Events in Sport
- May 27 Fiorentina of Italy win 1st European Cup Winner's Cup against Glasgow Rangers 4-2 in Florence (2nd leg)
- Nov 6 US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith (invented game of basketball - actually Canadian)
- Nov 27 Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games
- Dec 3 Dutchman Anton Geesink becomes 1st non-Japanese judo world champion
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- Jan 28 NFL coach Mike Ditka (21) weds Marge Dougherty
- Jun 26 NFL Middle Linebacker Ray Nitschke (24) weds Jackie Forchette
- Sep 10 Baseball player Ted Williams marries model Lee Howard (divorced 1967)
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