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| 2006: Nippon Ham starter Masaru Takeda has a no hitter going against Rakuten at Sapporo Dome when he has a ball hit off his lefthand and suffers a fracture with two outs in the seventh. The out was made on th eplaye to keep the no no intact, but it was then broken up in the eighth on a two out single to right from Akihisa Makita off of reliever Hisashi Takeda. And to add insult to injury, the win went to reliever Yoshinori Tateyama in a 2-0 final. |
| 2006: Lotte infielder Takeshi Aono, batting ninth in the order, connects for a grand slam in the second inning off of Softbank starter Keisaburo Tanoue at Chiba Marine Stadium, making it the first time ever a player has made his first two pro homers grannies. |
| 2006: Yokohama sets a new team record with its 11th straight home victory, a decision over Yakult. |
| 1985: Yomiuri pitcher Masaki Hiraoka is born. |
| 1983: Hanshin outfielder Kodai Sakurai is born. |
| 1983: Yomiuri outfielder Yuji Sogawa is born. |
| 1977: Yomiuri pitcher Hiroya Tani is born. |
| 1971: Chunichi and Daiei infielder Yusuke Torigoe is born. |
| 1970: Yakult infielder Masahiro Koda is born. |
| 1969: Hanshin outfielder Shinjiro Hiyama is born. |
| 1968: Yomiuri and Chunichi pitcher Keiichi Kojima is born. |
| 1944: Hanshin infielder Hidetaka Okura is born. |
| 1943: Yomiuri outfielder Kngo Kondo is born. |
| 1942: Kokutetsu outfielder Masaru Kobashi is born. |
| 1941: Lotte infielder Kazuhiro Ishiguro is born. |
| 1938: Nankai outfielder Yukiyoshi Yamamoto is born. |
| 1935: Chunichi and Nishitetsu pitcher Hiromi Oyane is born. |
| 1933: Kokutetsu pitcher Hiroshi Kuroiwa is boen. |
| 1931: Shochiku and Taiyo outfielder Masaru Sugimoto is born. |
| 1930: Yomiuri, Toei, Daimai and Kokutetsu pitcher Toru Nishida is born. |
| 1925: Hankyu and Taiyo infielder Shigeru Araki is born. |
| 1921: Hanshin, Mainichi, Toei and Hankyu infielder Takeshi Doigaki is born. |
| 1978: Lotte pitcher Kosuke Kato is born. |
| 2006: Nippon Ham DH Fernando Seguignol is ejected after an argument with the plate umpire during a game against Rakuten. He is later fined 50,000 yen and given a written reprimand. |
| 1978: Lotte and Orix pitcher Kosuke Kato is born. |
| 1973: Lotte and Yomiuri infielder Makoto Kosaka is born. |
| 1971: Orix pitcher Koichi Takahashi is born. |
| 1971: Chunichi and Yomiuri outfielder Takayuki Onishi is born. |
| 1969: Hanshin and Nippon Ham catcher Katsuhiko Yamada is born. |
| 1969: Hanshin outfielder Tsutomu Kameyama is born. |
| 1969: Orix outfielder So Taguchi is born. |
| 1964: Kintetsu minor league outfielder Ozzie Canseco is born. |
| 1959: Yomiuri flagship tv station NTV broadcasts a game in color for the first time ever. The opponent is Taiyo and it is from Korakuen Stadium. |
| 1953: Kintetsu outfielder Shiro Fujise is born. |
| 1950: Nippon Ham infielder Koji Kagitani is born. |
| 1946: Nankai infielder Masaaki Tasaka is born. |
| 1942: Kokutetsu pitcher Yogo Miyashita is born. |
| 1939: Hankyu and Chunichi outfielder Tsutomu Takahashi is born. |
| 1937: Nishitetsu infielder Takashi Yoshida is born. |
| 1936: Hanshin outfielder Keiichi Asagoe is born. |
| 1930: Hanshin pitcher Pete Burnside is born. |
| 1923: Hanshin, Tokyu and Hiroshima pitcher Hirokazu Nozaki is born. |
| 2005: Softbank wins its 12th in a row, the first time they have done that in 40 years. In addition, first baseman Nobuhiko Matsunaka, catcher Kenji Johjima and DH Julio Zuleta smack back to back to back homers for the second time that season, the first time any team had done that since Lotte in 1979 and the third time it has occurred overall. |
| 1993: Former Tokyo Giants manager Giichi Arima dies at age 81. |
| 1982: Yokohama infielder Kazuya Fujita is born. |
| 1979: Seibu pitcher Koji Onuma is born. |
| 1971: Lotte pitcher Shane Dennis is born. |
| 1971: Yakult pitcher Kenichi Oshio is born. |
| 1969: Kintetsu catcher Hideaki Okubo is born. |
| 1965: Nippon Ham catcher Tsutomu Ushiyama is born. |
| 1964: Nankai pitcher Manabu Okubo is born. |
| 1960: Lotte outfielder Jack Daugherty is born. |
| 1955: Hanshin pitcher Matt Keough is born. |
| 1954: Chunichi pitcher Takamasa Suzuki is born. |
| 1951: Kintetsu pitcher Kiyoharu Ota is born. |
| 1948: Nishitetsu pitcher Yoshinori Okamura is born. |
| 1947: Hankyu pitcher Akira Noguchi slugs the first inside the park grand slam homer in a game against Yomiuri. |
| 1946: Hiroshima pitcher Akira Kadotani is born. |
| 1945: Asahi outfelder Shigeo Murakami dies at age 32 during the battle of Leyte Gulf in the Phillipines. |
| 1943: Hiroshima catcher Shigeki Takaoka is born. |
| 1940: Hankyu outfielder Kiyoshi Yano is born. |
| 1939: Daimai pinch hitter Isamu Teramoto is born. |
| 1935: Nankai pitcher Mutsuo Minagawa is born. |
| 1935: Daimai pitcher Takashi Nakagawa is born. |
| 1917: Nagoya Golden Dolphins, Taiyo and Hiroshima pitcher Masayoshi Nakayama is born. |
| 1913: Asahi outfielder Shigeo Murakami is born. |
| 1912: Dai Tokyo, Lion and Nagoya infielder Saburo Nakamura is born. |
| 2006: Yakult reliever Masao Kida is named to the Central League all star team. It has been 16 years since his last all star appearance, the longest period ever between all star berths. |
| 2006: Nippon Ham beats Orix 7-3 at Sapporo Dome for its eighth win in a row, the first time in 20 years they have done that. |
| 2002: Nankai infielder Tadashi Suzuki dies at age 60. |
| 2002: The NPB board formally approves the relocation of the Nippon Ham Fighters from Tokyo to Sapporo beginning with the 2004 season. |
| 1994: Nagoya Golden Dolphins, Taiyo and Hiroshima pitcher Masayoshi Nakayama dies at age 77. |
| 1993: Orix pitcher Koji Noda strieks out 16 against Kintetsu. |
| 1984: Hiroshima outfielder Kei Yoshida is born. |
| 1981: Chunichi pitcher Yuya Ishii is born. |
| 1971: Hankyu scores five runs in an inning without benefit of a hit against Kintetsu with the help of seven BB/HBP to set a record. |
| 1968: Lotte outfielder Derrick May is born. |
| 1965: Hanshin outfielder Kazuhiro Yamauchi slugs his 300th lifetime homer, the first in Japanese history to reach that plateau. |
| 1965: Nankai wins its 17th straight, coming within one game of its own Japan mark. However, they lost their next outing. |
| 1958: Nankai outfielder Katsuji Ueno is born. |
