- 1869 1st professional baseball exhibition game - Cincinnati Red Stockings 24, Cincinnati amateurs 15
- 1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) win their first game; beat Washington Senators, 7-2 at American League Park
- 1914 MLB Chicago Federals host the Kansas City Packers in the 1st game played at Weeghman Park (now Wrigley Field)
- 1919 US Major League Baseball opens a reduced 140-game season
- 1921 Charley Paddock runs a world record 100m in 10.4 seconds
Hubbell Continues Streak
1937 New York Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell's first start of season, a 3-0 win over the Boston Bees, is his 17th straight win; streak continues for league record 24 victories in a row
Williams 1st Home Run
1939 Ted Williams hits his 1st Major League home run while playing for the Boston Red Sox
- 1946 Brooklyn Dodger Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
- 1950 1st Major League Baseball day game completed under lights (Phillies 6, Braves 5)
- 1950 NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 110-95 to take series, 4 games to 2
- 1950 Stanley Cup Final, Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI: Pete Babando scores Cup-winning goal in double overtime of Game 7 as Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers, 4-3 for a 4-3 series win
Sports History
1952 Bob Cain of St. Louis Browns and Bob Feller of Cleveland Indians each pitch a one-hitter, as the home team wins 1-0 at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, Missouri
Sports History
1952 NY Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his first game in relief and hits his only home run
Sports History
1958 Gil Hodges hits his 300th home run and Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game, a double-milestone for Los Angeles Dodgers
- 1962 New York Mets win their 1st game ever, after starting the season with nine losses, beating Pirates 9-1
- 1964 Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0
1969 LA Lakers guard Jerry West scores 53 points in 120-118 NBA Finals Game 1 win over Boston Celtics at the LA Forum
- 1977 ADO Den Haag soccer team forms in The Hague, Netherlands
- 1977 Czech chess master, Vlastimil Hort, plays 201 games simultaneously; won-174, drew-17, lost-10
Sports History
1978 MLB Cincinnati Reds second baseman Joe Morgan ends record streak of 91 consecutive errorless games
- 1983 David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* v Sri Lanka
- 1985 Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's All-Nepal Football Association invitational tournament 2-0
- 1987 New Jersey Devils farm team, Maine Mariners (AHL), move to Utica New York, there known as the Utica Devils
- 1988 Greek Olympic cyclist Kanellos Kanellopoulos pedals the MIT Daedalus 88 self-powered aircraft a record 71.5 miles (115 km) from Heraklion on the island of Crete to Santorini
- 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores 10 points in his last game as a Laker in a 121-117 win over Seattle SuperSonics at the LA Forum
- 1989 NFL Draft: #1 pick UCLA quarterback Troy Aikman by Dallas Cowboys
Sports History
1989 Texas Rangers' Nolan Ryan loses a no-hitter in the 9th inning against the Toronto Blue Jays
Sports History
1991 Björn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after an 8 year lay off without practising or playing any exhibition matches
- 1991 Outstanding West Indian cricket opening batsman Gordon Greenidge scores 226 in his final Test innings at home in Bridgetown, Barbados; WI win 4th Test v Australia by 343 runs
- 2005 NFL Draft: University of Utah quarterback Alex Smith first pick by San Francisco 49ers
- 2012 38,000 London Marathon entrants have their home and email contacts published in a data protection breach
Cricket History
2013 West Indian cricketer Chris Gayle smashes the fastest century in history in just 30 balls
Sports History
2015 Kawhi Leonard is named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year for the first time
Sports History
2017 Adam Ondra sets a new highpoint for the Project indoor sport route in Stockholm, Sweden
- 2019 Southampton striker Shane Long scores fastest goal in English Premier League history when he nets after 7.69 seconds in 1-1 draw at Watford
Sports History
2020 NFL Draft: LSU quarterback Joe Burrow first pick by Cincinnati Bengals
Sports History
2023 Brooke Raboutou wins a gold medal in bouldering at the IFSC World Cup in Hachioji, Japan
- 2023 Chevron Championship Women's Golf, The Club at Carlton Woods: Lilia Vu wins her first major beating fellow American Angel Yin on the first playoff hole
- 2023 MLB Boston Red Sox outfielder Masataka Yoshida hits a solo home run and a grand slam in the eight inning in 12-5 win over the Brewers in Milwaukee
