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2004 Lynn Cartwright, actress, A League of Their Own, dies at 76

1998 World League of American Football becomes NFL East

1997 Buck Leonard, Hall of Famer in Negro League, dies at 90

1997 NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer as 1st women to officiate a major-league all-male sports league

1997 ABL players allowed to own stock in the league

1997 Major league revenue sharing begins, New York Yanks pay out most $28M

1997 Major League Soccer announces Miami and Chicago expansion

1997 Major League Baseball announces 5 year, $50M deal with Pepsi

1996 Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts

1996 George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur, dies at 81

1996 Edward Digby Baltzell, Ivy League sociologist, dies at 80

1996 Sunday League game Kent 6-314 overhaul Leicestershire's 4-311

1994 Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby League Player, dies at 83

1994 Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike

1994 Charles "Chub" Feeney, baseball President (National League), dies at 72

1993 Long Beach, California beats Panama for little league world championship

1992 Bernice Gera, 1st female basball ump (1969 NY-Penn League) dies at 61

1992 NFL decides to suspend World League Football

1992 U.S. Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons

1992 Colo Rockies 1st minor league team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game

1992 Carl Stotz, founder (baseball's little league), dies at 82

1992 Professional Spring Football League begins

1992 West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game

1992 Mahmoud Riad, sec-gen of Arab League (1972-79), dies

1992 Muhammad Abd al-Khaliq Hassuna, sec-gen of Arab League (1952-72), dies

1991 Dallas Mavericks Roy Tarpley becomes 7th to be banned from NBA for life under the league's anti-drug agreement

1991 Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0

1991 Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league HR since 1983

1991 Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start

1991 Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR

1991 Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed

1991 New York Yankee Steve Howe records his 1st major league save since 1987

1991 San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship

1991 Major league umpires and baseball reach a 4-year agreement

1991 Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use

1991 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 and Mont beats Birmingham 20-5

1991 James "Cool Papa" Bell, Negro baseball league great, dies at 87

1991 End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft

1990 Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58

1990 George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades

1990 Nolan Ryan becomes 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games

1990 Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game

1990 National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards

1989 Trumbull Conn, is 1st U.S. team since 1983 to win Little League WS

1989 U.S. Basketball League cancels its summer schedule

1989 Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St. Louis

1988 San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings

1988 Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92

1987 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins

1987 Calif's Bob Boone catches record 1,919th major league game

1987 Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls

1987 Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season and ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8)

1987 Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn

1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League

1986 Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees

1986 SD Padre Jimmy Jones pitchs 1-hitter in his major league debut

1986 A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league HR

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

1985 Major League Baseball Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)

1984 Joe Cronin, shortstop/American League Pres, dies at 77

1983 U.S. Football League begins its 1st season

1983 U.S. Football League holds its 1st player draft

1982 U.S. Football League forms

1981 Vernon Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League

1981 Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))

1981 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends

1980 Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan, Jr. National Urban League pres

1979 J. R. Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome

1978 1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does

1978 Major Indoor Soccer League holds its 1st draft

1978 Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati,

1978 Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans

1978 1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, NJ, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota and Dayton

1978 Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced

1977 Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (New York City)

1977 N.Y. Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland, Oregon, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship

1975 World Football League disbands

1975 World Football League folds

1974 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida

1974 Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut

1974 World Football League plays 1st games

1974 World Football League founded

1973 World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit)

1973 NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle and Vancouver franchises

1973 Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine

1973 New Jersey becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league

1973 Hank Aaron sets record of most home runs in 1 league (709)

1973 Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's "no girls" rule

1973 Kansas City Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit

1973 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh

1973 American League adopts designated hitter rule

1972 Record 8 shutouts pitched in 16 major league games (AL=5, NL=3)

1972 Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike

1971 Paul Newlove, rugby league player

1971 Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League

1971 Whitney M Young Jr, leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49

1971 Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria

1970 North American Soccer League awards New York and Toronto franchises

1970 Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League

1969 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game

1969 1st major league baseball game outside U.S. played (Montreal Canada)

1969 Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals

1968 AL and NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires

1968 Satchel Paige, 62, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves

1968 Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his 1st major league game (Giants)

1968 NL awards Montreal and SD major league franchises

1968 Frederik M baron van Asbeck, lawyer (League of Nations), dies at 78

1967 United Soccer Association and National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL

1967 AL votes to allow Athletics to move from Kansas City to Oakland and expand league to 12 teams in 1971 with Kansas City and Seattle teams

