1984 in Sport (Part 3)

Events in Sport

Events 201 - 296 of 296

• Aug 11 A British 1-2 in the 1,500m at the Los Angeles Olympics with Sebastian Coe edging team mate Steve Cram to become the only man to successfully defend his Olympic 1,500m title
• Aug 11 Future 4-weight world boxing champion Pernell Whitaker wins the lightweight gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics

• Aug 11 Ian Ferguson of New Zealand wins his 3rd canoeing gold medal of the LA Olympics taking out the K-4 1000 a day after victories in the K-1 500 & K-2 500
• Aug 12 Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls & 19 ejections
• Aug 12 Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, & Luis Aparicio are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY
• Aug 12 Carlos Lopes of Portugal wins the men's marathon at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2:09:21, an Olympic record that stands for 24 years
• Aug 16 Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500)

• Aug 22 Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200

• Aug 26 Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record)
• Aug 30 Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
• Aug 31 Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

• Sep 1 Middlesex beats Kent off the last ball of the Nat West Trophy cricket final in London; John Emburey hits Kent seamer Richard Ellison to square leg for 4 for the winning runs


• Sep 3 St. Louis Cardinals closer Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th in 7-3 win v NY Mets

• Sep 12 NY Met Dwight Gooden sets rookie strike out record at 251

• Sep 20 Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time

• Sep 24 Cubs clinch NL East title

• Sep 26 5,251 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
• Sep 28 Cleveland Indians down 0-10 to Minnesota Twins, win 11-10
• Sep 30 California Angels Michael Witt is 11th to pitch a perfect baseball game
• Sep 30 Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner
• Sep 30 California Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0
• Sep 30 NY Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg

• Oct 2 Due to a strike by MLB umpires, first 4 NLCS games played with replacement umpires; Game 1: Chicago Cubs beat SD Padres, 13-0
• Oct 7 Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, San Diego Padres win pennant

• Oct 7 MLB National League Championship: San Diego Padres beat Chicago Cubs, 3 games to 2
• Oct 13 Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders
• Oct 13 John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million
• Oct 14 Detroit Tigers beat San Diego Padres, 4 games to 1 in 81st World Series

• Oct 21 Cleveland Browns' Steve Cox sets club record with a 60-yd field goal
• Oct 21 Austrian Ferrari driver Niki Lauda becomes a 3-time Formula 1 World Drivers champion when he finishes 2nd in the season ending Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril; wins title by just 0.5 from Alain Prost
• Oct 21 Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05
• Oct 22 NFL quarterback Ken Stabler retires
• Oct 23 Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young
• Oct 28 14th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30
• Oct 28 15th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53
• Oct 29 Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) & Greta Weitz (2:29:30) win NY Marathon
• Nov 1 First NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - LA Clippers beat NY Knicks, 107-105
• Nov 8 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test
• Nov 9 1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B v N Tvl B

• Nov 9 Most shots in a NY Islander game (88 - Isles 45, NY Rangers 43)
• Nov 10 Australia all out for 76 v West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21
• Nov 10 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Hollywood Park; winners: Chief's Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again
• Nov 16 Houston blocks 20 Denver shots tying NBA regulation game record

• Nov 17 Golden State Warrior scores 59 points losing to NJ Nets 124-110
• Nov 17 Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers
• Nov 18 CFL Grey Cup, Commonwelth Stadium, Edmonton: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 47-17; Winnipeg scores final 44 points of the game
• Nov 18 Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders
• Nov 18 NJ Devils shutout NY Rangers 6-0
• Nov 18 34th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Terry Labonte wins
• Nov 19 NY Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year
• Nov 20 Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden wins NL Rookie of Year
• Nov 23 Limited-over international cricket debut for Wasim Akram for Pakistan, v New Zealand
• Nov 23 Test Cricket debuts of Australians David Boon aged 23 & Bob Holland aged 38 (v WI)

• Nov 26 John W Mercom Jr announces New Orleans Saints are up for sale for $75 million
• Nov 26 Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain
• Nov 29 Javed Miandad completes twin Test Cricket tons, v NZ, Hyderabad
• Dec 1 50th Heisman Trophy Award: Doug Flutie, Boston College (QB)
• Dec 1 American boxer Greg Page KOs home town favourite Gerrie Coetzee in 8th round to win WBA heavyweight title in Sun City, South Africa
• Dec 1 49th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 17-15 in Birmingham

• Dec 2 Australian Test cricket spin bowler Bob Holland takes a career best 9-83 for NSW in the Sheffield Shield match against South Australia in Sydney

• Dec 5 Yankees trade catcher Rick Cerone to Braves for pitcher Brian Fisher
• Dec 6 Helena Suková snaps Martina Navratilova's 74-match winning streak 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the semi finals of the Australian Open in Melbourne; ends Navratilova's hopes of completing the Grand Slam
• Dec 7 Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide)
• Dec 8 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Chris Evert-Lloyd beats Helena Suková 6-7, 6-1, 6-3; continues streak of winning at least 1 major per year since 1973
• Dec 9 LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,105 yards

• Dec 18 73rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats USA in Gothenburg (4-1)

• Dec 22 Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, v WI at the MCG
• Dec 23 Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG
• Dec 25 Ballon d'Or: Juventus' French midfielder Michel Platini is named Europe's best football player for the 2nd consecutive time; beats Bordeaux midfielder Jean Tigana and Verona striker Preben Elkjær
• Dec 27 Padres' free agent pitcher Ed Whitson signs with NY Yankees
• Dec 29 Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
• Dec 29 Wayne Gretzky scores his NHL career 32nd hat trick & adds 3 assists in Edmonton's 6-3 win over Detroit Red Wings for his 100th point in just 35 games; 2nd fastest in history - recorded 100 points in 34 games in 1983
• Dec 31 Test Cricket debut of Mohammad Azharuddin, v England at Calcutta

