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Gold Member
- 1938 - Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York, USA
- 1963 - New York Mets purchase Duke Snider from the Los Angeles Dodgers for US$40,000
- 1970 - Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for US$10,800,000
- 1972 - Major league baseball players stage first collective strike
- 1980 - Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's NHL record with 103rd assist
- 1983 - New York Islanders' Mike Bossy becomes first to score 60 goals in three consecutive seasons
- 1984 - Third NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Southern California beats Tennessee 72-61
- 1985 - 47th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Villanova beats Georgetown 84-75
- 1989 - Former Yale University and National League president Bart Giamatti becomes seventh commissioner of Major League Baseball
- 1990 - 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn 88-81
- 1990 - CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger
- 1991 - 53rd NCAA Mens Basketball Champion: Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65
- 1992 - NHL players begin first strike in 75-year history
- 1997 - 69-year-old Gordie Howe begins playing AHL game with Syracuse Crunch
- 2002 - Maryland defeats Indiana 64-52 to win the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia