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2013 Event - An NBA league committee recommends NBA owners reject the big from a group led by Chris Hansen and Steve Ballmer to purchase the Sacramento Kings and move them to Seattle

2013 Event - Ray Lewis, U.S. football linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League, announces plans for retirement at the end of the season

2012 Event - Burmese President Thein Sein and National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi meet U.S. President Barack Obama, the country's first visit from a sitting U.S. President

2012 Event - The expiration of a collective bargaining agreement causes the National Hockey League player lock out

2012 Event - Leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, is sworn in as a member of Pyithu Hluttaw, Burma's lower house of the parliament

2011 Event - Drew Brees, quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, sets a new National Football League record for yards passing in a season

2011 Event - The Arab League agrees to impose sanctions on Syria due to the nation's continued violent uprising; Syria says the move is 'unprecedented'

2011 Event - In Major League Baseball's World Series, the St. Louis Cardinals win Game 1 against the Texas Rangers

2011 Event - In Game 5 of the American League Division Series, the Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees, moving on to play the Texas Rangers

2011 Event - The U.S. National Football League ratifies a new collective bargaining agreement which includes provisions for human growth hormone tests

2011 Event - Major League Baseball history is made when Derek Jeeter of the New York Yankees makes a home run off of the Tampa Bay Rays, becoming the 28th member of the 3,000 hit club

2010 Event - The New York Yankees beat the Minnesota Twins, progressing to Major League Baseball's 2010 American League Championship Series

2010 Event - Foreign ministers of the Arab League meet in Cairo and agree to ask the U.N. Security Council to force Israel to end its blockade of Gaza

2004 Death - Lynn Cartwright, actress, A League of Their Own, dies at 76

1998 Event - World League of American Football becomes NFL East

1997 Event - NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer as 1st women to officiate a major-league all-male sports league

1997 Event - ABL players allowed to own stock in the league

1997 Event - Major league revenue sharing begins, New York Yankees pay out most $28M

1997 Event - Major League Soccer announces Miami and Chicago expansion

1997 Event - Major League Baseball announces 5 year, $50M deal with Pepsi

1996 Event - Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts

1996 Death - George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur, dies at 81

1996 Death - Edward Digby Baltzell, Ivy League sociologist, dies at 80

1996 Event - Sunday League game Kent 6-314 overhaul Leicestershire's 4-311

1994 Death - Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby League Player, dies at 83

1994 Event - Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike

1994 Death - Charles "Chub" Feeney, baseball President (National League), dies at 72

1993 Event - Long Beach, California beats Panama for little league world championship

1992 Death - Bernice Gera, 1st female basball ump (1969 NY-Penn League) dies at 61

1992 Event - NFL decides to suspend World League Football

1992 Event - U.S. Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons

1992 Event - Colorado Rockies 1st minor league team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game

1992 Death - Carl Stotz, founder (baseball's little league), dies at 82

1992 Event - Professional Spring Football League begins

1992 Event - West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game

1992 Death - Mahmoud Riad, Secretary-General of Arab League (1972-79), dies

1992 Death - Muhammad Abd al-Khaliq Hassuna, Secretary-General of Arab League (1952-72), dies

1991 Event - Dallas Mavericks Roy Tarpley becomes 7th to be banned from NBA for life under the league's anti-drug agreement

1991 Event - Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0

1991 Event - Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league home run since 1983

1991 Event - Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start

1991 Event - Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league home run

1991 Event - Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed

1991 Event - New York Yankee Steve Howe records his 1st major league save since 1987

1991 Event - San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship

1991 Event - Major league umpires and baseball reach a 4-year agreement

1991 Event - Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use

1991 Event - 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 and Mont beats Birmingham 20-5

1991 Event - End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft

1990 Death - Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58

1990 Event - George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades

1990 Event - Nolan Ryan becomes 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games

1990 Event - Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game

1990 Event - National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards

1989 Event - Trumbull Conn, is 1st U.S. team since 1983 to win Little League WS

1989 Event - U.S. Basketball League cancels its summer schedule

1989 Event - Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St. Louis

1988 Event - San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings

1988 Death - Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92

1987 Event - 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins

1987 Event - Calif's Bob Boone catches record 1,919th major league game

1987 Event - Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls

1987 Event - Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season and ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8)

