2014 Event 16-year-old Cole Custer wins the NASCAR Truck Series, becoming the youngest winner of the race 2014 Event Rafael Nadal, title winner of the 2013 U.S. Open, will not participate in the 2014 championship due to a wrist injury 2014 Event 29-year-old Italian cyclist Vincenzo Nibali wins the Tour de France, becoming the first winner from Italy in 16 years; the victory makes Nibali one of only six cyclists to have won the Grand Tours of Italy, Spain and France 2014 Event Afghan presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani agree to an election vote recount to settle allegations of fraud after Ghani was declared the winner; the process could take weeks, requiring the inauguration ceremony to be postponed 2014 Event Lupita Nyong'o, Oscar winner for best supporting actress in '12 Years a Slave', will join Lancome as its newest brand ambassador 2014 Event Five cities have submitted bids for the 2022 Winter Olympics: Oslo, Norway; Almaty, Kazakhstan; Beijing, China; Krakow, Poland and Lviv, Ukraine; the winner will be selected in July 2015 2014 Event The Sochi Winter Olympics ends; on this last day of the competitions, Canada beats Sweden in men's hockey, keeping Canada as the reigning gold winner in two consecutive Winter Games 2013 Event For the second year in a row, Novak Djokovic is the winner of the Shanghai Masters Tennis competition 2013 Event An agent in Zephyrhills, Florida confirms they located the winner of a record-high Powerball jackpot of $590 million 2013 Event The Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine for in vitro fertilisation, Robert G. Edwards, dies at age 87 2013 Event Uhuru Kenyatta is declared the rightful winner of Kenya's Presidential election by the Supreme Court of Kenya 2012 Event Japan holds it's general election, with Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister and opposition Liberal Democratic Party leader, predicted as winner 2012 Death Joseph Murray, a Nobel prize winner, plastic surgeon and the first person to perform a kidney transplantation, dies at age 93 2012 Event The winner of Mexico's presidential elections is Enrique Pena Nieto, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party 2012 Event Lydia Ko, a 15-year old amateur golfer, wins the Canadian Women's Open; she is the youngest winner ever on the LPGA Tour and first amateur to win since JoAnne Carner in 1969 2012 Event Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner, announces he will not contest the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency charges of doping, a result of which will include being stripped of all of his tour de France victories 2012 Event The winner of U.S. PGA Championship at Kiawah Island is Northern Ireland's professional golfer, Rory McIlroy 2012 Event In the eleventh 'American Idol' finale, Philip Phillips is named winner of 'American Idol,' with Jessica Sanchez as the runner-up 2012 Event Twenty-five year old Alaskan, Dallas Seavey becomes the youngest winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race 2012 Event Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, dies at 43 of an acute asthma attack 2011 Event The New South Wales boat 'Loki' is proclaimed the winner of the 2011 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race 2011 Event Sonya Thomas is declared the winner of the U.S. Chicken Wing Eating Championship after consuming 183 Buffalo wings in 12 minutes 2011 Event The Ames Straw Poll for 2012 Presidential election candidates is taken; Michele Bachmann is the winner 2011 Event Cyclist Alberto Contador wins the 2010 Tour de France while seven-time winner of the event, Lance Armstrong, makes his final appearance 2011 Event Nigeria's presidential election, held April 16, 2011, declares the winner is President Goodluck Jonathan 2011 Event The Academy of Country Music Awards 2010 selects Taylor Swift winner of the 2010 Entertainer of the Year award 2010 Event While world leaders back Africa's Alassane Ouattara as the Ivory Coast presidential election winner, a swearing-in ceremony is held for Laurent Gbagbo in Cote D'Ivoire 2010 Event Mario Vargas Llosa is announced the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 Event Viktor Yanukovych is declared the official winner of Ukraine's presidential election 2009 Death Norman Borlaug, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, dies 2009 Death Hugh Leonard, writer, winner, Jacob's Award, for 'Wuthering Heights', wrote Sunday Independent column 'The Curmudgeon', dies at age 82 2003 Death Barry Sheene, motorcycle road racer, winner, Formula 750 World Championship and 1976 British Grand Prix, dies of esophagus and stomach cancer 2002 Death Harold Russell, Oscar winner, The Best Years of Our Lives, dies at 88 2001 Death "Herbert A. Simon, Ph.D", economist, "Nobel Prize winner for economics, 1978", dies at 84 1998 Death Octavio Paz, writer, won Nobel prize winner for literature in 1990, dies at 84 1997 Death George Wald, biologist, Nobel Prize winner for discovering vitamin A in the retina 1997 Event At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history 1996 Event Padres third baseman Ken Caminiti is 4th unanimous winner of NL MVP 1996 Event NFL/Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times 1996 Event Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter) 