NBA history made with 72 wins
1904 — Ty Cobb started playing professional baseball for Augusta in the South Atlantic League.
1948 — In the Basketball Association of America Finals, the Baltimore Bullets won against the Philadelphia Warriors with a score of 88-73. They won the series, taking 4 games out of 6.
1951 — The Rochester Royals won against the New York Knicks with a score of 79-75 in the seventh game of the NBA championship series. Bob Davies scored two free throws, and Jack Coleman made a layup, helping the Royals secure the victory.
1951 — The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup for the fourth time in five years by defeating the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 in the fifth game.
1955 — The Brooklyn Dodgers won their 10th consecutive game at the start of the season.
1980 — Bill Rodgers wins his third consecutive Boston Marathon. However, Rosie Ruiz, who was initially declared the women’s champion, is later disqualified when officials find out she didn’t run the full distance of the race.
1989 — George W. Bush and Edward W. Rose are now both CEOs of the Texas Rangers baseball team.
1991 — The Dallas Cowboys chose Russell Maryland, a defensive tackle from the University of Miami, as the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1991 — Jack Nicklaus secured his fourth out of eight Champions Tour majors with a dominant victory at the PGA Seniors’ Championship Men’s Golf held at PGA National GC. He clinched the title with a remarkable six-stroke lead.
1995 — Utah, the defending champion, once again proves its strength in the NCAA women’s gymnastics championships. They clinched their ninth national title since the event’s inception in 1982 with an impressive score of 196.650.
1996 — The Chicago Bulls just finished their best regular season ever in NBA history. They won their 72nd game by beating Washington 103-93, with Michael Jordan scoring 26 points. Jordan Secures Eighth NBA Scoring Title, Surpassing Wilt Chamberlain’s Record of Seven
1996 — At the PGA Seniors’ Championship Men’s Golf held at PGA National GC, Hale Irwin won his first of 4 Senior PGA Championships by beating Japan’s Isao Aoki with a lead of 2 strokes.
2001 — In an epic showdown in Brakpan, South Africa, Hasim Rahman shocked the world by knocking out Lennox Lewis with a powerful right hand in the fifth round. This incredible punch secured Rahman both the WBC and IBF heavyweight titles, marking one of the greatest upsets in boxing history.
2001 — Michael Vick from Virginia Tech is chosen as the first pick by the Atlanta Falcons in the NFL Draft.
2008 — Robert Cheruiyot from Kenya won the Boston Marathon, finishing in 2 hours, 7 minutes, and 46 seconds. This marks his fourth victory, making him the fourth man ever to achieve this feat. In the women’s race, Ethiopia’s Dire Tune narrowly beat Alevtina Biktimirova by just 2 seconds in the closest finish ever recorded in the history of the event.
2012 — Phil Humber pitched a perfect game, the first in almost two years in Major League Baseball. He led the Chicago White Sox to a 4-0 win against the Seattle Mariners.
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2013 — Raphael Jacquelin from France won a nail-biting playoff at the Spanish Open, matching a record as he edged out Germany’s Maximilian Kieffer. Their intense battle stretched to nine tries at the 18th hole. The last time a playoff this long happened in a European Tour event was back in 1989 at the Dutch Open.
2013 — Takuma Sato made history by winning the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, becoming the first Japanese driver ever to clinch victory in an IndyCar race.
2013 — Marc Marquez, a 20-year-old Spaniard and former Moto2 champion, clinches his first MotoGP victory at the Grand Prix of the Americas in Austin, Texas. This win makes him the youngest ever to triumph at the highest level of motorcycle racing.
2013 — Joe Scarborough, a 50-year-old who works for himself fixing electrical stuff, just did something crazy in bowling. He bowled three perfect games in a row, which has never happened before in the Professional Bowlers Association. He did it at the start of a competition called PBA50 Sun Bowl. That’s 36 strikes in a row!
2014 — After a tragic bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line that killed three and injured over 260 people, American Meb Keflezighi triumphs in the race. His victory marks the first time a U.S. runner has won since 1983. Rita Jeptoo from Kenya also secures her third Boston Marathon win, making her the seventh runner to achieve this feat.
2018 — Sean Manaea, a pitcher for the Oakland A’s, throws a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox.
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