1987 Event - Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn

1986 Event - A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League

1986 Event - Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a home run on 1st major league pitch he sees

1986 Event - San Diego Padre Jimmy Jones pitchs 1-hitter in his major league debut

1986 Event - A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run

1985 Event - Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals win their league championships

1985 Event - Major League Baseball Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)

1984 Death - Joe Cronin, shortstop and American League President, dies at 77

1983 Event - U.S. Football League begins its 1st season

1983 Event - U.S. Football League holds its 1st player draft

1982 Event - U.S. Football League forms

1981 Event - Vernon Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League

1981 Event - Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))

1981 Event - 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends

1980 Event - Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan, Jr. National Urban League president

1979 Birthday - James Allen, born in Portland, Oregon, James Deshaune Allen, football player, linebacker, played for National Football League, attended Oregon State University, chosen 82nd overall in 2002 NFL Draft by the New Orleans Saints, now a free agent

1979 Event - J. R. Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome

1978 Event - 1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does

1978 Event - Major Indoor Soccer League holds its 1st draft

1978 Event - Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati,

1978 Death - Lyman Bostock, professional baseball player, outfielder, Minnesota Twins and California Angels Major League Baseball teams, dies in Gary, Indiana, at age 27, murdered by Leonard Smith

1978 Event - Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans

1978 Event - 1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, New Jersey, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota and Dayton

1978 Event - Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced

1977 Event - Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (New York City)

1977 Birthday - Shaun Alexander, born in Florence, Kentucky, football, running back, played college football at University of Alabama, drafted by Seattle Seahawks, placed 19th overall in 2000 National Football League Draft

1977 Event - N.Y. Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland, Oregon, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship

1975 Event - World Football League disbands

1975 Event - World Football League folds

1974 Event - 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida

1974 Event - Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut

1974 Event - World Football League plays 1st games

1974 Event - World Football League founded

1974 Birthday - Juan Roque, born in San Diego, California, professional football player, offensive tackle, played for the National Football League's Detroit Lions

1973 Event - World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit)

1973 Event - NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle and Vancouver franchises

1973 Event - Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine

1973 Event - New Jersey becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league

1973 Event - Hank Aaron sets record of most home runs in 1 league (709)

1973 Event - Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's "no girls" rule

1973 Event - Kansas City Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit

1973 Event - Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh

1973 Event - American League adopts designated hitter rule

1972 Event - Record 8 shutouts pitched in 16 major league games (AL=5, NL=3)

1972 Event - Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike

1971 Birthday - Paul Newlove, born in Pontrefract, England, professional rugby league soccer player, played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s

1971 Event - Vernon E Jordan, Jr., appointed executive director of National Urban League

1971 Death - Whitney M Young, Jr., leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49

1971 Death - Whitney Young, Jr., National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria

1970 Event - North American Soccer League awards New York and Toronto franchises

1970 Birthday - Peta Wilson, born in Sydney, Australia, model, actress, appeared in films, 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' and 'Superman Returns'

1970 Birthday - Alan Shearer, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, professional soccer player, striker, record goal scorer for Newcastle and Premier League, philanthropist

1970 Birthday - Carl Everett, born in Tampa, Florida, baseball player, outfielder, played for Florida Marlins, Major League Baseball team, played for New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, Seattle Mariners, Houston Astros, Montreal Expos, 2005 World Series Champion

