- 1844 6th Grand National: John Crickmere wins aboard 5/1 co-favourite Discount
- 1849 11th Grand National: Tom Cunningham wins aboard 20/1 Peter Simple; 2nd consecutive year there are 3 equine fatalities during the race
- 1903 Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buy Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000
- 1904 Football club Sport Lisboa (Benfica) founded in Lisbon, Portugal
- 1906 Stanley Cup: Ottawa HC beats Queen's University (Kingston, ON), 12-7 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
Trumper's Final Test
1912 Australian batting great Victor Trumper scores 50 in his final Test innings in 5th Test loss v England at Sydney Cricket Ground
- 1925 Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
- 1929 NHL Chicago Black Hawks lose league record 15th straight game at home
- 1931 Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
- 1936 Karl Schäfer of Austria follows up his Winter Olympics victory with his 7th consecutive men’s figure skating World Championship title in Paris, France
- 1936 Olympic champions Ernst Baier and Maxi Herber of Germany win their 4th consecutive pairs figure skating gold medal at the World Championships in Paris, France
- 1940 First televised basketball game (University of Pittsburgh beats Fordham University 50-37)
- 1958 West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket
The Ollie Matson Trade
1959 Chicago Cardinals trade running back Ollie Matson to the LA Rams for an unprecedented 9 players
- 1959 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs USA won by Denny & Jones of Great Britain
Olympic Gold
1960 Home team United States wins its first Olympic ice hockey gold medal at Squaw Valley; with 9-4 win over Czechoslovakia
- 1960 VIII Winter Olympic Games close in Squaw Valley, California
- 1969 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Towler & Ford of Great Britain
- 1969 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Tim Wood of USA
- 1970 Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
- 1970 Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53)
1971 PGA Championship Men's Golf, PGA National East: Jack Nicklaus leads wire-to-wire for his second career Grand Slam, winning by two strokes over Billy Casper
- 1981 Calvin Murphy (Hou), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws
- 1986 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs
- 1988 Pat Verbeek becomes 1st NJ Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game
- 1988 XV Winter Olympic Games close in Calgary, Canada
- 1989 10-time MLB All-Star second baseman and manager Red Schoendienst and umpire Al Barlick are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
- 1993 Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m)
Sports History
1998 Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points
- 2010 XXI Winter Olympic Games close in Vancouver, Canada
- 2012 54th Daytona 500: Rain affected race stopped for 2 hours because of fuel on track; Matt Kenseth leads for final 34 laps to win
- 2020 Court of Arbitration for Sport bans Chinese triple Olympic gold medallist Sun Yang from swimming for 8 years for breaking anti-doping rules
Koumas Debuts for Liverpool
2024 Lewis Koumas makes his first team debut for Liverpool and scores his first senior goal against Southampton in the FA Cup fifth round
