1904: Ty Cobb signs a professional contract with Augusta (South Atlantic League).

1948: Baltimore Bullets win the Basketball Association of America Finals, defeating the Philadelphia Warriors 88-73 to win the series 4 games to 2.

1951 — The Rochester Royals defeat the New York Knicks 79-75 in the seventh game of the NBA championship series thanks to two foul shots by Bob Davies and a layup by Jack Coleman.

1951 — In the fifth game, the Toronto Maple Leafs defeat the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 to capture the Stanley Cup for the fourth time in five years.

1955: The Brooklyn Dodgers win, marking their tenth consecutive season opener.

Billy Rodgers wins the Boston Marathon for the third time in a row in 1980. Eight days later, it is revealed that Rosie Ruiz did not complete the race, disqualifying her as the women’s champion.

Joint CEOs of the Texas Rangers, George W. Bush and Edward W. Rose, take office in 1989.

1991: The Dallas Cowboys select defensive tackle Russell Maryland, out of University of Miami, as the first pick in the NFL Draft.

Jack Nicklaus won his fourth of eight Champions Tour majors in 1991 in the PGA Seniors’ Championship Men’s Golf at PGA National GC by six shots.

2015— Utah, the defending champion, won its ninth national title overall since the competition’s inception in 1982, extending its dominance over the NCAA women’s gymnastics championships. Utah’s score was 196.650.

1996 — In their 72nd game, the Chicago Bulls defeat Washington 103-93, led by 26 points from Michael Jordan to cap off the most successful regular season in NBA history.

After defeating Wilt Chamberlain’s record of seven NBA scoring titles, Jordan sets a new mark with his eighth.

In 1996, Hale Irwin won his first of four Senior PGA Championships at the PGA Seniors’ Championship Men’s Golf at PGA National GC, defeating Japan’s Isao Aoki by two shots.

In one of the biggest upsets in boxing history, Hasim Rahman defeats Lennox Lewis with a devastating right hand toward the end of the fifth round in Brakpan, South Africa, to win the WBC and IBF heavyweight crowns.

MVP Michael Vick of Virginia Tech was selected first overall by the Atlanta Falcons in the 2001 NFL Draft.

2008: Robert Cheruiyot, a Kenyan, becomes the fourth man to win the Boston Marathon four times with a timing of 2:07:46. After a back-and-forth final mile, Dire Tune of Ethiopia wins by two seconds in the closest finish in the history of the women’s event.

2012: The Chicago White Sox defeat the Seattle Mariners 4-0 thanks to a perfect game pitched by Phil Humber, the team’s first major league pitcher in nearly two years.
2013: At the Spanish Open, Raphael Jacquelin of France wins a playoff that breaks all previous records by defeating Maximilian Kieffer of Germany on their ninth attempt at the 18th hole. The 1989 Dutch Open was the only other European Tour tournament to be decided in a nine-hole playoff.

2013 saw Takuma Sato win the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, making history as the first Japanese driver to win an IndyCar event.

2013: In Austin, Texas, rookie Marc Marquez won the Grand Prix of the Americas, his maiden MotoGP event. The 20-year-old Spaniard, the Moto2 champion from the previous season, becomes the youngest winner at the highest level of motorcycle racing.

2013 saw the first-ever 900 series in Professional Bowlers Association history, as 50-year-old independent electrical contractor Joe Scarborough produced three consecutive perfect games. He threw 36 straight strikes in three games of 300 to start the PBA50 Sun Bowl qualification tournament.

2014 saw the American Meb Keflezighi win the Boston Marathon, one year after there was a bombing at the finish line that injured over 260 people and claimed three lives. Since Lisa Larsen-Weidenbach won the women’s race in 1985, no American runner had won; Greg Meyer was the last American man to win in 1983. Rita Jeptoo, a Kenyan, becomes the seventh person to win the Boston Marathon three times with her successful defense of the title.

2018: Boston Red Sox get no-hit by left-hander Sean Manaea of the Oakland A’s.

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