1918 : Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans
1919 : Green Bay Packers football club founded
1951 : 1st color baseball game (Braves vs Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-NYC)
1951 : NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa
1951 : NY Giants lose to go 13« games behind Bkln Dodgers, later win pennant
1954 : BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0
1961 : Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1
1962 : Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2)
1967 : Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches
1969 : Pitts Steelers beat NY Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo)
1970 : Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues
1984 : Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds
1985 : Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
1988 : 225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR
2002 : England managed 617 in the first innings of second test against India with Craig White unbeaten on 84. India were 99/2 in their second innings at the end of Fourth day's play in the second test.
2002 : Chanda Rubin reaches finals of the WTA Los Angeles Open tennis beating Jelena Dokic of Yugoslavia 6-0, 6-2.
2002 : Davenport reaches finals of the WTA Los Angeles Open tennis beating Ai Sugiyama of Japan 6-3, 6-4.
2002 : Mahesh Bhupathi - Mirnyi duo enters finals of Masters Series tennis tournament beating Jiri Novak and Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic 7-5, 6-3
2002 : James Blake - Todd Martin enters finals of Masters Series tennis tournament beating Martin Damm and Cyril Suk of the Czech Republic 7-6 (9-7), 7-6(7-4)
2002 : Lleyton Hewitt beats Fernando Gonzalez 6-7 (3/7), 7-5, 6-2 and enters singles final against Carlos Moya who won against Juan Carlos Ferrero 6-3, 6-4
2002 : Rohan Bopanna lost to the eight-seeded Trace Fielding of the US 2-6, 1-6 in the semi-finals of the USTA Futures tennis tournament.

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