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2013 Event - Ray Lewis, U.S. football linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League, announces plans for retirement at the end of the season

2011 Event - Drew Brees, quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, sets a new National Football League record for yards passing in a season

2011 Event - NBA team owners and players reach an agreement, ending the 149-day NBA lockout; the new NBA season will begin Christmas day

2011 Event - Tropical Storm Arlene, the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season's first tropical storm, lands near Cabo Rojo and brings heavy rain to Mexico and southern Texas

2010 Event - The fourth named cyclone of the 2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Cyclonic Storm Giri, lands in western Burma with winds of 144mph

2010 Event - Hurricane Julia becomes the fifth hurricane in the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane season

2002 Death - Ted Williams, athlete, last person to hit .400 for a season as a major leaguer, dies at 83

2001 Death - Jason Miller, playwright/actor, That Championship Season, dies at 62

1999 Death - Greg Moore, promising Canadian racecar driver, competed in Indy Lights, CART World Series, fatally injured in violent car crash on the 10th lap of the CART season finale

1998 Event - Mark McGwire breaks Roger Marris' 62 home run record for a season, and goes on to hit 70 home runs for the 1998 season

1998 Event - NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season

1998 Event - NHL resumes season since Feb 8th to accomodate the Olympics

1998 Event - NHL stops season until Feb 24th to accomodate the Olympics

1997 Event - Jerry Seinfeld says this is the final season of his TV show

1997 Event - Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd to run for 2,000 yards in a season

1997 Event - Yankees Tim Raines, Derek Jeter and Paul O'Neill are 1st to hit 3 consecutively homers in post season (Yankees beat Indians 8-6)

1997 Event - Yankees clinch 37th appearance in post season, 3rd consecutive

1996 Event - Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yankees win record 8th straight road post season win (with no loses)

1996 Event - New York Yankee Bernie Williams hits record tying 7th post season home run, as Yankees tie record of 6th straight post season road win (en route to 8)

1996 Event - New York Yankee Bernie Williams switch hits home runs in a post season game

1996 Event - Baltimore Orioles end season with record 257 home runs

1996 Event - A's Mark McGwire is 13th player to hit 50-home runs in a season

1996 Event - Dean Headley takes 3rd cricket hat-trick of season, Kent vs. Hampshire

1996 Event - New York Yankees sweep complete season series in Baltimore for 1st time

1996 Event - Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season

1996 Event - Detroit Red Wings become 2nd NHL team to win 60 games in a season

1995 Event - Cleveland Indian Albert Belle hits his 50th home run of season

1995 Event - Earliest 1st-class cricket in Australia season (Qld vs. Western Prov)

1995 Event - Browns and Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleveland for only time, Browns 22-6 over Tampa, Indians 5-3 over Orioles

1995 Event - Baseball season begins after lengthy strike

1995 Event - Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike

1995 Event - Baseball season opener delayed until April 26

1995 Event - Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to start season 4/26

1995 Death - Phillip Borsos, Tasmanian/Canadian director (Mean Season), dies

1995 Event - 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike

1994 Death - Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor (High Season, Ace of Spades), dies at 89

1994 Event - Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland vs. Tasmania)

1994 Event - All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season

1994 Event - New Jersey Devils end best regular season, 47-25-12 record for 106 points

1994 Event - New Jersey Devils club record 41st win of the season

1993 Event - Toronto Maple Leafs lose 1st game of season after going 10-0-0

1993 Event - Houston's Darryl Kile throws 3rd no-hitter of season in 7-1 over Mets

1993 Event - Tickets for Indians 1st season in Jacobs Field go on sale

1992 Event - New Jersey Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, and white for the 1992-93 season

1992 Event - Randy Myers blows his 6th save of the season and it marks the 5th time he's blown a potential win for Greg Harris

1992 Event - Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0

1992 Event - A's Dennis Eckersley sets record of 26th straight save of season

1992 Event - NHL New York Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years

1992 Event - 2nd WLAF season begins

1992 Death - A J Antoon, director (That Championship Season), dies at 47

1991 Event - Brigham Young Ty Detmer finishes NCAA career with record 4,031 yards passed in a season and 15,031 for career

