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).
The first documented gridiron football match was a game played at University College, a college of the University of Toronto, November 9, 1861. One of the participants in the game involving University of Toronto students was (Sir) William Mulock, later Chancellor of the school.he Big Game between Stanford and California is the oldest college football rivalry in the West. The first game was played on San Francisco's Haight Street Grounds on March 19, 1892 with Stanford winning 14â10. The term Big Game was first used in 1900, when it was played on Thanksgiving Day in San Francisco.