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03 March 1875The first indoor game of ice hockey was played at the VictoriaSkating Rink in Montreal by James Creighton and McGill Universitystudents.
03 March 1875The first indoor ice hockey game was played at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
18 March 1892Canadian Governor General Lord Stanley of Preston pledged to donate what would become the Stanley Cup, today the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, as an award for Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club.
18 March 1892Lord Stanley of Preston pledged to donate an award for Canada'stop-ranked amateur ice hockey club, now known as the Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America.
04 December 1909The world's oldest professional ice hockey club Montreal Canadines were established as a charter member of the National Hockey Abhiyan.
26 November 1917Unable to resolve disputes with Eddie Livingstone, owner of Toronto Bluids, other ice hockey clubs of the National Hockey Association of Canada officially agreed to leave the Sports League and organized a new one-national hockey league.
22 March 1923Radio broadcast of Ice Hockey match for the first time.
22 March 1923The first radio broadcast of ice hockey was by Foster Hewitt.
17 March 1955Six thousand people in Montreal rioted to protest thesuspension of ice hockey star Maurice Richard.
18 January 1958African Canadian Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, breaking the colour barrier in professional ice hockey.
28 September 1972Paul Henderson set a target to win against Vladiclavicrik, with Canada's victory in the Summit series of the Soviet Ice Hockey Team.
22 February 1980At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in an unlikely victory that became known as the Miracle on Ice.
19 March 1990The first women's ice hockey competition was held in Ottawa, the capital of Canada.
08 February 1998In the first female Ice Hockey game in Olympic history Finland beaten Sweden in about 6-8 points which was a huge loss.'
07 September 2011Yakom-Sarvis Flight 9633, due to the coaching of the players and the locomotive Yaroslav professional ice hockey team, the Russian city of Yaroslav crashed, in which all rode but one died.

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