TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1866 — Australian Rules Football is created.
1907 — Tommy Burns beats Jack O’Brien in 20 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
1915 — 41st Kentucky Derby: Joe Notter aboard Regret wins in 2:05.4.
1920 — 46th Kentucky Derby: Ted Rice aboard Paul Jones wins in 2:09.
1925 — 51st Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Coventry wins in 1:59.
1936 — Jockey Ralph Neves is unexpectedly revived after being declared dead after a fall; his wife faints when he returns to the track.
1937 — 63rd Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on War Admiral wins in 2:03.2.
1942 — First twilight game in 24 years, the Brooklyn Dodgers top New York Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief Fund. 1943 — 69th Preakness: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 1:57.4.
1947 — A movement among St. Louis Cardinals’ players to protest its first meeting with Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers is aborted by a talk from owner Sam Breadon.
1966 — Baltimore Orioles’ outfielder Frank Robinson hits the first ball ever completely out of Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium, travelling 541 feet.
1971 — Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden, New York.
1984 — The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. 1984 — Minnesota Twins’ Kirby Puckett debuts with four singles. 1988 — Amateur referees work New Jersey Devils-Boston Bruins playoff games, as NHL referees walk-off, due to a restraining order brought by the Devils.
1993 — Lennox Lewis beats Tony Tucker in 12 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
1996 — New York Yankees’ pitcher Dwight Gooden wins his first American League game beating Detroit Tigers 10-3.