1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) win their 2nd game beating Washington Senators 7-2
1919 US Major League Baseball opens a reduced 140-game season
1933 Dovo soccer team forms in Veenendaal
1940 NY Yankees dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert
1946 Brooklyn Dodger Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1950 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 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
1952 Bob Cain of Browns & Bob Feller of Cleveland Indians each pitch a one-hitter
1952 New York Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st game in relief & hits his only HR
1962 NY Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat 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
1977 ADO Den Haag soccer team forms in The Hague, Netherlands
1977 Czech chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously & only loses 10
1983 David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* v Sri Lanka
1985 Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal’s invitational
1987 NJ Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY
1989 NFL Draft: UCLA quarterback Troy Aikman first pick by Dallas Cowboys
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
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
2020 NFL Draft: LSU quarterback Joe Burrow first pick by Cincinnati Bengals
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