1995 Death Robert Turner, winner of 1st All-American Soap Box Derby, dies at 72 1992 Death Stephen Albert, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto', killed in an automobile accident in Cape Cod, Massachusetts 1992 Event New York Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48) 1991 Event New York Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner, with the numbers 18-21-32-33-35-38 1991 Event NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration 1991 Event New York Lotto pays $90 million to nine winner (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50) 1990 Event Oakland A's Bob Welch becomes 1st 25 game winner in 10 years 1990 Death Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies 1990 Event New York Lotto pays $35 million to two winner (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51) 1990 Event New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (18-25-26-32-42-44) 1989 Event Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to Mets 1989 Event New York Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50) 1988 Event New York Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48) 1987 Event Kansas City Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires 1986 Event Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, singns with Kansas City Royals 1986 Death Alva Myrdal, Swedish Nobel peace prize winner (1982), dies at 84 1986 Event New York Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46) 1985 Event Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award 1985 Event New York Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47) 1985 Birthday Michael Phelps, born in Baltimore, Maryland, professional swimmer, winner, 14 Olympic gold medals, considered greatest Olympian of all time, broke 37 world records 1984 Death Swale, Kentucky Derby winner, collapses and dies 1984 Event Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate 1983 Event Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-U.S. winner) 1983 Birthday Kim Clijsters, born in Bilzen, Belgium, professional tennis player, ranked number one in the World for singles and doubles, winner of 36 WTA singles and 11 WTA doubles titles 1983 Event USFL New Jersey Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 mil) 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' 1981 Birthday Serena Williams, born in Saginaw, Michigan, professional tennis player, winner, top earning female athlete of all time, 5th Australian title at 2010 Australian Open 1981 Birthday Anna Kournikova, born in Moscow, Russia, professional tennis player, model, winner, Grand Slam titles in Australia, 1999 and 2002 1978 Birthday Tia Mowry, born in Gelhausen, West Germany, also known as Tia Mowry Hardrict, actress, winner of NAACP Image Award, breakout role in sitcom, Sister, Sister 1973 Event Jim Palmer is named AL Cy Young winner 1973 Event Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award 1972 Birthday Ben Affleck, born in Berkeley, California, actor, director, screenwriter, Academy-award winner for Good Will Hunting, 1987, founded production company LivePlanet with actor Matt Damon 1972 Event Courts awarded Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because winner was given drugs before race 1972 Event Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner 1971 Death Ralph J Bunche, United Nations delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at 67 in New York City 1971 Birthday Janet Evans, born in Placentia, California, competitive swimmer, 1988 Olympics gold-medal winner, freestyle, seven World records, five Olympic medals 1971 Birthday Mariah Carey, born in Huntington, New York, singer, rhythm and blues, pop music genres, five-time Grammy award winner, sold over 62.5 million albums 1971 Birthday Barbara Failey-Herbert, South Africa, golfer, 1989 winner SA Champ 1971 Birthday Tracy Kennick, beauty pageant winner, anchor for Good Morning Southeast Texas, semifinalist for Miss USA 1996, Miss Utah 1996, Miss Utah Teen USA 1989 1971 Birthday Kid Rock, born in Romeo, Michigan, singer, songwriter, Grammy-Award winner, hits include, 'All Summer Long', 'American Bad Ass', sold over 22 million albums 1970 Birthday Charlie Ward, NBA guard for the New York Knicks/Heisman Trophy winner 1993 1970 Birthday Matt Damon, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, actor, writer, Academy-Award winner for 'Good Will Hunting', starred in 'Saving Private Ryan', 'Bourne' films 1970 Birthday Macy Gray, born in Canton, Ohio, singer, songwriter, actress, Grammy-Award winner, films, 'Idlewild', 'Training Day', hit song, 'I Try', famous album, 'On How Life Is' 1970 Death Harold Vanderbilt, America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85 1970 Birthday Tina Fey, born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, actress, writer, producer, Emmy Award winner, appeared on 'Saturday Night Live', '30 Rock' television shows 1970 Event AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking 1968 Event Marine James Anderson, Jr. is 1st black Medal of Honor winner 1966 Event Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner 1966 Birthday Larisa Neiland, born in Lvov, Ukraine, tennis star, 1996 Essen winner 1966 Birthday Zola Budd, born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, track