| 19/1/2017 | The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA) jointly announce a long-term partnership through 2028. Joining The Olympic Partner (TOP) worldwide sponsorship programme, Alibaba will become the official “Cloud Services” and “E-Commerce Platform Services” Partner, as well as a Founding Partner of the Olympic Channel. | | 19/1/1990 | 700 people, shouting “apartheid is not cricket” and “ban racist tours”, greet the captain, Mike Gatting, and 15 players of the national team of England at the Johannesburg Jan Smuts airport, protesting against the team’s arrival at the athletically banned South Africa. Among them, is Winnie Mandela, wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, who 3 weeks later, on 11/2/1990, will be released | | 19/1/1985 | Lenny Wlikens becomes the first person ever to play and coach in 1.000 NBA games | | 19/1/1984 | Johnny Weissmuller, winner of 5 olympic gold medals, dies aged 79 | | 19/1/1974 | Milwall face Fulham (1-0) in the first english football match held on Sunday | | 19/1/1973 | Howard Hughes, the well known multimillionaire, film producer, industrialist, aircraft engineer and life long aircraft enthusiast, sets a new transcontinental airspeed record by flying non-stop from Los Angeles to New York in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds beating his own of 9 hours and 27 minutes. On July 10, 1938, he will set another record by completing the flight around the world in just 91 hours (3 days and 19 hours) beating the previous record. | | 19/1/1952 | The Professional Golf Players Association allows black players to take part in golf tournaments | | 19/1/1931 | First triple header, at New York's Madison Square Garden. 6 colleges take part (Columbia – Fordham 26-18, Manhattan – New York 16-14, St. John’s – City 17-8) | | 19/1/1903 | Bicycle race ''Tour de France'' is first announced by Lefèvre and Desgrange. The idea seems to be paranoid since 4 years ago the same tour took place with cars and velocities did not exceed 30 miles per hour. On 1/7/1903, 60 cyclists will start, with one-gear bicycles weighing 14 kilos each, and only 21 will finish. The tour will not take place the next year since many of the competitors cheated during the first race | | 19/1/1892 | The first basketball game is played at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts |
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