In 1993, Drazen Petrović was killed in a car accident in Germany.
In 1986, Bo Jackson was drafted by the Kansas City Royals to play Major League Baseball and decided to play baseball instead of play for Tampa Bay in the NFL after they lied to him.
In 1892, Jack Doyle of the Cleveland Spiders became the first successful pinch hitter in major league baseball history.
In 1998, the Chicago Bulls beat the Utah Jazz by 42 points in an NBA Finals game. That margin of victory is an NBA Finals record.
In 1997, a scoring mistake at the Indy Racing League event at Texas Motor Speedway awarded the trophy to the wrong driver. The actual winner, Arie Luyendyk, was awarded the trophy the following day.