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September 13th ...

...skate to where the puck is going to be,                                               not where it has been.                                                      - Wayne Gretzky 1842 - In the USA, Chris Lilly and Tom McCoy bare-fist fight for 119 rounds, when McCoy falls dead in the ring, after 2 hours 43 minutes. During the fight he had received 100 square blows, and was knocked down 81 times. 1849 - First US prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy). 1866 7th British Golf Open: Willie Park, Sr. shoots a 169 at Prestwick Golf Club 1872 12th British Golf Open: Tom Morris, Jr. shoots a 166 at Prestwick Golf Club 1883 - Cleveland Blues' pitcher Hugh Daily no-hits Philadelphia Phillies 1-0.

   

 

• 1907 Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders & Montreal Foot Ball
• 1909 Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR (all inside-the-park)
• 1910 Regina Rugby Club forms
• 1923 - George Burns (Boston Red Sox) performed the third unassisted triple play in baseball history. 
• 1924 19th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (5-0)
• 1925 - Brooklyn Dodgers' Dazzy Vance no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 10-1.
• 1927 - Waite Hoyt becomes the only 20-game winner of the 1927 New York Yankees.

                 

            

• 1930 Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament
• 1930 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3
• 1930 50th U.S. Men's National Championship: John Doeg beats Frank Shields (10-8, 1-6, 6-4, 16-14)
• 1932 - Joe McCarthy became the first manager to win pennants in both baseball leagues when his New York Yankees clinched the American League pennant. 
• 1934 Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000
• 1936 - Cleveland Indians' Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 in a game (versus Philadelphia Athletics).
• 1938 Alexander Cartwright is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame

                              

      

         

• 1942 - Chicago Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes four errors in one inning.
• 1946 - Ted Williams (Boston Red Sox) hit his only inside-the-park home run. 
• 1949 - Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in New York City, New York.
• 1951 St Louis Cards beat NY Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0
• 1953 Pitcher Bob Trice becomes the first black player for Philadelphia Athletics
• 1953 4th Formula One WDC: Alberto Ascari wins by 6.5 points
• 1958 Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times
• 1959 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
• 1959 79th U.S. Men's National Championship: Neale Fraser beats Alex Olmedo (6-3, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4)
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• 1959 73rd U.S. Women's National Championship: Maria Bueno beats Christine Truman Janes (6-1, 6-4)

     

       

• 1960 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
• 1963 - New York Yankees clinch their 28th pennant.
• 1964 Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open
• 1964 84th U.S. Men's National Championship: Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle (6-4, 6-2, 6-4)
• 1964 78th U.S. Women's National Championship: Maria Bueno beats Carole Caldwell Graebner (6-1, 6-0)
• 1965 - Willie Mays hits his 500th home run.
• 1969 Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title
• 1969 Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player

   



  

• 1970 - The first New York City Marathon took place. Fireman Gary Muhrucke won the race. The race was run entirely inside Central Park. 
• 1970 US Open Men's Tennis: Ken Rosewall wins 2nd US title; beats fellow Australian Tony Roche 2-6, 6-4, 7-6, 6-3
• 1971 - Frank Robinson hits his 500th home run.
• 1971 - World Hockey Association is formed.
• 1973 - ABC announces it obtained TV rights for the 1976 Olympics.
• 1973 - US Congress passes and sends a bill to President Richard Nixon to lift football's blackout.
• 1974 - Philadelphia Phillies set National League record, using 27 players in a game, Saint Louis Cardinals uses 24, tying record of 51. Philadelphia Phillies win 7-3 in 17.
• 1976 2nd Enterprise, approach & lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s)
• 1978 - New York Yankees win to gain sole possession of first place from 14 games back.

           

• 1981 - April Moon sets women's handbow distance record of 1,039 yards, 13 inches.
• 1981 - Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in fourth quarter (vs Green Bay Packers).
• 1981 - John McEnroe beats Björn Borg for US Open title.
• 1981 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
• 1982 - Joe Lefevre gets six hits in one baseball game.
• 1983 Oakland's Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season
• 1983 US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
• 1986 - Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 home runs in a season.
• 1987 US Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova retains her title; beats Steffi Graf of Germany 7-6, 6-1
• 1987 Tampa Bay quarterback Steve DeBerg establishes a franchise record with 5 touchdown passes in the Buccaneers 48-10 win over the Atlanta Falcons
• 1988 - 10th time, four players hit baseball major-league record grand slams.
• 1989 - Fay Vincent becomes Major League Baseball's eighth commissioner when he succeeds the late Bart Giamatti.

                         


   

• 1990 Robert E Nederlander appointed NY Yankee managing general partner
• 1991 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium
• 1991 Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts
• 1991 - Joe Coleman's third 100 RBI season in a row with three teams (Cleveland Indians, San Diego Padres, and Toronto Blue Jays).
• 1992 NY Giants trailing Dallas Cowboys 34-0 in 3rd, lose 34-28
• 1992 US Open Men's Tennis: Stefan Edberg retains his title; beats Pete Sampras 3-6, 6-4, 7-6, 6-2
• 1996 - Alex Rodriguez (Seattle Mariners) set a team record when he became the first player for the Mariners to reach 200 hits in a season. 
• 1996 - Charlie O'Brien (Toronto Blue Jays) became the first catcher in major league baseball history to wear a hockey goalie-like catcher's mask. The game was against the New York Yankees. 
• 1996 - John Wetteland (New York Yankees) became on the second Yankee to record 40 or more saves in a season. 
• 1997 Carolina Hurricane's 1st exhibition game beat NY Islanders 4-1
• 1998 US Open Men's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Patrick Rafter retains title; beats Mark Philippoussis 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 6-0
• 1999 John Elway's #7 jersey is retired by the Denver Broncos

    

• 2001 - Due the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Major League Baseball postpones all games through September 17.
• 2002 - Mike Vernon retired after a 19-year career as a player in the NHL. 
• 2003 - In Oakland, CA, Frank Francisco (Texas Rangers), a relief pitcher, threw a chair into the right field box seats. Two spectators were hit in the head. The game was delayed for 19 minutes. The Athletics won the game 7-6 in the 10th inning. 
• 2009 US Open Women's Tennis: Kim Clijsters wins her second US title; beats Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 7-5, 6-3
• 2010 - Rafael Nadal wins the U.S. Open tennis championship, defeating Novak Djokovic 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.
• 2013 Jim Furyk fires 12-under-par 59 in the 2nd round of the BMW Championship at Conway Farms GC in Lake Forest, Illinois, becoming just the 6th player to shoot sub-60 in a PGA Tour event
• 2015 Evian Championship, Evian Resort: Lydia Ko of New Zealand wins by 6 from Lexi Thompson to become youngest major winner, 18yrs, 142 days
• 2015 US Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković wins his second US title; beats Roger Federer 6–4, 5–7, 6–4, 6–4
• 2017 International Olympic Committee announces Paris (2024) and Los Angeles (2028) will host the Olympic games