Friday, February 7, 2014

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - FEBRUARY 7TH

1910 - Buster Crabbe, 400m US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932) is born.
1914 - Charlie Chaplin debuts "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice".
1949 - Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player (NY Yankees).
1958 - Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc.
1959 - Dorothy Rigney sells White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M.
1959 - Napoleon Lajorie, baseball player, dies at 83.
1964 - Cassius Clay becomes a black Moslem.
1969 - Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah).
1976 - Darryl Sittler, Toronto, sets NHL record with 10 points in a game.
1985 - NY Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals.
1987 - Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring America's Cup back to US.
1988 - Matthew Stafford, Detroit Lions quarterback is born.
1989 - Tennis superstar Bjorn Borg, apparently attempts suicide in Milan.
1991 - Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, 
Harry Gallatin & Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame.
1998 - NHL's Dallas Stars retire Neal Broten's #7.
2010 - Super Bowl XLIV; New Orleans Saints defeated the 
Indianapolis Colts 31-17 to win their first super bowl..

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