The first Winter Olympics are held in Chamonix, France
Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals in athletics at the Berlin Olympics
Babe Ruth calls his home run shot in his last of 7 World Series victories, as the Yankees sweep the Cubs
Joe DiMaggio gets a hit in 56 consecutive games, the longest hitting streak in MLB history
Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run a mile (1609 metres) in under 4 minutes
Pitcher Don Larsen delivers the MLB's first and only post-season perfect game
England win their first World Cup, in front of a home crowd at Wembley Stadium
Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in a single NBA game, becoming the only player to do so in history
Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in the first Super Bowl
Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the 'Battle of the Sexes', still the most watched tennis match of all time
Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier by TKO after the 14th round in the Thrilla in Manila
USA pull off one of the greatest upsets in sports history when they beat the Soviet Union 4-3 in a medal-round game in the ice hockey tournament at the Olympics
Argentina's Diego Maradona scores both one of the greatest goals in soccer and with the 'Hand of God' to beat England in the quarter-final and later win the World Cup
Michael Jordan sinks the game-winning shot in Game 6 of the NBA finals, the last shot of his Chicago Bulls career, to secure his third straight NBA championship
Mike Tyson bites off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear in their WBA title fight
Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked prior to the Lillehammer Winter Olympics, by someone linked to her main competitor Tonya Harding
Usain Bolt breaks the 100 metre world record at the World Championships in Berlin, with a time of 9.58 seconds
Tiger Woods stays at the top of the Official World Golf Ranking for a record 281 consecutive weeks
Michael Phelps wins a record eight gold medals in swimming at the Olympics
Leicester City win their first ever Premier League title, after being 5000-1 outsiders to win the title at the start of the season
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