1970 Event - Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League

1969 Event - Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game

1969 Event - 1st major league baseball game outside U.S. played (Montreal Canada)

1969 Event - Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals

1968 Event - AL and NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires

1968 Event - Satchel Paige, 62, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves

1968 Event - Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his 1st major league game (Giants)

1968 Event - NL awards Montreal and SD major league franchises

1968 Death - Frederik M baron van Asbeck, lawyer (League of Nations), dies at 78

1967 Event - United Soccer Association and National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL

1967 Event - AL votes to allow Athletics to move from Kansas City to Oakland and expand league to 12 teams in 1971 with Kansas City and Seattle teams

1967 Birthday - John Doherty, born in the Bronx, New York, John Harold Doherty, pitcher, played for Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball teams

1967 Birthday - Rick Wilkins, born in Jacksonville, Florida, Richard Wilkins, baseball player, catcher, played Major League teams San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, also played for Houston Astros, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, Seattle Mariners, New York Mets

1966 Event - Miami beats St. Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball

1966 Event - Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire

1966 Birthday - Stephen Mailer, born in New York City, actor, Red Meat, League of Their Own, War and Love

1965 Event - Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season

1965 Event - Continental Football League plays 1st games

1965 Event - Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)

1965 Birthday - Beau Allred, born in Mesa, Arizona, Dale Le Beau Allred, baseball player, outfielder, played for the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball team for three seasons from 1989 - 1991

1964 Event - American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded

1964 Event - Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)

1964 Birthday - Joe Magrane, born in Des Moines, Iowa, Joseph David Magrane, baseball player, pitcher, MLB Network broadcaster, played for Major League Baseball teams, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, California Angels, NBC sports analyst at 2008 Summer Olympics

1964 Birthday - Steve Searcy, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, William Steven Searcy, baseball player, pitcher, played for Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, Major League Baseball teams from 1998 - 1992

1964 Event - Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0

1964 Birthday - Paul Parker, born in West Ham, London, athlete, soccer player, commentator, critical player at 1990 World Cup with England, manager, Blue Square Premier League

1964 Birthday - John Gallagher, rugby league player

1963 Event - Major league baseballs 100,000th game

1963 Birthday - Jeff Musselman, born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, professional baseball player, pitcher, played for the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets Major League Baseball teams

1963 Event - Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit

1963 Event - Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone

1962 Event - American Basketball League announces suspension of operation

1962 Birthday - Chuck Finley, born in Monroe, Louisiana, pitcher, Major League Baseball, played for California Angels, won more than 15 games six times between 1986 and 1999

1962 Birthday - Joanne Catherall, Sheffield England, rock vocalist, Human League

1962 Event - Algeria becomes member of Arab League

1962 Birthday - Darnell Coles, born in San Bernardino, California, professional baseball player, third baseman, outfielder, played for The Detroit Tigers, Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball Teams

1962 Birthday - Joey Meyer, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, professional baseball player, played for Milwaukee Brewers Major League Baseball team

1962 Event - 1st major league game in Houston, Colt .45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2

1962 Birthday - Rosie O'Donnell, comedienne, League of Their Own, Flintstones, Rosie

1961 Event - American Basketball League starts play

1961 Event - Whitney Young, Jr. named executive director of National Urban League

1961 Birthday - Gary Varsho, born in Marshfield, Wisconsin, Gary Andrew Varsho, baseball player, outfielder, played for Major League Baseball teams, the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, played in 1991 and 1992 National League Championship Series

1961 Birthday - Ellery Hanley, born in Leeds, England, rugby league player, honored by the Queen in January, 1990, for his services to the game

1960 Event - Washington Senators joins American League

1960 Event - AL admits LA and Washington to the league

1960 Event - NL votes to admit Houston and New York to league

1960 Birthday - Curt Ford, born in Jackson, Mississippi, professional baseball player, played for the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies Major League Baseball teams

