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).
Cricketânow played by millions of people in 92 countries ranging from the Caribbean to Europe to Africa to South Asiaâwas once the national game of, yes, these United States. And one of the first outdoor sports to be played on these shores. An 1844 cricket match between teams from the United States and Canada was the first international sporting event in the modern world, predating the revival of the Olympic Games by more than 50 years.