1998 Indianapolis 500 race
1998 Daytona 500 race
1997 Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race
1997 Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race
1997 Indianapolis 500 race
1996 San Diego Padres sweep Los Angeles Dodgers in race for NL West title
1996 Indianapolis 500 race
1996 Daytona 500 race
1995 America3 becomes 1st all-female crew to win an America's Cup race
1994 Hannes Wustinger, Austrian race car driver, dies at 29
1994 Don Watson, race car driver, dies in an accident at 46
1994 Howard Stern drops out of New York gubernatorial race
1994 Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver, dies in crash at 31
1993 Davey Allisson, race car drive, dies in a plane crash at 32
1992 Ross Perot re-enters presidental race
1992 USA/U.S.S.R. Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica
1992 Round World Air Race begins in Paris
1991 Ayrton Senna wins shortest Formula One race ever run (17 laps)
1991 Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal and Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in New York thoroughbred racing history
1991 Miguel Indurain of Spain wins Tour de France bicycle race
1991 Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race
1991 Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race
1991 Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd
1990 Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
1989 Tim Richmond, race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS
1989 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)
1988 Jim Elliott (U.S.) completes 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
1988 Jim Elliott (U.S.) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
1988 Mike Venezia, jockey, dies in 5th-race fall at Belmont Race Track, New York
1988 Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana)
1987 Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race
1987 Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)
1987 Wrestler Jerry Lawler sues WWF and Harley Race for trademark name "king"
1987 Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race due to Donna Rice affair
1987 Bob Land wins his 6th straight Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race
1986 150 killed during race riot in Karachi
1986 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1986 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita
1986 Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16)
1986 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38 degrees F (3 degrees C), Indiana
1985 Race riot in Birmingham England
1985 Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race
1985 Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skateing race
1984 Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
1983 Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-U.S. winner)
1983 U.S. District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination
1983 Don Ida, balloonists, dies during a race
1983 Maxie Anderson, balloonists, dies during a race
1983 Hennie Kuiper (Neth) wins Paris-Roubaix cycle race
1982 Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm
1982 Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery
1982 Bert Oosterhuis, Dutch motor racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in race crash
1981 Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey
1981 Race riot in London area of Brixton
1981 Race riots in London's Brixton area
1980 Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured
1977 Harley Race beats Terry Funk in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champ
1976 Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die
1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race
1974 Race riot in Boston due to "busing"
1974 Peter Revson, U.S. race car driver (Indianapolis 500), dies at 35
1973 Susannah Kate Pryde, Auckland NZ, road race cyclist 1996 Olympics
1973 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, California, beating a field of 1,500 runners
1973 Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ
1973 Harley Race beats Dory Funk, Jr. in Kansas City, to become NWA champ
1973 Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race
1972 Glen Anthony Mitchell, Hamilton NZ, road race cyclist 1996 Olympics
1972 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk
1972 Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship
1972 Courts awarded Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because winner was given drugs before race
1971 Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race
1971 Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (New York City)
1970 Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida
1970 Jochen Rindt, German race car driver, dies at 28
1970 6 days of race rioting in Hartford, Connecticut
1970 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park, New Jersey
1970 Race riots in Miami, Florida
1970 Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
1970 Secreteriat, race horse, triple crown, 1973
1969 Richard Dickson Reid, NZ, road race cyclist 1996 Olympics
1969 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
1969 France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
1969 Alina Ivanova, born in Ukraine, race walker, indoor 3K world record
1969 White Rhodesia agrees to race separation
1969 Race riot in Hartford Connecticut
1968 Gord Fraser, Ottawa Ontario, road race cyclist 1996 Olympics
1968 Glenn Leroy McLeay, Invercargill NZ, points race cyclist 1996 Olympics
1968 Race riot in Miami, Chicago and Little Rock
1968 Race riot in Miami, Florida
1968 Race Riot in Gary, Indiana
1968 Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed
1968 Jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car
1967 Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)
1967 Race riots in Cambridge Maryland
1967 Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game
1967 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
1967 Race riots in Memphis, Tennessee
1967 Race riots in Durham, North Carolina
1967 Race riots in Cairo, Illinois
1967 Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die
1967 23 die in Newark race riot
1967 Race riot in Buffalo New York (200 arrested)
