1997 Eddie Arcaro, jockey (won 2 Triple Crowns), dies at 81
1997 Baseball's triple A Anerican Association (formed in 1902) votes to disband
1997 Chicago Cubs turn baseballs 68th triple play (vs San Francisco Giants)
1994 Country singer George Jones undergoes triple bypass surgery
1994 Leonid Voloshin triple jumps world record 17.77m
1993 Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m)
1992 Phils' Mickey Moradini makes an unassisted triple play
1992 Cleveland Indians turn a triple play
1992 Stan Hansen beats Jumbo Tsuruta to win All Japan Triple Crown
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 Jumbo Tsuruta beats Stan Hansen to win All Japan Triple Crown title
1990 Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8 ")
1990 Baltimore Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland)
1990 Minn Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red Sox 1-0
1989 Baltimore Orioles pull their 9th triple play, vs. Yankees
1989 Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4
1988 Matti Nykanen becomes winter olympics 1st triple gold medalist
1987 Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24)
1987 Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it
1987 Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76m)
1985 Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58'11 ") in Indianapolis quadruple bogies 5th hole and never recovers
1983 Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark
1982 Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship
1981 Jon Erikson (U.S.) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27)
1979 Baltimore Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs Cleve)
1979 Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)
1979 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
1978 Baltimore Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto)
1978 Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship
1977 Texas Rangers turn their 1st triple play (vs A's)
1977 Baltimore Orioles pull their 6th triple play (9-6-4-6-6 vs Kansas City Royals)
1977 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
1976 Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
1975 Jane Blalock wins LPGA 14 Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
1975 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Colgate Golf Triple Crown
1973 Baltimore Orioles pull their 5th triple play (5-4-3 vs Detroit)
1973 Baltimore Orioles pull their 4th triple play, 5-4-3 vs Oakland
1973 Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m
1972 Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK
1971 Erick Walder, Mobile Alabama, triple jumper
1970 George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass"
1970 LaMark Carter, Shreveport Louisiana, triple jumper
1970 Secreteriat, race horse, triple crown, 1973
1969 Andrew Murphy, Australian long jumper/triple jumper 1996 Olympics
1969 Baltimore Orioles pull their 3rd triple play, 5-4-3 vs Kansas City Royals
1968 Washington D.C. Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs Cleve
1967 Elexa Wills/Orrange, Orange Texas, long jumper/triple jumper
1967 Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play
1967 Sheila Hudson, U.S. triple jumper, U.S. record 1992
1967 Rogel Nachum, Israel, Men's triple jump, Oly-1996
1966 Inessa Kravets, Ukraine, long/triple jumper, Oly-silv/gold-92, 96
1966 Jonathan Edwards, Britain, triple jumper, Olympics-gold/silver-92, 96
1965 Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season
1965 Kenny Harrison, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, triple jumper
1964 Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)
1962 Michael Alexander Conley, Chic, triple jumper, Olympics gold 92, 96
1962 Mike Conley, born in Chicago, Illinois, triple jumper 1984 Olympics silver
1962 New York Mets lose record 120th game as Cubs turn triple play and beat New York 5-1
1962 Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump
1961 Yolanda Chen, born in Moscow, Russia, triple jumper, indoor record
1960 Alfrederick Joyner, E St. Louis, Illinois, triple jumper 1984 Olympics gold
1959 Baltimore Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Washington Senators)
1958 Brooks Robinson, hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays
1957 Keith Connor, Anguilla, British triple jumper 1984 Olympics bronze
1955 Baltimore Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs Kansas City Athletics)
1954 Jon Erikson, U.S., 1st to triple cross English Channel, 1981
1954 Peter B Cortese of U.S. achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania
1954 Joao Carlos De Oliveira, Brazil, triple jumper, Oly-bronze-1976, 80
1953 New York Giants Willie Mays and Darryl Spencer each hit 2 home runs and a triple
1952 Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition
1950 Indians make their 1st triple play at Cleveland Stadium
1950 New York Giant Wes Westrum hits 3 home runs and a triple
1950 James A. Butts, born in Los Angeles, California, triple jumper 1976 Olympics silver
1948 New York Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)
1945 Viktor Saneyev, U.S.S.R., triple jumper, Olympic-3 gold/1 silv-1968-80
1943 Giuseppi Gentile, Italy, triple jumper 1968 Olympics bronze
1942 Despite Ted Williams wins Triple Crown, Yanks Joe Gordon wins AL MVP
1941 73rd Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway win in 2:31, triple crown
1937 St. Louis Cardinals Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP
1934 Although Lou Gehrig wins Triple Crown, Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP
1931 Mickey Mantle, New York Yankee, home run slugger, 1956 Triple Crown
1930 Philadelphia Athletics triple steal in 1st and 4th innings vs Cleveland
1930 Andrew Sandham makes Test Cricket 1st triple century
1927 Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, Brazil, triple jumper, Olympics gold 52, 56
1927 Stanley Dancer, harness racer, 4 Hambletonians, 3 Trot Triple Crown
1927 Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play
1925 Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
1923 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
1923 Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play
1920 1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) and 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss)
1920 Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play
1918 Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway scores Amos Strunk, the Red Sox win 1-0 over Cleve, prevailing rules reduce Babe's HR to a triple
1918 White Sox losing 5-4 against New York Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a triple play
1916 Eddie Arcaro, jockey, 1958 Racing Hall of Fame, 2 triple crowns
1915 Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb and Germany
1912 Pirates Owen "Chief" Wilson hits record 36th triple of season
1909 Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play
1907 England, Russia and France form Triple Entente
1905 Mikio Oda, Japan, triple jumper, 1928 Olympics gold
1903 Pirates win a triple header from Dodgers
1892 Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy and Austria forms
1890 Andrew Sandham, cricketer, Test cricket's 1st triple centurion
1887 Germany, Austria-Hungary and France end Triple Alliance
1882 Germany/Austria-Hungary/France sign Triple Alliance
1881 Triple landslides bury Elm Switz
1878 1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines
1872 George Westinghouse, Jr. patents triple air brake for trains
1788 Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90
1718 Austrian joins Triple Alliance
1717 Netherlands, England and France sign Triple Alliance
1674 Spain, France and Netherlands form Triple Alliance
1668 England, Netherlands and Sweden signs Triple Alliance against French
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