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Birthdays in Sport

Birthdays 201 - 278 of 278

• Sep 18 Anthony Gonzalez, American football player
• Sep 21 Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner, American swimmer
• Sep 22 Thiago Emiliano da Silva, Brazilian football player (Paris Saint-Germain, Brazil national team), born in Rio de Janeiro
• Sep 23 Matt Kemp, American baseball player
• Sep 25 Matt Carle, American ice hockey player
• Sep 27 John Lannan, American baseball player
• Sep 28 Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
• Sep 29 Per Mertesacker, German football player
• Oct 1 Matt Cain, American baseball player
• Oct 1 Daniel Guillén, Spanish footballer
• Oct 2 Marion Bartoli, French tennis player (Wimbledon 2013), born in Haute-Loire, France
• Oct 4 Álvaro Parente, Portuguese racing driver
• Oct 5 Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer
• Oct 7 Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
• Oct 10 Paul Posluszny, American football player, born in Butler, Pennsylvania
• Oct 10 Troy Tulowitzki, American baseball player (Colorado Rockies), born in Santa Clara, California
• Oct 10 Rod Benson, American basketball player, born in Fairfield, California
• Oct 11 Sergio Hellings, Dutch footballer (Roeselare), born in Amsterdam
• Oct 13 Frank Simek, American soccer player, born in St. Louis, Missouri
• Oct 14 LaRon Landry, American football player
• Oct 17 Jelle Klaasen, Dutch darts player
• Oct 20 Florent Sinama-Pongolle, French footballer
• Oct 20 Andrew Trimble, Northern Irish rugby player for Irish rugby team
• Oct 21 Anouk Leblanc-Boucher, French Canadian short track speed skater
• Oct 21 Kenny Cooper, American soccer forward (10 caps), born in Baltimore, Maryland
• Oct 21 Marvin Mitchell, American football player
• Oct 21 Kieran Richardson, English footballer
• Oct 26 Sasha Cohen, American figure skater, born in Los Angeles, California
• Oct 26 Jefferson Farfán, Peruvian footballer
• Oct 26 Adriano Correia Claro, Brazilian footballer
• Oct 27 Brady Quinn, American football player
• Oct 27 Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
• Oct 28 Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer
• Oct 29 Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
• Nov 3 Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing driver
• Nov 5 Nick Folk, American football player, born in Los Angeles, California
• Nov 5 Tobias Enstrom, Swedish hockey player, born in Nordingrå, Sweden
• Nov 5 Eliud Kipchoge, Kenyan long distance runner (Olympic Gold 2016), born in Kapsisiywa, Kenya
• Nov 9 Joel Zumaya, American baseball player, born in Chula Vista, California
• Nov 10 Kendrick Perkins, American basketball player
• Nov 12 Sepp De Roover, Belgian footballer, born in Geel, Belgium
• Nov 12 Conrad Rautenbach, Zimbabwean rally driver, born in Harare, Zimbabwe
• Nov 14 Lisa De Vanna, Australian female footballer
• Nov 20 Ferdinando Monfardini, Italian racing driver, born in Isola della Scala, Italy
• Nov 21 Álvaro Bautista, Spanish motorcycle racer
• Nov 26 Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
• Nov 27 Domata Peko, American football player
• Nov 28 Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
• Nov 28 Marc-Andre Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
• Nov 30 Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer
• Nov 30 Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer
• Nov 30 Francisco Sandaza, Spanish Footballer
• Dec 2 Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer (Reading F.C.)
• Dec 3 Avraam Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
• Dec 5 Chris Solinsky, American distance runner
• Dec 7 Robert Kubica, the first Polish Formula One racing driver
• Dec 7 Luca Rigoni, Italian footballer
• Dec 7 Aaron Gray, American basketball player
• Dec 8 Greg Halford, English footballer
• Dec 8 Badr Hari, Dutch kickboxer, Niall Brennan, Irish Legend.
• Dec 11 Leighton Baines, English footballer, born in Kirkby, United Kingdom
• Dec 12 Daniel Agger, Danish footballer, born in Hvidovre, Denmark
• Dec 14 Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer, born in Belfast
• Dec 14 Edward Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer, born in Kadoma, Zimbabwe
• Dec 15 Martin Skrtel Slovakian Footballer
• Dec 17 Andrew Davies, English footballer
• Dec 19 Ian Kennedy, Major League Baseball pitcher
• Dec 21 Darren Potter, Irish football player, born in Liverpool, England
• Dec 25 Chris Cahill, Australian-born Samoan footballer, born in Sydney, Australia
• Dec 25 Alastair Cook, English cricketer
• Dec 26 Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker, born in Sterzing, Italy
• Dec 27 Gilles Simon, French tennis player
• Dec 28 Martin Kaymer, German golfer (PGA C'ship 2010, US Open 2014), born in Düsseldorf, Germany
• Dec 28 Leroy Lita, Congolese football player, born in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Dec 28 Beverly Mullins, American wrestler & model, born in Clearwater, Florida
• Dec 28 Alex Lloyd, British racing driver, born in Manchester, United Kingdom
• Dec 30 Randall Azofeifa, Costa Rican footballer

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