1992 Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races
1991 Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races
1989 Tim Richmond, race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS
1989 5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez)
1987 1st jockey to win 9 races in 1 day (Chris Antley at Belmont)
1987 Angel Cordero, Jr. becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races
1983 Angel Cordero wins his 5,000th horse races
1973 Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year
1967 Franz Waxman, German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60
1962 Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races
1962 Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)
1960 Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races
1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses
1954 U.S. Armed Forces end segregation of races
1951 Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
1950 South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races
1950 L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Between the Races), dies at 78
1940 Bud Brennan, a fan at Memorial Stadium, races out of stands and attempts to tackle Tom Harmon at 3-yard line, Harmon easily evades Brennan
1938 Johnny Rutherford, auto racer, 26 championship races
1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in New York
1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released
1930 Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day
1927 Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona
1917 Man O'War, racehorse, winner of 20 out of 21 races and $249,465
1915 Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, New York
1914 Charlie Chaplin debuts "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"
1907 Allan Jones, Scranton, Pennsylvania, actor/singer, A Day at the Races, Showboat
1906 Franz Waxman, Konigshutte, Germany, composer, Day at the Races
1904 Gordon Richards, British jockey, winner of 4,870 races
1891 Ferdinand Bruckner, [Theodor Tagger], Austrian playwright, Races
1889 Margaret Dumont, actress-Marx Brothers' foil, Day at the Races
1869 University of South Carolina opens to all races
1861 Isaac Murphy, U.S. jockey, won 628 races
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