1920 — The New York Yankees announce they will be the first team to wear uniform numbers, according to the player’s position in batting order.
1960 — Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson in a 15-round split decision to capture the world middleweight title.
1962 — Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson are elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Robinson, who had the distinction of becoming the first black to play in the majors, is also the first to enter the Hall.
1968 — The NBA awards expansion franchises to Milwaukee and Phoenix.
1973 — George Foreman knocks out Joe Frazier in the second round in Jamaica to win the world heavyweight title.
1983 — Houston becomes the first NBA team to go without a point in overtime when the Portland Trail Blazers outscore the Rockets 17-0 for a 113-96 victory.
1988 — Mike Tyson knocks out Larry Holmes in the fourth round at Atlantic City, New Jersey, to retain his world heavyweight title.
1994 — New York Islanders’ Pierre Turgeon has four assists to help the Eastern Conference beat the Western Conference 9-8 in the NHL All-Star game.
1998 — New York’s Pat LaFontaine reaches the 1,000-point mark, scoring his 19th goal in the Rangers’ 4-3 loss to Philadelphia.
2003 — Andy Roddick wins one of the longest matches of the Open era, beating Younes El Aynaoui in a fifth set that ended 21-19 to reach the Australian Open semifinals. The 20-year-old American won 4-6, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-4, 21-19 in a match lasting 4 hours, 59 minutes — the longest men’s singles match at the Australian Open since tiebreaker sets were introduced into Grand Slam events in 1971.
2003 — Texas coach Jody Conradt becomes the second women’s basketball coach to win 800 games, when the Longhorns beat Texas Tech 69-58.
2004 — The Los Angeles Lakers lose in Dallas 106-87, their ninth straight on the road. It’s their longest skid since dropping 10 in a row in 1963-64.
2005 — Jockey Russell Baze passes Bill Shoemaker to take over second place on the career win list. Russell gets his 8,834th victory aboard Hollow Memories in the seventh race at Golden Gate Fields.
2006 — The Pittsburgh Steelers are the first team since the 1985 Patriots to win three postseason road games thanks to a 34-17 dismantling of the Denver Broncos in the AFC title game.
2006 — Kobe Bryant scores 81 points — the second-highest total in NBA history — and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Toronto Raptors 122-104.
2012 — The New England Patriots beat the Ravens 23-20 in the AFC championship game after Baltimore’s Billy Cundiff misses a 32-yard field goal attempt with 11 seconds remaining that would have tied the score.
2012 — Lawrence Tynes kicks a winning 31-yard field goal in overtime, sending the New York Giants past the San Francisco 49ers 20-17 in the NFC championship game. Devon Thomas put the Giants in position when he recovers his second fumble of the game after Jacquian Williams strips the ball from fill-in return man Kyle Williams.
