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 college basketball games was played January 18, 1896 between the University of Chicago and Iowa the final score in that game was 15-12. Womenâs basketball was first played in 1892 when a lady gym teacher by the name of Senda Berenson adapted Naismithâs rules for girls. The first official game was played on March 21 1893 between the freshmen and sophomores of Smith College.