1960 Event - 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10)

1960 Event - Fidel Castro ends Havana's International League team, Sugar Kings move to New Jersey

1960 Birthday - Mike Fitzgerald, born in Long Beach, California, professional baseball player, catcher, played for the New York Mets, Montreal Expos, California Angels Major League Baseball Teams, 1983 - 1992

1960 Birthday - Barry Lyons, born in Biloxi, Mississippi, Barry Stephen Lyons, baseball player, catcher, played for Major League Baseball teams, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, served as backup catcher to Gary Carter, named Most Valuable Player, South Atlantic League, 1984

1960 Birthday - Steve Lyons, born in Tacoma, Washington, Stephen John Lyons, nicknamed 'Psycho', baseball player, outfielder, third baseman, television sportscaster, played with Boston Red Sox, Major League Baseball team, known for oddities, such as playing hangman and tic-tac-toe with his spikes

1960 Event - Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating

1959 Event - Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Ft. Worth

1959 Event - 10 nation soccer league to play all games on New York Randalls Is, announced

1959 Event - Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League

1959 Event - Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be President of Continental League

1959 Event - New Continental baseball league formed

1959 Event - In his major league debut, San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4

1959 Event - 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area

1959 Event - Phils' Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit

1958 Birthday - Carlos Carson, born in Lake Worth, Florida, football player, wide receiver, played in ten National Football League seasons, from 1980 to 1989, all time Pro Bowl NFL player

1958 Event - New York City Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball called the Continental League

1958 Event - Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years

1958 Event - Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)

1958 Birthday - Dickie Thon, born in South Bend, Indiana, Richard William 'Dickie' Thon, baseball player, shortstop, played for Major League Baseball teams California Angels, Milwaukee Brewers, suffered Mike Torrez fastball facial injury, Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Famer, 2003

1958 Event - Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits

1958 Birthday - Bill Dawley, born in Norwich, Connecticut, baseball player, pitcher, played Major League Baseball with the Houston Astros, Chicago Whitesox, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Oakland Athletics

1958 Event - Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League

1957 Event - CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on

1957 Birthday - J. C. Watts, born in Eufaula, Oklahoma, politician, U.S. House of Representatives, Oklahoma's 4th district, formerly a football player playing for the Canadian Football League

1957 Event - SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game

1957 Birthday - Jon Lovitz, Tarzana California, actor, SNL, League of their Own, Critic

1957 Event - Dodgers (Ft. Worth) and Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises

1957 Birthday - Carney Lansford, born in San Jose, California, Major League Baseball player, third baseman, played for California Angels, Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics 1978 - 1992

1956 Event - Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th home run

1956 Event - Curt Robert of Columbus (International League) hits 4 home runs in 7 inning game

1956 Birthday - Bill Caudill, born in Santa Monica, California, nickname 'Cuffs', baseball player, pitcher, played for American and National League teams, including, Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners

1956 Birthday - Lance Parrish, born in Clairton, Pennsylvania, professional baseball player, catcher, played for many Major League Baseball teams, won All-Star eight times, won Silver Slugger award six times

1956 Birthday - Geena Davis, born in Wareham, Massachusetts, actress, film producer, appeared in 'The Accidental Tourist', 'Thelma and Louise', 'A League of Their Own'

1956 Event - Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group

1955 Event - Dominican League moves to winter baseball for 1st time

1955 Birthday - Phillip Oakey, rocker, Human League

1955 Birthday - Tim Young, born in Ontario, Canada, athlete, former professional ice hockey center in the National Hockey League

1955 Birthday - Charlie Puleo, born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Major League Baseball player, pitcher, played for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Red and Atlanta Braves 1981 - 1989

1955 Birthday - Damaso Garcia, born in Moca, Dominican Republic, Major League Baseball player, played for the New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays and Montreal Expos 1978 - 1989

1954 Birthday - Bill Pullman, actor, Sommersby, League of their Own, Independence Day

1954 Event - Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Philadelphia syndicate

1954 Event - Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls

1954 Birthday - Sammy McIlroy, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, soccer player, athlete, played for Manchester United, manages Morecambe Football Club, in Football League Two, the fourth division of English football

