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).
by Bill Gaffey. The first high school basketball champion in Pennsylvania was crowned over a 100 years ago in Philadelphia, when Central High School won the 1901 City Championship. It was not until 1920 that the first statewide tournament was held, and that event did not include Philadelphia teams. In fact, the PIAA state tournaments have never included Philadelphia city teams until just recently when the Philadelphia Public Schools joined.