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  • 17 Sep 1939

    Finnish long-distance runner Taisto Mäki broke the 10,000-meter world record in 29:52:06.

  • 17 May 1939

    The first televised baseball game was broadcasted on NBC, featuring Princeton defeating Colombia 2-1.

  • 27 May 1938

    Bradman scored his 1000th cricket run of the English season, becoming the earliest to do so.

  • 29 Dec 1937

    Lou Thesz beat Everett Marshall in St Louis, making him the youngest to win the National Wrestling Association World heavyweight title.

  • 13 Nov 1937

    NBC assembled the first symphony utilized exclusively for radio.

  • 7 Dec 1936

    Jack Fingleton, an Australian cricketer, became the first batsman to score 100 runs in four consecutive test matches.

  • 1 Aug 1936

    The XI Summer Olympics are opened in Berlin by Adolf Hitler.

  • 3 May 1936

    New York Yankee, Joe DiMaggio, made his major-league debut.

  • 9 Sep 1934

    With a record time of 2:52:29, Armas Toivonen was the first European to win gold for a marathon at the European Athletics Championships.

  • 30 Jul 1932

    The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as Games of the X Olympiad, were held in Los Angeles, United States.

  • 4 Feb 1932

    The Winter Olympics opened in Lake Placid, New York.

  • 30 Jul 1930

    Host nation Uruguay defeated Argentina 4-2 in Montevideo to win the first FIFA World Cup.

  • 11 Aug 1929

    Legendary baseballer Babe Ruth became the first member of the 500 home run club.

  • 28 Jul 1928

    IX Summer Olympics open.

  • 3 Oct 1926

    Violet Stewart Piercy, a long-distance runner from England, set the first recorded marathon win for women at 3:40:22.

  • 6 Aug 1926

    First Woman to Swim Across the English Channel.

  • 24 May 1926

    Paavo Nurmi ran a world record time of 3000 meters in 8 minutes and 25 seconds.

  • 27 Oct 1925

    Inventor Fred Waller patented the aquaplane, which would become water skis.

  • 26 May 1925

    Ty Cobb, a future Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder, was the first to gain 1,000 extra-base hits.

  • 27 Jan 1925

    20 mushers embark on a journey to transport medicine to Nome, Alaska, inspiring the Iditarod Race.

  • 26 Jan 1924

    The first Winter Olympics medal was awarded to American Skater Charles Jewtraw after skating 5,000 meters in just 44 seconds.

  • 25 Jan 1924

    The world's first Winter Olympics took place in Chamonix, France.

  • 26 May 1923

    The first-ever Le Mans endurance race began.

  • 13 Feb 1923

    Robert L. Douglas, the Father of Black Professional Basketball, set up the first pro-black basketball team called Renaissance.

  • 24 Mar 1921

    The world's first international women's sporting event began in Monaco.

  • 2 May 1920

    The first game of the Negro National League was played at Washington Park in Indianapolis.

  • 8 Oct 1919

    World's first transcontinental air race.

  • 28 Sep 1919

    The New York Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies in the fastest-ever MLB game in history.

  • 19 Apr 1919

    Leslie Irvin makes the world's first free-fall parachute jump.

  • 14 May 1918

    The ban on Sunday baseball was lifted in Washington, D.C., making it the 3rd city to do so.

  • 1 Jun 1917

    Baseball and war hero Hank Gowdy became the first player to enlist in the US Army during World War II.

  • 13 Mar 1915

    American baseball catcher Wilbert Robinson tried to claim a record by catching a ball dropped from a plane 525 feet above him.

  • 11 Jul 1914

    Legendary baseballer Babe Ruth made his Major League Baseball debut for the Boston Red Sox.

  • 19 Aug 1913

    Adolphe Célestin Pégoud became Europe's first man to use a parachute.

  • 6 Jul 1912

    The fifth Summer Olympics are officially opened in Stockholm.

  • 30 May 1911

    The first Indianapolis 500 is held.

  • 27 Aug 1910

    Two baseball teams played a night match at White Sox Party using three 100-foot towers lit with 12 electric lamps.

  • 13 May 1909

    The Giro d'Italia cycle race is held for the first time.

  • 8 May 1909

    The British runner, Henry Barrett, ran a world record marathon at 2 hours, 42 minutes, and 31 seconds in the Polytechnic Marathon in London.

  • 26 Dec 1908

    Jack Johnson became the first African American to win the world heavyweight boxing title.

  • 2 May 1908

    Take Me Out to the Ball Game was copyrighted.

  • 3 Apr 1908

    Frank Gotch won the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship after a 2-hour match.

  • 17 Mar 1908

    The quickest boxing match in history took place.

  • 9 Mar 1908

    The Inter Milan soccer club was formed.

  • 26 Jun 1906

    The first Grand Prix car race is held.

  • 22 Apr 1906

    The 1906 Olympic Games begin in Athens.

  • 21 May 1904

    The International Federation of Association Football was founded in Paris.

  • 5 May 1904

    Cy Young pitches the first perfect game in modern major league baseball.

  • 5 Apr 1904

    The first international rugby league took place in Wigan, England.

  • 15 Aug 1903

    New Zealand's All Blacks played their first international test against Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground.

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