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What happened in history on this day: February 7?
On February 7 in ...
- 1849 - American heavyweight boxing championship event is held at Roach's Point, Maryland. Tom Hyer defeats James Ambrose AKA Yankee Sullivan in 17 minutes, 18 seconds.
- 1882 - Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan knocks out Paddy Ryan in Mississippi, USA.
- 1884 - Canadian Rugby Football Union forms.
- 1908 - Connie Mack sells hurler Rube Waddell to Saint Louis Browns for $5,000.
- 1912 - Second Dutch 11-city skate (Coen de Koenig wins with time of 11:40).
- 1942 - First indoor 15-foot pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam, 15 feet 3/8 inch).
- 1949 - Joe DiMaggio becomes first US$100,000 per year baseball player (New York Yankees).
- 1958 - Brooklyn Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc.
- 1959 - Dorothy Rigney sells Chicago White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported US$27 million.
- 1970 - LSU's "Pistol" Pete Marovich scores 69 points in losing cause.
- 1970 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn.
- 1970 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood.
- 1973 - First time New York Rangers shut-out New York Islanders 6-0.
- 1975 - NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28-game road losing streak.
- 1976 - Darryl Sittler, Toronto Maple Leafs, sets NHL record with ten points in a game.
- 1979 - Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for West Indies versus India at Kanpur.
- 1979 - Toronto Maple Leafs' Darryl Sittler scores NHL record ten points (6 goals).
- 1982 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic.
- 1985 - New Jersey Devils' Don Lever becomes 57th NHL player to score 300 goals.
- 1986 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas.
- 1987 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano.
- 1987 - For only the second time, a Major League Baseball player is forced to take a pay cut due to salary arbitration. Los Angeles Dodgers' pitcher Orel Hershiser signs for US$800,000 which is a twenty percent reduction.
- 1988 - 38th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 138-133 at Chicago, Illinois.
- 1988 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-6.
- 1988 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic.
- 1989 - 40th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
- 1991 - Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin, and Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame.
- 1993 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-20.
- 1993 - Tammie Green wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic.
- 1995 - Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch and Mike Gatting.
- 1998 - (to February 22) The XVIII Olympic Winter Games are held in Nagano, Japan.
- 1998 - NHL's Dallas Stars retire Neal Broten's #7.
- 2005 - The Detroit Tigers sign right-fielder Magglio Ordonez for five-years for US$75 million.
- 2006 - Venezuela's Caracas Lions wins its first Caribbean Series championship since 1989, defeating the Dominican Republic's Licey Tigers.
- 2010 - The New Orleans Saints defeat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in the NFL Super Bowl at Dolphin Stadium in New Orleans, to claim their first NFL title.
- 2010 - The NFL Super Bowl is watched by more than 106 million people in the U.S., surpassing the 1983 finale of M*A*S*H to become the most-watched program in U.S. television history, according to the Neilsen Company.
- 2014 - (to February 23) The XXII Olympic Winter Games are held in Sochi, Russia.
- 2022 - At Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, NHL regular season game: Ottawa Senators beats New Jersey Devils by score 4-1.
- 2022 - At Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, NHL regular season game: Toronto Maple Leafs beats Carolina Hurricanes by score 4-3.
- 2023 - In a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Oklahoma Thunder in Los Angeles, California, LeBron James breaks the NBA's all-time scoring record with his 38,387th point, passing previous record holder Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Births of sports figures on February 7
- 1902 - Birth of Ethelda Blebtrey in Waterford, New York, USA; 100 metre swimmer (Olympics-gold-1920).
- 1908 - Birth of Clarence Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe in Oakland, California, USA; swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932), actor (Tarzan the Fearless, Flash Gordon).
- 1909 - Birth of Joseph "Poeske" Scherens; Flemish cyclist (champion sprinter 1932-37).
- 1919 - Birth of Ilse Pausin in Austria; figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936).
- 1921 - Birth of Athol Rowan; cricket player (brother of Eric, South African off-spinner).
- 1945 - Birth of Gerald Davies; British rugby player.
- 1949 - Birth of Sunil Wettimuny; cricket player (Sri Lanka open batsman 1975-79 World Cups).
- 1950 - Birth of Dan Quisenberry; baseball pitcher (Kansas City Royals).
- 1950 - Birth of Marilyn Cochran in Burlington, Vermont, USA; skier (Olympics-1972).
