WrestleMania grossed a reported $12 million and, although reviews of the first event were mixed, it marked the start of the longest-running professional wrestling competition in history.
The match went all the way to the 15th round before Frazier was declared the winner by unanimous decision.
Volleyball was invented by William G. Morgan, the Director of Physical Education at the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
On the 6th February 1958, British European Airways flight 609 crashed at Munich-Riem Airport while carrying the Manchester United football team, supporters and journalists.
It has since been adapted into numerous formats and is still printed in more than 40 countries.
On the 6th December 1956, the “Blood in the Water” water polo match took place between the USSR and Hungary.
Female tennis player Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs, a former World No. 1 men’s player, in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’.
A local newspaper reported that the league was established to ‘raise the standard of professional football in every way possible, to eliminate bidding for players between rival clubs and to secure cooperation in the formation of schedules’.
The ball sailed over the right-field fence to land in Lexington Avenue that ran alongside Cleveland’s League Park.
The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris.
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