October 29th 1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.

October 29th 1989 - Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions

October 29th 1910 - Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game

October 30th 1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.

October 30th 1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.

October 30th 1980 – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.

October 31st 1983 - Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia

October 31st 1995 - NHL NJ Devils agree to stay in NJ

October 31, 2001: In the first-ever World Series game to be played on Halloween, the Yankees even up the series with the Arizona Dbacks at 2 games apiece, and due to the location of the game (New York), the clock strikes midnight before the conclusion of the game...and Derek Jeter, who hits a walkoff home run to win the game, earns the title of "Mr. November."

November 1st 1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.

November 1st 1946 – The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks would win 68-66.

November 1st 1959 – Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.

November 1st 1960 - Balitmore Oriole shortstop Ron Hansen voted AL Rookie of Year

November 1, 2001: Yankees win Game Five of the World Series to go up 3 games to 2.

November 1, 2009: The World Series is played in November for the second time ever. Yankees win that game (#4) and take a 3-games-to-1 lead in the series over the Phillies.

November 1, 2010: Game Five of the current World Series will be played. I hope Texas wins! (If not, the Gints will capture their first crown since 1954, and their first ever as the San Francisco Giants.)

November 3, 2001: Facing elimination in returning to Arizona, the Diamondbacks give the Yankees and Andy Pettitte (then in his first stint with NYY) a bad time, jumping all over him in the 3rd inning to score 8 runs and take a 12-0 lead. Dbacks won that game, 15-2, to even the series at 3 games apiece and force a decider the next day.
That's gotta be one of the worst poundings the Evil Empire ever took in a postseason game. :D

November 4, 2001: Game Seven of the World Series is played, between the New York Yankees and Arizona Diamondbacks. Yankees, in an attempt to win their fourth straight title, take a 2-1 lead on a home run by Alfonso Soriano, and hand the ball to Mariano Rivera in the 9th to close it out, but....








Dbacks have other plans. A base hit, a bunt leading to a throwing error by Rivera (in attempt to get the lead runner out), another bunt (forcing out the lead runner at third base), a double (to score the tying run from second base, thereby blowing the save opp), and a hit batsman, sets the stage for Luis Gonzalez....


...who hits a bloop single out of the infield to score the winning run!!!! :D :D :D


That's gotta be one of my favourite World Series endings that didn't involve the Dodgers or Angels.

November 5th 1995 - George Foreman beats Michael Moorer to win WBA/IBF boxing title

November 6th 1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.

November 6th 1996 - LA Dodger Todd Hollandsworth wins NL Rookie of Year

November 7th 1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.

November 7th 1959 - 13th Ryder Cup: US wins 8½-3½ at Eldorado Golf Club (Indian Wells, California)

November 8th 1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.

November 8th 1950 - Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo wins AL Rookie of Year

November 8th 1970 - Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal

November 8th 1990 - Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with LA Dodgers

November 8th 1992 - Betsy King wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic

November 9th 1861 – The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.

November 9th 1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.

November 9th 1861 – The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.

University college in Toronto was my home Campus! (but not in 1861...)

University college in Toronto was my home Campus! (but not in 1861...)
Not even your Great-Granddad?

November 9th 1980 - Tatsuko Ohsako wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic

Not even your Great-Granddad?

My parents came from Europe after WWII, so no.

November 11th 1980 - Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against North Stars

November 11th 1990 - Calif's Chuck Finley & Seattle's Randy Johnson combine to pitch a no-hitter in exhibition game between US & Japanese all-star teams

November 13th 1954 – Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.

November 13th 1982 – Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.

November 13th 1909 - Ben Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game

November 14th 1920 - American Pro Football League's Chic Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards

November 17th 1974 - Bonnie Bryant wins Bill Branch LPGA Golf Classic

November 17th 1983 - Phila Flyers win 13th straight NHL game

November 17, 1968: A football game's telecast (between Oakland and NY Jets) was suddenly interrupted by the starting of "Heidi"; viewers missed a chance to see the Raiders score two touchdowns during the final minute of play and win the game 43-32. NBC Network, which carried the game, later apologized for the inconvenience. Full info can be found on the Wikopedia link.

November 18, 1985.
NFL: Joe Theismann gets hit by Lawrence Taylor. Extreme leg break. Joe's career is over. I watched it live on Monday night football on that night.
Look at youtube for the gruesome leg break.

The injury was voted the NFL's "Most Shocking Moment in History" by viewers in an ESPN poll.

November 19th 1969 – Playing for Santos against Vasco da Gama at Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian football player Pelé scored his 1000th goal on a penalty kick.

