Events in Sport
- 1839 1st Grand National steeplechase race held at Aintree Racecourse, Jem Mason aboard Lottery wins in Liverpool, England (disputed)
- 1851 13th Grand National: T. Abbott aboard Abd-El-Kader IRE wins
- 1859 Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins
- 1887 George Lohmann took 1st 8-wkt haul in test cricket, 8-35 at SCG
- 1918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604
- 1930 West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England
Event of Interest
1967 9th Daytona 500: Mario Andretti wins (146.926 MPH)
Mario Andretti
Event of Interest
1980 Richard Hadlee scores Test Cricket century v Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft
Richard Hadlee
- 1981 84 penalties (406 mins) assessed for a brawl between NHL Minn & Bost
Event of Interest
1982 Test Cricket debut of batsman Martin Crowe, playing for New Zealand v Australia in Wellington, run out for 9
Martin Crowe
Event of Interest
1987 NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points in one game is a Chicago Bulls record
Michael Jordan
- 1987 Wash blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record
Event of Interest
1989 Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career
Tom Landry
- 1989 NY Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster
- 1989 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs
- 1991 Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons v NZ (119 & 102)
- 1991 Bill Veeck & Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- 1991 NY-NJ Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together
- 1993 Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123
- 1994 St Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1
- 1998 Steven M Gluckstern completes sale of NY Islanders
- 2006 20th Winter Olympic Games close at Turin, Italy
- 2012 61st NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 152-149 at Orlando
- 2017 59th Daytona 500: Kurt Busch in a Ford leads for just a single lap to win from Ryan Blaney
Birthdays in Sport
- 1887 Grover Cleveland Alexander, HOF baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs)
- 1908 Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)
- 1916 Ross Gregory, cricketer (Australian batsman 1936-37, died in WW II)
- 1918 Edwin Charles "Preacher" Roe, baseball pitcher (Bkln Dodgers)
- 1919 Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (3 x Olympic gold 1936), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 2003)
- 1920 A W [Rie] Kuiper-Mastenbroek, Neth, swimmer (Olympics 3 gold-1936)
- 1920 Danny Gardella, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1922 Bill Johnston, cricket pace bowler (mighty Australian lefty post-war)
- 1925 Everton Weekes, West Indian cricket player
- 1928 Everton Weekes, cricketer (one of the 3 W's)
- 1931 Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2004)
- 1934 Ron Gaunt, cricketer (Australian fast bowler late 50s early 60s)
- 1941 Keith Thomson, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests NZ v India 1968)
- 1945 Peter Brock, Australian motorsports champion (d. 2006)
- 1945 Giannis Ioannidis, Greek basketball coach and politician
- 1946 Bobby "Bingo" Smith, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
- 1955 Rupert Keegan, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, Formula One racing car driver
- 1957 Connie Carpenter-Phinney, 79k cyclist (Olympic gold 1984), born in Madison, Wisconsin
- 1957 Keena Rothhammer, American 800m freestyle swimmer (Olympic gold 1972)
- 1959 Rolando Blackman, American basketball player
- 1962 Dave Palone, American harness racing trainer, driver (US Pacing Triple Crown 1996, 2005), born in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania
- 1962 Sheila Cornell, Encino Fla, softball infielder (Olympic gold 1996)
- 1965 Donald Narcisse, CFL receiver (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
- 1965 Matt Jackson, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Payless), born in Birmingham, Michigan
- 1966 Wesley Walls, NFL tight end (Carolina Panthers, SF 49ers, New Orleans Saints)
- 1967 David Howard, infielder (KC Royals), born in Sarasota, Florida
- 1967 Roman Fortin, NFL center (Atlanta Falcons)
- 1967 Scott Service, American baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
- 1968 Brendan Rogers, CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
- 1968 Chris Green, NFL safety (Buffalo Bills)
- 1968 J T Snow, infielder (NY Yankees, California Angels), born in Long Beach, California
- 1968 Leif Rohlin, Vasteras Swe, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
- 1968 René Groen, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
- 1969 Brandon Wilson, American baseball infielder (Chicago White Sox)
- 1970 Ben Maruquin, Ventura California, field hockey sweeper (Olympics 1996)
- 1970 Radka Zrubakova, Czech, tennis star
- 1970 Sasha Danilovic, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
- 1971 Rick Lyle, defensive end/defensive tackle (NY Jets)
- 1972 Clint McDaniel, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings)
- 1972 Scott Turner, NFL cornerback/safety (Washington Redskins)
- 1973 Jenny Thompson, Danvers Mass, 400m freestyle (Olympic gold 1992, 96)
- 1973 Marshall Faulk, NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
- 1973 Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian retired footballer
- 1974 Ron Fox, soccer player (Willem II)
- 1974 Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver
- 1975 Cindy Werley, field hockey forward/midfielder (Olympics 1996), born in Allentown, Pennsylvania
- 1975 Mike Wilson, Brampton, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
- 1976 Nikolaos Siranidis, Greek diver
- 1977 Tim Thomas, NBA forward (Philadelphia 76ers)
- 1977 Josh Towers, Major League Baseball player
- 1977 Shane Williams, Welsh Rugby Player
- 1978 Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye, Senegalese footballer
- 1978 Marc Hynes, British racing driver
- 1979 Mariano Bainotti, Argentine racing driver
- 1979 Pedro Mendes, Portuguese footballer
- 1980 Gary Majewski, Major League Baseball player
- 1981 Kertus Davis, American NASCAR driver
- 1982 Katherine Hull Kirk, Australian golfer (Canadian Open 2008), born in Brisbane, Queensland
- 1984 Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese footballer
- 1986 Makelele, Brazilian footballer
Weddings in Sport
Wedding of Interest
Deaths in Sport
- 1971 Edward van der Merwe, South African cricket wicket keeper (2 Tests in 30's), dies at 67
- 1990 Leslie Ames, cricketer (47 Tests, 2434 runs 8 centuries), dies
- 1992 Gerrit Schulte, Dutch 6-day cyclist known as the "Crazy Cyclist", dies at 76
- 1992 Jean R Yawkey, owner (Boston Red Sox), dies of a stroke at 83
- 2003 Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver, dies at 74
- 2005 Ian Colquhoun, New Zealand cricket wicket keeper (NZ vs England 1954-55), dies at 80
- 2009 Norm Van Lier, Basketball player and broadcaster (b. 1947)
- 2009 Johnny Kerr, Basketball player and Chicago Bulls broadcaster (b. 1932)
Earl Lloyd
2015 Earl Lloyd, 1st African American basketball player in the NBA, dies at 86
Earl Lloyd
- 2016 Andy Bathgate, professional ice hockey player (New York Rangers, 1958 NHL MVP), dies at 83