1967 Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio, 300 arrested
1967 Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes
1967 Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston
1966 Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of Dutch Race), dies
1966 Race riot in Waukegan, Illinois
1966 Race riot in Lansing, Michigan
1966 Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland, race riot
1966 Race riot in Chicago
1966 Race riots in Omaha, Nebraska
1966 Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph)
1965 Brian Walton, Ottawa Ontario, points race cyclist, 1996 Olympics silver
1965 Jacqueline Mary Nelson, Upper Hutt NZ, points race cyclist 1996 Olympics
1964 Race riot in Jersey City, New Jersey
1964 Race riot in Rochester, New York
1964 Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race
1963 Race riot in Birmingham Alabama
1963 John Andretti, race car driver
1963 Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (10:59)
1962 Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (U.S. wins)
1962 Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school
1962 U.S. Supreme Court disallows race separation on public transportation
1960 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
1959 Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
1958 Evert van Benthem, Dutch skater, 11 Cities Skating Race, 1985, 86
1958 Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London
1958 Fed judge rules race separation must end in 2 years in Little Rock
1957 Dom Galluscio, race horse trainer
1957 Brad MacDonald, race horse trainer
1957 South Africa government approves race separation in universities
1956 U.S. Methodist church disallows race separation
1956 U.S. Supreme Court ends race segregation on buses
1955 Race segregation forbidden on trains and buses between U.S. states
1955 Joe Orseno, race horse trainer
1955 Le Mans race car accident kills 83 spectators, race continues
1955 Jill Kinmont hits a tree and breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race
1954 Willie Shaw, race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40), dies at 51
1954 Derek Warwick, race car driver
1954 Philippe Alliot, race driver, grand prix
1954 7-time winner of Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th
1954 David La Croix, race horse trainer
1954 Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32)
1952 Steve Penrod, race horse trainer
1951 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
1950 Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run
1949 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany, California
1949 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal Ks)
1949 Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die
1948 Malcolm Campbell, English race driver, dies at 63
1948 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie
1947 Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51)
1946 U.S. Supreme Court rules race separation on buses, unconstitutional
1946 2 killed and 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia Tenn
1945 Richard Bickell, race horse trainer
1945 Paco Gonzalez, race horse trainer
1945 New York is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment
1945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)
1945 Jacques Ickx, Belgium, Le Mans auto race, 6-time winner
1944 Race riots in Athens Alabama
1944 Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race
1943 Race riot in Harlem New York City
1943 Detroit race riot kills 35
1942 "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations
1942 Race riots in Harlem, New York
1942 1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens
1942 Giacomo Agostini, born in Lovere, Italy, world motorcycle race champion
1942 Jochen Rindt, German race car driver
1942 Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit
1941 Sven Hamrin, born in Sweden, road race cycler, 1964 Olympics bronze
1941 Auke Adema wins 6th official Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race (9:19)
1940 Walter Johnson, won 416 games for Washington Senators, loses Maryland congressional race (R)
1940 Willem A Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race and Crime), suicide at 63
1940 Kathy Hutchinson, race horse trainer
1940 Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race
1938 Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico
1938 J Bert Sonnier, race horse trainer
1938 Janet Guthrie, race car driver, 1st woman to race in Indianapolis 500
1938 Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver, dies at 28
1937 Richard Petty, auto race driver, Daytona 500-1979,81
1937 Robin Wright, race horse trainer
1936 HR Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18 days
1936 Glenn Hild, race horse trainer
1936 Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver, world champ 1966
1936 Jim Clark, race car driver, Indianapolis 500
1936 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Fla
1935 A J Foyt, Houston, auto race driver, Indy 500 1961, 64, 67, 77
1934 "Uiver" returns from Schiphol in London-Melbourne air race
1934 John Surtees, British race car driver
1933 Peter Walwyn, British race horse trainer
1932 1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, New York (demonstration sport)
1932 Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race
1931 Closest NL batting race ends Chick Hafey (.3488) beats Bill Terry's
1931 Reno race track, becomes 1st in U.S. to use daily double wagering
1930 Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)
1929 Stirling Moss, race car driver
1929 New York to San Francisco foot race ends (2 months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde
1929 Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
1929 Thomas Bell, Jr., race horse trainer
1929 Walter Medio, race horse trainer
1928 Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia
1928 Christopher Benstead, race horse trainer
1928 "Bunion Run" race from Los Angeles to New York City begins; It is won by Andy Payne
1927 Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist, dies at 71
1923 George Vogel, race horse trainer
1922 1st slalom ski race run, Murren, Switzerland
1921 Race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 61 people killed
