1896 1st modern Summer Olympic Games close in Athens, Greece; USA wins gold medal count, 11; Greece wins total medal count, 46; IOC has retroactively assigned gold, silver & bronze medals to 3 best placed athletes in each event
1901 5th Boston Marathon won for second straight year by Canadian Jim Caffrey in race record 2:29:23.6
1907 11th Boston Marathon won by Canadian Tom Longboat in race record 2:24:24
1912 16th Boston Marathon won by Mike Ryan in race record 2:21:18.2
1918 22nd Boston Marathon won by Camp Devens relay team; race run as relay for 10-man military teams
1925 NHL’s NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
1929 33rd Boston Marathon won by Canadian Johnny Miles in 2:33:08.6; his second win in the event
1935 39th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley in 2:32:07.4
1937 Stanley Cup Final, Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings beat New York Rangers, 3-0 for a 3-2 series win; back-to-back titles for Red Wings
1940 44th Boston Marathon won by Gérard Côté of Canada in 2:28:28.6; first of 4 wins in the event
1946 50th Boston Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 2:29:27; first and only Cypriot athlete to win the event
1952 Stanley Cup Final, Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Canadiens, 3-0 for a 4-0 series sweep
1954 Orioles 1st game in Baltimore beat White Sox 3-1
1954 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Edward Barrow
1957 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley in 2:20:05; course length changed
1958 1st baseball game in California, SF Giants beat LA Dodgers, 8-0
1961 France wins it’s 2nd outright Five Nations Rugby Championship with an 15-3 victory over Ireland at Lansdowne Road, Dublin
1963 67th Boston Marathon won by Aurèle Vandendriessche of Belgium in race record 2:18:58
1965 NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold
1967 France wins its 4th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship with an 11-6 win over Ireland at Lansdowne Road, Dublin
1968 Houston Astros beat NY Mets, 1-0, in 24 innings
1968 72nd Boston Marathon: Amby Burfoot wins in 2:22:17; Bobbi Gibb 1st woman for 3rd straight year in 3:30:00 (unsanctioned)
1974 78th Boston Marathon: Neil Cusack of Ireland takes men’s race in 2:13:39; American Miki Gorman women’s winner in 2:47:11
1976 Yankee stadium reopens, Yanks beat Twins after trailing 4-0
1977 1st baseball game at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium
1984 48th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Ben Crenshaw wins the first of his 2 green jackets, 2 strokes ahead of 1977 & 1981 champion Tom Watson
1985 89th Boston Marathon: Englishman Geoff Smith repeats as men’s champion in 2:14:05; American Lisa Larsen Weidenbach takes women’s title in 2:34:06
1986 Viv Richards century off 56 balls v England in Antigua Test Cricket
1989 96 crushed to death and 766 injured at Hillsborough Football Stadium, Sheffield, England, during FA semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest
1989 Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48)
1991 95th Boston Marathon: Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya wins his 2nd men’s title in 2:11:06; Wanda Panfil of Poland woman’s champion in 2:24:18
1991 Sacramento Kings set NBA record, losing 35th consecutive game on road
1992 NY Islander, Al Arbour, coaches most NHL games (1,438)
1996 100th Boston Marathon: Moses Tanui of Kenya takes centenary men’s title in 2:09:15.9; 3-peat for Uta Pippig of Germany in women’s race in 2:27:12
1997 Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring #42 for all teams
2000 NFL Draft: Penn State defensive end Courtney Brown first pick by Cleveland Browns
2001 The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Doug Tewell wins his second & final Champions Tour major by 9 strokes from Mike McCullough
2002 106th Boston Marathon: Kenyan double; Rodgers Rop claims men’s event in 2:09:02; Margaret Okayo women’s winner in 2:20:43
2013 Boston Marathon bombings: 3 people are killed and 183 injured after two explosions near the finish line
2013 117th Boston Marathon: Lelisa Desisa Benti of Ethiopia men’s winner in 2:10:22; Rita Jeptoo of Kenya wins women’s section in 2:26:25
2019 123rd Boston Marathon: Lawrence Cherono of Kenya wins in 2:07:58, just 0.1s ahead of Ethiopia’s Lelisa Desisa; Worknesh Degefa of Ethiopia is women’s champion in 2:23.31
2019 Los Angeles Clippers overcome an NBA record 31-point deficit to score an improbable 135-131 Game 2 playoff victory over the Golden State Warriors in Oakland; shooting guard Lou Williams 36 points
2019 3 days after winning Hobey Baker Award as top college hockeyplayer, Cale Makar becomes first defenseman to score in NHL debut during the playoffs in Colorado’s 6-2 Game 3 win over Calgary
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