and field long distance runner, trained and raced barefoot, politically controversial figure, two-time Women's 5000 meters world record holder, two-time World Cross Country Championships winner 1964 Event Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner 1964 Birthday Miguel Indurain, Spanish bicyclist, Tour de France winner 1991-95 1964 Death Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, biggest NASCAR money winner, dies in crash 1964 Birthday John Parrott, born in Liverpool, England, professional snooker player, winner, World Snooker Championship, 1991, won UK Championship title, 1991 1963 Birthday Brad Pitt, born in actor, born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, actor, film producer, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee, one-time Golden Globe winner 1963 Event Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award 1963 Event Oregon State's Terry Baker becomes 1st and only Heisman Trophy winner 1963 Birthday John Andretti, born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, race car driver, winner, CART, NHRA Top Fuel Dragsters NASCAR stock racing and endurance racing 1962 Birthday Jon Secada, born in Havana, Cuba, born Juan Francisco Secada, singer, songwriter for himself and for Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Grammy-Award winner 1961 Event Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn 1961 Birthday Sunny Deol, born in New Delhi, India, actor, action movie star, director, producer, winner, two National Film Awards, hit film 'Gadar: Ek Prem Katha' 1961 Death George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72 1960 Birthday Jo Durie, born in Bristol, England, professional tennis player, tennis commentator, ranked 5th in the World, winner of two Grand Slam titles 1959 Birthday Armin Kogler, born in Austria, skier, 2-time winner of jumping World Cup 1958 Birthday Ivo Pogorelich, Belgrade Yugoslavia, pianist, 1978 Casagrande winner 1958 Birthday Alberto Salazar, marathoner, New York City Marathon Winner 1958 Event Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner 1958 Birthday Ice-T, born in Newark, New Jersey, Tracy Marrow, musician, pioneer of gangsta rap, songwriter, actor, Grammy Award winner, author 1957 Death James Connolly, 1st Olympic winner (1896) since Barasdates (369 CE), dies 1956 Event U.S.S.R. single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, and loses his medal, it sinks 1956 Birthday Jonathan Palmer, born in London, England, professional racecar driver, entrepreneur, Formula Championship winner, CEO, MotorSport Vision 1955 Birthday John Campbell, harness racer, 3-time winner of Hambletonian 1954 Event 7-time winner of Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th 1953 Event Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner) 1953 Birthday Michael Stean, born in London, England, professional chess player, author, winner, International Master and International Grandmaster titles in 1975 and 1977 1952 Birthday Roberto Benigni, born in Manciano, Italy, actor, comedian, screenwriter, best known for movie, 'Life Is Beautiful', Academy-Award winner for Best Actor 1951 Birthday John Gosden, born in Sussex, England, racehorse trainer, trained Nannina, winner, 2005 Filles' Mile and 2006 Coronation Stakes, and 2008 Breeders' Cup Classic 1950 Event Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner) 1950 Birthday Barry Sheene, born in London, England, motorcycle road racer, winner, Formula 750 World Championship and 1976 British Grand Prix 1949 Birthday Geoff Capes, born in Holbeach, England, shot putter, two-time winner, World's Strongest Man title, two-time Commonwealth Games shot put champion 1948 Birthday Garrick Ohlsson, born in Bronxville, New York, pianist, International Busoni winner 1969 1947 Birthday Ursula Krechel, born in Trier, Germany, writer, poet, radio dramatist, winner, Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2009, works include, 'Der Ubergriff' 1947 Birthday Dave Barry, born in Armonk, New York, humorist, author, Pulitzer-prize winner for Commentary 1988, wrote columns for the Miami Herald, books include 'Big Trouble', 'Dave Barry Turns 40', Dave Barry's Greatest Hits', 'Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys', style capitalizes on absurdities 1945 Birthday Eddy Merckx, Belgium, cyclist, 5 time winner of Tour de France 1945 Birthday Jacques Ickx, Belgium, Le Mans auto race, 6-time winner 1944 Birthday Tom Seaver, pitcher, New York Met, 300 game winner, Cy Young 1969, 1973, 1975 1943 Birthday Bert Jansch, born in Glasgow, Scotland, musician, folk artist, acoustic guitarist, singer, songwriter, member of the band Pentangle, winner, BBC Folk Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award 1943 Birthday Tison Street, born in Boston, Massachusetts, composer, violinist, contemporary classical music, winner, Guggenheim Fellowship 1943 Birthday Franz Hohler, born in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, writer, cabaret performer, winner, Kaseel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor, 2002 1942 Birthday Isaac Hayes, born in Memphis, Tennessee, singer, songwriter, musician, producer, actor, Academy-Award winner 1941 Birthday Tadao Ando, born in Osaka, Japan, Japanese architect, employs critical regionalism style of