TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1899 — Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-2.
1923 — Pete Parker makes world’s first play-by-play radio broadcast of a professional hockey game on CKCK radio out of Regina.
1954 — Milwaukee Braves’ Henry Aaron homers in his first exhibition game.
1954 — Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship. 1954 — NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32-game road losing streak. 1960 — Philadelphia’s Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA playoff record of 53 points.
1962 — Detroit’s Gordie Howe becomes second NHL player to score 500 goals.
1972 — NBA’s Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to Kansas City.
1976 — Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race.
1980 — In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others.
1982 — Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic.
1987 — New York Mets’ Darryl Strawberry charges Boston Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl.
1991 — Kurt Browning wins the World Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Munich.
1995 — The U.S. National Labour Relations Board announces it will charge Major League Baseball owners with two counts of unfair labour practices.
1997 — 68-year-old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch.
2006 — Washington D.C. officials unveil the designs for a new 41,000-seat ballpark.
2009 — Annamay Pierse swims in the women’s 200-metre breaststroke in 2:17.50, setting a world record at the short-course swimming championships in Toronto.