1954 Event - 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)

1954 Event - Major League Baseball Players Association founded

1953 Event - Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated St. Louis Browns

1953 Event - Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws

1953 Event - Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league home run

1953 Event - 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2

1953 Birthday - Ron Jackson, born in Birmingham, Alabama, professional baseball player, played Major League Baseball, hitting coach for Boston Red Sox, 2003 - 2006

1953 Event - Brown's Bobo Holloman 1st major league start, no-hits Philadelphia A's, 6-0

1953 Event - Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League

1953 Event - Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St. Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee

1953 Birthday - Robert Brazile, born in Mobile, Alabama, football player, linebacker, played for National Football League's Houston Oilers and Kansas City Chiefs, nicknamed 'Dr. Doom', named 1975's NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year

1953 Death - Alexander Loudon, Dutch diplomat (League of Nations), dies at 60

1952 Event - Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance

1952 Event - New York Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yankees a 5-1 win at Washington He has now home runs in all 15 major league parks

1952 Event - Arab League security pact goes into effect

1952 Event - Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid

1952 Birthday - Gary Bettman, born in Queens, New York City, commissioner, National Hockey League, formerly, general counsel and president, National Basketball Association

1952 Birthday - Mike Varty, born in Detroit, Michigan, athlete, American football linebacker for the National Football League

1951 Death - Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General League of Nations (1919-33), dies at 75

1951 Event - Former Cubs 1st baseman and future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft

1951 Event - Lefty O'Doul's all-stars, including Joe DiMaggio and Billy Martin, lose 3-1 to Pacific League all-star team (Japan)

1951 Event - Ford Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League

1951 Event - Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run

1951 Event - New York Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5)

1951 Event - Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning

1951 Birthday - Benny Ayala, born in Yauco, Puerto Rico, Benigno Ayala Felix, Major League Baseball player, played outfield, first base, designated hitter for New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals

1951 Event - Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter

1950 Birthday - Margaret Whitton, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actress, Good and Evil, Major League

1950 Birthday - Lyman Bostock, professional baseball player, outfielder, Minnesota Twins and California Angels Major League Baseball teams

1950 Event - Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey, Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League

1950 Event - 1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons)

1950 Event - 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5)

1950 Event - Baltimore's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League

1950 Birthday - Vic Harris, born in Los Angeles, California, baseball player, second baseman for Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers, Major League Baseball teams

1950 Event - 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name

1950 Birthday - Clarence Ellis, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, football player, safety, played with National Football League's Atlanta Falcons, drafted in first round of 1972 NFL Draft

1950 Birthday - Burt Hooton, born in Greenville, Texas, Burt Carlton Hooton, baseball player, nicknamed 'Happy', right-handed starting pitcher for Major League Baseball teams Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers

1949 Event - American Contract Bridge League votes 58 % to keep blacks out

1949 Birthday - Steve Busby, born in Burbank, California, baseball player, sportscaster, starting pitcher, played for Major League Baseball team Kansas City Royals

1949 Event - Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit

1949 Event - Basketball Assoc of America and National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association

1949 Birthday - Jean Potvin, born in Ottawa, Ontario, hockey player, National Hockey League, played defenseman for the Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars, Philadelphia Flyers

1949 Birthday - Joe Lavender, born in Rayville, Louisiana, football cornerback, played for National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins

1948 Event - Mexican Baseball league disbanded

1948 Event - Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game

1948 Event - Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem

1947 Event - Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected

1947 Event - 1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport Pennsylvania win

1947 Event - Cleveland Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stad

1947 Event - Jackie Robinson bunts for his 1st major league hit

1947 Event - Jackie Robinson goes hitless in his major league debut

1947 Event - Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers)

1946 Event - Indians play their final game in League Park, ending a 55-year stay

1946 Event - Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game

1946 Event - 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash

1946 Event - League of Nations dissolves, 3 months after United Nations starts

1946 Event - League of Nations assembles for last time

1946 Event - Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses

1946 Event - Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League

1945 Event - Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt

1945 Event - Arab League froms (Cairo)

1945 Birthday - Bill Bergey, born in South Dayton, New York, American collegiate and professional football player, played for American Football League's Cincinnati Bengals and NFL Philadelphia Eagles

