1997 NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer as 1st women to officiate a major-league all-male sports league
1997 Jim Rodger, sports writer, dies at 75
1996 Tom Mees, ESPN sports anchors (NHL), drowns at 46
1996 Alan Weeks, British sports commentator, dies at 72
1996 Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the hand prior to a game
1996 Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer, dies at 83
1995 Len Martin, sports broadcaster, dies at 76
1995 Classic Sports Network begins on cable TV
1995 16th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1995 Ruud van den Hende, Dutch sports reporter, dies at 63
1994 Arthur Rex Alston, British sports commentator, dies at 93
1994 Amy Sacks, producer (ABC sports, Disney), dies of Lupus at 39
1994 15th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1994 Klaas Peereboom, Dutch sports reporter (Het Parool), dies at 77
1993 14th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1992 Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year
1992 Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder (Sports Fund), dies at 79
1991 Sonny Werblin, New York sports impresario, dies at 81
1991 Phillie Lenny Dykstra slams his sports car into 2 trees
1991 12th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1990 11th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1990 Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV
1989 1st black owners (Betram Lee and Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m
1989 Percy Stuart, Suriname/Dutch sports journalist, dies
1989 10th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1989 Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head
1988 Sports Aid - jogging to feed the world
1988 9th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1987 8th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1987 New York City radio station WFAN-AM becomes 1st 24 hour all sports radio
1985 Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC
1985 7th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1984 1st NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - Clipper beat Knick, 107-105
1983 6th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1983 Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Sports Nippon Team Match Golf Tournament
1982 5th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1981 4th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1981 Enterprise Radio (all sports) resigns air
1980 "Les Miserables," opens at Palais des Sports, Paris
1980 3rd Emmy Sports Award presentation
1980 NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports
1979 2nd Emmy Sports Award presentation
1977 1st Emmy Sports Award presentation
1975 Denv Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St. Louis Spirits
1975 McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens
1975 Penn is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports
1973 David Eisenhower writes his last sports column
1973 Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson elected
1973 Ray Barrett, sportscaster (Gillette Summer Sports Reel), dies at 65
1972 President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
1968 Stephane Seymour, model, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover-1988
1967 Pacific Northwest Sports awarded AL expansion franchise (Seattle)
1967 Valeria Marini, Rome, Italy, sports commentator, Italian Soccer
1967 Vendela [Kirsebom], Stockholm Sweden, model, Sports Illustrated 1993
1966 Cindy Crawford, born in Dekalb, Illinois, super model, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit
1964 Philadelphia voters approve $25 million to build a new sports stadium
1962 Hannah Storm, sports journalist, CNN, NBC
1962 Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio
1961 ABC's "Wide World of Sports, debuts
1960 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
1960 Kim Alexis, born in Lockport, New York, model, Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover
1957 Carswell Adams, sportscaster (Your Sports Special), dies
1957 Bkln Sports Authority gets an engineering report on 50,000-seat stadium in downtown area for estimated $207 million
1956 New York Mayor Robert Wagner and Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build
1954 Sports Illustrated magazine begins publishing
1952 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event
1950 AP picks "Miracle Braves" of 1914 as greatest sports upset
1949 "Red Barber's Clubhouse" sports show premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1947 Cheryl Tiegs, born in Minnesota, model, Sports Illustrated
1946 1st TV sports spectacular-Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn
1946 David Hill, Australian TV-reporter/owner, Fox Sports
1940 Joan Haanappel, figure skater/sports reporter
1940 Herve Filion, sulky driver, 1969 Canadian Sports Hall of Fame
1939 Jackie Stewart, Scotland, driver/sports announcer, 27 Grand Prix
1939 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball
1936 John Madden, NFL coach for the Oakland Raiders/sports commentator, CBS, FOX
1934 Gary Davidson, U.S. sports league founder, ABA, WHA, WFL
1933 Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
1933 Antwerp Sports arena opens
1931 Dickie Jeeps, English rugby international/chairman Sports Council
1931 Ruud van den Hende, sports reporter
1931 Roone Arledge, born in Forest Hills, New York, head of sports broadcasting, ABC
1931 Raymond Miquel, chairman, Scottish Sports Council
1931 British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday
1931 Bill Gilbert, born in Washington D.C., sports author, They Also Served, Big E
1928 Anthony C B Chapman, England, sports car builder/autoracer, Formula 1
1927 George Plimpton, New York City, sports writer, Paper Lion
1926 Bill Flemming, sportscaster, ABC's Wide World of Sports
1926 David Coleman, sports commentator
1925 Richard Jacobs, philanthropist/sports owner, Cleveland Indians
1923 Alan Weeks, sports commentator
1922 Jim Rodger, sports writer
1921 Jim McKay, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, sportscaster, ABC's Wide World of Sports
1920 Peter West, British sports commentator
1916 Michael Burke, sports executive, New York Yankees, New York Knicks
1913 Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder, Sports funds
1912 Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer
1908 Henry Chadwick, sports reporter (baseball), dies at 85
1908 Walter L "Red" Barber, Mississippi, sports announcer, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yanks
1907 Barend Barendse, Dutch sports reporter
1907 E. W. Swanton, author and sports commentator
1906 Bob Considine, sports columnist, Bob Feller Story
1905 Walter Brown, sports organizer, NBA
1904 1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on University of Chicago's football team are awarded blankets with letter "C" on them
1901 Arthur Rex Alston, sports commentator
1898 Allison Danzig, sports writer, Tennis Pictorial History
1883 New York Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer
1850 Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company
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