1991 Event - Joe Coleman 3rd 100 RBI season in a row 3 teams (Cleveland, San Diego and Toronto)

1991 Event - John Stockton breaks his own NBA season assist record at 1,136

1991 Event - Chicago Blackhawks becomes 1st NHL regular season champion in 20 years to lose in 1st round of the playoffs (To Minnesota North Stars)

1991 Event - St. Louis Blue Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season

1990 Event - Pirate Bobby Bond is 2nd to hit 30 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season (so he can play in 6 decades) because it is a publicity stunt

1990 Event - 1st time in New York Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0

1990 Event - Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season

1990 Event - NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for 1993 season

1990 Event - For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game

1989 Event - Texas A&I, Johnny Bailey sets NCAA season rush record at 6,085 yards

1989 Event - Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since 1942), prompts Pirate Jim Rooker to say he would walk from Pitts to Philadelphia if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them 15-11, Rooker walks at end of season broadcaster

1989 Event - Nolan Ryan pitches his 2nd one-hitter this season and 11th overall

1989 Event - New York Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3 innings before giving up his 1st run of season

1989 Event - Gretzky sets 2 records, his 45th hat trick and 10th 40+ goal season

1989 Event - Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season

1988 Event - Minn Twins are 1st AL club ever to break 3 million season attendance

1988 Event - Jose Canseco becomes 11th to get 30 home runs and 30 steals in a season

1988 Death - Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50

1988 Event - Graeme Hick scores his 1,000th run of 1st-class cricket season

1988 Event - In just Oakland's 39th of the season, pitcher Dave Stewart breaks record with his 12th balk en route to 16

1988 Event - Baltimore Orioles win record 14th straight from beginning of season

1988 Event - NBA approves addition of 3rd referee in 1988-89 season

1988 Event - Baltimore Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)

1988 Event - Largest crowd (55,438) at a season game at Riverfront (Reds vs. Cards)

1987 Event - New Orleans Saints win, assuring their 1st winning NFL season

1987 Event - Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit home runs in a game twice in 1 season

1987 Event - Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in one season

1987 Event - 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 Event - Milwaukee Brewers lose after 13th straight victory to start season

1987 Event - Los Angeles Clippers end season with a terrible 12-70 record

1987 Event - Michael Jordon, becomes 2nd NBA to score 3000 points in a season

1986 Event - Longest post season game, Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 and win NL pennant

1986 Event - Mike Scott is 3rd NL pitcher to strike out 300 in a season (306)

1986 Event - Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)

1986 Event - Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 home runs in a season

1986 Event - Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season

1986 Event - Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record

1986 Event - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season

1986 Event - Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist

1985 Event - Rickey Henderson steals Yankee record 75th base of season

1985 Event - Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless inn to start season

1985 Event - Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal

1985 Event - Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist

1985 Event - Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39

1985 Event - Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 50th goal in 49th game of season

1985 Event - Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out

1984 Event - LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,003 yards

1984 Event - Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th

1984 Event - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11

1983 Event - 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7

1983 Event - Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in season

1983 Event - Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save

1983 Event - Oakland's Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season

1983 Event - Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal

1983 Event - U.S. Football League begins its 1st season

1982 Event - Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark

1982 Event - Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season

1982 Event - Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season

1982 Birthday - Kelly Clarkson, born in Fort Worth, Texas, singer, songwriter, winner of first season of 'American Idol' television series, hits include, 'Thankful', 'Because of You'

