February 4
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[edit] Events
[edit] 1903
- Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias, 2 games to 1 and 1 tie
[edit] 1924
- 1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France
[edit] 1931
- National League adopts a deader baseball
[edit] 1932
- 3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
[edit] 1951
- US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer
- US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
[edit] 1962
- US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt
- US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles
[edit] 1968
- Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th Commissioner of Baseball
[edit] 1969
- 41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cin-Det, SD-Bost
[edit] 1970
- Ken Schinkel of the Pittsburgh Penguins scored three goals on Ceasar Maniago of the Minnesota North Stars for his second career hat trick.
[edit] 1971
- Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks
[edit] 1976
- 12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria
[edit] 1977
- 30th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 at Vancouver
[edit] 1979
- Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
[edit] 1980
- Joanne Carner wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
[edit] 1983
- US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
[edit] 1986
- 38th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford
[edit] 1987
- Stars and Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup
[edit] 1990
- St Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior *Professional Baseball Association Championship
- Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar)
- Pat Bradley wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
- NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-21
- Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (3:40.81)
[edit] 1993
- Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism
[edit] 1995
- Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77)
- Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning
[edit] 1996
- NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-13
[edit] 1997
- Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins scored his 600th career goal into an empty net against the Vancouver Canucks in a 6-4 win at Pittsburgh's Civic Arena. Lemieux became the second fastest, and the seventh overall, to reach 600 career NHL goals.
[edit] 2003
- Jaromir Jagr of the Washington Capitals scored his 500th career goal. He also got his 11th career hat trick in the game against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
[edit] Births
[edit] 1884
- Rolland Beaumont, cricketer (S African batsman in 5 tests 1912-14)
[edit] 1891
- Yuri Losmann, Estonia, marathon runner (Olympic-silver 1920)
[edit] 1906
- Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (champ-1933)
[edit] 1912
- Byron Nelson, Fort Worth Tx, PGA golfer (won 19 tournaments in 1945)
[edit] 1913
- Woody Hayes, [Wayne], college football coach (Ohio, 1968 coach of yr)
[edit] 1937
- John Devitt, Australia, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1960)
- Magnar Solberg, Norway, 20K biathalete (Olympic-gold-1968, 72)
[edit] 1946
- Mary Meyer, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-silver-1968)
[edit] 1948
- Rakesh Shukla, cricket leg-spinner (1 Test India v Sri Lanka 1982)
[edit] 1959
- Lawrence Taylor, [LT], NFL's greatest linebacker (NY Giants)
[edit] 1961
- Vern Fleming, LIC NY, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
[edit] 1962
- Dan Plesac, Gary IN, pitcher (Pitts Pirates)
- Vern Fleming, NBA guard (NJ Nets)
[edit] 1963
- Tracie Ruiz-Conforto, Hawaii, sync swimmer (Oly-2 gold/silver-84, 88)
- Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier (Olympic-gold-1988)
- Jane Leary, Sydney Australia, golfer (1992 Australian Amateur Champ)
[edit] 1965
- John van Loen, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord, San Frecce)
[edit] 1966
- Barry Klein, Grand Rapids Mich, rower (Olympics-1996)
[edit] 1967
- Sergei Grinkov, Russian ice skater
[edit] 1969
- Brad Cornett, US baseball pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
- Chris Crooms, WLAF safety (Barcelona Dragons)
[edit] 1970
- Todd Peterson, NFL kicker (Seattle Seahawks)
- John Frascatore, US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
[edit] 1971
- Kevin Farkas, NFL tackle (Carolina Panthers)
- Maarten Atmodikoro, soccer player (Dordrecht '90, NAC)
- Pete Pierson, NFL tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
- Sterling Palmer, NFL defensive end (Washington Redskins)
[edit] 1972
- Kelvin Anderson, CFL running back (Calgary Stampeders)
[edit] 1973
- Oscar De La Hoya, LA Calif, boxer (Oly-gold-92)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] 1943
- Frank Calder, 1st NHL president, dies
[edit] 1995
- Roel Wiersma, Dutch soccer star (PSV), dies at 62
