March 21
1893– The very first females’s college basketball video game is dipped into Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. In this video game, each basket deserves 1 point and the freshman class beats the sophomore class 5-4. The video game occurs behind locked doors and guys are forbidden from seeing.
1941– Joe Louis knocks out Abe Simon in the 13 th round at Olympia Arena in Detroit to maintain the world heavyweight title.
1945– George Mikan of DePaul ratings 53 points in the semifinals of the National Invite Competition. Mikan matches Rhode Island in offending output and his colleagues include another 44 for a last rating of 97-53
1953– Novice Bob Cousy sets an NBA record with 50 points and leads the Boston Celtics to a 111-105 triumph over the Syracuse Nationals in a quadruple overtime championship game. Cousy ratings 30 of his points from the nasty line.
1959– California edges West Virginia 71-70 for the NCAA basketball champion. Jerry West ratings 28 points for West Virginia.
1959– Oscar Robertson ratings the very first triple-double in the NCAA Competition’s Last 4 history, tallying 39 points, 17 rebounds and 10 helps in Cincinnati’s 98-85 win over Louisville in the third-place video game.
1964– UCLA caps a 30 -0 season with a 98-83 triumph over Duke in the NCAA basketball champion. UCLA is the 3rd group to go unbeaten and win the title. The triumph offers coach John Wooden the very first of his 10 NCAA Competition champions.
1970– Curtis Rowe ratings 19 points and Sidney Wicks includes 17 points and grabs 18 rebounds to lead UCLA to an 80-69 success over Jacksonville for its 4th successive NCAA basketball champion. Jacksonville ends the season with a scoring average of 100.4 points per video game, the first string to balance more than 100 points in a college basketball season.
1973– Frank Mahovlich ratings his 500 th objective as the Montreal Canadiens beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-2.
1984– Glenn Anderson of Edmonton ratings his 50 th objective of the season and assists the Oilers beat the Hartford Whalers 5-3. The Oilers end up being the very first NHL group to have 3 50- objective scorers in one season.
1985– Washington’s Bobby Carpenter ends up being the very first U.S.-born gamer in NHL history to rating 50 objectives in a season. He reaches the turning point in a 3-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens at The Online forum.
1990– Brett Hull of St. Louis ends up being the 6th gamer in NHL history to rating 70 objectives in a season with an objective in the Blues’ 8-6 loss to the Edmonton Oilers.
1996– Todd Eldredge ends up being the very first American in 8 years to win the gold medal at the World Figure Skating Championships.
2011– Courtney Vandersloot has 29 points and 17 helps to assist Gonzaga beat UCLA 89-75 in the 2nd round of the NCAA competition. Vandersloot ends up being the very first gamer in Department I history– males or females– to tape-record 2,000 points and 1,000 helps in a profession.
2014– Mercer manages the most significant upset in the guys’s NCAA competition by knocking off Duke 78-71 in the 2nd round. The 14 th-seeded and senior-laden Bears score 11 straight points throughout the late 20 -5 go to clinch the greatest success in school history.
2015– Top-ranked Kentucky outworked eighth-seeded Cincinnati for a 64-51 triumph to reach the Sugary food 16 for the 2nd straight season. The Wildcats enhance to 36 -0– the very best start to a season for any group.
2019– Japanese baseball right fielder Ichiro Suzuki completes his profession with a record 4,367 base hits (NPB & MLB) as Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland A’s, 5-4 in Tokyo, Japan.
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