1982 Event - Atlanta Braves lose after winning 1st 13 games of season

1982 Event - Atlanta Braves become 1st team to win 1st 12 games of the season

1982 Event - Cards' Jim Kaat, pitches in record 24th consecutive season

1982 Event - Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season

1982 Event - Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92

1982 Event - Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, tieing NHL record

1981 Event - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record of 50 goals by 39th game of season

1981 Event - Fernando Valenzuela sets NL rookie record with 8th shutout of season

1980 Event - Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season

1980 Event - Oakland A's pitch record 78th complete game of season

1980 Event - Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season

1980 Event - Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season

1980 Event - Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season

1979 Event - Quarterback Roger Staubach's last regular season game with the Dallas Cowboys

1979 Event - Astros' J R Richard strikes out NL season righty record of 313

1979 Event - Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time

1979 Event - Royals George Brett is 6th to have 20 doubles/triples/home runs in a season

1979 Event - Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro and amateur umpires

1978 Event - New York Yankee pitcher Ron Guidry wins his 20th (on way to 25-3 season)

1977 Event - Texas' Russell Erideben kicks his 3rd 60 yard field goal of the season

1974 Event - A's Ken Holtzman, who hasn't batted all season, belts 3rd inning home run in Game 4 and gets the win, 5-2

1973 Event - O. J. Simpson becomes 1st NFLer to rush 2,000 yard in a season

1973 Event - Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 in 11 innings, for record 383 of season

1973 Event - Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season

1973 Event - Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th cricket run of English season

1973 Event - 27th Tony Awards: That Championship Season and Little Night Music win

1972 Event - 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2

1972 Event - Jason Miller's "That Championship Season," premieres in New York City

1972 Event - Baseball season is delayed due to a strike

1971 Event - Ron Hunt is hit by a pitch for record 50th time in a season

1971 Event - Jim Palmer is 4th Oriole to win at least 20 games this season

1971 Event - Bruin Phil Esposito is NHL's quickest to score 50 goals in a season

1970 Event - 1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea

1969 Event - Red Sox Rico Petrocelli hits shortstop record 40th home run of season

1969 Event - Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season

1969 Event - New York Jets beat New York Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season)

1969 Event - Rod Carew ties record with his 7th steal of home in a season

1969 Event - Phil Esposito becomes 1st NHL Player to score 100 points in a season

1968 Event - Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season

1967 Event - New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day)

1966 Event - NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season

1966 Event - Sandy Koufax pitches 3rd 300-strikeout season

1966 Event - In 1st regular season game at Anaheim Stadium, Angels lose 3-1 to Chic

1966 Event - Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record

1965 Event - Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season

1965 Event - Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game and 6 times in one season

1965 Event - New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd and final season

1964 Event - Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)

1964 Event - UCLA completes undefeated NCAA basketball season (30-0)

1962 Event - New York Giant YA Title sets NFL season touchdown pass record at 33 with 6 touchdowns vs Dallas (41-31)

1962 Event - Dodgers set major league-record season attendance of 2,755,184

1962 Event - New York Mets tiea NL record by losing 9 straight to start season

1962 Event - Pirates tie then record of 10 straight wins to start season

1962 Event - Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season

1961 Event - Sandy Koufax sets NL strikeout season record at 269

1961 Event - Roger Maris hits home run # 59 and barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yankees clinch pennant #26

1961 Event - Willie Mays is 4th major leaguer with 3 or more home runs twice in a season

1960 Birthday - Kenneth Branagh, born in Belfast, actor and director, High Season, Dead Again

1960 Event - Yankees win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak, and record 193 home runs

1958 Event - Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets

1958 Event - George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season

1957 Event - Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-home run games in a season

1956 Event - New York Yankees Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd home run of season

1956 Event - AL umpire Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game

1955 Event - Washington Senators lose their 99th and 100th games of season

1955 Event - Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 home runs in a season

1955 Event - Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits record 5th grand slam of season

1955 Event - Phillies Don Newcombe hits NL pitcher record 7th home run of season

1955 Event - Brooklyn Dodgers win, then record 10th straight game to begin a season

1954 Event - Indians becomes 1st Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season

1950 Event - Phillies win NL pennant on last day of season (10th inning home run)

1950 Event - Braves Sid Gordon ties season grand slam record with 4

1950 Birthday - Constance Forslund, born in San Diego, California, actress, Shining Season

1950 Event - Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season, takes $20,000 salary cut to $45,000, pay cut is Feller's own suggestion

1949 Event - Yankees and Red Sox, tied for 1st place, play final game of season. Yankees win 5-3 and clinch pennant #16

1949 Event - Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place

1948 Event - Tom Henrich hits his then record tying 4th grand slam of season

1947 Event - New York Giants set season record for home runs by a club 183 (en route to 221)

1946 Event - Bob Feller 348th strikeout of season

1946 Event - Yankees set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs

1946 Event - 11 Basketball of America Association teams meet to schedule 1st season

1945 Event - Joe Kuhel hits inside-the-park home run, only home run hit by a Senator all season at Washington's Griffith Stadium