| 1951: The first ever Central League-Pacific League all star game is staged at Koshien Stadium. The CL takes it 2-1. |
| 1950: Taiheiyo Club infielder Kenji Yoshimura is born. |
| 1950: Taiyo and Seibu infielder Hiroyoshi Shimizu is born. |
| 1950: Chunichi, Crown Lighter and Hanshin pitcher Masafumi Takeda is born. |
| 1946: Umpire Shinichiro Miura is born. |
| 1940: Hanshin and Sankei pitcher Kazushi Watanabe is born. |
| 1940: Sankei infielder Isamu Shinoda is born. |
| 1938: Kokutetsu and Taiyo infielder Kimitaka Sugimoto is born. |
| 1936: Toei catcher Sadao Mizuno is born. |
| 1928: Hiroshima pitcher Tamotsu Hagimoto is born. |
| 1924: Manichi pitcher Mamoru Asai is born. |
| 1920: Nagoya Golden Dolphins, Mainichi and Yomiuri catcher Susumu Nagashima is born. |
| 2006: Chunichi manager Hiromitsu Ochiai pulls his players off the field during a 15 minute argument with the umpiring crew in a tilt with Yomiuri, resulting in an ejection. He was later fined 100,000 yen and given a written reprimand. |
| 1995: Nippon Ham pitcher Yukihiro Nishizaki throws a no hitter against Seibu at Tokyo Dome in a 109 victory. The only baserunner he allowed was on a walk. |
| 1982: Rakuten pitcher Yasuhiro Ichiba is born. |
| 1976: Yokohama pitcher Shawn Sonnier is born. |
| 1972: Yomiuri and Yakult catcher Shigeki Abe is born. |
| 1967: Hanshin pitcher Tatsuhiro Yuminaga is born. |
| 1966: Chunichi and Daiei pitcher Koichi Emoto is born. |
| 1965: Daiei outfielder Yuji Yamaguchi is born. |
| 1963: Lotte pitcher Tomoki Yoshioka is born. |
| 1963: Hankyu and Daiei pitcher Kenji Harada is born. |
| 1956: Hiroshima outfielder Rick Lancelotti is born. |
| 1951: Daiei pitcher Goose Gossage is born. |
| 1949: Taiyo pitcher Satoshi Nagano is born. |
| 1949: Hanshin outfielder Kozo Kawato is born. |
| 1944: Hanshin outfielder Masaharu Sato is born. |
| 1942: Nankai and Chunichi outfielder Tsunemi Koizumi is born. |
| 1938: Kintetsu pitcher Yukio Tsuta is born. |
| 1932: Hiroshima pitcher Chitomi Takahashi is born. |
| 1932: Hanshin and Daiei Stars pitcher Ryo Akamatsu is born. |
| 2007: Former Kintetsu pitcher Yukio Tsuta dies of stomach cancer at age 69. |
| 2006: Nippon Ham beats Orix 8-1 at Sapporo Dome for their tenth straight win, the first time in 45 years that they have been so hot. |
| 2006: Rakuten outfielder Teppei Tsuchiya fans during his first at bat in a game against Lotte at Miyagi Prefectural Stadium for nine strikeouts in as many plate appearances, a new record for position players. |
| 2006: Lotte manager Bobby Valentine apologizes for creating a controversy by asserting on June 9th that other teams were giving draft eligible prospects under the tabel money as an inducement to sign with them. |
| 2006: Softbank manager Sadaharu Oh enters Keio University Hospital in order to have surgery to remove a stomach tumor. |
| 2005: Softbank wins its 15th straight game, the first time any club had pulled that off since Hankyu in 1971. |
| 2005: Former Taiyo Whales and Nagoya outfielder Zenpei Yamazaki dies of peritonitus at age 79. |
| 2002: Yakult outfielder Alex Ramirez drives in a new team record nine runs against Hiroshima at Hiroshima Municipal Stadium with seven of those coming on a grand slam and a three run homer. The other two RBIs came on a basehit. |
| 2002: Chunichi and Yakult faceoff and combine for 29 strikeouts, a new record. |
| 1978: Yomiuri pitchers walk ten Hiroshima batters in a game in Sapporo in an inning, forcing in six runs. The Carp posted a total of eight runs in the frame and only one hit, that being by Jim Lyttle. |
| 1971: Yomiuri and Yokohama pitcher Katsuhiro Mino is born. |
| 1967: Chunichi and Kintetsu infielder Shunsuke Kitamura is born. |
| 1966: Tokyo Orions outfielder Reiji Iichi hammers the 20,000th homer in Japanese baseball history. |
| 1964: Daiei outfielder Kunimitsu Tonda is born. |
| 1961: Yomiuri outfielder Akira Kunimatsu becomes the first person in Central League history to ever win a game with a walkoff homer and then come back the very next game and slug a roundtripper leading off the first inning when he does it against Hanshin at Korakeun Stadium. |
| 1960: Kintetsu infielder German Rivera is born. |
| 1959: Yomiuri, Seibu and Chunichi infielder Yasutomo Suzuki is born. |
| 1947: Hanshin and Nankai pitcher Jiro Ueda is born. |
| 1918: Dai Tokyo infielder Yoshio Ban is born. |
| 1918: Eagles pitcher Junichi Mochizuki is born. |
| 2006: Nippon Ham wins its 11th in a row, tying an all time franchise high. The game is also marked by pitcher Yu Darvish leaving his uniform back at the hotel, so he had to wear one provided by fellow hurler Tomoya Yagi. |
| 1984: Orix outfielder Tomotaka Sakaguchi is born. |
| 1981: Lotte infielder Hisao Heiuchi is born. |
| 1977: Nippon Ham infielder Andy Green is born. |
| 1975: Chunichi and Hanshin infielder Mitsunobu Takahashi is born. |
| 1967: Nankai, Hiroshima and Yomiuri catcher Shuji Nishiyama is born. |
| 1965: Orix outfielder Tetsuya Azuma is born. |
| 1964: Chunichi and Seibu outfielder Masaji Shimizu is born. |
| 1962: Orix infielder Yasuo Fujii is born. |
| 1957: Yomiuri Giants outfielder Dan Gladden is born. |
| 1951: Yakult, Lotte and Chunichi pitcher Tetsuo Nishii is born. |
| 1948: Hankyu pitcher Toshiharu Nagare is born. |
| 1947: Sankei pitcher Masanobu Hamaguchi is born. |
| 1945: Tokyo Orions infielder Tadao Tokita is born. |
| 1944: Chunichi catcher Tatsuhiko Kimata is born. |
| 1943: Hiroshima pitcher Hiroshi Nishimura is born. |
| 1940: Hiroshima pitcher Shuhei Takimura is born. |
| 1940: Toei catcher Norio Suzuki is born. |
| 1939: Yomiuri pinch hitter Shizuo Nasu is born. |
| 1938: Taiyo outfielder Shigeo Miyazawa is born. |
| 1938: Toei and Kintetsu infielder Gunji Kimura is born. |
| 1936: Takahashi pitcher Hiroshi Hasegawa is born. |
| 1935: Kokutetsu infielder Teruaki Minami is born. |
| 1933: Toei pitcher Taro Kato is born. |
| 1932: Shochiku pitcher Koji Suzuki is born. |
| 1931: Hankyu catcher Hideo Ogawa is born. |
| 1930: Tokyu outfielder Kojiro Nabeshima is born. |
| 1926: Chunichi catcher Tetsuo Sugiyama is born. |
| 2006: Rakuten pitcher Hiroki Yamamura beans Softbank infielder Satoru Morimoto and is ejected under the dangerous pitch rule. Morimoto is taken out of the game as a precaution but wasn't injured. |
| 2005: Yomiuri releases outfielder Gabe Kapler. |
