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1947 - First NBA Championship: Philadelphia Warriors beat Chicago Stags, 4 games to 2.

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1954 - NBA adopts the 24-second shot clock and six team-foul rule.

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1955 - Kansas City Athletic's first game, they beat Detroit Tigers 6-2.

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1956 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open.

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1957 - All National League teams integrate, John Irwin Kennedy is first black on Philadelphia Phillies.

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1959 - Chicago White Sox beat Kansas City Athletics 20-6, in one inning Sox score 11 runs on one hit, ten walks, and three errors.

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1959 - New York Yankees' player Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Washington Senators 1-0 in 14 innings.

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1962 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Sunshine Golf Open.

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1962 - New York Mets tie a National League record by losing 9 straight to start season.

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1962 - Pittsburgh Pirates tie record of ten straight wins to start season.

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