The tsunami of 26 December 2004. The cause of the tsunami in Sumatra on 26 December 2004 which affected the entire Indian Ocean was a very violent earthquake of magnitude 9.3 on the Richter scale.
DuSable High School Team, 1954 The first sport that Chicago-area schools adopted for competition was baseball. The earliest match-up on record took place between two academies in 1868, in the midst of the nation's postâCivil War baseball rage.niversities also played central roles in the growth of high-school sports. The University of Chicago sponsored major interscholastic track-and-field meets (1902â1933), tennis tournaments (1895â1932), and basketball tournaments (1917â1930). Northwestern sponsored swim meets (1914â1930) and indoor track (1910â1930).
In the early days of collegiate sports most teams played less then 10 games with the lucky ones playing maybe 15 or 16. In 1901 Yale would go 10 and 4 to win the first national college championship. The next year the University of Minnesota would go 11 and 0 to become the first undefeated team in basketball.