| 2003: Hanshin second baseman Makoto Imaoka homers on the first pitch of the first inning for the second game in a row during a faceoff with Hiroshima at Kurashiki Muskat Stadium, a new pro yakyu record. |
| 1998: Lotte drops its 18th straight game, a new Japan record. They eclipsed the old mark of 16 by Yakult in 1970. |
| 1987: Rakuten infielder Shintaro Masuda is born. |
| 1983: Kintetsu and Orix pitcher Kazuki Kondo is born. |
| 1983: Softbank pitcher Akihiro Yanase is born. |
| 1983: Lotte infielder Shunichi Nemoto is born. |
| 1971: Seibu, Hiroshima and Daiei infielder Takeshi Nonogaki is born. |
| 1969: Yokohama outfielder Ernie Young is born. |
| 1960: Nankai outfielder Toshihiro Nishiura is born. |
| 1959: Hiroshima and Yomiuri pitcher Kazuhisa Kawaguchi is born. |
| 1948: Yomiuri and Nippon Ham infielder Tsukasa Yamashita is born. |
| 1943: Nippon Ham pitcher George Culver is born. |
| 1941: Taiyo outfielder Toshio Fujda is born. |
| 1938: Chunichi, Hiroshima and Hankyu infielder Mitsuo Imazu is born. |
| 1933: Hankyu and Hiroshima catcher Kameji Kawagoe is born. |
| 1933: Toei catcher Katsuo Onodera is born. |
| 1921: Yomiuri and Kintetsu pitcher Fukuzo Tada is born. |
| 1918: Nankai, Chunichi and Taiyo pitcher Hideo Shimizu is born. |
| 1901: Taiyo Whales manager Tairiku Watanabe is born. |
| 2002: Yomiuri outfielder Hideki Matsui smacks career homer number 300 to become the second youngest to that number at 28 years old. |
| 1995: Hiroshima rookie pitcher Yasuyuki Yamauchi is first of any pitcher that season to ten wins, the first time that had been done by a first year man in 33 years and only the third time any rookie had done that in history. |
| 1984: Yakult pitcher Shun Takaichi is born. |
| 1981: Yokohama outfielder Ryusuke Minami is born. |
| 1978: Hanshin outfielder Osamu Hamanaka is born. |
| 1978: Hiroshima outfielder Alejandro Quezada is born. |
| 1974: Hanshin and Seibu infielder Tom Evans is born. |
| 1974: Orix pitcher Kiyohiko Sugimoto is born. |
| 1968: Lotte and Yakult catcher Susumu Aoyagi is born. |
| 1967: Hanshin infielder Keiji Okamoto is born. |
| 1963: Lotte infielder Mark Carreon is born. |
| 1959: Hanshin infielder Koichi Hattori is born. |
| 1954: Taiyo infielder Tomio Tashiro is born. |
| 1952: Kintetsu and Taiyo pitcher Tatsumi Murata is born. |
| 1950: Nankai outfielder Takashi Sakata is born. |
| 1949: Yakult and Nankai pitcher Shigeo Sugiyama is born. |
| 1943: Kintetsu infielder Mike Andrews is born. |
| 1938: Kokutetsu outfielder Yoshio Saito is born. |
| 1922: Yokyu and Yomiuri pitcher Eishiro Yoshie is born. |
| 1912: Nankai outfielder Momosuke Takano is born. |
| 2006: Orix infielder Eiji Mizuguchi is fined for criticizing team management while outfielder Karim Garcia was similarly penalized for an incident in which he answered a cellphone call during pre-game practice. |
| 2005: Hanshin wins its ninth series in a row, a new team record. |
| 2001: Yomiuri outfielder Hideki Matsui reaches base safely in his 51st straight game, setting a new Central League record. It would eventually go 66 games before it was ended. |
| 1992: Kintetsu pitcher Hideo Nomo walks or hits 14 Seibu batters in just 4.2 innings to tie a Japan record. |
| 1978: Nippon Ham pitcher Masaru Takeda is born. |
| 1971: Yokohama pitcher Shintaro Takeshita is born. |
| 1967: Kintetsu outfielder Lee Stevens is born. |
| 1965: Osaka Tigers pitcher Takao Misono dies at age 49. |
| 1964: Yokohama and Lotte infielder Masahiro Takahashi is born. |
| 1961: Seibu pitcher Takeshi Ishii is born. |
| 1961: Seibu, Yomiuri and Yokohama outfielder Junki Kono is born. |
| 1956: Taiyo and Seibu pitcher Hiroshi Okawa is born. |
| 1954: Hiroshima and Lotte pitcher Hideyuki Hirata is born. |
| 1948: Yakult and Hiroshima pitcher Naoki Enomoto is born. |
| 1944: Chunichi and Lotte pitcher Hiroshi Tsuchiya is born. |
| 1941: Yomiuri infielder Takayuki Iwao is born. |
| 1939: Hanshin outfielder Hirozo Ishida is born. |
| 1939: Hankyu infielder Hatsuo Ota is born. |
| 1937: Taiyo pitcher Terumoto Wako is born. |
| 1934: Kintetsu infielder Kenichi Kimino is born. |
| 1931: Hanshin pitcher Masatoshi Mifune is born. |
| 1930: Hiroshima pitcher Tadashi Ishiguro is born. |
| 1930: Hankyu infielder Hiroshi Nonomura is born. |
| 1930: Taiyo catcher Hiroshi Kawase is born. |
| 1917: Hiroshima pitcher Natsuo Ichida is born. |
| 1914: Nankai infielder Yoshio Ueda is born. |
| 1911: Nagoya and Eagles infielder Minoru Nomura is born. |
| 1894: Dai Tokyo, Lion, Nagoya, Shochiku and Taiyo manager Tokuro Konishi is born. |
| 2006: Hanshin reliever Kyuji Fujikawa threw a perfect ninth against Hiroshima at Koshien Stadium, using all fastballs, to break hall of famer Masaaki Koyama's 1962 team record for most consecutive shutout innings, 47, by extending it to 47.2. |
| 2005: Seibu first baseman Alex Cabrera belts his 200th career homer in Japan in his 538th game, the fastest to that mark in history. |
| 2002: The Western League beats the Eastern League 4-2 in the Fresh All Star Game. Hanshin infielder Atsushi Fujimoto is named MVP. |
| 1987: Yokohama pitcher Shun Yamaguchi is born. |
| 1978: Crown Lighter infielder Kazuo Hasegawa takes the mound in the bottom of the ninth inning against Nippon Ham with men on first and third and two out. The first pitch he throws is ripped by Gene Locklear for a sayonara basehit. |
| 1976: Yokohama catcher Ryoji Aikawa is born. |
| 1974: Yakult catcher Kosei Ono is born. |
| 1973: Daiei pitcher Akio Mizuta is born. |
| 1968: Yomiuri catcher Masahiro Takami is born. |
| 1966: Yakult and Kintetsu outfielder and umpire Masao Yanada is born. |
| 1964: Yakult pitcher Shuichi Somemiya is born. |
| 1964: Lotte and Chunichi pitcher Takahiro Konno is born. |
| 1956: Nankai outfielder Seigo Nakano is born. |
| 1953: Nippon Ham and Seibu infielder Hisataka Yukizawa is born. |
| 1952: Taiheiyo Club outfielder Hiroaki Kawamura is born. |
| 1950: Yomiuri has its first ever night game at Korakuen Stadium in a game against Shochiku. |
| 1945: Hankyu pitcher Katsutoshi Miwata is born. |
| 1945: Nishitetsu, Taiheiyo Club and Hiroshima pitcher Kunimitsu Sato is born. |
| 1936: Chunichi pitcher Yoshio Akutsu is born. |
| 1936: Toei pitcher Ikuo Fukushima is born. |
| 1934: Nishitetsu outfielder Hidehiko Yamane is born. |
