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Expansion
1997 Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays expansion draft

1997 Major League Soccer announces Miami and Chicago expansion

1995 1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81

1993 NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte

1993 New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks

1992 Blue Jay Nigel Wilson is 1st pick of Marlins in expansion draft

1992 Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2)

1990 NL releases short list of teams for 1993 NL expansion

1990 NL announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St. Petersburg, and Washington D.C. as 6 finalist for 1993 expansion (Miami and Denver win)

1988 Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft

1987 NBA announces expansion to Charlotte North Carolina and Miami Florida in 1988 and Minneapolis Minnesota and Orlando Florida in 1989

1969 Expansion teams Royals, Expos, Padres and Pilots win their 1st games

1968 AL expansion draft, Kansas City pick Roger Nelson and Pilots pick Don Mincher 1st

1968 In NL expansion draft, Expos and Padres choose 30 players each

1968 NL owners approve expansion for 2 new teams

1967 Pacific Northwest Sports awarded AL expansion franchise (Seattle)

1967 Seattle awarded one of the 2 AL expansion franchise teams

1967 NL owners OK AL expansion to Seattle and Kansas City

1966 Wisc State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W. Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or NL must promise Wisconsin an expansion team for 1966

1965 AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins)

1961 Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros and New York Mets

1961 Expansion Washington Senators are 30-30, latest date an expansion team will be at .500, Washington will lose their next 10 games

1960 Expansion LA Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium

1960 Charlie Finley, makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels

1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion

1941 U.S. president Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act



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