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| 2005: Yomiuri suffers its third straight 12 inning tie, the first time that has happened to any team since Hankyu in 1977 and the seventh time overall. It is a team first for the Giants. |
| 2005: Rakuten pitcher Hiroki Yamamura is taken to the downs four times in an inning against Yokohama, tying a pro yakyu record. |
| 1982: Yokohama and Seibu pitcher Kazumasa Azuma is born. |
| 1981: Chunichi pitcher Satoru Ishikawa is born; |
| 1978: Seibu and Chunichi infielder Hiromasa Tamano is born. |
| 1977: Yokohama pitcher Michiya Yokoyama is born. |
| 1976: Lotte outfielder Saburo Omura is born. |
| 1973: Daiei and Nipppon Ham infielder Takaya Hayashi is born. |
| 1969: Osaka Tigers, Eagles, Yamato, Pacific and Nishi Nihon outfielder Toshio Kojima dies at age 55. |
| 1965: Daiei and Yomiuri pitcher Takeshi Yamada is born. |
| 1962: Kintetsu outfielder Jessie Reid is born. |
| 1961: Nippon Ham pitcher Seiichi Sato is born. |
| 1959: Nippon Ham pitcher Noboru Nakahara is born. |
| 1958: Yakult pitcher Keiichi Sakai is born. |
| 1957: Hanshin pitcher Rich Olsen is born. |
| 1941: Hanshin outfielder Shoichi Daikoku is born. |
| 1933: Hanshin outfielder Mitsutsugu Yokoyama is born. |
| 1915: Dai Tokyo outfielder Kazumasa Toda is born. |
| 2006: Yomiuri pitcher beans Seibu outfielder Hisashi Takayama and is ejected under the dangerous pitch rule. |
| 2005: Softbank reliever Koji Mise beans Hanshin outfielder Tomoaki Kanemoto and is ejected under the dangerous pitch rule. |
| 1998: Nankai, Nishitetsu and Takahashi Shissho Takesue dies at age 75. |
| 1990: Nankai and Chunichi outfielder Tsunemi Koizumi dies at age 47. |
| 1976: Nippon Ham and Hanshin pitcher Kenji Harada is born. |
| 1973: Orix pitcher Shuichi Iwashita is born. |
| 1967: Yakult pitcher Don Lemon is born. |
| 1967: Orix pitcher Jiro Toyoda is born. |
| 1964: Kintetsu and Lotte pitcher Izumi Takayanagi is born. |
| 1962: Chunichi and Hanshin infielder Darnell Coles is born. |
| 1951: Lotte pitcher Tokinari Nishina is born. |
| 1950: Chunichi infielder Shinichi Miyoshi is born. |
| 1950: Yomiuri and Hankyu pitcher Osamu Shimano is born. |
| 1948: Nankai infielder Jack Pierce is born. |
| 1946: Nankai and Taiyo pitcher Hiroshi Kurahashi is born. |
| 1946: In the highest scoring one run game in Japanese history at the time, the Tokyo Senators edges Chubu Nihon 15-14 at Nishinomiya Stadium. Hiroshi Oshita, normally an outfielder, started on the mound for the Seanators and got his clock cleaned. But he also ripped a grand slam later in the game to keep them in it. |
| 1935: Taiyo outfielder Hidenori Kanemitsu is born. |
| 1932: Takahashi and Toei pitcher Takao Nakano is born. |
| 1928: Mainichi infielder Masashi Kitamura is born. |
| 1924: Daiei Stars pitcher Yoshiharu Ogawa is born. |
| 1918: Tokyo Giants infielder Yasuhiro Inoue is born. |
| 2005: Nippon Ham releases outfielder Sherman Obando. |
| 1995: Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo gets his first MLB victory against the New York Mets in his seventh appearance. |
| 1991: Nishitetsu and Daiei Stars pitcher Yasunori Otsuka dies at age 57. |
| 1983: Yokohama pitcher Yuji Hata is born. |
| 1983: Yakult infielder Katsuo Osugi gets his 1000th Central League knock in a game against Chunichi at Meiji Jingu Stadium to become the first man ever to have 1,000 hits in both leagues. |
| 1982: Rakuten outfielder Akihisa Makita is born. |
| 1981: Daiei infielder Munenori Kawasaki is born. |
| 1981: Kintetsu leftfielder Kyosuke Sasaki believes that he has made a diving catch of a liner in the first by Lotte Orions leadoff man Tomohisa Shoji, but the third base umpre says it's a trap. Sasaki bumps the ump and is obligated to leave only four pitches into the game, the quickest into a game anyone has ever been run. |
| 1975: Daiei and Yomiuri pitcher Shintaro Yoshitake is born. |
| 1975: Lotte infielder Rafael Batista homers in his first at bat in Japan. |
| 1975: Orix and Lotte outfielder Daisuke Hayakawa is born. |
| 1975: Lotte and Yakult pitcher Takashi Tanaka is born. |
| 1967: Nippon Ham outfielder Minoru Tanaka is born. |
| 1967: Kintetsu, Hiroshima, Yomiuri and Yakult pitcher Satoshi Iriki isborn. |
| 1965: Chunichi and Hiroshima infielder Kazutoshi Yamada is born. |
| 1964: Chunichi infielder Nelson Liriano is born. |
| 1961: Seibu outfielder Jose Tolentino is born. |
| 1961: Kintetsu second baseman Jack Bloomfield has had enough of a Hankyu fan's big mouth, so he climbs over the netting above the railing of the seats and punches the fan's lights out. He is ejected, but not suspended. |
| 1960: Taiyo and Lotte pitcher Kazuhiko Migita is born. |
| 1959: Nankai pitcher Akinori Takeguchi is born. |
| 1959: Seibu catcher Shigenobu Yamanaka is born. |
| 1952: Nagoya outfielder Zenpei Yamazaki steals six bases in a game against Taiyo to set a Japan record. |
| 1949: Nishitetsu and Hiroshima pitcher Terufumi Uchida is born. |
| 1946: Yomiuri and Yakult pitcher Makoto Kurata is born. |
| 1945: Hankyu, Hiroshima, Nippon Ham and Taiyo pitcher Yukinobu Miyamoto is born. |
| 1944: Hanshin and Yomiuri pitcher Yoshizumi Kaburaki is born. |
