1999 Gene Rayburn, game show host, Match Game, dies at 81
1997 Diners Club Senior Golf Match
1997 Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (U.S. Open)
1997 Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
1996 Start of 1st Test Cricket match between Zimbabwe and England
1996 Mashonaland defeat England in first-class tour match
1996 Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad vs Leeward Is
1995 1st 1st-class match at Hurstville Oval, Sydney (NSW vs. W Prov)
1995 Andrew Symonds hits 20 sixes in match for Gloucs vs. Glamorgan
1995 Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka vs. Kerala
1994 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago
1993 25 people killed during Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match
1993 Mats Wilander defeats Mikael Pernfors 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 in 4 hours 1 min U.S. Open Tennis match concluding at 2:26 AM
1993 Sri Lanka beat England in Test match by 5 wickets
1992 Dawn Coe-Jone wins Pizza-La LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
1992 Start of Zimbabwe's 1st Test match, vs. India at Harare
1992 Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang in what is believed to be the longest match in U.S. Open history (5hr 26min)
1991 Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
1991 Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon
1991 Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours and 11 mins
1991 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa
1990 Betsy King wins Itoman LPGA World Match Play Golf Championship
1989 Howard Stern's U.S. Open Sores Tennis match
1989 Chris Evert last U.S. Open match, she is defeated by Zina Garrison
1988 Andre beats Hulk Hogan in 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 years
1988 Bob Benoit bowls 1st 300-pt game in a televised title match
1987 A pair in Coventry, England ties world record for longest singles tennis match at 80 hours 21 minutes
1987 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win U.S. Tennis Open match
1985 R. Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match vs. Australia at Brisbane
1985 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament
1985 Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years and 8 days old is youngest to win a U.S. Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round)
1985 39, die at Heysel Stadium in Liverpool in a riot prior to soccor match
1985 World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23
1985 Australia beat WI by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wkts
1984 Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide)
1984 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament
1984 Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match
1984 101,799 fans at soccer match Brazilie-France
1984 Johan Cruyffs last competitive match
1983 Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Sports Nippon Team Match Golf Tournament
1983 New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England
1983 Winston Davis takes 7-51 in Cricket World Cup match vs. Australia
1983 Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy)
1982 Chris Evert wins her 6th and final U.S. Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY
1982 Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match vs. Sri Lanka at Lahore
1982 Commencement of Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket match, vs. England
1981 Highest score in World Cup soccor match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
1981 Ivan Lendl intentionally loses a match in Volvo Masters in order to avoid having to play Bjorn Borg
1979 Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match
1979 Wildest U.S. Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated
1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hrs, begins
1978 Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston
1977 Imran Khan takes 12 wickets in match for Pakistan win at the SCG
1976 Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match
1975 1st night match at U.S. Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
1974 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
1973 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
1973 Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Smith Court in Mother's Day match in California
1971 A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66
1970 Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, vs. England
1970 Paul Strang, cricketer, Zimbabwe's 1st Test match leg-spinner, 1994-
1969 Honduras/El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match
1969 Longest tennis match in Wimbledon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon
1968 1st U.S. Open tennis match (Billie Jean King beats Dr. Vija Vuskains)
1966 Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
1964 England all out 611 in reply to Australia's 8-656 Match a draw
1964 Arnold Long takes 11 catches in the match for Surrey vs. Sussex
1963 Endzion Barelli, dies 2 days after winning a boxing match at 18
1962 "Match Game" debuts on NBC with host Gene Rayburn
1960 Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss
1959 Abdul Aziz, cricket, dies at 17 struck by ball in fc match for Karachi
1957 Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 vs. England, 13 wkts for match
1956 Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match vs. Aus, Karachi
1956 Laker takes 10-53 in Australia's 2nd innings, 19-90 for match
1956 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
1955 1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)
1953 Hungary beats England in soccer match, 6-3
1950 University of Miami ends William and Mary straight tennis match victories at 82
1948 H H H Johnson bowls WI to win vs. England 10-96 match on debut
1943 Richard Sears, 1st to win U.S. amateur national tennis match, dies at 81
1940 Bradman scores 135 in a non-Shield match for SA vs. West Australia
1939 1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer
1938 Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Neth-Germany
1938 Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico
1937 O'Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, NSW vs. South Aust
1935 Bradman scores 117 in his 1st Shield cricket match for South Australia
1934 Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match
1933 1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri in London
1933 Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match
1932 Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide
1932 Brian Moore, British commentator, Big Match
1931 1st Test Cricket match at the Gabba Bradman scores 200 on 1st day
1931 Charles Nelson Reilly, New York City, actor, Match Game, Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1930 1st International bridge match is held in London. U.S. team defeats England
1928 1st televised tennis match
1928 Netherlands and Belgium tie 1-1 (soccer match in Amsterdam)
1927 Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam
1926 Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, vs. NSW
1926 Commencement of the West Indies' 1st Test cricket match, at Lord's
1926 Tennis star Suzanne Lenglen beats Helen Wills in their only match
1925 1st international handball match held
1921 Jack Dempsey KOs George S Carpentier in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1st million dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier)
1921 KDKA broadcast 1st radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee)
1917 Gene Rayburn, born in Christopher, Illinois, TV game show host, Match Game
1916 Women are allowed to attend a boxing match
1911 MCC tour match vs. Jamaica finishes in a tie
1909 Lall Singh, cricketer, scored 15 and 29 in India's 1st Test match
1909 1st rugby match (Twickenham)
1905 2nd official International soccer match, Netherlands beats Belg 4-0
1904 Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match
1902 Soccer match riot between Scotland and England kills 25
1900 Start of the one and only olympic cricket match, in Paris
1900 Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match
1900 165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match
1898 Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl
1892 Book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company
1892 Diamond Match Co patented book matches
1892 Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe and Frank Crosby
1890 D Needham and P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m), SF; match is draw
1889 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town vs. England
1888 Longest U.S. men's single tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80-game 1st-round contest
1885 Highest score (35) recorded in any 1st-class soccer match is set
1884 1st Test match played at the Adelaide Oval
1884 1st Test Cricket match played at Lord's
1882 Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 for match vs. England (7-46 and 7-44)
1882 1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground
1879 1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG
1878 Edward Pooley completes record 8 stumpings in a cricket match
1878 Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match
1877 Australia beat England by 45 runs in very 1st Test match
1876 Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0)
1876 Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
1874 1st Grand International Rifle match held
1869 1st international cricket match, held in SF, wins by Californian
1868 Ed Pooley takes 12 dismissals as keeper in match Surrey vs. Sussex
1865 Con Orem and Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match
1860 1st U.S. intercollegiate billiard match, Harvard vs. Yales
1859 Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins
1840 1st recorded bowling match in U.S., Knickerbocker Alleys, New York City
1838 Nat Thompson, cricketer, 1st batsman dismissed in a Test match
1836 A. Phillips patents match
1826 John Walker invents friction match in England
1814 1st match at the present Lord's, MCC vs. Herefordshire
1751 1st American cricket match is played
1733 1st international boxing match: Bob Whittaker beats Tito di Carni
1681 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)
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