TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY

1888 John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans in Yonkers, N.Y.

1920 In Emeryville, N.Y., the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.

1957 Jockey Ted Atkinson records his 3,500th win.

1958 Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets six world records in two days.

1959 First Daytona 500 auto race; Lee Petty wins, averaging 135.521 m.p.h..

1962 Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts. 1967 Slingshot goalpost and 6-feet wide border around field are standard in NFL.

1979 Billy Martin named manager of Oakland Athletics.

1980 The United States Olympic Hockey Team defeats the Soviet Union 4-3 in the semifinals of the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid. The Soviet team had been undefeated in Olympic hockey since 1968.

1983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1,500 metre freestyle swimming record.

1984 Brothers Anton and Peter Stastny score 8 points each for NHL Quebec Nordiques.

1988 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 metre in 39.10 seconds. 1998 XVIII Olympic Winter Games close in Nagano, Japan.

2003 In his first fight after losing to Lennox Lewis, Mike Tyson beats Clifford Etienne by first round knockout in a fight held at The Pyramid in Memphis, Tenn.

USA hockey members celebrate after their upset victory over the heavily favoured Soviet team, 4-3, in the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid. Dubbed the Miracle on Ice, the Americans stunned the Soviet Union and went on to the gold medal, 38 years ago today.