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1997

Mario Lemieux is 7th NHL player to score 600 goals

Lemieux, playing against the Vancouver Canucks, scored his 600th career goal in his 719th game, and went on to put up his tenth career 100-point season, both the second-most in history after Wayne Gretzky's 600 goals in 718 games and fifteen 100-point seasons.

1932

The III Olympic Winter Games open in Lake Placid, New York

It was the first of four Winter Olympics held in the United States. The Games were opened by Franklin D. Roosevelt, then the Governor of New York. Seventeen countries participated and the U.S. won the medal tally with a total of 12 medals.

1899

German club Werder Bremen is founded

The club was founded as Fußballverein Werder by a group of 16 vocational high school students who had won a prize of sports equipment. The students took the club's name from a German word for "river peninsula", which described the riverside field on which they played their first football games.

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