1945 Event - Phillies Vince DiMaggio ties NL record with 4th grand slam of season

1945 Event - Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season

1943 Event - Teams agrees to start season later due to WW II

1942 Event - NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over

1942 Event - New York Yankees Frank Crosetti shoves ump Bill Summers in World Series, he is fined $200 and suspended for 1st 30 days of 1943 season

1942 Event - St. Louis Cardinals win NL pennant on last day of season

1941 Event - Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting avg

1941 Event - New York Yankees, win earliest AL pennent (full season)

1939 Birthday - Janet Suzman, South Africa, actress, Dry White Season, Nuns on the Run

1938 Event - Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game

1938 Event - Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season

1938 Event - Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's

1938 Birthday - Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer, Furious Season

1936 Event - Carl Hubbell's 1st start of season is his 17th straight win

1936 Event - Victoria need 442 to win against NSW, but lose, all out for 415 They pick "The Bees" it doesn't catch on and is scrapped by 1940 season

1935 Birthday - Andre P. Brink, South African writer, Dry White Season

1934 Event - NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season

1934 Event - Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player

1933 Event - Bill Veeck, urges midsummer inter-league games and a split season

1932 Event - Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th home run in last game of season

1932 Event - Dodgers Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit home run of the season

1931 Event - Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley (.3481)

1931 Event - Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1

1931 Event - Lou Gehrig hits a home run but is called out for passing a runner, mistake costs him AL home run crown; he and Babe Ruth tie for season

1930 Event - Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season

1929 Birthday - James Brosnan, baseball player/writer, Long Season

1929 Event - Yankees Tom Zachary ends season 12-0

1928 Event - Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season

1927 Event - New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th home run of season off Tom Zachry

1927 Event - Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days

1927 Event - Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 home runs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)

1925 Event - Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th home run of the season

1924 Birthday - Darrell Royal, born in Hollis, Oklahoma, football coach, in 20 years as head coach, University of Texas Longhorn never lost a season, elected to College Football Hall of Fame, 1983

1923 Event - Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-2, sit out rest of season, except for a pinch single on final day, hitting .403

1923 Event - Canton Bulldogs win 1st on way to 17-0 season

1920 Event - Browns 1st baseman George Sisler gets his record 257th hit of season

1920 Event - Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54

1920 Event - Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54

1920 Event - Ruth ties his record of 29 home runs in a season

1920 Event - Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season

1919 Event - Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces they will deal any player except Harry Hooper, Hooper is sent to the White Sox after 1920 season

1919 Event - Babe Ruth's 29th home run is 1st of year in Washington (1st in every park in league in one season)

1919 Event - Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey

1919 Event - Major leagues open a reduced 140-game season

1919 Birthday - Mason Adams, New York City, actor, Charlie Hume-Lou Grant, Deadliest Season

1918 Event - Baseball season ends due to WW I

1918 Event - Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)

1918 Event - Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on ump Tom Connolly

1918 Event - Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)

1915 Event - Frank Home Run Baker, 28, announces retirement following a contract dispute with Connie Mack. He sits out 1915 season

1912 Event - Pirates Owen "Chief" Wilson hits record 36th triple of season

1912 Event - Yankees lose game #100 en route to a 50-102 season

1912 Birthday - Roy Fuller, England, poet and novelist, Lost Season

1908 Event - New York Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)

1908 Event - Yankees lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season

1907 Birthday - Miran Bux, cricketer, his one season of Test and 1st-class play 1954-55

1906 Birthday - William C Pahlmann, interior decorator, 4 Season restaurant, New York City

1905 Birthday - Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor, High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste

1905 Event - Latest day of 1st-class cricket in an Australia season (NSW vs. Qld)

1904 Event - New York Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12)

1902 Event - Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season)

1900 Event - Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074)

1899 Event - Cincinnati closes season with 16-1 and 19-3 victories over Cleveland Spiders

1895 Event - W. G. Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days

1894 Event - Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday and Friday

1885 Event - Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for 1885 season

1885 Event - Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of season

1882 Event - Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their 1st season in the American Association

1881 Event - Metropolitan club plays its last game of its non-league season They win 80 of 151 games (18-43 versus NL teams)

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