| 2002: The Central League whips the Pacific League 4-1 in game one of the all star series at Tokyo Dome. Hanshin infielder George Arias is named MVP. |
| 1986: Seibu catcher Tsutomu Itoh connectes against Kintetsu for the 25,000th homer in Pacific League history. |
| 1978: Yokohama and Seibu infielder Yoshihito Ishii is born. |
| 1969: Seibu pitcher Jun Takeshita is born. |
| 1966: Yomiuri outfielder Shinji Inoue is born. |
| 1957: Hiroshima pitcher Manabu Kitabeppu is born. |
| 1948: Nankai and Hanshin pitcher Takuzo Ueda is born. |
| 1944: Eagles infielder Miyoshi Nakagawa dies at age 24 during combat in thePhillipines in WWII. |
| 1944: Nankai, Lotte and Yakult infielder Fumihiro Tojo is born. |
| 1943: Nishitetsu infielder Goro Suzuki is born. |
| 1942: Kintetsu, Taiyo, Hiroshima and Taiheiyo Club pitcher Yoshitaka Kihara is born. |
| 1940: Yomiuri pitcher Kensaku Fujimoto is born. |
| 1928: Nishi Nihon pitcher Ikuzo Inaba is born. |
| 1927: Chunichi pitcher Jitsuo Oki is born. |
| 1919: Eagles, Tokyu and Taiyo Whales catcher Chutaro Seike is born. |
| 1917: Osaka Tigers, Eagles, Yamato, Taiyo, Nishitetsu and Pacific outfielder Nobuhiko Tomimatsu is born. |
| 2006: Yomiuri reliever Yukinori Miyata dies at age 66 of liver failure. |
| 2002: The Pacific League slips by the Central League 4-2 in game two of the all star game at Botchan Stadium in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture in the first ever all star game staged on Shikoku. Kintetsu catcher Tetsuya Matoyama is named MVP. |
| 1988: Hankyu infielder Boomer Wells socks a pitch from Seibu hurler Hisanobu Watanabe out of Nishinomiya Stadium and into an adjacent apartment building, a blast estimated at around 530 feet. |
| 1985: Lotte pitcher Tatsuya Uchi is born. |
| 1979: Nippon Ham infielder Yuji Iiyama is born. |
| 1979: Hanshin pitcher Kei Igawa is born. |
| 1977: Orix pitcher Fumiaki Imamura is born. |
| 1971: Daei pitcher Hidekazu Watanabe is born. |
| 1970: Yomiuri, Kintetsu and Hanshin pitcher Hiroshi Ishige is born. |
| 1969: Hankyu, Nishi Nihon and Yomiuri infielder Saburo Hirai dies at age 45. |
| 1963: Orix outfielder Shinichi Murakami is born. |
| 1955: Hiroshima catcher Mitsuo Tatsukawa is born. |
| 1952: Taiyo and Seibu pitcher Tatsuo Uzawa is born. |
| 1951: Lotte and Hanshin pitcher Osamu Fukuma is born. |
| 1946: Lotte and Yomiuri outfielder Keiichi Uchida is born. |
| 1943: Hankyu, Nippon Ham, Kintetsu and Nankai infielder Toshizo Sakamoto is born. |
| 1942: Nankai pitcher Taisuke Watanabe is born. |
| 1942: Kintetsu pitcher Kiyoshi Onozaki is born. |
| 1941: Taiyo beats Hanshin 1-0 in the 20th inning at Nishinomiya Stadium, the then longets game by innings in Japanese history. |
| 1937: Daiei Stars pitcher Tetsuo Komai is born. |
| 1936: Hankyu, Chunichi and Nankai pitcher Kimihiro Sato is born. |
| 1935: Kintetsu outfielder Katsumi Hayashi is born. |
| 1930: Hankyu, Tombo and Toei outfielder Natsuki Higashidani is born. |
| 1929: Hankyu infielder Darryl Spencer is born. |
| 2006: Hanshin infielder Kojiro Machida cracks his 20th career pinch hit homer in a game against Chunichi, tying him for second on the all time list. |
| 1993: Yakult third baseman Jack Howell clubs his fifth sayonara homer of the season against Yokohama at Meiji Jingu Stadium, a new Japan record). |
| 1981: Lotte pitcher Takuya Furuya is born. |
| 1980: Chunichi catcher Yoshio Koyama is born. |
| 1979: Lotte and Orix catcher Toshiya Tsuji is born. |
| 1976: Yokohama infielder Makoto Fukumoto is born. |
| 1967: Yomiuri outfielder Masahito Watanabe is born. |
| 1964: Seibu and Nippon Ham pitcher Hiroshi Shintani is born. |
| 1963: Daiei and Hanshn pitcher Yoshiaki Nishikawa is born. |
| 1946: The Tokyo Senators torch six triples in a single game, a Japan record. |
| 1936: Nishitetsu and Hiroshima pitcher Michio Ukari is born. |
| 1935: A Japanese all star team returns to Japan after a 110 game tour of the U.S., now operating under the name Tokyo Giants. |
| 1917: Nagoya pitcher Minoru Tanaka is born. |
| 2006: Yomiuri comes from seven down against Yakult to win, the first time they had done that in 15 years and just the second time in team annals overall. |
| 2005: Softbank beats Seibu at Fukuoka Dome, it's 12th straight home victory. It was the first time in 40 years that the Hawks had taken a dozen consecutive faceoffs at home. |
| 2005: Former Chunichi, Tokyu, Taiyo Whales and Hiroshima infielder Nobuo Osawa dies at age 88 of pancreatic cancer. |
| 1992: In the fifth inning of a game against Daiei, Seibu raps out a total of 13 hits against three pitchers, good for 11 runs, the most knocks in a frame in Japanese history at the time, shattering a 23 year old record of 12 formerly held by Hanshin. 11 of those hits came after centerfielder Koji Akiyama lined into a double play and with three walks sandwiched in there, it made a record 14 straight runners to reach base. |
| 1991: Yakult pitcher Eishoku Nagakawa dies at age 35 of liver cancer. |
| 1974: Lotte and Rakuten pitcher Hiroshi Tobe is born. |
| 1974: Daiei, Hanshin and Yokohama pitcher Masahiro Sakumoto is born. |
| 1971: Chunichi and Kintetsu catcher Takeo Yoshizawa dies at age 38. |
| 1963: Lotte pitcher Masaru Itoh is born. |
| 1957: Hankyu outfielder Joe Hicks is born. |
| 1957: Kokutetsu pitcher Masaichi Kaneda reaches 2,000 career strikeouts against Chunichi at Chunichi Stadium, the first man ever to do that. The previous pro yakyu mark had been 1960 whiffs by Victor Starfin. |
| 1948: Hanshin pitcher Osamu Uetsuji is born. |
| 1947: Yakult and Lotte catcher Masaji Ishizuka is born. |
| 1946: Kinki Great Ring wacks 28 hits in a game, a then record, in a 26-0 shutout of Goldstar. It is the largest disparity of any whitewash in Japanese history. |
| 1946: Hanshin pitcher Kazutomo Ueki is born. |
| 1943: Nishitetsu infielder Katsutoshi Itoh is born. |
| 1940: Chunichi and Yakult pitcher Yasuhiko Kawamura is born. |
| 1939: Kintetsu outfielder Tadahiro Goto is born. |
| 1938: Central League umpire Kiyoshi Hirako is born. |
| 1938: Daimai catcher Masami Kamiya si born. |
| 1937: Hankyu outfielder Ryuzo Kaoku is born. |
| 1935: Osaka Tigers pitcher Akira One is born. |
| 1934: Kintetsu pitcher Takeji Mimoto is born. |
| 1933: Chunichi and Kintetsu catcher Takeo Yoshizawa is born. |
| 1930: Tokyu and Hankyu pitcher Makizo Itoh Itoh is born. |
