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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