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1997 Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city Giants vs Mets and Oakland A's vs Yankees in NY 1995 Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria 1995 Indians and Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose - Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition) 1993 Fred McGriff and David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back home runs twice in same game 1993 Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit home runs in same inn (vs Yanks) 1992 1st time AL East and West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor and Oak 1990 Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend 1990 Ken Griffey Sr &, Jr. are 1st father and son to play on same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners 1990 Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey, Jr. become 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning 1990 Guns and Roses' Axl marries Erin Everly (annulled same year) 1989 Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at same time being accused of fathering children by 2 other women 1985 Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve becomes 1st Phillie to switch hit home runs in same game 1984 Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on same hole 1984 1st brother combo to win Gold and Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil and Steve Mahre-Slalom) 1982 Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun 1981 Yank Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game 1977 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877 1976 Sadiq and Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings vs. NZ 1975 Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in New York City 1974 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian and Westfall 1974 Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same day 1972 Ian and Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings 1967 White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game) 1965 Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 home runs while playing together on the same team 1962 Brothers Hank and Tommie Aaron homer in same inning 1959 During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time 1958 Phils drop plans for New York sportcast as Yanks threat to do same in Phila 1958 U.S.S.R. suspends nuclear weapons tests, and urges U.S. and Britain to do same 1957 Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher 1956 ... Kennedy, daughter of future President Kennedy, dies same day 1952 Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid 1951 Dan Fogelberg, born in Peoria, Illinois, rocker, Same Auld Lang Syne 1950 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: CCNY beats Bradley 71-68 New York City college becomes 1st to win NCAA and National Inv Basketball in same year 1947 Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries New York City under 25.8" of snow in 16 hours That same day, LA set a record high of 84 degrees F 1947 Compton and Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket 1944 Billy Cobham, Panama, jazz artist, Same Ole Love 1942 WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same" 1938 Arthur Fagg completes 244 and 202 in the same cricket game for Kent 1933 1st time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox 1931 George Gunn gets 183 and son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings 1925 NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began 1916 Codell, Kansas hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 and 1918) 1912 Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Aust vs. South Africa 1902 Cleveland is 1st AL team to hit 3 consecutive home runs in same inning 1900 Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match 1892 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket Eng vs. SA (Cape Town) 1697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night

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