- 1951 - Birth of Manfred Schumann in the German Federal Republic; bobsled (Olympics-silver/bronze-1976).
- 1955 - Birth of Rolf Benirschke in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; NFL place kicker / Wheel of Fortune host.
- 1962 - Birth of Alan Sippy; cricket player (dashing Bombay lefty batsman of 1980s).
- 1963 - Birth of Roland Lefebvre; cricket pace bowler (Glamorgan and Holland).
- 1964 - Birth of Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead in Riverside, California, USA; swimmer (Olympics-silver-1984).
- 1965 - Birth of Kristal Parker-Gregory in Columbus, Ohio, USA; LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-20th).
- 1965 - Birth of Reginald Thal; soccer player (MVV).
- 1966 - Birth of Kristin Otto; swimmer (first woman athlete to win six gold medals at the Olympic Games (1988)).
- 1967 - Birth of Joseph Tilford Leigh Greene in Dayton, Ohio, USA; long jumper (Olympics-bronze-1992, 1996).
- 1968 - Birth of Martin Sinner in Koblenz, Germany; tennis star (1990 Pretoria).
- 1968 - Birth of Peter Bondra in Lutsk, Ukraine; NHL right wing (Washington Capitals).
- 1969 - Birth of Bucky Richardson; US football quarterback (Houston Oilers).
- 1969 - Birth of Fiona Robinson in Collie, Western Australia; basketball player (Olympics-bronze-1996).
- 1970 - Birth of Chris Gardocki; NFL punter (Indianapolis Colts).
- 1970 - Birth of Denis Chasse in Montréal, Quebec, Canada; NHL right wing (Winnipeg Jets).
- 1970 - Birth of Stanley Roberts; NBA center (Los Angeles Clippers, Minnesota Timberwolves).
- 1971 - Birth of Andrew Currey; Australian javelin thrower (Olympics-1996).
- 1971 - Birth of Marvin Graves; Canadian Football League quarterback (Montreal Alouettes).
- 1972 - Birth of Aftab Habib; cricket player (Leicestershire right-handed batsman 1996).
- 1972 - Birth of John Slaney in Saint John's, Newfoundland, Canada; NHL defenseman (Los Angeles Kings).
- 1973 - Birth of Billy Baumhoff in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; soccer midfielder/forward (Olympics-gold-1996).
- 1973 - Birth of Juwan Howard; NBA forward/center (Washington Bullets/Wizards).
- 1973 - Birth of Kristin Godridge in Traralgon, Australia; tennis star (1993 Futures-Singapore).
- 1973 - Birth of Leanne Schuster in Mesa, Arizona, USA; WPVA volleyball player (National-9th-1995).
- 1973 - Birth of Sonia Paquette in St-Janvier, Québec, Canada; hurdler (Olympics-1996).
- 1973 - Birth of Tim Bowens; NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins).
- 1974 - Birth of Ryan Phillips; linebacker (New York Giants).
- 1974 - Birth of Steve Nash; NBA guard (Phoenix Suns).
- 1975 - Birth of Alexandre Daigle in Montréal, Quebec, Canada; NHL center (Ottawa Senators).
- 1975 - Birth of Marika Lehtimaki; ice hockey center (Finland, Olympics-1998).
- 1976 - Birth of Terry Battle; running back (Detroit Lions).
- 1977 - Birth of Christine Scheels in New Berlin, Wisconsin; speed skater (Olympics-1994).
- 1977 - Birth of Hillary Wolf in Chicago, Illinois; extra lightweight judoka (Olympics-1996).
Deaths of sports figures on February 7
- 1911 - Harry Graham, cricket player (6 Test for Australia 1893-96, 301 runs), dies.
- 1940 - Francis Ford, cricket player (5 Tests for England versus Australia 1894-95), dies.
- 1942 - Dorando di Desiderio Pietri, marathon runner (Olympics-gold-1908), dies at age 56.
- 1962 - Arthur Carr, cricket player (11 Tests for England 22-29), dies shovelling snow.
- 1964 - Lillian Copeland, US discus thrower (Olympics-gold-32), dies at age 59.
- 1985 - Uday Merchant, cricket player (brother of Vijay, prolific scorer), dies.
- 1993 - Arthur Ashe, tennis star (Wimbledon 1975), dies of AIDS at age 49 (born 1943).
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