| 1942: Nankai and Hanshin pitcher Eizo Koda is born. |
| 1939: Kintetsu and Hankyu pitcher Hiroyuki Osada is born. |
| 1934: Kintetsu infielder Jim Gentile is born. |
| 1930: Kintetsu catcher Katsuhiko Hara is born. |
| 1926: Kokutetsu outfielder Shigezo Odagiri is born. |
| 1925: Hankyu and Hiroshima infielder Toyoshi Sakai is born. |
| 1920: Nankai and Takahashi infielder Kazuo Kasahara is born. |
| 2007: Former Taiyo Whales infielder Clete Boyer dies at age 70 from complications of a cerebral hemorhage. |
| 2005: Orix manager Akira Ogi argues with the umpiring crew about a pitching change during a game with Hiroshima for 44 minutes and is ejected. Both the umpires and Ogi are reprimanded by the league. |
| 1985: Seibu Lions pitcher Taigen Kaku no hits Nippon Ham. |
| 1978: Lotte pitcher Hiroyuki Kobayashi is born. |
| 1973: Hiroshima pitcher Dave Lundquist is born. |
| 1969: Daiei pitcher Kazuhide Sakuyama is born. |
| 1952: Lotte catcher Sumiaki Nagamatsu is born. |
| 1943: Daimai pitcher Reizo Oshida is born. |
| 1941: Yakult pitcher Shiroku Ishido is born. |
| 1937: Toei pitcher Fumio Hashizume is born. |
| 1936: Yomiuri and Nankai pitcher Eiichiro Takahashi is born. |
| 1931: Taiyo and Kokutetsu pitcher Takehisa Sakai is born. |
| 1925: Chunichi pitcher Katsumi Kuno is born. |
| 1920: Kokutetsu outfielder Reiji Yamaguchi is born. |
| 1919: Hanshin and Kokutetsu outfielder Minoru Yamane is born. |
| 1918: Nankai outfielder Nobuo Kuriu is born. |
| 2006: Hiroshima trades utilityman Takuya Kimura to Yomiuri in exchange for outfielder Shunsuke Yamada. |
| 2003: Hanshin wins its tenth Koshien Stadium home game in a row, a new team record. |
| 1993: Kintetsu is down by six coming into the bottom of the ninth against Daiei. But then the Hawks bullpen can't get anyone out and the Buffaloes stampede for seven runs for a walkoff victory, a record for a ninth inning comeback. |
| 1981: Orix pitcher Toyoji Matsumura is born. |
| 1980: Seibu infielder Taketoshi Goto is born. |
| 1979: Nippon Ham outfielder Makoto Shimada steals second, third and home in a single inning against Seibu. |
| 1977: Yokohama and Daiei catcher Shunsuke Sugiyama is born. |
| 1974: Hanshin outfielder Hajime Tomie dies at age 32. |
| 1973: Yomiuri and Lotte pitcher Ryu Hanekawa is born. |
| 1969: Hiroshima and Daiei pitcher Hiroomi Ishinuki is born. |
| 1959: Hankyu pitcher Hiroyuki Miura is born. |
| 1952: Hiroshima and Nippon Ham pitcher Kazushi Saeki is born. |
| 1949: Nishitetsu and Nankai pitcher Yukio Tsujihara is born. |
| 1947: Yakult pitcher Teruo Aida is born. |
| 1945: Toei infielder Tadashi Ninomiya is born. |
| 1923: Taiyo infielder Masatake Nagatomi is born. |
| 1912: Hiroshima outfielder Ginnosuke Suzuki is born. |
| 1997: Mainichi and Hankyu outfielder Katsuki Tokura dies at age 82. |
| 1992: Daiei outfielder Yasutaka Hironaga slams the 60,000th homer in Japanese history against Orix off of Yukihiko Yamaoki at Nishinomiya Stadium. |
| 1992: Daiei outfielder Yuji Yamaguchi breaks his left shoulder in a game against Seibu and is out for the season. |
| 1990: Kintetsu outfielder Ralph Bryant hammers a pitch from Nippon Ham hurler Mitsuo Sumi off of a speaker in deep centerfield and it is ruled a home run. It is estimated that if the ball was allowed to carry on uninterrupted, it would have gone more than 520 feet. |
| 1979: Seibu pitcher Chris Wright is born. |
| 1973: Kintetsu infielder Takashi Muto is born. |
| 1973: Nippon Ham pitcher Hiroshi Numata is born. |
| 1973: Nippon Ham and Hanshin outfielder Ryuki Nemoto is born. |
| 1972: Hanshin pitcher Jeff Williams is born. |
| 1970: Seibu and Lotte outfielder Tetsuya Kakiuchi is born. |
| 1962: Yakult outfielder Hideharu Takani is born. |
| 1961: Manager Masayasu Kaneda is relieved of duty though not yet fired and Sadayoshi Fujimoto is named interim skipper. Fujimoto would later ne named manager. |
| 1960: Seibu and Daiei infielder Hiroshi Ogawa is born. |
| 1955: Nankai first baseman Chris Nyman is born. |
| 1953: Chunichi catcher Sakae Okawara is born. |
| 1950: Chunichi pitcher Tsukasa Watabe is born. |
| 1949: Hanshin infielder Katsuhiro Nakamura is born. |
| 1948: Yakult infielder Sachio Okugaki is born. |
| 1941: Chunichi and Nishitetsu infielder Mikihiko Kuroki is born. |
| 1938: Daimai pitcher Takeshi Hasegawa is born. |
| 1935: Kokutetsu catcher Toshiharu Ai is born. |
| 1934: Osamu is the first player signed by the Dai Nihon Tokyo Yakyu Club, the predecessor of the Tokyo Giants. |
| 1917: Tokyo Giants pitcher Tomosaburo Narita is born. |
| 1987: Tokyo Giants, Hanshin and Mainichi outfielder Shosei Go dies at age 70. |
| 1982: Yakult pitcher Kenichi Matsuoka is born. |
| 1980: Hiroshima pitcher Daisuke Sakai is born. |
| 1973: Seibu pitcher Hirofumi Teramoto is born. |
| 1973: Chunichi pitcher Kenichi Sasaki is born. |
| 1970: Seibu pitcher Koichi Taira is born. |
| 1969: Lotte pitcher Takayasu Kato is born. |
| 1961: Nippon Ham and Orix infielder Kazuyuki Shirai is born. |
| 1961: Yomiuri infielder Kaoru Okazaki is born. |
| 1960: Taiyo and Hanshin outfielder Jim Paciorek is born. |
| 1954: Nippon Ham, Taiyo and Chunichi pitcher Isamu Kida is born. |
