March 6th:

1988 - Orville Moodey shoots 63 at Seniors golf tournament.


1964 – In a radio broadcast, Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad announced that American boxer Cassius Clay would change his name to Muhammad Ali, symbolizing his new identity as a member of the religious, social and political organization.

March 16th 1872 – In the first-ever final of the FA Cup, the world's oldest football (soccer) competition, Wanderers F.C. defeated Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.

March 22nd 1888 - The Football League is formed in the UK.

April 6th 1896 – The first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens.

The Mets got rickrolled last Tuesday.

April 15th 1947 - Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.

April 22nd 1988 - Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana)

April 28th 1923 – London's Wembley Stadium, then known as Empire Stadium, was opened to the public for the first time and held the 1923 FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United football clubs.

May 6th 1954 – At Oxford's Iffley Road Track, English athlete Roger Bannister became the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.

oh, I didn't see this thread yet! I was going to create one myself, but I saw that this one had been started 2 months ago! Thanks, Philip! O0

May 6, 2005: The L.A. Dodgers scored 10 runs in the 1st inning of a game against the Reds in Cincinnati, and beat them 13-6.

May 8th 1982 - Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve dies in a crash during practice for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder.

May 8th 1898 - The first games of the Italian Football League are played.

May 9th 1914 - J.T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3000 first-class wickets.

May 10th 1970 - The Boston Bruins win their first Stanley Cup since 1941 when Bobby Orr makes an overtime winning goal followed by a leap in the air that would become one of the most famous photographs in ice hockey - ("The Goal").

May 11th 2002 - The New England Patriots open their brand new stadium, Gillette Stadium.

May 14th 1929 - Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.

May 14th 1870 - The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.

May 15th 1941 - Baseball player Joe DiMaggio starts his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak.

May 18, 2004.... Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks pitches a perfect game against the Atlanta Knaves...I mean Braves... in Atlanta. (I bet the fans were saying, "BOO-OO-oo-oo-oo...!" (to the tune of the tomohawk chant)). ;D

May 20th 1965 In cricket, Yorkshire all out for 23 vs. Hampshire at Middlesbrough.

May 21st 1904 – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, the international sport governing body of association football, was founded in Paris.

May 21st 2006 - The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.

May 22nd 1906 - The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, opens in Athens.

May 23rd 1933 - The legendary American racehorse Seabiscuit is born.

May 23rd 1982 - Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles

May 25th 1935 Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour

1935 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates  (all in the same game)

1981 Al Unser becomes 1st Indianapolis 500 winner to be disqualified

May 27th 1923 – French racing drivers André Lagache and René Léonard won the first running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans near Le Mans, Sarthe, France.

May 29th 1968 - Manchester United wins the European Cup, the first English Club to do so.

June 1st 1978 - FIFA World Cup kicks off in Argentina with a match held in Buenos Aires between cup holder West Germany and Poland

1975 California Angel Nolan Ryans 4th no-hitter beats Balt Orioles, 1-0

Today: June 1st 2008

Jamaican Usain Bolt breaks the 100m world record with a time of 9.72 seconds in New York.

June 3, 1989

In a baseball game that runs for 22 innings in Houston, the Houston Astros beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-4. The game lasted 7 hours and 14 minutes. By the time the game was over, Jeff Hamilton, normally a position player for L.A., was pitching for the team (he surrendered the winning run), and Fernando Valenzuela, who was normally a pitcher, was playing first base! The game finished well after 2 A.M. locally.

It was the longest MLB game ever played, in terms of time!

June 6th 1968- Don Drysdale, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher throws record 58th consecutive inning shutout, a major league record.

June 10th 1829 - First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge.

June 6th 1968- Don Drysdale, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher throws record 58th consecutive inning shutout, a major league record.

Yes! And the record would be broken 20 years later by another Dodger pitcher: Orel Hershiser! :D

On the subject of Dodgers baseball...

June 10, 2002: the Dodgers made their first-ever visit to Tampa Bay, to take on the Devil Rays, as they were then known. LAD took two games out of three.
June 10, 2003: the team played in Detroit for the first time ever, against the Tigers, who had a dismal season themselves. LAD won all three games of the series.
June 10, 2005: the Minnesota Twins came to Dodger Stadium for the first time since the 1965 World Series. A pre-game celebration was held (in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Twins-Dodgers World Series, which LAD had won in a deciding game), and the Dodgers would win the game 6-5, on a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 9th inning by Hee-Seop Choi. One pitch, and the game was over!

June 12th 1991 - Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win their first NBA Championship

June 12th 1988 - The Republic of Ireland beat England 1-0 at Euro88 thanks to a Ray Houghton headed goal. This was Ireland's first competitive match at a major football tournament.

