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Sports Events on 9/2
9/2/1998
German Georg Hackl wins his third olympic gold at the Nagano Winter Olympics
9/2/1997
Scotty Bowman becomes the first NHL coach to complete 1.000 wins
9/2/1996
Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey smashes the 50m indoors record with 5.56
9/2/1995
Russian sprinter Irina Privalova sets new world records in 50 and 60m indoors races with 5.92 and 6.92 respectively in Madrid
9/2/1992
Magic Johnson's come back to NBA action. The West beats the East and Johnson is voted MVP
9/2/1964
21-year-old Arthur Ashe, one of the best tennis players of all time, becomes the first black on US Davis Cup tennis team
9/2/1923
Aeroflot is founded, two years after the 1921 revolution in Russia, and five months later, on July 15, 1923, it will commence operations. The company will use a “Winged Hammer and Sickle” as a logo, which will remain after the dissolution of the USSR and the company will be considered the de facto national airline of Russia.
9/2/1900
Dwight Davis comes up with a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup
9/2/1895
First intercollegiate basketball game. Minnesota State School of Agriculture beat Hamilton College 9-3
9/2/1895
William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education instructor in Massachusetts and friend of James Naismith, invents volleyball, originally known as mintonette
9/2/1857
Dionisios Solomos, the Greek poet who, in 1823, completed the national anthem, dies
9/2/1540
First recorded horse race in England (Chester's Roodee)