1892 - Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan.
1916 - In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise
the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3.
1917 - Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter.
1920 - Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie.
1920 - Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play.
1920 - Indian's Elmer Smith hits baseball's 1st World Series grand slam.
1921 - NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10.
1923 - NY Giants & NY Yankees become 1st teams to play each other
1917 - Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter.
1920 - Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie.
1920 - Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play.
1920 - Indian's Elmer Smith hits baseball's 1st World Series grand slam.
1921 - NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10.
1923 - NY Giants & NY Yankees become 1st teams to play each other
for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium.
1951 - Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in World Series, DiMaggio's final game.
1956 - On Skowron's grand slammer NY Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7.
1956 - On Skowron's grand slammer NY Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7.
1961 - Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros & NY Mets.
1969 - Brett Favre, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl 31) is born.
1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr, American NASCAR Sprint Cup series driver is born.
1994 - NY Giants retire Lawrence Taylor's #56.
2004 - Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963) dies of "acute
intoxication due to the combined effects of cocaine and opiates" caused
his death, with coronary artery disease and cardiac hypertrophy
(an enlarged heart) as contributing factors.
2012 - Alex Karras, American NFL player, dies from kidney failure at 77.
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