On This Day in Sport
- 1876 Chicago Cubs 1st NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout)
- 1901 Erve Beck hits American League's 1st home run
- 1901 In last of 9th, Detroit Tigers, trailing by 13-4, score 10 runs to win one of greatest comebacks in baseball (1st game in Detroit)
- 1905 Latest day of 1st-class cricket in an Aust season (NSW v Qld)
- 1920 Magda Julin of Sweden beats teammate Svea Norén for the gold medal in women's singles figure skating at the Antwerp Olympics
- 1933 NY Yankee Russ Van Atta shuts out Washington Senators 16-0
- 1933 Philadelphia Phillies' Dick Bartell is 1st MLB player to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 innings
- 1945 British troops reach the Grebbe Line, a forward defensive line in the Netherlands
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Fred McLeod
Johan Cruyff
Christa Johnson
Adam Silver
Tim Duncan
Michael van Gerwen
John Havlicek