| 1952: Nankai scores at least one run in each inning of a match with Tokyu in a game at Korakuen Stadium in an 18-4 massacre of the Flyers. It is the first time ever a club has pushed a man across in each inning. It has only been done three other times since. |
| 1950: Hiroshima ties a then record with 28 hits in a game against Taiyo. But the most noteworth event of the game occurred in the seventh, when they got an opening on a two out error and racked up ten runs in the inning, the second biggest two out bonanza in history. The final score was 22-2. |
| 1947: Nittaku Home infielder Jim Redmon is born. |
| 1942: Tokyo Orions pitcher Kinya Tsujino is born. |
| 1923: Asahi infielder Yoshio Nomoto is born. |
| 1913: Nagoya infielder Naoichi Haga is born. |
| 1911: Dai Tokyo catcher Yukinobu Murakawa is born. |
| 2006: Lotte closer Masahide Kobayashi registers his 20th save of the season during a game with Chunichi to become the first man ever to run up six straight seasons with at least that many saves. |
| 2000: Hanshin and Mainichi infielder Isao Odate dies at age 83. |
| 1981: Yomiuri pitcher Tsuyoshi Jobe is born. |
| 1981: Hiroshima outfielder Masafumi Suenaga is born. |
| 1976: Orix and Rakuten outfielder Ryutaro Tsuji is born. |
| 1976: Daiei catcher Kenji Johjima is born. |
| 1974: Yomiuri, Kintetsu and Yakult pitcher Koichi Misawa is born. |
| 1973: Orix pitcher Hidetaka Kawagoe is born. |
| 1970: Yokohama and Lotte outfielder Jun Inoue is born. |
| 1965: Hanshin infielder Hiroshi Yagi is born. |
| 1954: Kokutetsu pitcher Masaichi Kaneda strikes out a pro yakyu record tying15 against Taiyo at Yokohama Stadium. He fans seven in a row at one point to set a new Central League record. |
| 1952: Yakult outfielder Toru Sugiura is born. |
| 1946: Yomiuri infielder Jack Lind is born. |
| 1944: Taiyo and Taieheiyo Club pitcher Senji Oikawa is born. |
| 1932: Kokutetsu infielder Takashi Kawashima is born. |
| 2007: Former Yomiuri, Nishi Nihon, Nishitetsu and Hankyu outfielder Seiji Sekiguchi dies at age 81 from choking on food. |
| 2006: Hiroshima pitcher Mike Romano beaned Rakuten outfielder Akihisa Makita and is given the gate under the dangerous pitch rule. Makita sustained a bruise to the head and was taken off the roster. |
| 1995: Taiyo pitcher Masaru Koda dies at age 56. |
| 1993: Yakult pitcher Tomohito Itoh strikes out 16 in a game against Yomiuri at Kanazawa, tying a then Central League record. |
| 1977: Former Dai Tokyo, Lion, Nagoya, Shochiku and Taiyo manager Tokuro Konishi dies at age 82. |
| 1973: Daiei pitcher Katsunori Okamoto is born. |
| 1972: Lotte pitcher Fumio Narita becomes the first hurler in Japanese history to slug two career grand slams, as he rips a bases loaded roundtripper against Hankyu in the second inning. |
| 1968: Nankai outfielder Marty Keough homers on the 15th pitch of an at bat, the most pitches seen by anyone in history in which he went yard. |
| 1964: Yomiuri and Orix catcher Makoto Takada is born. |
| 1962: Yomiuri infielder Hiroshi Sato is born. |
| 1951: Chunichi pitcher Terashi Donoue is born. |
| 1949: Toei and Taiyo pitcher Teruhiko Ishii is born. |
| 1946: Yomiuri and Nippon Ham catcher Kazumi Takahashi is born. |
| 1938: Kokutetsu and Chunichi infielder Sadayuki Tokutake is born. |
| 1938: Yomiuri and Kintetsu catcher Mitsuro Takeshita is born. |
| 1937: Kintetsu and Kokutetsu pitcher Toshiaki Fukita is born. |
| 1930: Mainichi and Takahashi pitcher Susumu Aizawa is born. |
| 1925: Hankyu pitcher Jimmy Newberry is born. |
| 1916: Kinki Nihon pitcher Osamu Hasegawa is born. |
| 1913: Hankyu, Nagoya and Nagoya Golden Dolphins Nobumori Kuramoto is born. |
| 2005: Hiroshima announces the acquisition of pitcher Kenny Rayborn. |
| 2005: Hanshin sends infielder Yoshinori Okihara to Rakuten in exchange for infielder Tadatoki Maeda. |
| 2002: Taiyo and Kintetsu infielder Kazuhiko Kondo dies at age 65. |
| 1984: Yomiuri and Orix infielder Masahiro Nagata is born. |
| 1980: Orix and Rakuten outfielder Toshiya Nakashima is born. |
| 1976: Yakult outfielder Billy Martin is born. |
| 1976: Yomiuri outfielder Takayuki Saito is born. |
| 1976: Nankai catcher Seizo Sano dies at age 56. h |
| 1961: Hiroshima and Daiei pitcher Hiroshi Nagatomi is born. |
| 1960: Taiyo Whales catcher Takeo Yoshinari dies at age 27. |
| 1956: Hiroshima infielder Randy Johnson is born. |
| 1955: Yakult pitcher Floyd Bannister is born. |
| 1954: Hankyu and Chunichi pitcher Masanobu Kojima is born. |
| 1949: Nishitetsu and Taiyo pitcher Akira Kawahara is born. |
| 1937: Nishitetsu pitcher Kazuhisa Inao is born. |
| 1935: Kintetsu and Hanshin infielder Akitoshi Kodama is born. |
| 1934: Kintetsu pitcher Teruaki Wakasugi is born. |
| 1934: Yomiuri and Kintetsu outfielder Yoshinobu Kawakami is born. |
| 1933: Daimai pitcher Ed Palmquist is born. |
| 1933: Taiyo catcher Kiyoshi Doi is born. |
| 1925: Tokyu infielder Tsutomu Ikeda is born. |
| 1924: Hiroshima infielder Kenichi Isoda is born. |
| 1920: Tokyo Giants pitcher Kiyoshi Izumida is born. |
| 1914: Nagoya Golden Dolphins, Taiyo, Nishitetsu and Yomiuri outfielder Toshio Kurosawa is born. |
| 1910: Tokyo Senators outfielder Kozo Aoki is born. |
