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1937 鈥� Tris Speaker and Cy Young are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1973 鈥� UCLA, led by Bill Walton, sets an NCAA record for consecutive victories with its 61st win, an 82-63 victory over Notre Dame. UCLA breaks the record of 60 set by San Francisco in 1956. Walton scores 16 points, grabs 15 rebounds and blocks 10 shots.
1982 鈥� Geoff Houston of the Cleveland Cavaliers hands out 27 assists, two short of the NBA record and scores 24 points in a 110-106 victory over the Golden State Warriors.
1991 鈥� The New York Giants survive the closest Super Bowl ever when Scott Norwood鈥檚 47-yard field goal attempt with 8 seconds left in the game goes wide. The Giants win their second Super Bowl in five years, 20-19 over the Buffalo Bills.
1993 鈥� American Chad Rowan is awarded the highest rank in sumo wrestling, the ancient Japanese sport, making him the first foreign 鈥測okozuna.鈥� The 6-foot-8, 455-pounder from Honolulu, becomes the 64th person to hold the top rank in the sport鈥檚 history.
1996 鈥� The U.S. Golf Association elects Judy Bell as the first female president in its 101-year history.
2001 鈥� Jennifer Capriati upsets three-time winner Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-3 to win the Australian Open and her first Grand Slam tournament title.
2003 鈥� Hermann Maier wins a World Cup super giant slalom in Kitzbuehel, Austria, a victory he ranks among his finest triumphs. The win comes 18 months after he almost loses his leg in a motorcycle crash.
2007 鈥� Serena Williams wins her third Australian Open singles title, routing Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-2. Unseeded and ranked 81st, Williams wins her eighth and most improbable Grand Slam. She is the second unseeded woman to win the Australian title in the Open era.
2008 鈥� Novak Djokovic fends off unseeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (2) in the Australian Open final, earning his first Grand Slam title.
2008 鈥� Eric Staal wins the most valuable player award in the NHL All-Star game, registering two goals and an assist in the East鈥檚 8-7 win over the Western Conference. Staal helps set up Marc Savard鈥檚 winning goal with 20.9 seconds left.
2010 鈥� Washington鈥檚 Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton are suspended without pay for the remainder of the season by NBA commissioner David Stern. Both players admit to bringing a gun or guns into the Wizards鈥� locker room 鈥� a violation of the collective bargaining agreement 鈥� after a dispute stemming from a card game on a team flight.
2011 鈥� Roger Federer, the 16-time Grand Slam winner, is knocked out of the Australian Open by Novak Djokovic in a semifinal match, 7-6 (3), 7-5, 6-4. Federer鈥檚 loss marks the first time since 2003 that he wouldn鈥檛 hold any of the four major titles.
2013 鈥� Novak Djokovic beats Andy Murray 6-7 (2), 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-2 to become the first man in the Open era to win three consecutive Australian Open titles.
2013 鈥� Little-known Max Aaron wins his first title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and helps knock down three-time men鈥檚 champion Jeremy Abbott to third place.
2013 鈥� Speedskater Heather Richardson edges Canada鈥檚 Christine Nesbitt in the final women鈥檚 race to become the first American woman to win the World Sprint Championships since 2005.
2013 鈥� The NFC blew past the AFC 62-35 in the Pro Bowl. Minnesota tight end Kyle Rudolph is voted the game鈥檚 MVP with five catches for 122 yards and a touchdown.
2018 – Australian Open Women鈥檚 Tennis: Caroline Wozniacki beats Simona Halep 7-6, 3-6, 6-4 to win her first Grand Slam title.
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