1997 97th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Joel Kribel
1996 96th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1995 95th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1994 94th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1993 93rd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris
1992 92nd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
1992 Ralph Cooper, creator (Amateur Night at the Apollo), dies of cancer
1991 91st U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Mitch Voges
1991 New York Yankees selected 19-year-old Brien Taylor, #1 in amateur draft
1991 John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award
1991 Four Los Angeles Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video
1990 90th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson
1989 Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records
1989 89th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton
1988 88th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks
1988 Amateur referees work New Jersey Devil-Boston Bruin playoff games, as NHL referees walk-off, due to a restraining order brought by Devils
1987 87th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
1983 83rd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel
1982 82nd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel
1980 80th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are U.S. amateur boxers)
1979 79th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara
1979 Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro and amateur umpires
1976 Ted Mack, TV host (Original Amateur Hour), dies at 72
1972 Stephen O'Connor, Irish amateur snooker champ 1990
1970 Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (Calif)
1969 U.S. amateur Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Bob Lutz (97 63 61)
1969 U.S. amateur Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beat Virginia Wade (46 63 60)
1969 69th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
1969 Duane Bock, born in Southampton, New York, golfer, 1991 Low Amateur New York State Open
1968 68th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
1968 Malika Mahfoud, Copenhagen Denmark, golfer, Gippsland Ladies Amateur
1968 Lawson Little, amateur golfer (US/Brit Opens 1934,35), dies at 57
1967 Oswald Drawdy, Hampton, South Carolina, Canadian Tour golfer, 1987 South Carolina Amateur
1967 Ben Fouchee, born in Kuruman, South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer, 1987 South Africa Amateur
1967 Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) and 1st amateur to U.S. Women's open golf tournament
1967 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum
1965 Luc Rochefort, Trois-Rivieres Que, golfer, 1991 Low Amateur Quebec
1965 David Bolton, born in Guyana, Canadian Tour golfer, 1992 Lando Mem Amateur
1964 Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament
1963 Jane Leary, Sydney Australia, golfer, 1992 Australian Amateur Champ
1961 61st U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
1960 Patti Rizzo, born in Hollywood, Florida, golfer, Mexican Amateur champion 1980
1959 59th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
1958 Sue Daniels, Adelaide Australia, golfer, 1983 Victorian Amateur Champ
1958 Maureen Madill, Coleraine No Ireland, golfer, Brit Open Amateur 1979
1954 International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China
1950 Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey (Atl City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League
1950 West Germany and Japan readmitted to International Amateur Athletic Federation
1948 Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS)
1947 U.S.S.R. joins International Amateur Athletic Union
1947 Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000
1947 Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win British Women's Amateur Golf Champ
1946 Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour), dies at 71
1943 Richard Sears, 1st to win U.S. amateur national tennis match, dies at 81
1941 Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro
1941 AH Borgesius, tutor/experimentator/amateur astronomer, dies at 76
1941 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized, California
1935 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
1933 Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist
1930 34th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
1928 Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming
1925 29th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
1918 Patty Berg, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, LPGA golfer, 1938 U.S. Amateur
1913 19th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers
1912 IAF (International Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
1911 Richard Chapman, golfer, 1940 U.S. amateur, 1951 British amateur
1910 Using 20, 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park
1904 Ted Mack, born in Denver, Colorado, TV host, Original Amateur Hour
1901 Joyce Wethered, Surrey England, golfer, 4 time British Amateur champ
1897 Michael Eagan wins 1st U.S. national amateur handball championship
1887 Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established
1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
1880 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England
1877 1st U.S. amateur swim meet (New York Athletic Club)
1874 Edward Bowes, radio host, Major Bowes Amateur Hour
1871 1st U.S. amateur outdoor athletic games (NY)
1869 James E Sullivan, founder, Amateur Athletic Union
1868 1st American amateur track and field meet (New York City)
1864 A H Borgesius, Dutch amateur astronomer
1797 Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer, constructed 1st Moon map
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