| 2006: Yomiuri first baseman Seung-yeop Lee hammers a two run homer off of Lotte submariner Shunsuke Watanabe to rightcenter in the third inning at Chiba Marine Stadium. However, Lotte third baseman Toshiaki Imae calls for the ball and claimed that baserunner Tatsuya Ozeki had failed to touch the bag. The umpire rules Ozeki out, thereby taking two runs off the board. That would prove huge because Lotte won it 3-2. The homer was scored a single. It is the first ever that a homer has been liquidated due to a baserunner not touching a bag ahead of the man who went yard. |
| 2006: Hiroshima reliever Kenta Satake beans Rakuten infielder Rick Short and was ejected under the dangerous pitch rule. |
| 2005: Lotte pitcher Ken Yamazaki wins a game against Chunichi after throwing only one pitch during his stint. |
| 1986: Yomiuri pitcher Shun Tohno is born. |
| 1986: The Seibu Lions finish a game with Hankyu without committing an error, their 17th straight without a miscue, a new Japan record. |
| 1984: Kintetsu outfielder Takahiro Yanagihara hammers a pinch hit come from behind sayonara grand slam off of Nankai's Kazuhiro Yamauchi at Fujiidera Stadium. |
| 1982: Hiroshima pitcher Shinjiro Kojima is born. |
| 1981: Chunichi pitcher Kenta Asakura is born. |
| 1976: Hiroshima pitcher Ryuji Yokoyama is born. |
| 1972: Yokohama pitcher Masahide Yone is born. |
| 1970: Yokohama infielder Bill Selby is born. |
| 1968: Yomiuri third baseman Shigeo Nagashima drills his 20th homer of the season against Taiyo off of Ritsuo Yamashita in his 42nd game, breaking the old mark of 46 by Sadaharu Oh and Makoto Kozuru. |
| 1966: Lotte and Daiei pitcher Eiichi Kasahara is born. |
| 1964: Kintetsu and Hanshin outfielder Shunji Hatayama is born. |
| 1964: Daiei and Yokohama outfielder Hitoshi Hatayama is born. |
| 1961: Hanshin catcher Yasuo Yoshida is born. |
| 1959: Yokohama and Yomiuri outfielder Kaname Yashiki is born. |
| 1957: Yakult pitcher Shigeki Nakamoto is born. |
| 1947: Chunichi and Hiroshima pitcher Hajime Toriya is born. |
| 1939: Hankyu infielder Yasunori Yoshimoto is born. |
| 1934: Chunichi infielder Taizo Ishida is born. |
| 1933: Kintetsu outfielder Masaaki Oishi is born. |
| 1994: Hankyu pitcher Minoru Nishida dies at age 59. |
| 1983: Yakult pitcher Kojiro Uehara is born. |
| 1979: Kintetsu and Orix pitcher Yuki Tanaka is born. |
| 1979: Daiei outfielder Takeshi Tsuji is born. |
| 1975: Daiei pitcher Makoto Sato is born. |
| 1974: Yomiuri outfielder Damon Hollins is born. |
| 1967: Nippon Ham, Daiei and Hanshin pitcher Masashi Arikura is born. |
| 1967: Kintetsu and Yokohama pitcher Seiichi Ikeue is born. |
| 1966: Yomiuri outfielder Kenji Fujimoto is born. |
| 1961: Taiyo and Seibu pitcher Kazuhiko Takahashi is born. |
| 1955: Yakult, Kintetsu and Nippon Ham outfielder Takahiro Yanagihara is born. |
| 1953: Hanshin pinch hitter Tatsuo Minemoto is born. |
| 1943: Yomiuri and Yakult outfielder Makoto Tsuchida is born. |
| 1938: Kintetsu catcher Takashi Higashida is born. |
| 1934: Yomiuri and Taiyo pitcher Akio Yatsunami is born. |
| 1914: Nishi Nihon outfielder Shigeru Nagano is born. |
| 1983: Nippon Ham pitcher Kazunori Yamamoto is born. |
| 1978: Seibu outfielder Tomoaki Sato is born. |
| 1978: Chunichi and Rakuten pitcher Shinichiro Koyama is born. |
| 1977: Orix and Lotte infielder Jose Ortiz is born. |
| 1975: Kintetsu and Hanshin pitcher Tetsushi Mende is born. |
| 1975: Hiroshima and Orix infielder Tomotaka Tamaki is born. |
| 1974: Nippon Ham pitcher Brian Sweeney is born. |
| 1972: Hanshin and Yomiuri pitcher Darrell May is born. |
| 1971: Lotte outfielder Jason Thompson is born. |
| 1966: Hanshin infielder Scott Coolbaugh is born. |
| 1965: Yokohama and Nippon Ham pitcher Toru Okamoto is born. |
| 1952: Lotte and Hiroshima pitcher Satoshi Miyakawa is born. |
| 1949: Hanshin and Nippon Ham infielder Yoshiyuki Sakakibara is born. |
| 1947: Kintetsu and Yakult outfielder Takehide Sato is born. |
| 1947: Lotte pitcher Masaaki Kitaru is born. |
| 1938: Hiroshima pitcher Fujio Nakamoto is born. |
| 1936: Mainichi pitcher Masaru Daiku is born. |
| 1935: Yomiuri catcher Katsumi Kato is born. |
| 1933: Tombo outfielder Don Bussan is born. |
| 1923: Nishitetsu outfielder Hidetaka Murase is born. |
| 2007: Former Toei infielder Norio Suzuki dies of cancer at age 66. |
| 2006: 2005: Chunichi outfielder Alex Ochoa is ejected after arguing with the plate umpire about balls and strikes during a game with Orix. He would be subsequently fined 100,000 yen and given a written reprimand. |
| 1994: Chunichi infielder Fukuzo Yanagawa dies at age 57. |
| 1992: Hanshin pitcher Toshiro Yufume throws a no hitter against Hiroshima at Koshien Stadium. |
| 1984: Yokohama infielder Yuki Yoshimura is born. |
| 1968: Yakult and Kintetsu pitcher Katsuhito Osaka is born. |
| 1967: Orix pitcher Naoki Yoshida is born. |
| 1965: Kintetsu outfielder Masaki Kato is born. |
| 1960: Daiei first baseman Mike Laga is born. |
| 1959: Lotte infielder Masayuki Kawashima is born. |
| 1954: Taiyo and Seibu pitcher Takashi Nemoto is born. |
| 1953: Lotte infielder Yuji Kitagawa is born. |
| 1951: Yakult catcher Yukio Yaegashi is born. |
| 1950: Lotte pitcher Yozo Ueda is born. |
| 1948: Sankei pitcher Kiichi Yoshie is born. |
