1888 - Knute Rockne, Norwegian/US football player/coach (Notre Dame) is born.
1897 - Francis "Lefty" O'Doul, baseball player/organized Japanese baseball is born.
1913 - NY Yankees are first to train outside US (Bermuda).
1918 - Margaret Osborne DuPont, Joseph Oregon,
tennis pro (US Open 1948-50), (d. 2012) is born.
1941 - NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots.
1961 - Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, boxer (killed a boxer in the ring) is born.
1968 - Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for Heavyweight boxing title.
1970 - Jacksonville is first college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game.
1970 - Jacksonville is first college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game.
1976 - SF Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie & Bud Herseth.
1984 - Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame.
1990 - Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967) in Los Angeles,
collapses on the court for the second time in four months, with 13:34 left
in the first half of the WCC tournament quarterfinal game against the
Portland Pilots, just after scoring on his trademark tomahawk dunk on an
alley-oop pass pass from point guard Terrell Lowery that put the Lions up
25–13. He collapsed a yard or two away from Pilots point guard Erik Spoelstra.
He attempted to get up, telling the trainers, "I don't want to lay down!",
then shortly after stopped breathing. He was declared dead on arrival at a
nearby hospital at the age of 23 of an abnormal heartbeat (exercise-induced
ventricular tachycardia).
1995 - George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker.
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