1895 - America's first auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner average speed 7 MPH.
1906 - Tommy Burns & Jack O'Brien fight to a draw after 20 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title.
1925 - NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses and dies of TB four months later.
1929 - Ernie Nevers scores all 40 points, an NFL record, for the Chicago Cardinals against the Chicago Bears.
1957 - Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves wins the Cy Young award.
1972 - LA Dodgers trade Frank Robinson to the California Angels.
1981 - Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg and become college football's winningest coach.
1986 - NBC's Ahmad Rashad marriage proposal is accepted by TV star Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of the Detroit Lion - NY Jets football game.
1989 - Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 per year Oakland A's contract.
1989 - Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci flees to Hungary.
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