| 1947: Taiyo outfielder Danny Walton is born. |
| 1946: Hiroshima outfielder Sumio Watanabe is born. |
| 1944: Yakult infielder Takayuki Nakano is born. |
| 1939: Kokutetsu outfielder Akira Nagai is born. |
| 1936: Toei pitcher Toshitada Hara is born. |
| 1935: Hankyu infielder Tadanori Akimoto is born. |
| 1935: Mainichi pitcher Koichi Takahashi is born. |
| 1933: Yomiuri and Kokutetsu pitcher Setsujiro Kataoka is born. |
| 1926: Chunichi outfielder Don Newcombe is born. |
| 1924: Nagoya catcher Kineo Nagashima is born. |
| 1919: Asahi pitcher Isamu Fukushi is born. |
| 2002: Kintetsu outfielder Tuffy Rhodes slugs three homers in consecutive at bats in a game against Daiei. |
| 1993: Hankyu catcher Katsumi Oki dies at age 74. |
| 1984: Eagles, Yamato, Yomiuri, Goldstar and Daiei Stars infielder Kiyoshi Yamada dies at age 63. |
| 1982: Yokohama outfielder Yoshiyuki Kuwahara is born. |
| 1981: Seibu outfielder Hiroyuki Oshima is born. |
| 1979: Yomiuri and Hiroshima outfielder Shinsuke Yamada is born. |
| 1978: Orix pitcher Tatsuo Kato is born. |
| 1976: Yokohama, Kintetsu and Rakuten pitcher Eiji Yano is born. |
| 1974: Orix and Chunichi pitcher Satoshi Kuriyama is born. |
| 1971: Lotte outfielder Hiroyasu Hayashi is born. |
| 1960: Chunichi catcher Susumu Kaneda is born. |
| 1952: Kintetsu, Seibu and Nankai pitcher Koji Takagi is born. |
| 1952: Nankai, Nippon Ham and Hanshin infielder Junichi Kashiwabara is born. |
| 1952: Yomiuri ace Takehiko Bessho has a perfect game going with two outs in the ninth of a game against Yamato when backup catcher Yasutaka Kanzaki is sent up to pinch hit. Kanzaki spanks one where they weren't, foiling Bessho's bid. It would be Kanzaki's lone knock lifetime. |
| 1951: Toei and Yakult pitcher Kiyotaka Iwasaki is born. |
| 1950: Chunichi pitcher Yoshinori Murakami is born. |
| 1945: Hiroshima outfielder Isamu Teramoto is born. |
| 1941: Daimai and Hiroshima pitcher Katsutoshi Sasaki is born. |
| 1940: Yomiuri pitcher Yoshihiro Kuroda is born. |
| 1936: Chunichi and Kokutetsu outfielder Hiroo Kataoka is born. |
| 1928: Hanku pitcher Koichi Harada is born. |
| 1919: Nishitetsu and Hankyu pitcher Keijiro Kawaguchi is born. |
| 2006: Chunichi southpaw Masahiro Yamamoto becomes the first 40 year old since Choji Murata in 1990 to toss a shutout while also striking out ten or more and just the second all time by doing it against Softbank. |
| 2006: Seibu pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka reaches his 100th career victory faster than anyone ever has since the implementation of the player draft by doing it in his 191st appearance, a win over Yokohama. Irony? Matsuzaka is a graduate of Yokohama high school. |
| 2000: Tokyu, Taiyo and Hiroshima outfielder Eikichi Nagamochi dies at age 82. |
| 1988: Lotte pitcher Yuta Omine is born. |
| 1984: Tokyo Senators outfielder Yoshio Miyashita dies at age 68. |
| 1982: Lotte outfielder Shoitsu Omatsu is born. |
| 1982: Lotte pitcher Satoshi Tejima is born. |
| 1979: Yakult outfielder Munehiro Shida is born. |
| 1979: Orix pitcher Yusuke Ogawa is born. |
| 1976: Hiroshima outfielder Shigenobu Shima is born. |
| 1976: Hankyu and Tokyu catcher Toshiharu Inokawa dies at age 68. |
| 1972: Daiei and Orix pitcher Masahiro Doi is born. |
| 1964: Hanshin and Lotte pitcher Koji Nakada is born. |
| 1964: Yakult and Orix pitcher Tsuyoshi Nishioka is born. |
| 1962: Yakult pitcher Hiroaki Miyagi is born. |
| 1946: Osaka pitcher Shosei Go throws the first postwar no hitter against the Tokyo Senators at Nishinomiya Stadium in an 11-0 victory. |
| 1939: Nankai infielder Kiyoshi Kanemura is born. |
| 1936: Nishitetsu pitcher Hiromasa Ariyoshi is born. |
| 1911: Dai Tokyo and Lion outfielder Den Susumago is born. |
| 2006: Nippon Ham sells infielder Hiroshi Narahara to Chunichi. |
| 2006: Chunichi infielder Kazuyoshi Tatsunami lofts a sacrifice fly during a game with Softbank for his 971st career RBI, a new team best. |
| 2006: Yakult pitcher Yuhei Takai comes on in relief and beans the first hitter he saw with his initial delivery of the night and is ejected. He is just the second man ever to be asked to leave after making only one pitch and hitting the batter in the head with it. |
| 1996: Toei and Yomiuri pitcher Motohiro Ando dies at age 56. |
| 1988: Nankai pitcher Shozo Nishimura dies at age 47. |
| 1980: Chunichi pitcher Susumu Kawai is born. |
| 1977: Hanshin outfielder Kanichi Matoba is born. |
| 1975: Hiroshima pitcher Yoshiki Tanaka is born. |
| 1973: Chunichi and Yokohama pitcher Hiroshi Yamada is born. |
| 1970: Hiroshima and Yokohama infielder Yuichi Furukawa is born. |
| 1968: Seibu and Lotte infielder Kazuya Harai is born. |
| 1967: Kintetsu, Orix and Rakuten infielder Koichi Oshima is born. |
| 1965: Nishitetsu infielder Kaname Miyazaki dies at age 49. |
| 1962: Taiyo pitcher Hideo Aoki is born. |
| 1961: Yomiuri outfielder Mickey Brantley is born. |
| 1953: Nankai infielder Chiaki Sadaoka is born. |
| 1952: Taiyo infielder Pete LaCock is born. |
| 1950: Nankai pitcher Osamu Ogata is born. |
| 1948: Yomiuri and Hanshin outfielder Shuichi Fukazawa is born. |
| 1945: Kintetsu catcher Katsutoshi Amemiya is born. |
| 1944: Toei and Yakult pitcher Mitsugi Tanaka is born. |