1920 Man O'War's last race and win
1920 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track in Emeryville, California
1919 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money
1919 Race riot at Elaine Arkansas
1919 1st transcontinental air race ends
1919 Chicago race riot, 15 whites and 23 blacks killed, 500 injured
1919 Race Riot in Washington D.C. (6 killed, 100 wounded)
1919 Race riots in Longview and Gregg counties Texas
1919 Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina, 2 blacks killed
1918 Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites and 1 black killed)
1918 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks and 2 whites killed)
1918 James Bracken, race horse trainer
1917 Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks and 11 whites killed)
1917 Silent Parade in New York City to protest murders of blacks in race riots
1917 Race riots in East St. Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)
1917 Race riot in East St. Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
1917 Coen de Koning wins 2nd official 11 cities race (9:53) (record)
1914 1st U.S. motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
1912 1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles/12.3 km)
1911 Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole
1911 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH)
1911 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run
1910 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st U.S. auto speedway)
1910 An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer, Skating Race
1909 World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins
1909 Indianapolis 500 race track opens
1909 Harry Hillman and Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds
1909 Moran and MacFarland (U.S.) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin)
1908 Allen Winter wins U.S. 1st $50,000 trotting race
1908 Race riot in Springfield Illinois
1908 Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
1908 New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia) begins in New York City George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
1907 Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race: (38.22 mph)
1905 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark)
1904 1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, New York)
1903 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins
1903 Long Island's Jamaica Race Track opens
1903 New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced
1902 Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race
1902 Willie Shaw, race car driver, Indy 500-1937, 39, 40
1901 3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds
1901 Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th
1900 Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed
1900 An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hrs
1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, New York
1899 Jacques Audiberti, French poet, Race of Men
1899 1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in U.S. begins, MSG, New York City
1898 Race riot in Wilmington North Carolina (8 blacks killed)
1898 George van Derton, Belgian racer, won 500 race
1897 1st motorcycle race (Surrey England)
1896 1st closed-circuit auto race, at Cranston, RI
1896 A. H. Whiting wins 1st automobile race held on a track in Cranston, Rhode Island
1896 Bay District Race Track closes
1896 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY
1896 U.S. Supreme Court affirms race separation (Plessy vs. Ferguson)
1896 1st U.S. women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
1895 America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH
1895 Emile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
1893 San Francisco Bay City Club opens 1st U.S. bicycle race track, made of wood
1891 1st International 6 day bike race (New York MSG) ends
1891 1st International 6 day bike race (New York MSG) begins
1891 1st international 6-day bicycle race in U.S. (MSG, New York City) begins
1887 Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted
1883 NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race
1883 Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)
1882 With 120 miles James Saunders wins New York City's 24 hour race and $100 prize
1882 New York City's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours
1881 Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, Milan, race car builder, Amaz Bugattis
1878 CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston
1878 U.S. Supreme Court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional
1877 University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat
1876 Race riot at Cainhoy South Carolina (5 whites and 1 black killed)
1876 Race riot in Charleston SC
1876 Willem A Bonger, Dutch sociologist/criminologist, Race and Crime
1874 Kincsem, horse that never lost a race
1873 Bay District Race Track opens
1870 Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore
1870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race
1869 Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race (13K Paris-Rouen)
1869 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard)
1868 Dr. James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St. Cloud, Paris
1866 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean
1866 Race riot in New Orleans
1855 Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist
1852 1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths
1838 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide
1831 John Morrissey, boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track
1827 Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1809 1st run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket England
1776 St. Leger horse race run for 1st time
1716 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea)
1716 Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed
1668 1st horse race in America takes place
1661 1st Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James
1540 The 1st recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester)
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