2011: Recording 16 PTS and 21 REBs in a win over the Indiana Pacers, Minnesota Timberwolves PF Kevin Love broke Moses Malone‘s post-merger NBA record with his 52nd straight double-double
2009: Miami Heat SG Dwyane Wade drained a 2OT buzzer-beating game-winning floater from the 3pt line to beat Chicago (his hometown team) in Miami as he celebrated by standing on the announcer’s table and exclaiming, “this is my house!”
1999: Houston Rockets C Hakeem Olajuwon became the very 1st (and still the only) player with 3,500 career blocks in NBA history
1995: MLB officially admitted two expansion franchises — the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays
1988: Defeating the New York Knicks 104-99, Los Angeles Lakers HC Pat Riley recorded his 400th career victory in just his 540th game, faster than anyone in NBA history
1985: Denver Nuggets PG Fat Lever set an NBA record with 8 steals in a single quarter against the Indiana Pacers
1961: Philadelphia Warriors C Wilt Chamberlain scored 67 points in a victory over the New York Knicks, the 2nd most PTS in a game ever behind Elgin Baylor’s 71 PTS from earlier that season. Wilt is the only player to ever score exactly 67 PTS in a game and has done it 4x
1958: Detroit Pistons SF George Yardley became the 1st player to score 2,000 points during a single season in NBA history
1946: Boston Red Sox OF Ted Williams turned down an offer to play in the Mexican League for a $500,000 salary — 10x greater than his MLB salary
1897: Cleveland Spiders signed OF Louis Sockalexis, a full-blooded member of the Penobscot tribe; his quick rise to stardom led to fans referring to the Cleveland team as the “Indians”, and the nickname would be revived in 1915 by the former “Naps”