| 1921: Kinki Great Ring sets a record for a shutout by mutilating Goldstar at Takaoka 26-0. 12 of those tallies came in the eighth inning. |
| 1917: Mainichi and Hankyu pitcher Heishichi Sato is born. |
| 1914: Nankai outfielder Yonekichi Naya is born. |
| 2006: Hanshin first baseman Andy Sheets is rung up by the first base umpire on a check swing. Sheets responded by flinging his helmet and bat toward the arbiter and was ejected. He was later fined 50,000 yen and given a written reprimand. |
| 2005: Orix manager Akira Ogi is ejected for arguing with the plate umpire over a safe call at home during a game with Lotte. |
| 2000: Taiyo and Kintetsu outfielder Shigeyoshi Morishita dies at age 80. |
| 1998: Hiroshima pitcher Tsutomu Yamada opposes the Chunichi Dragons and his younger brother Hiroshi in a game. |
| 1997: Taiyo outfielder Masao Kondo dies at age 74. |
| 1977: Hiroshima pitcher Masayuki Hasegawa is born. |
| 1976: Kintetsu and Nankai pitcher Noboru Yamashita dies at age 42. |
| 1975: Hanshin and Lotte pitcher Takao Inoue is born. |
| 1974: Nippon Ham pitcher Keigo Imai is born. |
| 1969: Seibu outfielder Yoshinari Uenaka is born. |
| 1968: Chunichi and Daiei pitcher Hidetsugu Nishimura is born. |
| 1964: Kokutetsu pitcher Masaichi Kaneda strikes Taiyo slugger Mike Krsnich out for his 4,000th strikeout at Meiji Jingu Stadium, becoming the first man ever to that mark. |
| 1961: Seibu and Taiyo pitcher Yukihiro Narita is born. |
| 1961: Nippon Ham and Yokohama pitcher Hirohisa Takada is born. |
| 1957: Yomiuri infielder Kazunori Shinozuka is born. |
| 1952: Chunichi and Seibu pitcher Norio Ichimura is born. |
| 1951: Yomiuri takes its 15 consecutive game, a then Japan record and still the Central League standard. |
| 1944: Hankyu pitcher Hiromichi Murakami is born. |
| 1942: Hankyu and Taiyo infielder Fujio Yamaguchi is born. |
| 1941: Yomiuri pitcher Hiroki Murase is born. |
| 1937: Daiei Stars pitcher Michinori Nishimoto is born. |
| 2005: Yomiuri outfielder Tuffy Rhodes strikes out twice during a game with Yokohama to eclipse 100 whiffs for his tenth straight season to become the first man ever to do that. |
| 1974: Orix, Hanshin and Rakuten pitcher Rui Makino is born. |
| 1971: Chunichi and Hiroshima pitcher Kikuo Yamada is born. |
| 1971: Hanshin pitcher Yutaka Enatsu strikes out nine straight Pacific League hitters during an all star game at Nishinomiya Stadium. |
| 1963: Daiei pitcher Bobby Thigpen is born. |
| 1960: Taiyo infielder Koichi Muraoka is born. |
| 1958: Chunichi, Kyuei and Daiei Stars infielder Shoji Kato dies at age 44. |
| 1950: Hankyu and Hanshin pitcher Yoshio Arai is born. |
| 1941: Chunichi infielder Morimichi Takagi is born. |
| 1940: Toei outfielder Takeshi Kurosaki is born. |
| 1940: Taiyo infielder Hiroshi Ueno is born. |
| 1938: Osaka wins the spring season title. |
| 1938: Toei shortstop Eddie Takei is born. |
| 1934: Nankai pitcher Minoru Azuma is born. |
| 1934: Kokutetsu pitcher Zenjiro Tadokoro is born. |
| 1912: Asahi infielder Motoaki Haiyama is born. |
| 1910: Hanshin infielder Yasushi Ohashi is born. |
| 2006: Nippon Ham first baseman Michihiro Ogasawara reaches 4,000 official career at bats and thus slots in at second all time with a .319 average. |
| 2005: Softbank DH Julio Zuleta gets the gate after he throws his bat following an argument with the plate umpire. He would later be fined 100,000 yen and given a written reprimand. |
| 2002: Yomiuri outfielder Hideki Matsui hits a ball to the roof of Tokyo Dome in a game against Yokohama and it enters it through a gap, the ball ultimately ending up at the rear of the stadium. It is ruled a ground rule double. |
| 1976: Kintetsu pitcher Hirokazu Tanaka is born. |
| 1971: Chunichi and Yokohama infielder Hitoshi Taneda is born. |
| 1968: Yakult, Kintetsu and Daiei pitcher Tatsuji Nishimura is born. |
| 1963: Hanshin outfielder Mike Greenwell is born. |
| 1960: Kintetsu outfielder Junichi Sato is born. |
| 1960: Hankyu pitcher Naohiro Oishi is born. |
| 1958: Nankai infielder Yuji Kubodera is born. |
| 1957: Yakult outfielder Chris Smith is born. |
| 1955: Yomiuri infielder Akira Moritani is born. |
| 1952: Hanshin infielder Osamu Saida is born. |
| 1949: Kintetsu infielder Masanori Miura is born. |
| 1943: Hankyu infielder Akira Okamura is born. |
| 1942: Nagoya pitcher Michio Nishizawa throws a no hitter against Hankyu at Korakuen Stadium in a 2-0 victory. |
| 1936: Hiroshima catcher Hirosato Nogami is born. |
| 1935: Nankai and Kintetsu pitcher Motoji Takuwa is born. |
| 1935: Takahashi and Daiei Stars pitcher Shiro Yoshioka is born. |
| 1935: Nankai and Hankyu pitcher Taisei Nakamura is born. |
| 1925: Mainichi and Kintetsu infielder Isao Imakurusu is born. |
| 1921: Toei pitcher Shigeharu Kuwana is born. |
| 2006: Angered by an out call at the plate in a close play during a game with Softbank, Seibu manager Tsutomu Itoh argues with the plate umpire and is ejected. He was later fined 200,000 yen and given a written reprimand. |
| 2005: Yokohama reliever Mark Kroon becomes the first man in Japanese pro baseball history to be clocked at 100mph on the radar gun during a game with Hanshin at Koshien Stadium. |
| 2005: Hanshin outfielder Shane Spencer is ejected after arguing with the plate umpire during a game with Yokohama. He was later fined 100,000 yen and given a written reprimand. |
| 1992: Yakult Swallows catcher Atsuya Furuta hits for the cycle in game two of the all star series, the first time anyone has every had a cycle in the mid-summer classic. He is accorded the MVP, thus becoming the sixth man in history to win that award in consecutive years. |
| 1987: Seibu catcher Ginjiro Sumitani is born. |
| 1981: Hiroshima outfielder Art Gardner slams a three run homer against Taiyo at Yokohama Stadium. However, he fails to touch home plate and catcher Yasuhiko Tsuji notices that Gardner didn't touch home plate and Gardner is called out. It is scored as a triple. |
| 1979: Hanshin catcher Ryo Asai is born. |
| 1977: Yokohama pitcher Atsushi Kizuka is born. |
| 1972: Nippon Ham outfielder Yasufumi Ogai is born. |
| 1967: Toei outfielder Jinten Haku slugs what should have been a walkoff two run homer in th43e bottom of theninth against Kintetsu, but he passed a baserunner and was out. Toei went on to lose it in extra innings. |
