1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever
1997 1st ever baseball inter-league game San Francisco Giants beat Texas Rangers 4-3
1996 Goa upset Karnataka to win their 1st Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever
1995 Howard Stern's 2nd book "Miss America" released (fastest selling ever)
1995 Carolina Panthers win 1st game ever beating New York Jets 26-15
1995 New York Yankees win 1st baseball wildcard ever
1995 Indians and Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose - Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition)
1995 Queensland beat S Aust to win 1st ever cricket Sheffield Shield
1994 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles)
1994 Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel
1994 -20 degrees F (-29 degrees C) (5:32 AM) coldest day ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio
1993 Florida Marlins 1st lost ever (4-2 to Los Angeles Dodgers)
1992 Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 vs. Australia
1992 New York Rangers wins their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs New Jersey Devils)
1991 Ayrton Senna wins shortest Formula One race ever run (17 laps)
1990 1st ever lose for Cameroon in Soccer World Cup, U.S.S.R.-4 Cameroon-0
1990 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing
1990 John McEnroe becomes 1st ever expelled from Australian Open
1990 Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs New Jersey Nets) and lose 87-78
1989 Japanese scientist achieve -271.8 degrees C, coldest temp ever recorded
1989 93 degrees F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix, Arizona
1989 Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000!
1988 Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record
1988 NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 loses
1988 19 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
1988 Minn Twins are 1st AL club ever to break 3 million season attendance
1988 Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica
1988 Cubs and Phillies attempt to play 1st night game ever at Wrigley Field but are rained out in 4th inning with Chicago leading, 3-1
1988 Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103 degrees F (39 degrees C)
1988 104 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
1987 Cubs Andre Dawson is 1st from last-place club ever to win an MVP
1987 George Bell is 1st Blue Jay ever to win the AL MVP
1986 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
1985 Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds
1983 Surrey all out for 14 vs. Essex, their lowest score ever
1982 77 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in December
1982 38 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
1982 Largest crowd ever to see a baseball game in Minnesota 52,279
1981 Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie ever to win a Cy Young Award
1979 Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14)
1979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas
1978 Nikki Cox, actress, Unhappily Ever After
1978 Padres fire Al Dark (2nd manager ever fired during spring training)
1977 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever
1976 Cleveland Cavaliers clinch their 1st ever NBA playoff bearth
1973 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
1972 31 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
1971 Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hrs
1968 41 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
1966 Only HR ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson)
1964 10 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
1963 New York Yankee Elston Howard is 1st black ever voted AL MVP
1962 Iain Harvie, Scottish rock guitarist, Nothing Ever Happens
1962 New York Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pirates 9-1
1961 Australia beat WI 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever
1959 "Plan 9 From Outer Space," one of the worse films ever, premieres
1959 1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod
1958 AL announces Opening Day in 1959 will be earliest ever, April 9
1956 Stephanie Hodge, comedian/actress, I Madman, Happily Ever After
1955 Australia score 8-758 vs. West Indies at Kingston, their best ever
1953 101 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept
1952 Worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die
1952 Only win ever for NFL's Dallas Texans (11-1) beats Bears 27-23
1952 Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock and roll concert ever
1950 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War
1950 82 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Nov
1950 73 degrees F (23 degrees C) highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January
1949 RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
1948 102 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
1948 Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
1948 -5 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1947 Zaheer Abbas, cricketer, probably Pakistan's finest batsman ever
1946 90 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
1946 Ever Meulen, [Eddy Vermeulen], Dutch designer, children stamps 1992
1942 32 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept
1942 Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
1941 103 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
1941 100 degrees F (38 degrees C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle Wash
1941 Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial
1939 Roberta Flack, North Carolina, vocalist, If Ever I Saw Your Face
1937 Jerry Keller, rocker/actor, If Ever I See You Again
1936 106.5 degrees F-Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa
1934 Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mt Washington, NH, 231 mph
1934 Austin "Ted" Taylor, U.S. gospel/R&B-singer, Be Ever Wonderful
1932 73 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February
1930 Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans
1930 Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"
1926 [Martin] Ross Hunter, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor, Ever Since Paris
1925 Art Buchwald, Mt Vernon, New York, columnist/author, Have I Ever Lied to You
1921 Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
1919 Keith Miller, cricketer, one of Australia's best ever all-rounders
1918 Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
1918 Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
1917 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
1916 Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed)
1915 Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st and winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever
1912 Fram reaches latitude 78 degrees 41' S, farthest south ever by ship
1911 Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A's, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379)
1910 83 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1907 Lowest temp ever in 48 U.S. states for June, 2 degrees F in Tamarack California
1905 1st game ever played in the Australian Tennis Open
1902 Australia Cricket all out 36 vs. England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever
1896 South Africa all out for 30 vs. England - their lowest ever
1896 Tasmania bowl out Victoria for 65 for their 1st ever innings victory
1895 England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2
1894 Stanley Cup: Mont AAA beat Ottawa Generals, 3-1 (1st Cup game ever)
1887 England all out for 45 vs. Aust SCG, their lowest total ever
1882 Jack Hobbs, cricketer, 1st-class runs, the most ever
1879 92 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
1876 Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US
1869 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
1868 An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave
1830 New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
1827 James Southerton, cricketer, Test debut in the 1st ever Test at 49
1661 Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
1380 French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever
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