November 19th 1932 - Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game

November 19th 1960 - Mickey Vernon is hired as first manager of new Washington team

November 19th 1989 - US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for 1990 world soccer cup finals it was US' 1st qualification since 1950

November 20th 1902 – While discussing how to promote the newspaper L'Auto during a lunch meeting in Paris, sports journalists Henri Desgrange and Géo Lefèvre came up with the idea of holding a cycling race that later became known as the Tour de France.

November 20th 1977 - Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL-record 275 yards

November 20th 1955 - Kripal Singh scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, India v NZ

November 20th 1955 - Polly Umrigar scores India's first Test Cricket double century, 223 v NZ

November 21st 1980 Gene Michaels replaces Dick Howser as Yankee's 25th manager

November 21st 1992 - Jan Karlsson swims world record 50m butterfly (23.80 sec)

November 21st 1992 - Jani Sievinen swims world record 100m medley (53.78 sec)

November 21st 1992 - Louise Karlsson swims world record 50m freestyle (31.19 sec)

November 22nd 1969 – In American football, the University of Michigan upset Ohio State University, 24-12, in Bo Schembechler's first season as Michigan's head coach. The win set off the 10 Year War between Schembechler and Ohio State's Woody Hayes.

November 22nd 1986 – Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.

November 22nd 2003 – England win the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

November 23rd 1930 - NY Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage

November 23rd 1943 - Phils owner William D Cox is permanently banned from baseball for having bet on his own team

November 23rd 1960 - Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year

November 23rd 1966 - Chicago outfielder Tommie Agee is voted AL Rookie of Year

November 23rd 1971 - Danny Murtaugh, manager of world champ Pirates, announces retirement

November 23rd 1988 - Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal

November 23rd 1988 - Yankees sign free agent 2nd-baseman Steve Sax to 3-year contract

November 24th 1906 – The Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers Betting Scandal, the first major scandal in professional American football.

November 24th 1960 - Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)

November 24th 1971 - Braves catcher-infielder Earl Williams, wins NL Rookie of Year

November 24th 1991 - Monica Seles, sets female tennis record winning $2,457,758 in a year

November 24th 1996 - Mashonaland defeat Matabeleland to win the Logan Cricket Cup

November 26th 1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.

November 26th 1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.

...all of which were in Canada. I guess it would be a longer time before the U.S. got any franchises?

1960 - Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins

1961 - Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball

1972 - Pete Gogolak scores NY Giant record 8 pts after a touchdown

1975 - Fred Lynn becomes the 1st rookie to win MVP

1982 - Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch

1995 - 33rd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Valencia Spain (3-2)

1995 - Dolphins QB Dan Marino sets NFL record with 343rd touchdown pass

1996 - Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4

1990 - Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend

1932 - Don Bradman completes 10000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings

2004 - New Zealand's All Blacks thump Six Nations Rugby Union Champions France 45-6 in Paris

1997 - Lions' Barry Sanders becomes NFL's 2nd all-time rusher

1991 - Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ

1979 - 1st day-night one-day cricket international, Australia v WI at SCG

1976 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Colgate-Far East Golf Championship

1870 - NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game"

1895 – The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.

1929 – Ernie Nevers of the then Chicago Cardinals scores all of the Cardinals' points in this game as the Cardinals defeat the Chicago Bears 40-6.

1972 - Los Angeles Dodgers trade Frank Robinson to California Angels

1981 - Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg & become college football's winningest coach

1979 - LA Dodger Rick Sutcliffe wins NL Rookie of Year

1975 - Test Cricket debut of Michael Anthony Holding, WI v Australia Brisbane

1969 - Ted Sizemore becomes 7th Dodger to win NL Rookie of Year

1890 – At West Point, New York, the United States Naval Academy defeats the United States Military Academy 24-0 in the first Army–Navy football game.

1899 – FC Barcelona, one of the most successful clubs in Spanish football, was founded by Swiss football pioneer Joan Gamper.

1913 – Fédération Internationale d'Escrime, the international organizing body of competitive fencing is founded in Paris, France.

1934 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Detroit Lions 19-16 in the first nationally broadcast game.

1971 - First pro golf championship at Walt Disney World

1976 - NY Yankees sign free agent Reggie Jackson to 5-year contract

1872 – The first-ever international football match took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.

