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Games timeline
The Gaelic Association is founded n Ireland to promote Gaelic games alongside Irish culture and language
Canadian athlete James Naismith, at a YMCA college in Springfield, Massachusetts, invents basketball as an indoor winter game
Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first football pro when the Allegheny Athletic Association pay him $500 to play a game in their team
The Scottish game of shinty is provided with a standardized set of rules
The first competitive event for cars is held over a distance of 78 miles from Paris to Rouen
The USGA (US Golf Association) stages the first national amateur and open championships
The first modern Olympic Games, organized by Pierre de Coubertin, are held in Athens
US basketball becomes a professional game with the establishment in Philadelphia of the National Basketball League
Belgian racing driver Camille Jenatzy is the first to drive faster than a mile a minute, reaching 65 mph in an electric car at Achères in France
Ranjitsinhji becomes the first cricketer to score 3000 runs in a single season
Charles Stewart Rolls wins the Automobile Club's Thousand Mile Trial in a 12 horse-power Panhard
The American League emerges from baseball's Western League, before going national in 1901
The British batsman C.B. Fry hits a record six consecutive centuries in first-class cricket
The first World Series is played between nine leading baseball teams from the National League and the American League
The first Grand Prix of motor-racing is held near Le Mans over a 64-mile course
The world's first custom-built motor-racing track opens at Brooklands, near Weybridge in Surrey
The first International Horse Show takes place in London's Olympia stadium
US boxer Jack Johnson becomes the first black heavyweight champion when he knocks out Tommy Burns in Australia
Rugby Union acquires new headquarters and a state-of-the-art stadium at Twickenham
US driver Ray Harroun wins the first Indianapolis 500 motor race
Baseball pitcher Cy Young retires with a record achievement of 511 wins in 22 professional seasons
George Ruth acquires the nickname Babe when he joins the baseball team the Baltimore Orioles
British golfer Harry Vardon wins his sixth Open, a record still unbroken
Black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson loses his title, in the 26th round, to the "Great White Hope", Jess Willard
In his first World Series for the Boston Red Sox, 21-year-old Babe Ruth sets a still unbroken record, pitching 13 successive scoreless innings
