1892 - First public basketball game (Springfield, Mass).
1917 - First NHL Championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats
Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13).
1941 - Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minnesota, to become Wrestling champ.
1948 - Reginald Weit became the first black to play in the US Tennis Open.
1948 - Reginald Weit became the first black to play in the US Tennis Open.
1961 - Then NHL record 40 penalties, Blackhawks & Maple Leafs (20 each).
1979 - Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 minute NHL hockey game.
1981 - Johnny Mize & Rube Foster elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1986 - Islander Mike Bossy, first NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons.
1986 - NFL adopts instant replay rule.
1987 - Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point.
1986 - NFL adopts instant replay rule.
1987 - Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point.
1991 - Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1.
1993 - Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44.
1997 - SF Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch.
1997 - SF Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch.
2006 - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931) dies.
2010 - Merlin Olsen, American football player / Actor (b. 1940) dies.
2010 - Merlin Olsen, American football player / Actor (b. 1940) dies.
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