January 25
1924 - The first Winter Olympic Games open in Chamonix, France.
1989 - Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th National Basketball Association point in his fifth season in the league.
1991 - Brett Hull of the St. Louis Blues becomes the third National Hockey League player to score 50 goals in less than 50 games. Hull did it in 49.
January 26
1977 - In Helsiki, Finland, Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai and Marine Tcherkasova are the first pair to perform a quadruple twist lift.
1985 - Edmonton Oilers forward Wayne Gretzky scored his 50th goal in 49 games.
2013 - Former Battlefords Stars goalie Kyle Birch turns 23.
January 27
1894 - First recorded college basketball game has the University of Chicago beat Chicago YMCA 19-11.
January 28
1990 - In Superbowl XXIV, in New Orleans the San Francisco 49ers beat the Denver Broncos 55-10. 49ers quarterback Joe Montana was named the game's M.V.P.
January 29
1936 - Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson are the first players elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1988 - The largest NBA crowd watch the Detroit Pistons and Boston Celtics play. Attendance was marked 61,938.
1989 - Baseball drops the official statistic of game-winning RBI after nine years of use. New York Met Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129 GWRBI.
January 30
1994 - Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin in the 82nd annual Australian Open Men's Tennis Championship. In the 68th annual Women's Championship Steffi Graf beats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in straight sets.
January 31
1991 - At 510? Michael Adams of the Denver Nuggets becomes the shortest player in the NBA to score a triple-double in the game.
2013 - Ryan Frehlick of the Battlefords North Stars turns 18.
2013 - Battlefords Midget Stars goaltender and Battlefords North Stars prospect Ryan Rewerts turns 17.