1956 - Floyd Patterson KOs Archie Moore in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

1940 - 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 1): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 8-2

1997 - 86th Davis Cup: Sweden sweeps US in Gothenburg (5-0)

1946 - Australia compile 645 v India at the Gabba (Bradman 187)

1968 - Peggy Wilson wins LPGA Hollywood Lakes Golf Open

1970 - NHL takes control of Pittsburgh Penguins

1971 - Cubs release Ernie Banks & sign him as a coach

1973 - Jack Nicklaus becomes the first golfer to earn $2M in a year

1976 - Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks"

1996 - Lance Klusener takes 8-64 in debut Test Cricket to trounce India

1977 – The first World Series Cricket "supertest" match played between Australia and West Indies

1993 - Houston Rockets tie NBA record of 15-0 start

1991 - Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with NY Mets

1990 - 79th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in St Petersburg (3-2)

1984 - Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG

1984 - 4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win

1974 - Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs

1907 - English Professional Football Player's Association forms

1948 - Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonial

1950 - Cleve Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Phila 13-7)

1950 - Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 12 punts

1968 - Pitcher's mound drops from 15" to 10" & strike zone reduced from knees to shoulders to top of knees to armpits, to help hitters

1982 - Tommy Hearns wins WBC Welterweight title in decision over Benitez

1990 - NL batting champ Willie McGee signs as a free agent with SF Giants

1995 - 84th Davis Cup: USA beats Russia in Moscow (3-2)

1995 - Beth Daniels/Davis Love III wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic

1995 - Jack Russell takes 11 catches in Test Cricket v S Africa, a record

1909 – The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest professional hockey franchise in the world, was founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.

1909 – 1st Grey Cup game was played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 26–6.

1995 - Michael Atherton (185*) bats for 643 minutes to save Johannesburg Test

1997 - NBA suspends Latrell Sprewell for 1 year for attacking his coach

1994 - 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1)

1974 – The Birmingham Americans won the only World Bowl in World Football League history.

1990 - Toronto Blue Jays trade Fred McGriff & Tony Fernandez to San Diego Padres for Roberto Alomar & Joe Carter

1984 - Yankees trade catcher Rick Cerone to Braves for pitcher Brian Fisher

1980 - Bank of Canada's Canadian Currency Museum opens

1970 - Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy & Bill Masterson trophy stolen from NHL hall of fame

1970 - Los Angeles Rams Willie Ellison sets NFL record of 247 yards rushing

1908 - first football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh)

1949 - Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for heavyweight boxing title

1976 - Buffalo Bill OJ Simpson rushes 203 yards

1995 - first meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81

1982 - Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas

1810 - Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds)

1831 - "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)

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

1919 - NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers

1922 - Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards

1968 - Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1978 - 67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1)

1991 - Howard Spira sentenced to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner

1995 - Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Aust v Sri Lanka, WACA)

2009 – Tiger Woods announced an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage.

1995 - Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million

1994 Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches

1985 Edmonton Oilers (36) & Chicago Black Hawks (26) score NHL record 62 points

1985 NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (17) 12-9 & ties record of 21 goals

1909 - Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000

1950 - Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandler's contract

1951 - Joe DiMaggio announces his baseball retirement

1997 - Red Sox sign Pedro Martinez to record 6 year $69 million contract

1995 - NBA referees return to work after striking

1992 - New York Giants lose 19-0 to Phoenix Cardinals

1981 - Wayne Gretzky scores quickest 50th goal (game 39)

1899 - George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee

1993 Tennis star Boris Becker (26) weds Barbara Feltus (27)

1932 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game was moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yards (73 m) long.

1996 Start of 1st Test Cricket match between Zimbabwe & England

1990 National League announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St Petersburg, & Washington DC as 6 finalist for 1993 expansion (Miami & Denver win)

1869 - Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club plays its first game

1930 - Bradman scores 258 NSW v South Aust, in 289 mins, with 37 fours

1932 - Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game

1935 - Bradman scores 117 in his first Shield cricket match for South Australia

1956 - Phil Rizzuto signs as NY Yankee radio-TV announcer

1983 – The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.

1948 - Philadelphia Eagles shutout Chicago Cardinals 7-0 in NFL championship game

1985 - Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC

1985 - Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points)

1860 – The first ever inter-club football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England.

1908 – Boxer Jack Johnson (pictured) became the first African American Heavyweight Champion of the World after defeating Canadian Tommy Burns in Sydney.

1919 – Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.

1995 - Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL vs Australia, MCG)

1995 - Paul Adams becomes South Africa's youngest Test Cricket player, 18 years 340 ds

1993 Floyd, Nicklaus & Rodriguez win Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tourn

1897 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias beat Ottawa Capitals, 15-2

1905 - M A Noble scores 281 (369 mins, 21 fours) NSW v Victoria

1919 - Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces they will deal any player except Harry Hooper, Hooper is sent to the White Sox after 1920 season

1944 – Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score 8 points in one game of NHL ice hockey.

1958 – "Greatest Game Ever Played" – Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.

1968 - 57th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (4-1)

1891 – Physical education teacher James Naismith introduced a game in Springfield, Massachusetts, US, with thirteen rules and nine players on each team that he called "Basket Ball".

2010 - England retain the Ashes for the first time in 24 years - and with a match to spare - after easing to a comprehensive win in the fourth Test.

