahamas to Florida (time: 27h 38m) (1979)%i19790820
00000821 Babe Ruth hit his 600th career home run. (1931)%i19310821
00000822 Althea Gibson becomes the first black tennis plaer to be accepted in competition for the national chapionship (1950)%i19500822
00000822 the yacht America wins in race against 14 yachts of England in the first America Cup sailing race (1851)%i18510822
00000825 Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel, travelling from Dover to Calais in 22 hours (1875)%i18750825
00000826 The summer Olympics opened in Munich, West Germany. (1972)%i19720826
00000829 Lou Brock eclipsed the stolen-bases record as he stole two bases against the San Diego Padres, bring his total to 893 (1977)%i19770829
00000831 The 1st U.S. tennis championships were played in Newport, R.I. (1882)%i18820831
00000901 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match (1972)%i19720901
00000904 Mark Spitz becomes first man to win 7 gold medals in the Olympics (1972)%i19720904
00000906 Czechoslovakian tennis star, Martina Navratilova, requested political asylum while in New York for the U.S. open (1975)%i19750906
00000907 ESPN, the sports cable network, makes its debut (1979)%i19790907
00000913 Fay Vincent was named commissioner of Major League Baseball. (1989)%i19890913
00000913 The ladies Professional Golf Association of America was formed. (1949)%i19490913
00000917 The American Professional Football Association was formed. (1920)%i19200917
00000923 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event. (1952)%i19520923
00000923 New York Knickerbockers becomes first U.S. Baseball club (1845)%i18450923
00000924 Babe Ruth makes his farewell regular baseball player for the New York Yankees (1934)%i19340924
00000926 Australia II won the America's Cup yacht race. (1983)%i19830926
00000928 eight members of the Chicago White Sox were indicted for allegedly throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in the "Black Sox" scandal (1920)%i19200928
00000929 The 1st night football game was played in Mansfield, Pennsylvania. (1892)%i18920929
00001001 1st World Series starts between the National & American Leagues (1903)%i19031001
00001007 Georgia Tech beat Cumberland University 222-0 in a football game. (1916)%i19161007
00001007 Lynnette Woodward becomes the first female Harlem Globetrotter (1985)%i19851007
00001012 The race horse Man O'War's last race (1920)%i19201012
00001013 The International Olympic committee announced it would restore the two gold medals it had taken from Jim Thorpe (1982)%i19821013
00001013 The first world series game is played (1903)%i19031013
00001018 Connie Mack, the "Grand Old Man" of major league baseball, announced he would retire as manager of the Philadelphia Athletics (1950)%i19501018
00001018 the Ivy League establishes rules for college football. (1873)%i18731018
00001019 Jim Ochowicz, manager of the Seven-Eleven cycling team announced that the team will be sponsored by Motorola (1990)%i19901019
00001101 Notre Dame's football team upsets Army 35-13 in a game that help popularize the forward pass (1913)%i19131101
00001106 the first formal intercollegiate football game played (Rutgers 6 - Princeton 4) (1869)%i18691106
00001125 Radio station WTAW of college station, Texas, broadcast the first play-by-play description of a football game (1920)%i19201125
00001128 The first automobile race was held from Chicago to Waukegan through the snow; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averaged 7 MPH (1895)%i18951128
00001129 1st Army-Navy football game.  Score: Navy 25, Army 0. (1890)%i18901129
00001204 Numbers first appear on football uniforms (1908)%i19081204
00001215 James Naismith, a Canadian, invents basketball, while working at the Y.M.C.A. College at Springfield, Massachusetts (1891)%i18911215
00001217 1st professional football game: Chicago Bears vs. NY Giants. (1933)%i19331217
00001226 1st East-West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans. (1925)%i19251226
