1969 – Detroit’s Alex Delvecchio becomes the third player in NHL history to record 1,000 career points. 1970 – Joe Frazier retains his world heavyweight title with a fifth round knockout of Jimmy Ellis. 1972 – Wilt Chamberlain, then playing with the Lakers, becomes...
1932 – U.S. athlete Eddie Eagan becomes the first athlete to win gold medal at both the Summer and Winter Olympics after being part of the first place four man bobsled team. Eagan had previously won gold in boxing in the 1920 Summer games in Antwerp. 1978 – Leon...
1951 – Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta to win the middleweight title. 1966 – Wilt Chamberlain breaks the NBA scoring record with 20,884 career points. 1995 – The Portland Trailblazers trade Clyde Drexler to the Houston Rockets. 2018 – Shaun White wins his 3rd...
1920 – The National Negro Baseball League is formed. 1937 – The Boston Redskins receive permission from the NFL to move to Washington D.C. 1952 – Rocky Marciano wins his 40th straight fight with a second round knockout of Gino Buonvino. 1974 – James “Cool Papa” Bell...
1878 – Harvard’s Frederick Thayer receives and official US patent number for the invention of the catcher’s mask. 1908 – An auto race from New York to Paris (through Alaska and Siberia) begins. George Schuster wins the race, which takes him 88 days. 1909 – American...
