April 12
1939 — Stanley Cup Final, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: Chicago Black Hawks beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-1 for a 3-1 sequence win; solely workforce to win Cup with dropping common season file.
1941 — The Boston Bruins beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-1 to cap a 4-recreation sweep in the Stanley Cup finals.
1942 — Byron Nelson wins his second Masters, edging Ben Hogan by one stroke.
1945 — Toronto rookie goalie Frank McCool set a playoff file with his third consecutive shutout, defeating the Detroit Red Wings 1-0 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final.
1953 — Ben Hogan takes his second Masters with a 5-stroke victory over Porky Oliver.
1954 — Sam Snead edges Ben Hogan by one stroke in a playoff spherical to win his third Masters.
1954 — eighth NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 video games to three.
1958 — St. Louis’ Bob Pettit scores a file 50 factors because the Hawks beat the Boston Celtics in six video games for the NBA title. Pettit hit 19 photographs from the sector and 12 from the free-throw line in the Hawks 110-109 win.
1960 — Maurice Richard scored his NHL-file 82nd, and closing, playoff purpose in the Montreal Canadiens’ 5-2 victory towards the Maple Leafs in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final. Richard retired earlier than the 1960-61 season.
1964 — Arnold Palmer wins the Masters for the fourth time and comes throughout the course file by two strokes with a 274.
1980 — U.S. Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of the Moscow Olympic video games.
1981 — Tom Watson wins his second Masters with a two-stroke victory over Jack Nicklaus.
1987 — Larry Mize hits a 48-foot chip shot to defeat Greg Norman on the second gap of sudden dying at the Masters.
1987 — Ahmed Salah wins 2nd World Cup marathon (2:10:55).
1988 — Frank Robinson replaces Cal Ripkin as supervisor of Baltimore Orioles.
1992 — Fred Couples wins the Masters by two strokes to finish a string of 4 consecutive British victories. Couples beats Ray Floyd, who was making an attempt to turn out to be the oldest participant to win a serious at age 49.
1993 — American Jeff Rouse swims world file 100m backstroke (51.43 sec).
1997 — Allen Iverson scores a profession-excessive 50 factors, for his fourth straight recreation with at least 40, as Philadelphia loses to Cleveland 125-118. Iverson breaks Wilt Chamberlain’s rookie file of three consecutive 40-level video games, set through the 1959-60 season.
1998 — Mark O’Meara wins the Masters with a 20-foot birdie putt on the ultimate gap. O’Meara turns into the first participant since Arnold Palmer in 1960 to win by closing with two consecutive birdies.
2005 — Smithtown (N.Y.) High School’s co-ed badminton workforce defeats Miller Place (N.Y.) High School 10-5 to finish Miller Place’s 504-match win streak, the longest sports activities successful streak in U.S. historical past. For Miller Place, it’s the first loss in this system’s historical past, which started in 1973.
2009 — In Hameenlinna, Finland, the United States wins its second straight girls’s World Hockey Championship title, beating Canada 4-1 behind defenseman Caitlin Cahow’s two targets.
2009 — 73rd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Ángel Cabrera wins his 2nd main title in a playoff with Chad Campbell and Kenny Perry; Cabrera, first Masters champion.
2015 — Jordan Spieth romps to his first main championship with a file-tying performance at the Masters, taking pictures an 18-underneath 270 to turn out to be the first wire-to-wire winner of the inexperienced jacket since 1976. Spieth is the first Masters champion to guide after each spherical since Raymond Floyd 39 years in the past.
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