1940 Detroit’s Cecil ”Tiny” Thompson becomes first goaltender in NHL history to play 40 (or more) games for 12 straight seasons; milestone comes in a
Month: February 2021
1844 6th Grand National: John Crickmere wins aboard 5/1 co-favourite Discount1849 11th Grand National: Tom Cunningham wins aboard 20/1 Peter Simple; 2nd consecutive year there
1850 12th Grand National: Chris Green wins aboard Irish outsider Abd-El-Kader; goes on to become first dual winner and first to win in consecutive years1856
1839 1st Grand National steeplechase, Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool: Jem Mason wins aboard 5/1 favourite Lottery1851 13th Grand National: Terry Abbott wins aboard Irish stallion Abd-El-Kader
1904 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games1924 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)1930 Brilliant West
1917 Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleve for $15,0001932 Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of
1874 Major Walter Clopton Winfield patents a game called ”sphairistike” (lawn tennis)1952 Following his Nordic combined gold medal in St. Moritz (1948), Heikki Hasu takes
1860 Organized baseball played in San Francisco for 1st time between the Eagles and the Red Rovers1888 âFather of American Golfâ? John Reid first demonstrates
1931 Chicago White Sox & NY Giants play 1st exhibition night game1948 NASCAR is incorporated.1951 South Carolina House of Representatives urges ”Shoeless Joe” Jackson be
1912 Argentina beats the MCC in their inaugural 1st-class cricket fixture at the Buenos Aires Cricket Club; lose the second and third games of the