1944 Birthday - Rodney Marsh, born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, athlete, footballer, striker, player for Manchester City, Queens Park Rangers, Tampa Bay Rowdies, coached the New York United team in the American Soccer League

1944 Event - U.S. 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall

1944 Event - Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore

1944 Event - Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cincinnati Reds is youngest player in major league

1943 Event - Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II

1943 Event - Phil Wrigley and B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League

1942 Event - Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of New York Giants minor league system

1941 Event - Cards' Stan Musial makes his major league debut, going 2-for-4

1941 Event - Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder

1940 Event - 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)

1940 Birthday - Ed Garvey, labor leader, Major League Baseball Players Association

1940 Event - All-India-Moslem League calls for a Moslem homeland

1939 Event - 1st major league baseball telecast-Reds beat Brooklyn Dodgers (W2XBS New York)

1939 Event - 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)

1939 Event - Hungary leaves League of Nations

1938 Event - League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor against China

1938 Event - Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game

1937 Event - Italy withdraws from League of Nations

1937 Event - 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0)

1936 Event - 1st baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game

1936 Event - Indians' Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief

1936 Event - League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy

1936 Event - Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy

1935 Event - League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia

1935 Birthday - Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr., civil rights activist, National Urban League

1935 Event - 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1)

1934 Event - Ford Frick becomes president of baseball's National League

1934 Event - New York Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco Seals (Pacific Coast League)

1934 Event - Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president

1934 Event - U.S.S.R. admitted to League of Nations

1934 Event - U.S.S.R. joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switzerland and Portugal vote no)

1934 Birthday - Gary Davidson, U.S. sports league founder, ABA, WHA, WFL

1934 Event - Pittsburgh is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday

1933 Event - Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations

1933 Event - Joe Dimaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League

1933 Event - 1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair

1933 Event - 1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell)

1933 Event - Japan leaves League of Nations

1933 Event - League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria

1932 Event - Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations

1932 Event - Dodger John Quinn, 49, is oldest pitcher to win a major league game

1931 Event - Round-robin playoff among New York City's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants and Yankees

1931 Birthday - Jim Frey, born in Cleveland, Ohio, manager, coach, Major League Baseball teams, Kansas City Royals, New York Mets, Chicago Cubs