architecture, 1969, established firm Tadao Ando Architects & Associates, winner, Pritzker Architecture Prize 1995 1941 Birthday Emanuel Nunes, born in Lisbon, Portugal, composer, winner of the UNESCO Composition Prize, 1999, won Premio Pessoa, 2000 1941 Birthday Stephen Albert, born in New York City, New York, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto' 1939 Birthday Peter Revson, auto racer, 1971 Indianapolis pole winner 1938 Birthday Gaylord Perry, baseball player, 1972 AL Cy Young winner 1937 Birthday Bobby Allison, auto racer, 3 time winner of Daytona 500 1937 Event St. Louis Cardinals Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP 1937 Birthday George Carlin, born in New York, American comedian, actor, author, Grammy Award winner 1936 Birthday Buddy Guy, born in Lettsworth, Louisiana, rock guitarist, singer, American blues five-time Grammy-Award winner, inspired Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan 1936 Event 1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger 1935 Birthday Michael Winner, producer/director, Big Sleep, Death Wish 1934 Birthday David Halberstam, born in New York City, journalist, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote about the Vietnam War 1934 Event Carl Hubbell, NL MVP winner, gets $18,000 contract by the New York Giants 1934 Birthday Jacques Anquetil, France, Tour de France bicycle racer, 5-time winner 1933 Birthday Robert Goulet, born in Massachusetts, singer, actor, television, film, Canadian-American Grammy, Tony-Award winner 1932 Birthday John Updike, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, writer, novelist, art critic, literary critic, Pulitzer Prize winner 1931 Birthday Ike Turner, born in Mississippi, American musician, bandleader, record producer, talent scout, Grammy Award winner 1930 Birthday Doug Harvey, hockey star, 3 time James Norris winner 1929 Event New York to San Francisco foot race ends (2 months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde 1927 Event Lou Gehrig named AL MVP (Babe Ruth (former winner) not eligible) 1927 Birthday Joyce Brothers, New York City, pop psychiatrist, $64,000 question winner 1927 Event Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees 1927 Birthday Martin Walser, born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, Germany, writer, 1998 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade winner, known for 'Runaway Horse', famous for describing conflicts his anti-heroes have in stories and novels 1926 Birthday Hugh Leonard, born in Dublin, Ireland, writer, winner, Jacob's Award, for 'Wuthering Heights', wrote Sunday Independent column 'The Curmudgeon' 1925 Birthday Justin Kaplan, born in New York, New York, writer, editor, Pulitzer-prize winner and National Book Award-winner for biography on Mark Twain, edited Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition 1925 Birthday Oscar Peterson, born in Montreal, Canada, jazz pianist, composer, Grammy Award winner 1925 Birthday Joshua Lederberg, born in New Jersey, microbiologist, Nobel Prize winner, focused on genetics 1923 Birthday Jay Herbert, golfer, 1960 PGA winner 1922 Birthday Andre Asriel, born in Germany, composer, winner of 1951 National Prize for East Germany 1918 Birthday Ingmar Bergman, born in Sweden, director, writer, producer for stage, film and television, Academy Award winner 1917 Birthday Man O'War, racehorse, winner of 20 out of 21 races and $249,465 1917 Birthday Sidney Sheldon, born in Chicago, American writer, Academy-Award winner, crime fiction novelist 1916 Birthday Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, winner of more than 141 U.S. tennis titles 1914 Birthday Norman Borlaug, born in Cresco, Iowa, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom 1914 Birthday J Jay Berwanger, 1st Heisman Trophy winner, 1935 1914 Event Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index 1913 Birthday David Hunt, British diplomat/quiz winner 1913 Birthday Willis Lamb, born in Los Angeles, physicist, Nobel Prize winner, discovery of how electrons behave in the hydrogen atom 1912 Birthday Studs Terkel, born in New York, author, historian, broadcaster, Pulitzer Prize winner 1911 Birthday Gian Carlo Menotti, born in Italy, composer, librettist, Pulitzer Prize winner 1910 Birthday Jimmy Demaret, winner of 44 golf tournaments, but not the Open 1904 Birthday Chuck Gardiner, UK, NHL goalie, Vezina winner 1904 Event Yankees 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader 41 game winner Chesbro loses 1st game and chance at pennant 1904 Birthday Gordon Richards, British jockey, winner of 4,870 races 1902 Death Septimus Winner, composer, dies at 75 1900 Birthday Robert "Lefty" Grove, baseball pitcher, 300 game winner 1895 Event America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH 1882 Event New York City's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours 1877 Event U.S. Electoral College declares R. Hayes winner presidential election 1852 Birthday Edwin Markham, U.S., poet, 1st winner of American Academy of Poets Award 1937 1839 Birthday Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer, Epitaph of a small winner 1839 Birthday Rene F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, born in France, poet, 1st Nobel winner, 1901 1827 Birthday Septimus Winner, composer