| 1965: Daiei, Hiroshima, Orix and Kintetsu pitcher Shinichi Kato is born. |
| 1957: Hankyu outfielder Kiyoshi Watanabe connects for the 10,000th homer in Japanese baseball history. |
| 1951: Nishitetsu pitcher Hideki Yamamoto is born. |
| 1949: Nippon Ham outfielder Gene Locklear is born. |
| 1936: Hiroshima and Nankai pitcher Takakane Hashimoto is born. |
| 1935: Toei pitcher Nobuo Yana is born. |
| 1935: Chunichi and Kintetsu pitcher Yasushi Kodama is born. |
| 1922: Chunichi, Kyuei, Daiei Stars, Shochiku and Hiroshima infielder Jiro Kanayama is born. |
| 1922: Osaka Tigers infielder Yoshiro Shimada is born. |
| 1921: Tokyu infielder Koichi Yasui is born. |
| 1921: Yamato and Chunichi outfielder Tadamichi Furukawa is born. |
| 1918: Dai Tokyo and Lion pitcher Hisashi Kondo is born. |
| 1911: Hanshin outfielder Toshio Hiramasu is born. |
| 2005: Yomiuri reliever Brian Sikorsky hits Yakult outfielder Ryuji Miyade in the face with a pitch and is ejected under trhe dangerous pitch rule. Miyade was left with bruises and was out a week afterward. |
| 1993: Hiroshima pitcher Tsunemi Tsuda dies at age 33 of a brain tumor. |
| 1983: Hanshin, Eagles, Yamato, Nishitetsu and Pacific outfielder Nobuhiko Tomimatsu dies at age 66. |
| 1981: Orix outfielder Shintaro Yoshida is born. |
| 1980: Yokohama pitcher Takeshi Tsutsumiuchi is born. |
| 1971: Orix and Yomiuri infielder Akiyoshi Sasaki is born. |
| 1969: Hiroshima pitcher Ken Kawashima is born. |
| 1963: Seibu and Yokohama pitcher Ryoji Moriyama is born. |
| 1962: Yokohama and Daiei outfielder Kenichi Yamazaki is born. |
| 1962: Yakult outfielder Masamichi Genoka is born. |
| 1958: Yakult catcher Takayoshi Kiminami is born. |
| 1953: Nankai and Chunichi pitcher Masumitsu Moriguchi is born. |
| 1952: Taiyo catcher Masao Takaura is born. |
| 1952: Lotte, Crown Lighter and Yakult pitcher Akira Kuramochi is born. |
| 1946: Hiroshima and Hankyu infielder Osamu Inoue is born. |
| 1945: Nankai outfielder Tamon Yamamoto is born. |
| 1944: Yomiuri, Nishitetsu and Taiyo pitcher Akira Tanaka is born. |
| 1944: Eagles outfielder Kenichi Ota dies in combat at age 26 in Burma during WWII. |
| 1938: Daiei Stars infielder Yasuyuki Tsuge is born. |
| 1934: Hankyu infielder Yoshio Hatanaka is born. |
| 1926: Tokyo Senators, Toei and Kintetsu pitcher Shigeaki Kuroo is born. |
| 1932: Taiyo Whales catcher Takeo Yoshinari is born. |
| 1923: Yamato pitcher Kiyomi Hiroshima is born. |
| 1915: Osaka Tigers pitcher Masaru Kageura is born. |
| 1914: Chunichi, Taiyo and Kokutetsu infielder Kiyoshi Sugiura is born. |
| 1985: Chunichi pitcher Chen Wei-lin is born. |
| 1980: Hanshin pitcher Kyuji Fujikawa is born. |
| 1973: Softbank infielder Brian Buchanan is born. |
| 1972: Nippon Ham infielder Shogo Arai is born. |
| 1972: Hanshin and Kintetsu pitcher Kazuharu Yamazaki is born. |
| 1968: Lotte and Yokohama pitcher Yoshinari Nagano is born. |
| 1967: Hanshin and Lotte pitcher Shoji Toyama is born. |
| 1964: Kintetsu, Yomiuri, Lotte and Yokohama infielder Hiroo Ishii is born. |
| 1964: Nippon Ham outfielder Yuji Ota is born. |
| 1960: Nankai and Chunichi pitcher Shigeo Mizutani is born. |
| 1959: Lotte pitcher Yasuji Ibe is born. |
| 1954: Crown Lighter pitcher Keisuke Nakajima is born. |
| 1952: Hankyu and Chunichi pitcher Norietsu Saegusa is born. |
| 1946: Yakult pitcher Takahiro Watanabe is born. |
| 1936: Yomiuri infielder Masaaki Kudoh is born. |
| 1934: Daimai, Kintetsu and Chunichi pitcher Teruo Esaki is born. |
| 1932: Hiroshima infielder Takashi Harada is born. |
| 1926: Kintetsu pitcher Len Kasparavich is born. |
| 1925: Pacific and Tokyo Senators infielder Kiyoshi Osawa is born. |
| 1920: Hanshin outfielder Masayasu Kaneda is born. |
| 1999: In a game between Yokohama and Yakult , the two sides combine for 32 RBIs, setting a new Central League record. |
| 1988: Hankyu minor league outfielder Yasuo Fujii slugs the deciding homer in the Junior All Star Game and is named MVP. |
| 1980: Nippon Ham pitcher Felix Diaz is born. |
| 1973: Yakult catcher Hideki Samejima is born. |
| 1971: Hanshin pitcher Ryan Vogelsong is born. |
| 1964: Daiei, Hanshin and Seibu pitcher Shuji Fujimoto is born. |
| 1963: Yomiuri outfielder Denny Gonzalez is born. |
| 1958: Yomiuri infielder Tatsunori Hara is born. |
| 1953: Chunichi pitcher Hiroaki Mizutani is born. |
| 1947: Toei, Nankai and Hanshin pitcher Takenori Emoto is born. |
| 1946: Yakult and Kintetsu infielder Minoru Murakoshi is born. |
| 1942: Lotte outfielder Frank Johnson is born. |
| 1938: Hiroshima outfielder Kazuyoshi Yamamoto is born. |
| 1936: Taiyo infielder Toshiyuki Nakamura is born. |
| 1927: Osaka Tigers outfielder Akira Kusaka is born. |
| 1991: In game one of the all star series, Yakult shortstop Takahiro Ikeyama singles to left with the bases loaded in the third off Pacific League starter and Kintetsu Buffalo Hideo Nomo at Tokyo Dome for what was the only run of the day in a 1-0 Central League victory. Swallows catcher Atsuya Furuta throws out all three runners who attempted to steal second on him, a record for a single all star game, and is awarded the MVP. |
| 1985: Softbank infielder Keisuke Kaneko is born. |
| 1976: Daiei pitcher Nobuyasu Matsu is born. |
| 1974: Kintetsu outfielder Larry Barnes is born. |
| 1973: Yakult, Hanshin, Yomiuri and Rakuten catcher Katsunori Nomura is born. |
| 1973: Hiroshima catcher Koji Obata is born. |
| 1972: Yokohama pitcher Masato Kato is born. |
| 1970: Chunichi and Hiroshima pitcher Yasushi Tsuruta is born. |
| 1967: Yakult pitcher Kenichi Uchiyama is born. |
| 1964: Hanshin outfielder Seiichi Kaneko is born. |
| 1960: Hiroshima and Nippon Ham outfielder Tetsuhisa Sadaoka is born. |
| 1959: Hankyu and Chunichi infielder Yoshihiro Iwamoto is born. |
| 1954: Hankyu and Nankai outfielder Toshiyuki Yoshizawa is born. |
| 1954: Hankyu outfielder Hiroyoshi Kudoh is born. |
| 1949: Toei infielder Masaharu Inoue is born. |
| 1942: Lotte and Hiroshima pitcher Kojiro Yokoyama is born. |
| 1941: Hankyu infielder Terukiyo Komatsu is born. |
| 1937: Taiyo infielder Noboru Ishii is born. |
| 1935: Hiroshima pinch hitter Akio Tanaka is born. |
| 1931: Nankai and Taiyo pitcher Joe Stanka is born. |
| 1926: Taiyo, Shochiku and Hankyu pitcher Kiichiro Miyazawa is born. |
| 1922: Hanshin infielder Choei Shirasaki is born. |
