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What happened in history on this day: December 25?
On December 25 in ...
- 1888 - First indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia.
- 1894 - First midwestern football team to play on west coast, University of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, California.
- 1928 - Christmas Day attendance at cricket Melbourne Cricket Ground (Victoria versus New South Wales) 14,887.
- 1928 - New South Wales (versus Victoria) go from 8-74 to 9-113 to be 9-367 at stumps.
- 1929 - Clarrie Grimmett takes 6-146 in cricket for South Africa, Queensland all out 380; Crowd 5,390.
- 1930 - First US bobsled run open to the public (Mount Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, New York).
- 1930 - Slinger Nitschke scores 142 South Africa versus Queensland at Adelaide before 5,422.
- 1930 - Tasmania all out 280, West Indies 2-139 at Hobart Crowd 2,500.
- 1931 - Albert Lonergan scores 137 South Africa versus Queensland at Adelaide before 5,697.
- 1931 - Leslie Fleetwood-Smith takes 5-69 Victoria versus Tasmania at Hobart.
- 1933 - Another Christmas Day five-wicket haul by Clarrie Grimmett.
- 1933 - Stan Smith takes 8-33 for Victoria versus Tasmania at Hobart.
- 1934 - Four centuries for South Africa as they make 7-644 versus Queensland before 6,180.
- 1936 - Ron Hamence scores 104 for South Africa versus Queensland before 4,865.
- 1937 - Queensland all out for 93 versus South Africa in front of 10,436.
- 1939 - Clarrie Grimmett and Ward rip through Queensland in cricket except Bill Brown (156).
- 1940 - Donald Bradman out first ball for South Africa versus Victoria before 6213.
- 1950 - Cleveland Browns beat Los Angeles Rams 30-28 in NFL championship game.
- 1951 - West Indies defeat Australia by six wickets on third day of third Test Cricket.
- 1969 - India all out for 163 at Madras versus Australia, Ashley Mallett 5-91.
- 1971 - Longest NFL game (3 hours 21 minutes) as Miami Dolphins beat Kansas City Chiefs 27-24.
- 1972 - England beats India by six wickets in the first Test Cricket at Delhi.
- 1979 - Opening day of fourth Test Cricket, India 8-112 versus Pakistan at Kanpur.
- 1982 - Mudassar Nazar scores century, then Imran rips through Indians.
- 1984 - NBA's Bernard King scores 60 points.
- 1991 - Last day of a washout Pakistan versus Sri Lanka at Gujranwala.
Births of sports figures on December 25
- 1855 - Birth of James Galvin; pitcher, shut-out every opposing team in 1884.
- 1875 - Birth of Walter Lees; cricket player (Surrey pace bowler toured for England 1905-06).
- 1881 - Birth of Joseph V McCarthy; baseball manager (New York Yankees).
- 1891 - Birth of Clarrie Grimmett; cricket player (in Dunedin Great Australian leg-spinner).
- 1900 - Birth of W L "Tich" Cornford; cricket player (Sussex keeper played for England 1930).
- 1909 - Birth of Mike Mazurki in Tarnopal, Austria; actor/wrestler (Centerfold Girls).
- 1912 - Birth of Donald McRae; cricket player (Test for New Zealand, the 1946 debacle versus Australia).
- 1923 - Birth of Nöel Vandernotte in France; cox (Olympics-bronze-1936).
- 1925 - Birth of Ossi Reichert; German giant slalom (Olympics-gold-1956).
- 1927 - Birth of Nellie Fox; Chicago White Sox infielder (American League Most Valuable Player 1959).
- 1932 - Birth of Peter John Swales; football club chairman.
- 1942 - Birth of François Durr in France; tennis player (1976 US indoor Doubles).
- 1943 - Birth of Hedley Howarth; cricket player (brother of Geoff, New Zealand lefty spinner 1969-77).
- 1945 - Birth of Ken "The Snake" Stabler; NFL quarterback (Oakland Raiders, Super Bowl XI).
- 1946 - Birth of Larry Csonka; NFL running back (Miami Dolphins, New York Giants).
- 1947 - Birth of Connie Petracek in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA; swimmer (Olympics-1992, 1996).
- 1950 - Birth of Manny Trillo; baseball infielder (Philadelphia Phillies).
- 1956 - Birth of Mansoor Akhtar; cricket player (Pakistani batsman early 1980s).
- 1958 - Birth of Joop Hiele; soccer player (Dordrecht 1990, Go Ahead Eagles).
- 1958 - Birth of Rickey Henderson in Chicago, Illinois, USA; baseball player (stolen base king, Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees).
- 1959 - Birth of Chris Spice; Australian field hockey coach (Olympics-1996).
- 1959 - Birth of Ton Lokhoff; Dutch soccer player (NAC).
- 1962 - Birth of Mary Ellen Clark in Abington, Pennsylvania, USA; diver (Olympics-2 bronze-1992, 1996).
- 1963 - Birth of Joop Gall; Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen).
- 1964 - Birth of Anil Kaul in Amritsar, India; Canadian badminton player (Olympics-1996).
- 1964 - Birth of Janet Soulsby in Corbridge, Australia; golfer (Curtis Cup 1982).
- 1964 - Birth of Raymond Libregts; soccer player (MVV).
- 1965 - Birth of Dmitri Mironov in Moscow, Russia; NHL defenseman (Pittsburgh Penguins, Anaheim Mighty Ducks).
- 1965 - Birth of Kathleen Luciano in Munich, Germany; WPVA volleyball player (Nationals-17th-1993).
- 1966 - Birth of Craig Veasey; NFL defensive tackle/defensive end (Houston Oilers).
- 1967 - Birth of Kathleen Franey in Brooklyn, New York, USA; 1.5km runner.
- 1968 - Birth of Corey Widmer; NFL linebacker (New York Giants).
- 1968 - Birth of Don Silvestri; NFL/WLAF kicker (New York Jets, London Monarchs).
- 1968 - Birth of Jim Dowd in Brick, New Jersey, USA; NHL center (Vancouver Canucks).
- 1968 - Birth of Scott Bullett in Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA; outfielder (Chicago Cubs).
- 1970 - Birth of Azhar Saeed in United Arab Emirates; cricket player (opening batsman 1996 World Cup).
- 1970 - Birth of Ghalid Salamat; soccer player (MVV).
- 1970 - Birth of Stu Barnes in Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada; NHL center (Florida Panthers).
- 1971 - Birth of Marlon Forbes; safety (Chicago Bears).
- 1971 - Birth of Terry Vaughn; Canadian Football League receiver (Calgary Stampeders).
- 1974 - Birth of Chris Naeole; guard (New Orleans Saints).
- 1974 - Birth of Grayson Shillingford; NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks).
- 1976 - Birth of Scott Vermillion in Independence, Missouri; soccer defenceman (Olympics-gold-1996).
Deaths of sports figures on December 25
- 1976 - Arthur Mitchell, cricket player (batted in six Tests for England 1933-36), dies.
- 1989 - Billy Martin, New York Yankees' baseball manager, killed in a car accident at age 61 in Binghamton, New York.
- 1991 - Mahmood Hussain, cricket player (27 Tests for Pakistan, 68 wickets), dies.
- 1992 - Ted Croker, RAF-pilot/secretary English soccer team (sponsoring), dies (born 1924).
- 1995 - Jimmy Boucher, cricket player (great Irish all-rounder 1929-54), dies.
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