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2004 WNBA Championships, Seattle Storm beat Connecticut Sun 2 games to 1

2003 WNBA Championships, Detroit Shock beat Los Angeles Sparks 2 games to 1

2002 WNBA Championships, Los Angeles Sparks beat New York Liberty 2 games to 0

2001 WNBA Championships, Los Angeles Sparks beat Charlotte Sting 2 games to 0

2000 WNBA Championships, Houston Comets beat New York Liberty 2 games to 0

1999 WNBA Championships, Houston Comets beat New York Libery 2 games to 1

1998 WNBA Championships, Houston Comets beat Phoenix Mercury 2 games to 1

1997 Tiger Woods wins Mercedes Championships

1994 Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championships of Women's Golf

1991 U.S. women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver)

1991 Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts

1991 Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal

1985 Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals win their league championships

1984 British ice dancing team, Torvill and Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships

1983 1st World Track and Field Championships

1980 U.S. swimmers set 3 world records at National championships

1980 NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports

1978 Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia

1975 Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes

1969 Audrey McElmory (U.S.) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno,

1967 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum

1956 World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo

1948 1st U.S. figure skating championships held

1929 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held

1924 Charles Paddock captures 100 and 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track and field championships

1924 1st men's college swimming championships begin

1923 Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships

1916 1st U.S. national women's swiming championships held

1912 Rene Gabriels, Belgian billiard pro, 7 World/9 European championships

1910 John Wooden, basketball coach, UCLA-10 national championships

1893 For only time in history of U.S. Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago

1881 1st U.S. men's single tennis championships (Newport, RI)



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