2006 Andre Agassi retires after winning 60 career titles
2005 Lance Armstrong retires after winning his 7th straight Tours de France
2004 George W. Bush wins a second term as U.S. president, winning 51% of the popular vote
1996 Colorado Avalanche sweeps Florida Panthers by winning 1-0 in 6 periods
1995 Edgar Martinez drives home tying and winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees and win AL Division Series
1995 Selena, Mexican Grammy winning singer, killed by a fan at 24
1994 Miami Heat beat New York Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak
1993 New Jersey Devils lose 2-0 to Montreal, after winning 1st 7 games of 1993
1993 Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak
1993 Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak
1992 Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races
1991 Monica Seles, sets female tennis record winning $2,457,758 in a year
1990 NFL's New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers after winning their 1st 10 games both
1990 Reds beat A's 7-0, ending Oakland's 10-game post-season winning streak
1989 Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days
1989 Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days
1988 Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director, dies of cancer at 59
1988 Detroit beats Sox, 18-6, at Fenway, ends Boston winning streak at 24
1988 114th Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Winning Colors wins in 2:02.2
1987 New Orleans Saints win, assuring their 1st winning NFL season
1987 Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive
1987 Brewers lose, ending AL season-opening winning streak at 13 games
1985 Sam Spiegel, Academy Award winning producer (Betrayal), dies at 84
1985 St. Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man
1984 Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak
1982 Anna Paquin, oscar winning actress, Piano
1982 John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, dies at 70 in Ossining
1982 Atlanta Braves lose after winning 1st 13 games of season
1982 New York Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak
1980 Minnesota Vikings pass for 456 yards against Cleveland Browns, winning 28-24
1980 Rangers snap Orioles pitcher Steve Stone's 14-game winning streak
1979 Pittsburgh gains 606 net yards against Cleveland, winning 33-30
1979 Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end
1977 Seattle beats Royals, 4-1, to end KC's winning streak at 16 games
1977 N.Y. Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland, Oregon, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship
1972 Los Angeles Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13)
1970 Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight
1969 Rod Laver completes his 2nd grand slam winning U.S. Tennis Open
1968 Dancer Image DQ due to drugs after winning 94th Kent Derby in 2:02
1968 Houston ends UCLA's 47-game basketball winning streak, 71-69
1967 Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
1966 Houston Oilers holds Denver Broncos to no 1st downs winning 45-7
1963 Endzion Barelli, dies 2 days after winning a boxing match at 18
1962 Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy
1961 Gary Cooper, 2 time Acad award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60
1955 Pancho Gonzales retains tennis title by winning a tournament playing under table tennis rules
1953 England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0
1950 Mark Blum, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Worth Winning, Blind Date, Presidio
1950 Steve Hill, country vocalist, A Winning Hand
1948 Bradman's 29th and last Test Cricket century, part of winning 3-404
1948 Kathy Bates, born in Memphis, Tennessee, academy award winning actress, Misery
1941 After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns
1937 Brooklyn Dodgers snap New York Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak
1937 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers ends Carl Hubbell's consecutive-game winning streak at 24
1937 Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter, New York Times
1936 Carl Hubbell begins winning streak, beating Pittsburgh 6-0,
1935 Frank Boucher is given NHL's Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years
1932 New York Yankees win World Series The winning pitcher is Babe Ruth beating Red Sox 9-3
1932 Theoni Vachliotis aldredge, award winning costume designer
1931 Philadelphia A's Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight
1929 Boston Bruins begins then NHL record 14 game winning streak
1928 Ray Barbuti saves U.S. team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by winning 400 m (47.8 sec)
1925 White Sox Dickie Kerr, 1st appearance since winning 2 world series games in 1919
1925 Thomas Winning, Roman Catholic archbishop, Glasgow
1921 Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist
1918 Giants' 9-0 winning start and Dodgers' 0-9 losing streak are stopped
1916 Giants beat Brooklyn 4-1, to launch New York's record 26-game winning streak
1912 Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends
1912 Giants Rube Marquard loses after winning 21 straight
1909 Jose Ferrer, Santurce PR, oscar winning actor, Cyrano de Bergerac
1908 Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th and disallows winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay and pennant)
1906 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game, Montreal outscores Ottawa 12-10
1904 Giants 18-game winning streak ends as Phillies win 6-5 in 10 inn
1892 Pearl Buck, prize winning novelist
1892 Thomas Mitchell, born in New Jersey, academy award winning actor, Outlaw, Adventures
1877 Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory
1851 Ferdinand Foch, France, responsible for Allies winning WW I
1825 James Winning McMillan, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
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