1966 Miami beats St. Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball

1966 Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire

1966 Stephen Mailer, born in New York City, actor, Red Meat, League of Their Own, War and Love

1965 Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season

1965 Continental Football League plays 1st games

1965 Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)

1964 American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded

1964 Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)

1964 Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0

1964 John Gallagher, rugby league player

1963 Major league baseballs 100,000th game

1963 Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit

1963 Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone

1962 American Basketball League announces suspension of operation

1962 Joanne Catherall, Sheffield England, rock vocalist, Human League

1962 Algeria becomes member of Arab League

1962 1st major league game in Houston, Colt .45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2

1962 Rosie O'Donnell, comedienne, League of Their Own, Flintstones, Rosie

1961 American Basketball League starts play

1961 Whitney Young, Jr. named executive director of National Urban League

1961 Ellery Hanley, rugby league player

1960 Washington Senators joins American League

1960 AL admits LA and Washington to the league

1960 NL votes to admit Houston and New York to league

1960 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10)

1960 Fidel Castro ends Havana's International League team, Sugar Kings move to NJ

1960 Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating

1959 Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Ft. Worth

1959 10 nation soccer league to play all games on New York Randalls Is, announced

1959 Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League

1959 Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be President of Continental League

1959 New Continental baseball league formed

1959 In his major league debut, San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4

1959 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area

1959 Phils' Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit

1958 New York City Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball called the Continental League

1958 Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years

1958 Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)

1958 Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits

1958 Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League

1957 CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on

1957 SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game

1957 Jon Lovitz, Tarzana California, actor, SNL, League of their Own, Critic

1957 Dodgers (Ft. Worth) and Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises

1956 Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR

1956 Curt Robert of Columbus (International League) hits 4 home runs in 7 inning game

1956 Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)

1956 Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group

1955 Dominican League moves to winter baseball for 1st time

1955 Phillip Oakey, rocker, Human League

1954 Bill Pullman, actor, Sommersby, League of their Own, Independence Day

1954 Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Philadelphia syndicate

1954 Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls

1954 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)

1954 Major League Baseball Players Association founded

1953 Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated St. Louis Browns

1953 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws

1953 Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR

1953 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2

1953 Brown's Bobo Holloman 1st major league start, no-hits Philadelphia A's, 6-0

1953 Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League

1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St. Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee

1953 Alexander Loudon, Dutch diplomat (League of Nations), dies at 60

1952 Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance

1952 New York Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yanks a 5-1 win at Washington He has now HRed in all 15 major league parks

1952 Arab League security pact goes into effect

1952 Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid

1951 Eric Drummond, 1st sec-gen League of Nations (1919-33), dies at 75

1951 Former Cubs 1st baseman and future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft

1951 Lefty O'Doul's all-stars, including Joe DiMaggio and Billy Martin, lose 3-1 to Pacific League all-star team (Japan)

1951 Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League

1951 Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run

1951 New York Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5)

1951 Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning

1951 Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter

1950 Margaret Whitton, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actress, Good and Evil, Major League

1950 Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey (Atl City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League

1950 Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League

1950 1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons)

1950 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5)

1950 Baltimore's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League

1950 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name

1949 American Contract Bridge League votes 58 % to keep blacks out

1949 Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit

1949 Basketball Assoc of America and National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association

1948 Baseball's Negro National League disbands

1948 Mexican Baseball league disbanded

1948 Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game

1948 Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem

1947 Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected

1947 Negro League World Series, New York Cubans beat Cleveland Buckeyes, 6-5

1947 1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport Pennsylvania win

1947 Cleveland Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stad

1947 Jackie Robinson bunts for his 1st major league hit

1947 Jackie Robinson goes hitless in his major league debut

1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers)

1947 Josh Gibson, Negro League slugger, dies of a brain tumor at age 35

1946 Indians play their final game in League Park, ending a 55-year stay

1946 Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game

1946 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash

1946 League of Nations dissolves, 3 months after United Nations starts

1946 Eddie Klepp, a white pitcher signed by defending Negro League champ Cleveland Buckeyes, is barred from field in Birmingham Alabama

1946 League of Nations assembles for last time

1946 Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses

1946 Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League

1945 Branch Rickey announces formation of the U.S. Negro Baseball League

1945 Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt

1945 Arab League froms (Cairo)

1944 U.S. 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall

1944 Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore

1944 Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cin Reds is youngest player in major league