| 1942: Taiyo pitcher Sohei Shinoda is born. |
| 1940: Kintetsu and Nishitetsu infielder Takashi Takagi is born. |
| 1933: Kintetsu catcher Seizaburo Yamada is born. |
| 1924: Hankyu, Nankai and Hiroshima catcher Kiyoharu Sakata is born. |
| 2006: 19 Chunichi hitters go down on strikes against the Softbank pitching corps to tie a pro yakyu record. |
| 1991: Chunichi outfielder Toshikatsu Hikono powders a sayonara homer in the tenth inning against Taiyo off of Koki Morita, but he falls down rounding first base and can't get up, so a pinch runner has to come in to finish the tour of the bases for him. The last time that had happened was 1969, when a Jim Gentile dinger had to be finished off by a new runner. |
| 1979: Hanshin infielder Toru Fujiwara is born. |
| 1976: Kintetsu and Rakuten catcher Akihito Fujii is born. |
| 1976: Kintetsu, Orix and Yomiuri pitcher Jeremy Powell is born. |
| Yakult infielder Kazuhide Funada steals the 15,000th base in Central League history during a game against Hiroshima at Meiji Jingu Stadium. |
| 1974: Seibu and Chunichi outfielder Susumu Otomo is born. |
| 1974: Daiei pitcher Junji Hoshino is born. |
| 1965: Daiei and Hanshin outfielder Masahiko Migita is born. |
| 1963: Taiyo pitcher Koji Takeshita is born. |
| 1946: Hankyu catcher Shinji Nakazawa is born. |
| 1946: Nishitetsu pitcher Kiyoshi Goto is born. |
| 1943: Hiroshima infielder Mitsuaki Takeno is born. |
| 1942: Hanshin and Taiyo catcher Yasuhiko Tsuji is born. |
| 1941: Nankai and Nishitetsu infielder Hidekazu Yamamoto is born. |
| 1938: Yomiuri and Toei outfielder Masayuki Yamazaki is born. |
| 1938: Kokutetsu catcher Akihiko Seto is born. |
| 1938: Nishitetsu pitcher Junichi Nakajima is born. |
| 1936: Nankai outfielder Hoten Suemori is born. |
| 1924: Daiei Stars pitcher Yoshiharu Himeno is born. |
| 2006: Former Taiyo, Hankyu and Hanshin pitcher Shiro Miyamoto dies at age 54 of a cerebral hemmorage. |
| 2006: Orix reliever Daisuke Kato gets a save after making only one pitch during a game against Yomiuri. |
| 2006: Rakuten DH Takeshi Yamasaki is ejected after arguing balls and strikes with the plate umpire. He was later fined 50,000 yen and given a written reprimand. |
| 2005: NPB's first ever interlague slate concludes. Lotte has the best interleague play record. Lotte pitcher Hiroyuki Kobayahsi would be named interleague MVP. |
| 2003: Hanshin whips Yokohama at Yokohama Stadium for its 13 consecutive victory against that team that season, a new Tigers record. |
| 1984: Lotte infielder Keisuke Hayasaka is born. |
| 1983: Chunichi catcher Akihiro Maeda is born. |
| 1973: Lotte pitcher Yasuhiko Yabuta is born. |
| 1973: Orix, Yokohama and Yakult pitcher Yu Sugimoto is born. |
| 1972: Seibu outfielder Kazuhiro Wada is born. |
| 1968: Kintetsu and Hanshin infielder Ryoji Nakamura is born. |
| 1967: Hanshin outfielder Naoji Miyauchi is born. |
| 1962: Seibu pitcher Kazuto Nishimoto is born. |
| 1957: Yakult pitcher Bob Gibson is born. |
| 1954: Nippon Ham, Chunichi and Seibu outfielder Tatsuo Omiya is born. |
| 1953: Kintetsu infielder Koichi Hada is born. |
| 1945: Sankei pitcher Shiro Hanzawa is born. |
| 1944: Chunichi and Taiheiyo Club pitcher Hisatoshi Itoh is born. |
| 1940: Nippon Ham, Yomiuri and Lotte outfielder Isao Harimoto is born. |
| 1933: Daimai and Hanshin pitcher Isao Wada is born. |
| 1933: Taiyo outfielder Tatsuo Nakajima is born. |
| 1929: Kintetsu outfielder Takeshi Kusaka is born. |
| 1927: Nankai and Hankyu pitcher Tatsuo Tanaka is born. |
| 2006: Hanshin trades pitcher Rui Makino to Rakuten in exchange for infielder Katsuhiko Saka. |
| 1995: Hanshin outfielder Tsuyoshi Shinjo loses a possible game tying homer against Yokohama when a flag bing waved by a member of the oendan in left at Yokohama Stadium snags the ball. It is called a ground rule double. |
| 1987: Hiroshima pitcher Yuki Saito is born. |
| 1974: Nippon Ham and Lotte pitcher Junji Kuroki is born. |
| 1971: Nippon Ham pitcher Akihiro Tabuki is born. |
| 1963: Chunichi pitcher azuo Hamada is born. |
| 1961: Kokutetsu pitcher Yoshimi Moritaki throws a perfect game against Chunichi at Korakuen Stadium, the fifth man in history to do that. |
| 1958: Yomiuri and Daiei pitcher Keiji Hashimoto is born. |
| 1956: Hiroshima, Lotte and Yomiuri pitcher Masashi Doi is born. |
| 1955: Chunichi, Seibu and Lotte outfielder Ken Hirano is born. |
| 1954: Yakult outfielder Minoru Aoki is born. |
| 1944: Tokyo Senators, Tsubasa and Taiyo outfielder Chotaro Muramatsu dies at age 23 during a military training exercise. |
| 1938: Hiroshima and Daimai infielder Tatsuo Saito is born. |
| 1932: Nankai outfielder Ichiro Tanaka is born. |
| 1931: Osaka Tigers outfielder Isao Okada is born. |
| 1917: Hanshin infielder Tomoo Nara is born. |
| 2005: Hanshin centerfielder Norihiro Akahoshi becomes the first man ever to steal bases against 11 other teams in one season. |
| 2005: Yomiuri announces the acquisition of pitcher Bart Miadich. |
| 2003: Hanshin scores ten runs in an inning against Yomiuri at Tokyo Dome, a new team record. |
| 1997: Nippon Ham outfielder Nigel Wilson slugs four homers in a game against Kintetsu. |
