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).
1 Letter to King Louis XI in 1478 may contain first known reference to sport. 2  Spoke of 'criquet' being played in the village of Liettres, northern France. 3  First evidence of a bat-and-ball game in England was in Guildford in 1550.  There are plans to turn Liettres into a place of pilgrimage for cricket fans.