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1978

USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing NY

The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center is an American stadium complex located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City. It has been the home of the US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament played every year in August and September, since 1978. It is operated by the United States Tennis Association.

1904

The third modern Olympic Games open in St Louis

The 1904 Summer Olympics was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States as part of an extended sports program at what is now known as Francis Field on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. It was the first time that the Olympic Games were held outside Europe.

1895

Rugby league is founded

The history of rugby league as a separate form of rugby football goes back to 1895 in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire when the Northern Rugby Football Union broke away from England's established Rugby Football Union to administer its own separate competition. Similar schisms occurred later in Australia and New Zealand in 1907.

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