June 12, 1997 (also a "Thursday, June 12th," just like today!)... interleague play began in major league baseball for the very first time! The very first interleague game, I believe, was played between the San Francisco Giants and the Texas Rangers, at what is now known as The Ballpark At Arlington.

June 19th 1978 - Ian Botham takes 8-34 vs. Pakistan, his best Test cricket bowling

1904  Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913)

June 24th 1988 - Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves

June 27, 1980: Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Jerry Reuss throws a no-hitter in San Francisco against the Giants. :D Of course, L.A. wins, by a score of 8-0. As a Dodger fan, I gotta love that...even though at the time I wasn't born for another two weeks!

June 28th 1997 - Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II - Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece from Holyfield's ear.

April 28th 1923 – London's Wembley Stadium, then known as Empire Stadium, was opened to the public for the first time and held the 1923 FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United football clubs.


Who won? ???

June 28th 1997 - Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II - Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece from Holyfield's ear.

oh yes, i remember hearing about that :\'(

July 1st 1987 - American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station

Who won? ???
Bolton Wanderers beat West Ham United at the score of 2-0.

1990  Despite Andy Hawkins no-hitting the White Sox, Yankees lose 4-0

July 2nd 1971 - Australian Evonne Goolagong becomes the first Aborigine to win the Wimbledon singles tennis title.

July 2nd 1994 - Richard Johnson takes 10-45 for Middlesex against Derbyshire.

1939  Lou Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech.  Died two years later of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, now called "Lou Gehrigs Disease"

Still July 3rd...

15 years ago, back in 1993, Hall-Of-Fame pitcher Don Drysdale suffered a heart attack at his hotel room in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and passed away at the age of 56 (just 20 days shy of his 57th birthday). :\'( At the time, he had been serving as a broadcast announcer for the Los Angeles Dodgers, who were playing the then-Expos in Montreal.

1914 1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)

July 5th 1975 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.

July 9th 1922 - Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.

July 11th 1914 - Babe Ruth debuts in Major league baseball.

July 19th 1908 – Feyenoord Rotterdam, today one of the "big three" professional football teams in the Netherlands, was founded as the club Wilhelmina in a pub.

It is their centenary!

1973 Willie Mays named to National League all star team for 24th time

July 24th 1983 - George Brett, batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".

July 28, 1991: Dennis Martinez of the then-Montreal Expos throws a perfect game against the L.A. Dodgers in Dodger Stadium. ::)

I may be a little late for this, but 1958 was the year that two Major League Baseball teams moved west, namely the New York (turned San Francisco) Giants and the Brooklyn (turned Los Angeles) Dodgers. The Dodgers played their home games in the Los Angeles Coliseum and posted a losing record during their first season on the West Coast.

July 29th 1948 - Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad - After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin opened in London.

Philip...all you did was quote my post. You didn't say anything in your reply?

July 30th 1930 – Uruguay defeated Argentina, 4–2, in front of their home crowd at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo to win the first Football World Cup.

July 30th 1966 - England national football team win 1966 FIFA World Cup beating West Germany 4-2 in the Final

July 31st 1956 - Jim Laker sets an extraordinary record at Old Trafford in the fourth Test of taking nineteen wickets in a first-class match (the previous best was seventeen).

August 1st 1936 - Olympic Games: Summer Olympic Games - The Games of the XI Olympiad open in Berlin.

1986 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)

August 3rd 1949 - National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.

August 3rd 1936 - Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash by defeating Ralph Metcalfe at Berlin Olympics.

August 5th 1978 - New Orlean Saints beat Phil Eagles 14-7 in Mexico City

August 5th 1969 - Pirate Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a ball out of Dodger Stadium

August 6th 1958 - Australian runner Herb Elliot broke the world record for the mile at the Morton Stadium in Dublin, in a time of 3:54.5.

August 8th 1988 - The lights are turned on at Wrigley Field for the first time, making it the last major league stadium to host night games. (The game, against the Philadelphia Phillies, is rained out after three-and-a-half innings.)

Forgot to mention yesterday (Aug. 7th) that it had been a whole year to the date since SF Giants slugger Barry Bonds had hit his 756th career home run, breaking the record set by Hank Aaron. The game, which was played at San Francisco's AT&T Park, against the Washington Nationals, had been televised on ESPN; I even watched the game myself, even at the exact moment that B-Bo made history.

August 9th 1936 - Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.

On August 9, 1988, the Edmonton Oilers traded Wayne Gretzky, along with McSorley and Krushelnyski,
to the Los Angeles Kings for Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelinas, $15 million in cash, and the Kings' first-round
draft picks in 1989, 1991 and 1993.

August 10th 1995 - Los Angeles Dodgers are forced to forfeit against the St. Louis Cardinals after fans throw souvenir baseballs on to the field en masse.

What was the cause of all that?