| 1922: Kintetsu outfielder Tadashi Kagawa is born. |
| 1907: Hankyu infielder Saburo Miyatake is born. |
| 2006: Former Nankai outfielder Kazuo Horii dies at age 82 of pneumonia. |
| 1995: Hanshin manager Katsuhiro Nakamura is indefinitely relieved of duty. |
| 1991: In game two of the all star series, 43 year old Hiromitsu Kadota slams a pinch hit homer for the Pacific League off of Yomiuri's Masumi Kuwata in the sixth at Hiroshima Municipal Stadium in what ended as a 3-3 tie. That made Kadota the oldest man to go yard in a Japanese all star faceoff. In addition, after Seibu outfielder Koji Akiyama fouls a ball off of his face in the top of the 12th, Seibu pitcher Kimiyasu Kudoh is sent out in the bottom of the inning to play left. |
| 1985: Nippon Ham pitcher Takahito Kanamori is born. |
| 1983: Lotte pitcher Katsuyuki Aizawa is born. |
| 1981: Orix pitcher Hiroyuki Nomura is born. |
| 1976: Seibu and Yomiuri outfielder Tatsuya Ozeki is born. |
| 1973: Kintetsu, Orix and Chunichi infielder Norihiro Nakamura is born. |
| 1968: Yakult, Lotte and Chunichi pitcher Nariyuki Naito is born. |
| 1968: Kintetsu outfielder Shinji Omura is born. |
| 1957: Yomiuri and Kintetsu outfielder Shoichi Shimanuki is born. |
| 1957: Seibu, Hiroshima and Kintetsu infielder Tetsuya Ohara is born. |
| 1949: Nippon Ham and Taiheiyo Club outfielder Makoto Yoshida is born. |
| 1945: Yomiuri infielder Shigeru Takada is born. |
| 1940: Chunichi, Kintetsu and Hanshin infielder Shuhei Ichieda is born. |
| 1936: Hanshin and Tokyo Orions outfielder Mike Solomko is born. |
| 1933: Nankai pitcher Yasuo Shirasaki is born. |
| 1922: Hankyu infielder Michio Fujii is born. |
| 1922: Nagoya pitcher Shinichi Ishimaru is born. |
| 1915: Sangyo and Shochiku outfielder Kazuo Yoshida is born. |
| 1914: Taiyo Whales outfielder Ienari Arimura is born. |
| 2006: Yakult pitcher Masao Kida is hit on the head by a batted ball during pre-game warmups and suffered a facial laceration. He was taken off the roster to recuperate. |
| 2005: Rakuten releases pitchers Aaron Myette and Matt Skrmetta as well as infielder Damon Minor. |
| 1996: Osaka Tigers pitcher Tsuneo Tsuri dies at age 78. |
| 1995: Hanshin minor league manager Taira Fujita is made interim manager for the big club. |
| 1980: Lotte outfielder Shiro Teramoto is born. |
| 1971: Chunichi, Lotte and Seibu catcher Takumi Shiigi is born. |
| 1971: Chunichi outfielder Kazuki Inoue is born. |
| 1969: Hiroshima, Lotte and Yakult pitcher Makoto Itoh is born. |
| 1969: Chunichi pitcher Eiji Ochiai is born. |
| 1958: Yakult pitcher Shinji Kuroda is born. |
| 1957: Lotte outfielder Katsutsuke Nakajima is born. |
| 1953: Nankai and Nippon Ham infielder Shigeki Tsurusaki is born. |
| 1951: Seibu infielder Haruhiko Suzuki is born. |
| 1950: Hanshin outfielder Toshihiko Yamada is born. |
| 1946: Osaka Tiegsr outfielder Masayasu Kaneda triples twice in the fifth inning of a game to set a record that still stands. It has been done one other time and, ironically, that was in Septemner of the same season by Chubu Nihon's Kiyoshi Sugiura. |
| 1944: Nagoya pitcher Yukio Muramatsu dies at age 24 in combat in Guam during WWII. |
| 1944: Kintetsu outfielder Buddy Bradford is born. |
| 1940: Daimai pitcher Norimoto Sugawara is born. |
| 1936: Hanshin pitcher Takanori Sato is born. |
| 1936: Taiyo pitcher Makoto Inagawa is born. |
| 1931: Central League umpire Hiroya Tomizawa is born. |
| 1931: Kokutetsu outfielder Shizuo Kusumi is born. |
| 1926: Hanshin pitcher Katsuo Takemoto is born. |
| 1921: Hanshin pitcher Hiroshi Morishita is born. |
| 1918: Nishi Nihon outfielder Katsuma Shimoo is born. |
| 1914: Nagoya and Shochiku infielder Tokichi Ishimaru is born. |
| 2006: Seibu pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka beans Orix outfielder Hiroaki Onishi and is ejected under the dangerous pitch rule. |
| 2002: Orix first baseman Fernando Seguignol homers from both sides of the plate for the third time that season, a new record. This one came against Kintetsu. |
| 2002: Yomiuri pitcher Kimiyasu Kudoh has a bunt single against Yakult, ending an 84 plate appearance hitless streak. |
| 1996: Asahi, Pacific, Taiyo, Goldstar, Daiei Stars and Hankyu catcher Masumi Isekawa dies at age 75. |
| 1996: Chunichi loads the bases in the top of the ninth against Yakult with nobody out, but Yakult pulls off a triple play to end the game, the first time ever in Central League history that has occured and the first time in 27 years it has happened in either league. |
| 1971: Kintetsu outfielder Iwao Hirae is born. |
| 1963: Lotte outfielder Shinichi Furukawa is born. |
| 1959: Orix and Hanshin pitcher Yukihiko Yamaoki is born. |
| 1950: Nippon Ham pitcher Yoshinobu Miyamoto is born. |
| 1946: Osaka beats Pacific 1-0 in just 55 minutes, the shortest nine inning game in Japanese history. 11 other games have been shorter than an hour in Japanese annals. |
| 1944: Tokyo Giants infielder Kentaro Itoh dies at age 27 fighting in Guam in WWII. |
| 1944: Hiroshima and Nishitetsu pitcher Isao Hisato is born. |
| 1938: Daimai, Taiyo and Hankyu pitcher Haruki Mihara is born. |
| 1937: Nishitetsu pitcher Kihachiro Tanaka is born. |
| 1935: Sankei outfielder Lou Jackson is born. |
| 1934: Daiei Stars catcher Kiyoshi Hataya is born. |
| 1933: Hanshin infielder Yoshio Yoshida is born. |
| 1931: Nagoya pitcher Katsumi Ishibachi is born. |
| 1930: Kintetsu pitcher Glenn Mickens is born. |
| 1924: Hankyu infielder Kenichi Itoh is born. |
| 1984: Lotte infielder Tsuyoshi Nishioka is born. |
| 1982: Kintetsu and Orix pitcher Ryota Katsuki is born. |
| 1980: Orix pitcher Daisuke Kato is born. |
| 1980: Nippon Ham pitcher Felix Diaz is born. |
| 1978: Orix infielder Mitsutaka Goto is born. |
| 1976: Yokohama outfielder Tatsuhiko Kinjo is born. |
| 1976: Hiroshima pitcher Yasuhiro Oyamada is born. |
| 1975: Hiroshima catcher Yoshikazu Kura is born. |
| 1974: Lotte, Yomiuri and Yakult pitcher Brian Sikorski is born. |
| 1972: Hanshin infielder Yoshinori Okihara is born. |
| 1971: Yokohama pitcher Shane Bowers is born. |
| 1966: Chunichi and Orix pitcher Yasuhiro Kawabata is born. |
| 1964: Hiroshima and Seibu catcher Yukihiro Ueda is born. |
| 1962: Nippon Ham and Kintetsu outfielder Terushi Nakajima is born. |
| 1961: Hankyu pitcher Masao Yata is born. |
| 1957: Kintetsu outfielder Rich Duran is born. |