1862 - Bowling ball invented

1906 - Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS) for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1906)

1957 - Detroit Lions beat Cleve Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game

1958 - Balt Colts beat NY Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game

1963 - 52nd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (3-2)

1978 - Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, v England at the MCG

1994 - Shane Warne takes a hat-trick v England at cricket MCG

1981 – In the 39th game of his 3rd NHL season Wayne Gretzky scores 5 goals giving him 50 on the year setting a new NHL record previously held by Maurice Richard and Mike Bossy who earlier had each scored 50 goals in 50 games.

1954 - First use of 24-second shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston)

1956 - New York Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game

1957 - New York Giants win NFL championship

1902 – The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena.

1971 – The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic football match

1961 -  First AFL Championship Game, Houston Oilers beat Los Angeles Chargers 24-16

1965 -  New York Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath

1966 - Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game

1911 - Brooklyn Dodgers president Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000

1971 – The first One Day International cricket match is held between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

1996 - For first time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1995 - Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame

1897 - Michael Eagan wins 1st US national amateur handball championship

1902 - First National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)

1993 - Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point

1972 – The Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association lost to the Milwaukee Bucks, ending a 33-game winning streak, the longest of any team in American professional sports.

1971 - Tigers ace reliever John Hiller, 27, suffers a heart attack, misses the 1971 season, but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves

1921 – Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.

January 14, 1968: Super Bowl II was played in Miami, Florida's Orange Bowl, between the Oakland Raiders and the Green Bay Packers. The game drew over 75,000 people, the first $3 million gate. Super Bowl Two was no different than Super Bowl One for Bart Starr and Green Bay. Starr was named MVP and the Packers won easily for the second straight year, 33-14.
(Also, American rap artist LL Cool J was born.)

1933 – The controversial Bodyline cricket tactics used by Douglas Jardine's England peaks when Australian captain Bill Woodfull was hit in the heart.

1932 - Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race

1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.

1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10

1972 - Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels

1981 Ivan Lendl intentionally loses a match in the Volvo Masters in order to avoid having to play Björn Borg

1981 Boxer Leon Spinks is mugged, his assailants even take his gold teeth

1886 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.

1958 – African Canadian Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, breaking the color barrier in professional ice hockey.

1983 – The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.

1992 – Ric Flair wins the WWF Royal Rumble in 59:26, capturing his first WWF Heavyweight Championship.

1968 – The Houston Cougars defeat the UCLA Bruins 71-69 to win the Game of the Century.

1996 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Rudy Galindo

1990 - John McEnroe becomes the first ever expelled from the Australian Open for throwing a tantrum & swearing at an official

1927 – First live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.

1960 – Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia)

January 27, 1991: Super Bowl XXV was played in Tampa Stadium in Tampa Florida, between the AFC champion Buffalo Bills and the NFC champion New York Giants. The New York Giants won the game by one point, 20-19, with Ottis Anderson being named MVP.

January 28:

1990 - Super Bowl XXIV in New Orleans: San Francisco 49ers 55, Denver Broncos 10.
1996 - Super Bowl XXX in Tempe, AZ: Dallas Cowboys 27, Pittsburgh Steelers 17.
2001 - Super Bowl XXXV in Tampa, FL: Baltimore Ravens 34, NY Giants 7.

1934 – The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.

1900 – The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.

1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.

1963 – The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.

2006 – India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.

2004 – Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines.

February 1, 2004 – Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines.

A game infamously remembered for that incident. :(

The AFC champion New England Patriots would win that game, 32-29, over the NFC champion Carolina Panthers.

A game infamously remembered for that incident. :(

The AFC champion New England Patriots would win that game, 32-29, over the NFC champion Carolina Panthers.
That was a great game. I think there were 3 points scored in the first half of the game and the rest of the points were scored in the second half of the game. Nobody could stop Panthers WR Steve Smith during the 2004 playoffs and Super Bowl.

February 3, 2002: The Super Bowl was played in the month of February for the first time ever. (This was mainly due to the terror attacks of September of '01 delaying the playing of professional sports for a week.) It was Super Bowl XXXVI, held at New Orleans' Superdome, and the New England Patriots defeated the St. Louis Rams by a score of 20-17.


February 3, 2008: In Super Bowl XLII, the heavily-favored New England Patriots, who were undefeated during the regular season, lost their lead in the last quarter of play; and the New York Giants won the game, 17-14. The game was played at University of Phoenix Stadium, in Glendale, Arizona.

1956 - 7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

1998 - Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minn Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record

February 5, 2006: Super Bowl XL was played, in Detroit Michigan's Ford Field. The Pittsburgh Steelers won a record-tying fifth Super Bowl with a 21-10 win over the Seattle Seahawks.

1879 – The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.