2011 Event Over 45,000 runners participate in the New York City marathon; Geoffrey Mutai and Firehiwot Dado win the mens and women's races 1992 Event Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races 1991 Event Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races 1989 Death Tim Richmond, race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS 1989 Event 5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez) 1987 Event 1st jockey to win 9 races in 1 day (Chris Antley at Belmont) 1987 Event Angel Cordero, Jr. becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races 1983 Event Angel Cordero wins his 5,000th horse races 1977 Birthday Bode Miller, born in Easton, New Hampshire, professional alpine ski racer, won World cup races in slalom, giant slalom, Super-G, downhill and combined 1973 Event Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year 1967 Death Franz Waxman, German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60 1962 Event Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races 1962 Event Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races) 1960 Event Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races 1956 Event Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses 1954 Event U.S. Armed Forces end segregation of races 1951 Event Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races 1950 Event South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races 1950 Death L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Between the Races), dies at 78 1940 Event Bud Brennan, a fan at Memorial Stadium, races out of stands and attempts to tackle Tom Harmon at 3-yard line, Harmon easily evades Brennan 1938 Birthday Johnny Rutherford, auto racer, 26 championship races 1937 Event Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in New York 1937 Event Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA 1937 Event Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released 1930 Event Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day 1927 Event Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona 1917 Birthday Man O'War, racehorse, winner of 20 out of 21 races and $249,465 1915 Event Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, New York 1914 Event Charlie Chaplin debuts "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice" 1907 Birthday Allan Jones, Scranton, Pennsylvania, actor/singer, A Day at the Races, Showboat 1906 Birthday Franz Waxman, Konigshutte, Germany, composer, Day at the Races 1904 Birthday Gordon Richards, British jockey, winner of 4,870 races 1891 Birthday Ferdinand Bruckner, Theodor Tagger, Austrian playwright, Races 1889 Birthday Margaret Dumont, actress-Marx Brothers' foil, Day at the Races 1869 Event University of South Carolina opens to all races 1861 Birthday Isaac Murphy, U.S. jockey, won 628 races
