Category: Sports – This Day

The United States rallied past Finland 4–2 to complete its unbeaten Olympic run and win hockey gold in Lake Placid.

Cassius Clay stunned heavyweight champion Sonny Liston when Liston failed to answer the bell for the seventh round.

The New York Yankees released Babe Ruth, ending the most transformative playing tenure in franchise history.

Sixteen-year-old Tiger Woods made his PGA TOUR debut as an amateur at the Los Angeles Open at Riviera.

The United States scored six third-period goals to beat Czechoslovakia 9–4 and win its first Olympic hockey gold.

Buster Douglas knocked out unbeaten heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in one of boxing’s greatest upsets.

Hank Aaron signed a three-year, $600,000 contract with Atlanta that made him baseball’s highest-paid player.

March 1, 1969

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March 4, 1996

March 5, 1996