On this day in 1940, 1981 and again in 1987, Indiana University won the men’s basketball national championship.
In In 1991, the Duke Blue Devils knocked off UNLV 79-77 in the national semifinals, leaving Indiana as the last team to go undefeated and win the national title.
In 1919, the Stanley Cup was canceled due to an outbreak of the Spanish Flu.
And in 2003, Michael Phelps became the youngest man to set a World swimming record.
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