1931 Death - Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67

1931 Event - National League adopts a deader baseball

1931 Event - 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League

1930 Event - Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hits major league's last recorded bounce home run

1930 Event - Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights

1930 Event - 123 runs are scored in 7 major league games

1929 Event - 1st U.S. nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, New York City)

1928 Event - Eastern Soccer League forms in U.S.

1928 Event - Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils

1927 Event - Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park)

1927 Event - U.S. government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty

1926 Birthday - Bowie Kuhn, born in Maryland, lawyer, sports administrator, fifth commissioner of Major League Baseball

1926 Event - Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining

1926 Event - Germany joins League of Nations

1926 Event - League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany

1926 Event - Brazil leaves League of Nations

1926 Event - Spain and Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations

1926 Event - German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership

1925 Event - League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied

1925 Event - League of Nations conference on arms control and poison gas usage

1924 Event - Aggrement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years

1924 Event - League of Nations approves protocols of Geneva

1924 Event - Santo Domingo joins League of Nations

1923 Event - Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations

1923 Event - Irish Free state joins League of Nations

1923 Event - League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)

1922 Event - Hungary admitted to League of Nations

1922 Event - Togo made a mandate of League of Nations

1922 Event - American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League"

1921 Event - National Birth Control League and Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League

1921 Event - League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians

1921 Event - Estonia and Lithuania admitted to League of Nations

1921 Birthday - Whitney M. Young, Jr., civil rights leader, head of Urban League

1921 Event - American Soccer League forms

1921 Event - Liberal Freedom League forms in The Hague

1920 Event - British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru

1920 Event - Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands

1920 Event - South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa

1920 Event - League of nations establishes International Court of Justice in The Hague

1920 Event - Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection

1920 Event - League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva

1920 Event - American Pro Football League's Chicago Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards

1920 Event - League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva

1920 Event - National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Professional Football Association

1920 Event - Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League

1920 Event - Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yankees' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality

1920 Event - China joins the League of Nations

1920 Event - League of Nations places International head of Justice in Hague

1920 Event - U.S. Senate votes against membership in League of Nations

1920 Event - U.S. Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy)

1920 Event - Denmark and Cuba join the League of Nations

1920 Event - Netherlands joins League of Nations

1920 Event - League of Women Voters forms in Chicago

1920 Event - League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland

1920 Event - Switzerland rejoin League of Nations

1920 Event - Saarland administrated by League of Nations

1920 Event - 1st assembly of League of Nations in Paris

1920 Event - League of Nations established

1919 Event - U.S. Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations

1919 Event - Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball

1919 Event - Fastest major league game (51 minutes), Giants beat Phillies 6-1

1919 Event - Babe Ruth's 29th home run is 1st of year in Washington (1st in every park in league in one season)

1919 Event - Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 home runs

1919 Event - Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)

1919 Event - Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois

1919 Event - Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game

1919 Event - League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty

1919 Event - League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)

1919 Birthday - Jackie Robinson, born in Georgia, 1st black major league baseball player, Dodgers

1919 Event - Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later

1918 Event - John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League

1918 Birthday - Phil Rizzuto, born in Brooklyn, New York, Major League Baseball player, shortstop for the New York Yankees

1918 Event - National Urban League forms

1918 Event - Save the Redwoods League founded

1917 Birthday - John Stokes, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, member of the Conservative Monday Club, Primrose League

1915 Event - Federal Baseball League disolved

1915 Event - Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati

1915 Birthday - Edward Digby Baltzell, Ivy League sociologist

1915 Event - St. Louis Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago (Federal League), 3-0

1915 Event - KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0

1915 Event - League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia

1915 Event - Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pittsburgh (Federal League), 10-0

1915 Event - Pittsburghs' Frank Allen no-hits St. Louis (Federal League), 2-0

1915 Birthday - George Brian Snape, businessman and rugby league entrepreneur

1914 Event - Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court

1914 Event - Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits Kansas City (Federal League), 6-2

1914 Event - 1st Federal League Game: Baltimore Terrapins beat Buffalo 3-2

1913 Event - John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League

1913 Event - St. Louis Browns manager George Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League

1913 Event - Federal League organizes with 6 teams

1911 Event - Cy Young's farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game

1911 Event - Cleve's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3

1911 Birthday - Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby league player

1910 Event - Cleveland Naps play 1st game at League Park, lose to Detroit Tigers 5-0

1909 Event - Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League

1909 Event - John A. Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League

1909 Event - 1st pro baseball game, minor league, played under lights

1908 Event - Caledonia and Hillhurst Football Clubs play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League championship

1907 Birthday - Ralph F. Marston, born in Malden, Massachusetts, Ralph Fulsom Marston, professional football player, played with National Football League's Boston Bulldogs, 1929

1905 Event - Cubs Jack McCarthy becomes only major league player to throw out 3 runners at plate in 1 game, all were ends of a double play

1904 Event - Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League)

1903 Event - Netherlands Korfball League forms

1902 Event - Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League

1902 Event - Minor League's most lopsided baseball game: Corsicana 51; Texarkana 3 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Texas minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game