| 1986: Seibu pitcher Hideaki Wakui is born. |
| 1972: With two gone in the second and nobody on against Yakult, Taiyo exploits an error by Yakult rightfielder Art Lopez on Clete Boyer's foy ball and turns it into 11 runs, the most runs that have ever been scored with two gone in an inning. |
| 1970: Chunichi, Lotte and Rakuten infielder Tadaharu Sakai is born. |
| 1965: Kintetsu infielder Toshiya Adachi is born. |
| 1964: Hiroshima pitcher Tatsumi Une is born. |
| 1964: Kintetsu, Yomiuri, Lotte and Yokohama infielder Hiroo Ishii is born. |
| 1953: Lotte and Chunichi pitcher Naoya Okuda is born. |
| 1947: Toei pitcher Kinichi Ochiai is born. |
| 1946: Kintetsu pitcher Takashi Hashimoto is born. |
| 1946: Kintetsu, Taiheiyo Club and Chunichi pitcher Hiroaki Shibaike is born. |
| 1944: Taiyo outfielder Yuji Haba is born. |
| 1940: Yakult pitcher Masaru Ogata is born. |
| 1938: Taiyo infielder Tadao Shibano is born. |
| 1937: Kintetsu pitcher Mitsuaki Kondo is born. |
| 1923: The first ever Japanese professional baseball game occurs, pitting the Japan Athletic Association against the Tensho Club in the first of a two game series (there was also one the following day) that ends up wirh each side prevailing in one of the contests. |
| 1920: Tokyo Giants, Hankyu, Nishitetsu and Taiyo catcher Yasuo Kusunoki is born. |
| 1908: Nagoya Golden Dolphins outfielder Hidenosuke Shima is born. |
| 2005: Orix pitcher Atsuhiro Mitsuhara beans Seibu infielder Takeya Nakamura and is ejected under the dangerous pitch rule. |
| 1981: Nankai infielder Kisaku Kato dies at age 73. |
| 1975: Chunichi pitcher Kenshin Kawakami is born. |
| 1975: Hanshin pitcher Esteban Yan is born. |
| 1974: Nippon Ham infielder Kokichi Akune is born. |
| 1974: Hiroshima pitcher Ikuo Ikeda is born. |
| 1972: Seibu pitcher Miguel DelToro is born. |
| 1971: Kintetsu, Orix and Chunichi outfielder Jiro Fujitate is born. |
| 1968: Seibu and Yokohama infielder Hideo Nakamura is born. |
| 1965: Nippon Ham, Daiei, Chunichi and Yomiuri pitcher Kazuhiro Takeda is born. |
| 1964: Seibu outfielder Seiji Tomashino is born. |
| 1950: Lotte infielder Yukihiro Ikeda is born. |
| 1941: Yomiuri and Nishitetsu pitcher Kazuo Ogino is born. |
| 1932: Kintetsu pitcher Masao Haito is born. |
| 1930: Kokutetsu outfielder Eiji Hatsuoka is born. |
| 1930: Chunichi and Toei infielder Toshiyuki Ota is born. |
| 1925: Tokyu and Osaka Tigers infielder Shinpei Ichii is born. |
| 1923: Kintetsu outfielder Tomoharu Kai is born. |
| 1919: Kintetsu catcher Yoshimasa Aoike is born. |
| 2006: Rakuten pitcher Yasuyuki Kawamoto has 600,000 yen (about $5000) stolen when his wallet was lifted in the locker room at Meiji JIngu Stadium during a game with Yakult. None of the reporters bothered to ask why Kawamoto was carrying that kind of cash on him. |
| 2005: Hiroshima infielder Kenjiro Nomura connects for his 2000th career hit in a game against Yakult. He is the 33rd man to that mark. |
| 1999: Taiyo infielder Nobuyuki Hikiji dies at age 68. |
| 1998: Yomiuri and Kintetsu outfielder Minoru Kakurai dies at age 63. |
| 1967: Seibu and Daiei pitcher Tomio Watanabe is born. |
| 1967: Lotte and Yakult infielder Hensley Meulens is born. |
| 1964: Kintetsu catcher Kenji Furukubo is born. |
| 1961: Chunichi and Nippon Ham outfielder Yoshihisa Komatsuzaki is born. |
| 1956: Yakult pitcher Eishoku Nagakawa is born. |
| 1948: Taiyo and Lotte infielder Masanori Arai is born. |
| 1948: Chunichi and Kintetsu pitcher Takahiro Oba is born. |
| 1947: Nagoya Golden Dolphins, Nishitetsu and Yomiuri outfielder Toshio Kurosawa dies at age 33. |
| 1946: Yomiuri catcher Takashi Yoshida is born. |
| 1920: Chunichi infielder Toshimichi Kunieda is born. |
| 1916: Tokyo Giants, Hanshin and Mainichi outfielder Shosei Go is born. |
| 1908: Dai Tokyo and Lion infielder Toichi Yanagisawa is born. |
| 2006: Hiroshima reliever Masaki Hayashi hits Yokohama third baseman Shuichi Murata with the first pitch he makes and is pulled. Murata would eventually come around to score the winning run in that inning, giving Hayashi a one pitch loss. In addition, Hayashi also had a one pitch win in his career, becoming only the second man in history to pull off that double. |
| 1985: Yokohama pitcher Kentaro Takasaki is born. |
| 1979: Chunichi catcher Kiyohito Shimizu is born. |
| 1977: Former Osaka Tigers manager Shigeo Mori dies at age 71. |
| 1977: Hanshin has at least one homer in its 23rd straight game, a new pro yakyu record. |
| 1973: Yakult and Rakuten pitcher Kevin Hodges is born. |
| 1971: Yakult, Nippon Ham and Hanshin catcher Toshihiro Noguchi is born. |
| 1966: Hanshin and Yakult infielder Shigeyuki Yamaguchi is born. |
| 1966: Nankai, Chunichi and Kintetsu outfielder Shigeo Hasegawa dies at age 33. |
| 1956: Seibu outfielder George Vukovich is born. |
| 1955: Taiyo pitcher Sadaaki Fujioka is born. |
| 1950: Hankyu and Taiyo infielder Ikumasa Oshima is born. |
| 1947: Toei pitcher Yoshimichi Kawasaki is born. |
| 1943: Hanshin and Nishitetsu pitcher Etsuo Nakai is born. |
| 1940: Sankei infielder Kesanori Kurashima is born. |
| 1937: Taiyo outfielder Kiichiro Imaizumi is born. |
| 1932: Hankyu pitcher Kazuhiro Nagata is born. |
| 1930: Kintetsu pitcher Hidemitsu Kagawa is born. |
