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1918 \u2014 The first neutral site game in NHL history is held in Quebec City. Frank Nighbor scores twice in the first period to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 3-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n
1955 \u2014 Boston beats Milwaukee 62-57 at Providence, R.I. in a game which set records for fewest points scored by one team, and by both teams, since the introduction of the 24-second clock.<\/p>\n
1959 \u2014 The Boston Celtics beat the Minneapolis Lakers 173-139 as seven NBA records fall. The Celtics set records for most points (179), most points in a half (90), most points in a quarter (52) and most field goals (72). Boston\u2019s Tom Heinsohn leads all scorers with 43 points and Bob Cousy adds 31 while setting an NBA record with 28 assists.<\/p>\n
1966 \u2014 Richard Petty wins the rain-shortened Daytona 500 by more than a lap at a speed of 160.927 mph. Petty holds the lead for the last 212 miles of the scheduled 500-mile event, which is called five miles from the finish. Cale Yarborough finishes second.<\/p>\n
1977 \u2014 Stan Mikita of the Chicago Black Hawks scores his 500th goal in a 4-3 loss to the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n
1982 \u2014 Florida apprentice Mary Russ becomes the first female jockey to win a Grade I stakes in North America when she captures the Widener Handicap aboard Lord Darnley at Hialeah (Fla.) Park.<\/p>\n
1992 \u2014 Prairie View sets an NCAA Division I record for most defeats in a season with a 112-79 loss to Mississippi Valley State in the first round of the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament. Prairie View\u2019s 0-28 mark breaks the record of 27 losses shared by four teams.<\/p>\n
1994 \u2014 Sweden wins its first hockey gold medal, defeating Canada 3-2 in the first shootout for a championship at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. Canada is 1:49 away from its first championship in 42 years when Magnus Svensson\u2019s power-play goal ties it at 2. Paul Kariya\u2019s shot is stopped by Sweden\u2019s Tommy Salo after Peter Forsberg puts Sweden ahead on his team\u2019s seventh shot.<\/p>\n
1998 \u2014 Indiana\u2019s 124-59 victory over Portland marks the first time in the NBA\u2019s 51-year history that one team scores more than twice as many points as the other.<\/p>\n
2005 \u2014 David Toms delivers the most dominant performance in the seven-year history of the Match Play Championship, winning eight out of nine holes to put away Chris DiMarco with the largest margin of victory in the 36-hole final. The score 6 and 5, could have been much worse as Toms was 9 up at one point.<\/p>\n
2006 \u2014 Effa Manley is the first woman elected to the baseball Hall of Fame. The former Newark Eagles co-owner is among 17 people from the Negro Leagues and pre-Negro Leagues chosen by a special committee.<\/p>\n
2010 \u2014 Steven Holcomb drives USA-1 to the Olympic gold medal in four-man bobsledding, ending a 62-year drought for the Americans in the event. Holcomb\u2019s four-run time was 3:24.46, with Justin Olsen, Steve Mesler and Curt Tomasevicz pushing for him.<\/p>\n
2015 \u2014 Travis Kvapil\u2019s NASCAR Sprint Cup car is stolen early in the day from a hotel parking lot, forcing him to withdraw from a race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The team didn\u2019t have a backup car in Atlanta, so it\u2019s forced to drop out when the stolen machine couldn\u2019t be located in time for NASCAR\u2019s mandatory inspection.<\/p>\n
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