1901 Event - Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League

1901 Event - Erve Beck hits American League's 1st home run

1901 Event - 1st games played in baseball's American League

1900 Event - Baltimore Orioles (now New York Yankees) enter baseball's American League

1900 Event - 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids)

1900 Event - American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee and Minneapolis

1896 Birthday - Warren Giles, baseball's National League president

1895 Event - Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, D.C.

1895 Birthday - Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, 1925-32

1892 Event - Dr. Jose Rizal forms League Filipina

1891 Event - Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3

1890 Event - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Red-Headed League"

1890 Event - National Afro-American League forms in Chicago

1889 Event - Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball's NL

1889 Event - Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League

1889 Birthday - Frederik M baron of Asbeck, Dutch lawyer, League of Nations

1888 Event - English Football League established

1887 Event - 1st minor league baseball association organizes in Pittsburgh

1884 Event - Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league

1880 Event - John Lee Richmond pitches 1st major league perfect game, Worcester 1, Cleveland's Forest City 0

1880 Event - League of American Wheelmen (1st U.S. bicycle association), forms in Newport, Rhode Island

1880 Event - National Croquet League organizes in Philadelphia

1879 Event - Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill

1877 Event - International Association (minor baseball league) organizes

1876 Birthday - Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations, 1919 - 1933

1876 Event - Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League

1876 Event - Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis

1874 Event - White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms

1871 Event - 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft. Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double

1870 Birthday - Thomas Connolly, baseball's major league umpire for 50 years

1870 Birthday - Jan Christian Smuts, proponnent of Commonwealth and League of Nations

1869 Birthday - Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor, Rotterdam 1906 - 1922, Dir, League of Nations

1865 Death - Richard Cobden, founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60

1864 Birthday - Lord Cecil of Chelwood, UK, help form League of Nations, Nobel 1937

1864 Birthday - Ban Johnson, Norwalk, Connecticut, baseball founder, American League

1859 Birthday - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder, League of Women Voters

1840 Birthday - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer, Irish Land League

1838 Event - Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law

1838 Event - Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden

1804 Birthday - Richard Cobden, West Sussex, founder, Anti-Corn-Law League

1689 Event - England and Netherlands form League of Augsburg

1688 Event - Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg

1686 Event - Germany, Sweden and Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg

1626 Event - Battle at Lutter: Catholic League beats Danish king Christian IV

1609 Event - Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League

1596 Event - Catholic League disjoins

1590 Event - Battle at Ivry: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League

1590 Event - Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League

1589 Event - Battle at Arques: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League

1588 Death - Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37

1588 Event - French king Henri III accept demands of Catholic League

1588 Event - Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris

1587 Event - Battle at Coultras: Henri van Navarra beats Catholic League

1585 Event - Spain and Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville

1573 Birthday - Maximilian I, duke/ruler of Bayern, Catholic League

1571 Event - Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain and Italy) destroys Turkish fleet

1571 Event - Venice, Spain and Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League

1563 Event - League of High Nobles routes King Philip II

1563 Event - League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II

1552 Event - Privileges of Hanseatic League in England are abrogated

1550 Birthday - Henri Guise [le Balafre], French duke/leader, Catholic League

1547 Event - Charles demands creation of Imperial League (German state)

1538 Event - Catholic German monarchy signs League of Neurenberg

1526 Event - Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence and Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac

1526 Event - German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldische League

1526 Event - Saxony and Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)

1511 Event - England signs on to the Saint League

1511 Event - Eedgenootschap signs anti-French Saint League

1508 Event - League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)

1495 Event - Battle at Fornovo, French king Charles VIII beats St. League

1495 Event - Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella and Venice sign anti-French Saint League

1367 Event - League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV

1291 Event - Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)

1176 Event - Battle at Legnano: Lombardi League beats Frederik Barbarossa

1167 Event - Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League

1167 Event - Lombard League defeat Frederick Barbarossa at Battle of Legnano













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