| 1954: Hankyu infielder Akira Tanaka is born. |
| 1951: Yomiuri and Hiroshima outfielder Kosho Sakomaru is born. |
| 1950: Yakult pitcher Kenji Arisawa is born. |
| 1945: Hanshin and Nankai infielder Toru Wada is born. |
| 1943: Nankai pitcher Takeo Kanda dies at age 21. |
| 1939: Taiyo infielder Shigeo Ueda is born. |
| 1931: Kokutetsu infielder Reijiro Watanabe is born. |
| 1930: Mainichi infielder Kazuo Kaifu is born. |
| 1921: Kokutetsu pitcher Norio Furuya is born. |
| 1916: Nankai infielder Kazuto (Yamamoto) Tsuruoka is born. |
| 2005: Orix pitcher Jose Parra is released. |
| 1994: Yakult first baseman Katsumi Hirosawa plays in his 1000th consecutive game in a faceoff against Hiroshima at Meiji Jingu Stadium, becoming the fourht man in history to do that. |
| 1983: Yokohama pitcher Naoya Okamoto is born. |
| 1983: Seibu pitcher Ayumu Yamamoto is born. |
| 1982: Yomiuri outfielder Yoshiyuki Kamei is born. |
| 1978: Chunichi infielder Masahiko Morino is born. |
| 1964: Kintetsu, Yomiuri and Yokohama pitcher Hideyuki Awano is born. |
| 1964: Kintetsu pitcher Bob Milacki is born. |
| 1952: Hanshin, Lotte and Yomiuri pitcher Seiichi Ogawa is born. |
| 1947: Yomiuri outfielder Haruaki Harada is born. |
| 1940: Sankei catcher Hayao Wakabe is born. |
| 1939: Hiroshima pinch hitter Yasuhiro Kako is born. |
| 1937: Hanshin and Nishitetsu outfielder Koshiro Itoh is born. |
| 1934: Hanshin, Lotte and Taiyo pitcher Masaaki Koyama is born. |
| 1930: Nishi Nihon, Nishitetsu and Daiei Stars outfielder Tomoyuki Yatsunami is born. |
| 1926: Hiroshima, Taiyo and Orix scout Satoshi Kiniwa is born. He is said to be the first scout to use a radar gun in Japan. |
| 2006: Hiroshima hall of fame pitcher Ryohei Hasegawa dies at age 76 of pneumonia. |
| 1987: Daiei Stars pitcher Yoshiharu Ogawa dies at age 63. |
| 1986: Softbank pitcher Masahiko Morifuku is born. |
| 1982: Rakuten infielder Shoji Ohiro is born. |
| 1979: Kintetsu and Yomiuri infielder Motohiro Yoshikawa is born. |
| 1976: Hiroshima outfielder Toyo Asayama is born. |
| 1975: Yakult pitcher Seth Greisinger is born. |
| 1974: Kintetsu and Yakult infielder Yukio Kinugawa is born. |
| 1973: Chunichi, Kintetsu, Yokohama and Yomiuri pitcher Ken Kadokura is born. |
| 1971: Kintetsu pitcher Johnny Ruffin is born. |
| 1971: Yomiuri, Kintetsu and Rakuten infielder Yuji Yoshioka is born. |
| 1971: Hanshin pitcher Yoichi Mugikura is born. |
| 1962: Yakult, Nippon Ham and Lotte outfielder Shinji Hata is born. |
| 1962: Nippon Ham pitcher Tadashi Shiba is born. |
| 1960: Hiroshima pitcher Michio Okubo is born. |
| 1951: Yomiuri outfielder Gary Thomasson is born. |
| 1948: Kintetsu infielder Asakichi Yoda is born. |
| 1948: Hankyu pitcher Hisashi Yamada is born. |
| 1948: Lotte infielder Yoshinori Sonoda is born. |
| 1948: Nippon Ham and Crown Lighter infielder Yoshikazu Shimazu is born. |
| 1944: Taiyo pitcher Nobuhiro Ishihata is born. |
| 1944: Umpire Noriyuki Fujimoto is born. |
| 1940: Hankyu infielder Mamoru Sato is born. |
| 1939: Nankai pitcher Akitada Niiyama is born. |
| 1937: Yomiuri and Kintetsu pitcher Taketoshi Yoshiwara is born. |
| 1936: Shuichi Ishimoto becomes manager of the Osaka Tigers. |
| 1936: Tokyo Senators outfielder Kikuo Sato dies at age 18. |
| 2005: Orix pitcher Masato Yoshii becomes the first Pacific League hurler ever to win five straight decisions after age 40 by beating Nippon Ham. |
| 2005: Yokohama infielder Hitoshi Taneda is run by plate umpire during a game with Hiroshima. It was Taneda's first ejection in his 16 year career. He was subsequently suspended for a game due to what he said to the arbiter. |
| 2003: Hanshin is assured of finishing its fourth straight month with at least 15 wins, a new pro yakyu record. |
| 2002: Orix reliever Kazuo Yamaguchi ties former Lotte pitcher Hideki Irabu's record of 158km/h (98mph) during the ninth inning on his fourth pitch to Daiei first baseman Nobuhiko Matsunaka. |
| 1988: Hankyu infielder Junichi Fukura hammers a come from behind walkoff grand slam against Seibu at Nishinomiya Stadium off of Kazuo Yamane. |
| 1967: Hanshin pitcher Hiroaki Hattori is born. |
| 1964: Kokutetsu pitcher Masaichi Kaneda shuts Taiyo out at Kawasaki Stadium for his 20th win of the year, making it 14 straight seasons of 20 victories or more. |
| 1953: Nankai pitcher Takayoshi Hirasawa is born. |
| 1947: Yakult, Nankai and Lotte pitcher Yoshiaki Toyama is born. |
| 1936: Toei catcher Takashi Tsuji is born. |
| 1935: Takahashi outfielder Haruhiko Ichikawa is born. |
| 1930: Nankai pitcher Shinichi Inoue is born. |
| 1924: Kokutetsu infielder Hisatada Ishikawa is born. |
| 1924: Nishi Nihon infielder Eiji Tananami is born. |
| 2006: Former Yomiuri and Nishitetsu pitcher Akira Takahashi dies at age 64 of stomach cancer. |
| 2005: Lotte outfielder Benny Agbayani is ejected by the plate umpire during a game with Softbank. He was fined 50,000 yen and given a written reprimand. |
| 2003: Hanshin second baseman Makoto Imaoka tags his seventh first inninjg leadoff homer of the season during a game against Yokohama at Koshien Stadium, setting a new team record. |
| 1998: Yomiuri pitcher Balvino Galvez goes ballistic at plate umpire Atsushi Kittaka and throws the ball at him, ultimately earning him a rest of the seaosn suspension. |
| 1996: Yakult beats Hanshin at Koshien Stadium for its 15th consecutive victory, the first time in 41 years that any Central League club has done that. |
| 1994: Chunichi Dragons outfielder Yasuaki Taiho slugs three homers against Hiroshima. Altogether, both sides tally up ten dingers in a 12-11 final. |
| 1982: Seibu infielder Hiroyuki Nakajima is born. |
| 1981: Rakuten pitcher Adam Bass is born. |
| 1981: Nippon Ham outfielder Yoshio Itoi is born. |
| 1975: Yomiuri outfielder Gabe Kapler is born. |
| 1959: Hanshin infielder Katsuo Hirata is born. |
| 1957: Yakult infielder Shigeru Sugimura is born. |
| 1957: Hankyu and Yomiuri pitcher Tomohiro Kinoshita is born. |
| 1951: Yomiuri infielder Kenji Otake is born. |
| 1946: Taiyo outfielder Tadashi Furuta is born. |
| 1944: Hiroshima pitcher Mitsuya Nakamura is born. |
| 1941: Taiyo pitcher Shinji Niihari is born. |
| 1937: Nankai pitcher Goro Tomishima is born. |
| 1934: Nankai and Yomiuri outfielder Masahisa Fukuda is born. |
| 1921: Yomiuri outfielder Kiyoshi Kuboki is born. |