1943 Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II

1943 Phil Wrigley and B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League

1943 Negro League star Josh Gibson suffers a nervous breakdown

1942 Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of New York Giants minor league system

1941 Cards' Stan Musial makes his major league debut, going 2-for-4

1941 Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder

1940 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)

1940 Ed Garvey, labor leader, Major League Baseball Players Assn

1940 All-India-Moslem League calls for a Moslem homeland

1939 1st major league baseball telecast-Reds beat Brooklyn Dodgers (W2XBS New York)

1939 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)

1939 Hungary leaves League of Nations

1938 League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor against China

1938 Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game

1937 Italy withdraws from League of Nations

1937 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0)

1936 1st baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game

1936 Indians' Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief

1936 League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy

1936 Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy

1935 League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia

1935 Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr., civil rights activist, National Urban League

1935 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1)

1934 Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League

1934 New York Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco Seals (Pacific Coast League)

1934 Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president

1934 U.S.S.R. admitted to League of Nations

1934 U.S.S.R. joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switz and Portugal vote no)

1934 Gary Davidson, U.S. sports league founder, ABA, WHA, WFL

1934 Pittsburgh is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday

1933 Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations

1933 1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park)

1933 Joe Dimaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League

1933 1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair

1933 1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell)

1933 Japan leaves League of Nations

1933 League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria

1932 Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations

1932 Dodger John Quinn, 49, is oldest pitcher to win a major league game

1931 Round-robin playoff among New York City's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants and Yanks

1931 Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67

1931 National League adopts a deader baseball

1931 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League

1930 Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hits major league's last recorded bounce HR

1930 1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars take on Kansas City, Missouri narchs

1930 Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights

1930 123 runs are scored in 7 major league games

1929 1st U.S. nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, New York City)

1928 Eastern Soccer League forms in U.S.

1928 Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils

1927 Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park)

1927 U.S. government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty

1926 Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining

1926 Germany joins League of Nations

1926 League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany

1926 Brazil leaves League of Nations

1926 Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League

1926 Spain and Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations

1926 German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership

1925 League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied

1925 League of Nations conference on arms control and poison gas usage

1924 Aggrement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years

1924 1st Negro League World Series: Kansas City, Missouri narchs shuts out Hilldales, 5-0

1924 League of Nations approves protocols of Geneva

1924 Santo Domingo joins League of Nations

1923 Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations

1923 Irish Free state joins League of Nations

1923 League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)

1922 Hungary admitted to League of Nations

1922 Togo made a mandate of League of Nations

1922 American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League"

1921 National Birth Control League and Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League

1921 League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians

1921 Estonia and Lithuania admitted to League of Nations

1921 Whitney M. Young, Jr., civil rights leader, head of Urban League

1921 Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the 1st no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the Cuban Stars 4-0

1921 American Soccer League forms

1921 Liberal Freedom League forms in The Hague

1920 British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru

1920 Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands

1920 South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa

1920 League of nations establishes International Court of Justice in The Hague

1920 Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection

1920 League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva

1920 American Pro Football League's Chic Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards

1920 League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva

1920 National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Prof Football Assn

1920 Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League

1920 Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality

1920 China joins the League of Nations

1920 League of Nations places International head of Justice in Hague

1920 1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis

1920 U.S. Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy)

1920 Denmark and Cuba join the League of Nations

1920 Netherlands joins League of Nations

1920 League of Women Voters forms in Chicago

1920 National Negro Baseball League organizes

1920 League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland

1920 Switzerland rejoin League of Nations

1920 Saarland administrated by League of Nations

1920 U.S. Senate votes against membership in League of Nations

1920 1st assembly of League of Nations in Paris

1920 League of Nations established

1920 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes

1919 U.S. Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations

1919 Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball

1919 Fastest major league game (51 mins), Giants beat Phillies 6-1

1919 Babe Ruth's 29th HR is 1st of year in Washington (1st in every park in league in one season)

1919 Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 HRs

1919 Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)

1919 Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois

1919 Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game

1919 League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty

1919 League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)

1919 Jackie Robinson, born in Georgia, 1st black major league baseball player, Dodgers

1919 Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later

1918 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League

1918 National Urban League forms

1918 Save the Redwoods League founded

1915 Federal Baseball League disolved

1915 Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati

1915 Edward Digby Baltzell, Ivy League sociologist

1915 St. Louis Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago (Federal League), 3-0

1915 KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0

1915 League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia

1915 Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pitts (Federal League), 10-0

