TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1910 — Regina Roughriders football club forms.
1920 — First radio broadcast of a boxing prizefight.
1924 — Charles Paddock captures 100- and 200-yard Amateur Athletic Union national senior outdoor track and field championships. 1946 — All-American Football Conference plays first game (Cleveland Browns 44, Miami Seahawks 0).
1963 — Major league baseball’s 100,000th game.
1973 — New York Times reports almost all Superfecta harness racing run at Yonkers, Roosevelt and Monticello from January to March of 1973 were fixed.
1980 — College football’s longest losing streak of 50 games ends for Macalaster University of St. Paul, Minn., beating Mount Senario 17-14.
1981 — Bob Lemon becomes the New York Yankees’ manager for the second time.
1987 — Saskatchewan Roughriders’ Dave Ridgway kicks a Canadian Football League record 60-yard field goal.
1989 — Amateur Atheletic Federation strips Ben Johnson of all track records.
1989 — England holds Sweden to a 0-0 draw in Sweden, qualifying for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. The game became famous after Terry Butcher suffered a deep cut to his forehead early in the game. He received stitches but played on the entire game. By the end of the game, the front of Butcher’s white shirt and shorts where almost entirely covered in blood.
1995 — Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles breaks the all time consecutive games played record in Major League Baseball with his 2131st game.
2001 — Barry Bonds becomes the fifth major-leaguer to hit 60 home runs in a season, reaching the milestone in the shortest time, just 141 games.
2010 — New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez reaches 100 RBIs for a record 14th season, passing Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Fox, all tied at 13 seasons.