1915 Pittsburghs' Frank Allen no-hits St. Louis (Federal League), 2-0

1915 George Brian Snape, businessman and rugby league entrepreneur

1914 Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court

1914 Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits Kansas City (Federal League), 6-2

1914 1st Federal League Game: Balt Terrapins beat Buffalo 3-2

1913 John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League

1913 St. Louis Browns mgr George Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League

1913 Federal League organizes with 6 teams

1911 Cy Young's farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game

1911 Cleve's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3

1911 Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby league player

1910 Cleveland Naps play 1st game at League Park, lose to Det Tigers 5-0

1909 Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League

1909 John A. Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League

1909 1st pro baseball game, minor league, played under lights

1908 Caledonia and Hillhurst Football Clubs play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League championship

1905 Cubs Jack McCarthy becomes only major league player to throw out 3 runners at plate in 1 game, all were ends of a double play

1904 Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League)

1903 Netherlands Korfball League forms

1902 Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League

1902 Minor League's most lopsided baseball game: Corsicana 51; Texarkana 3 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Texas minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game

1901 Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League

1901 Erve Beck hits American League's 1st home run

1901 1st games played in baseball's American League

1900 Baltimore Orioles (now New York Yankees) enter baseball's American League

1900 National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)

1900 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids)

1900 American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee and Minneapolis

1896 Warren Giles, baseball's National League president

1895 Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, D.C.

1895 Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, 1925-32

1892 Dr. Jose Rizal forms League Filipina

1891 Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3

1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Red-Headed League"

1890 Denton True "Cy" Young pitched his 1st major league baseball game

1890 National Afro-American League forms in Chicago

1889 Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball's NL

1889 Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League

1889 Frederik M baron of Asbeck, Dutch lawyer, League of Nations

1888 English Football League established

1887 1st minor league baseball association organizes in Pittsburgh

1884 Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league

1880 John Lee Richmond pitches 1st major league perfect game, Worcester 1, Cleveland's Forest City 0

1880 League of American Wheelmen (1st U.S. bicycle assn), forms in Newport, Rhode Island

1880 National Croquet League organizes (Phila)

1879 Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill

1877 International Association (minor baseball league) organizes

1876 Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations, 1919-33

1876 Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League

1876 Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis

1874 White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms

1871 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft. Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double

1870 Thomas Connolly, baseball's major league umpire for 50 years

1870 Jan Christian Smuts, proponnent of Commonwealth and League of Nations

1869 Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor, Rotterdam 1906-22, /Dir, League of Nations

1865 Richard Cobden, founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60

1864 Lord Cecil of Chelwood, UK, help form League of Nations, Nobel 1937

1864 Ban Johnson, Norwalk, Connecticut, baseball founder, American League

1859 Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder, League of Women Voters

1840 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer, Irish Land League

1838 Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law

1838 Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden

1804 Richard Cobden, West Sussex, founder, Anti-Corn-Law League

1689 England and Netherlands form League of Augsburg

1688 Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg

1686 Germany, Sweden and Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg

1626 Battle at Lutter: Catholic League beats Danish king Christian IV

1609 Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League

1596 Catholic League disjoins

1590 Battle at Ivry: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League

1590 Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League

1589 Battle at Arques: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League

1588 Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37

1588 French king Henri III accept demands of Catholic League

1588 Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris

1587 Battle at Coultras: Henri van Navarra beats Catholic League

1585 Spain and Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville

1573 Maximilian I, duke/ruler of Bayern, Catholic League

1571 Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain and Italy) destroys Turkish fleet

1571 Venice, Spain and Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League

1563 League of High Nobles routes King Philip II

1563 League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II

1552 Privileges of Hanseatic League in England are abrogated

1550 Henri Guise [le Balafre], French duke/leader, Catholic League

1547 Charles demands creation of Imperial League (German state)

1538 Catholic German monarchy signs League of Neurenberg

1526 Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence and Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac

1526 German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldische League

1526 Saxony and Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)

1511 England signs on to the Saint League

1511 Eedgenootschap signs anti-French Saint League

1508 League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)

1495 Battle at Fornovo] French king Charles VIII beats St. League

1495 Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella and Venice sign anti-French Saint League

1367 League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV

1291 Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)

1176 Battle at Legnano: Lombardi League beats Frederik Barbarossa

1167 Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League

1167 Lombard League defeat Frederick Barbarossa at Battle of Legnano



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