| 1925: Yomiuri outfielder Wally Yonamine is born. |
| 2007: Former Nankai and Osaka Tigers infielder Toshio Kawanishi dies of kidney failure at age 87. |
| 1999: Daimai, Hankyu and Nankai outfielder Sukehiro Moroki dies at age 65. |
| 1986: The Yakult Swallows win their 2000th game in franchise history since coming into the league in 1950. |
| 1984: Yakult pitcher Yuhei Takai is born. |
| 1979: Chunichi infielder Michihisa Sawai is born. |
| 1971: Lotte pitcher Chris Roberts is born. |
| 1960: In a highly amusing incident, Yomiuri third baseman Shigeo Nagashima gets caught in between second and third while running from first on a fly ball to left that is caught and he runs straight across the diamond back to first without rerounding second base and is called out during a game with Hiroshima. |
| 1959: In the first game ever attended by a Japanese emperor, Yomiuri third baseman Shigeo Nagashima cranks a fifth inning homer off of Hanshin pitcher Masaaki Koyama to tie the game up and then wins it in the ninth with a walkoff jack just inside the leftfield foul pole in the bottom of the ninth at Korakuen Stadium in one of themost celebrated moments in Japanese baseball annals. It is also the first time ever in which Sadaharu Oh and Nagashima go yard in the same game. |
| 1957: Chunichi infielder Katsushi Osada is born. |
| 1956: Yakult pitcher Sueki Harada is born. |
| 1955: Nippon Ham pitcher Kunihiko Ishii is born. |
| 1953: The Daiei Stars and Kintetsu deadlock at 4-4 after 22 innings at Korakuen Stadium. It is a then Pacific League record. |
| 1951: Yomiuri pitcher Toshiyuki Nakayama is born. |
| 1948: Kintetsu infielder Shunzo Arakawa is born. |
| 1945: Kintetsu infielder Katsutoshi Sano is born. |
| 1945: Sankei infielder Makoto Kobayashi is born. |
| 1941: Nippon Ham and Lotte pitcher Takeaki Yamasaki is born. |
| 1940: Kokutetsu pitcher Kozo Hine is born. Hine never saw any action with the top team, but he did sire gender bending singer Izam. |
| 1934: Daiei Stars and Tokyo Orions infielder Takao Yato is born. |
| 1929: Taiyo outfielder Hisao Iribe is born. |
| 1921: Tokyo Giants catcher Tomoyuki Ohashi is born. |
| 2006: Nippon Ham sends pitcher Akio Shimizu and infielder Kuniyuki Kimoto to Orix in exchange for pitchers Jun Hagiwara and Tatsuo Kato. |
| 2005: Rakuten pitcher Hisashi Aikyo makes the 95th appearance of his career in a game against Seibu and still has yet to be named the loser, a new pro yakyu record. |
| 2002: It is announced that Chunichi has signed Cuban infielder Omar Linares. |
| 1982: Kintetsu and Rakuten catcher Masashi Chikazawa is born. |
| 1981: Hanshin infielder Takashi Toritani is born. |
| 1979: Seibu pitcher Tomoki Sato is born. |
| 1979: Yomiuri infielder Luis Gonzalez is born. |
| 1972: Nippon Ham pitcher Ryuji Minami is born. |
| 1971: Seibu outfielder Greg Blosser is born. |
| 1965: Lotte pitcher Yoshitomo Higa is born. |
| 1961: Hiroshima and Nippon Ham pitcher Michio Nabeya is born. |
| 1956: Yomiuri, Nippon Ham and Yakult pitcher Mitsuo Sumi is born. |
| 1941: Nishitetsu outfielder Mamoru Miyoshi is born. |
| 1923: Asahi infielder Kenichi Kageura is born. |
| 2005: Former Hanshin infielder Goro Toi dies of lung cancer at age age 65. |
| 2005: Orix announces the acquistions of pitcher Josh Stewart and infielder Randall Simon. |
| 2001: Yakult beats Yokohama at Meiji Jingu Stadium for its 3,000th win as a franchise dating back to 1950. Yakult closer Shingo Takatsu registers his 200th career save point as well. |
| 1999: Chunichi outfielder Ryoichi Mizuno dies at age 81. |
| 1982: Nippon Ham pitcher Kazumasa Kikuchi is born. |
| 1979: Orix outfielder Takashi Hida is born. |
| 1969: Nippon Ham and Hanshin infielder Atsushi Kataoka is born. |
| 1966: Hanshin, Kintetsu and Chunichi outfielder Akihiro Shimada is born. |
| 1964: Hanshin and Chunichi pitcher Takashi Inomata is born. |
| 1963: Orix pitcher Tsutomu Sakai is born. |
| 1962: Hankyu, Nishi Nihon and Nishitetsu outfielder Yukichi Nagatoshi dies at age 41. |
| 1959: Yomiuri, Nankai and Hanshin outfielder Nobuyoshi Suzuki is born. |
| 1956: Yomiuri, Chunichi and Orix pitcher Takashi Nishimoto isborn. |
| 1952: Hankyu infielder Bump Wills is born. |
| 1950: Hiroshima and Nippon Ham infielder Toshimi Kubo is born. |
| 1937: Hiroshima catcher Koji Nishiyama is born. |
| 1936: Tombo pitcher Yukio Kawada is born. |
| 1934: Kokutetsu pitcher Terukatsu Tashiro is born. |
| 1925: Hanshin and Mainichi outfielder Hideo Komata is born. |
| 1923: Hanshin pitcher Ryoichi Ishifuro is born. |
| 1918: Osaka Tigers pitcher Toshio Kameda is born. |
| 1914: Tokyo Senators and Nishitetsu catcher Mitsuo Kitaura is born. |
| 2006: Yomiuri loses its 17th game of the month, setting a new team record and becoming the last of the 12 pro clubs to do that sometime in its history. In addition, they also lost their eighth straight for the second time that season, the first time that has ever happened to a Central League team. Simultaneous with that, they sign infielder George Arias. |
| 2005: Yomiuri announces the acquistion of Taiwanese pitcher Chiang Chien-ming. |
| 1987: Seibu outfielder Koji Akiyama homers against Nippon Ham for his 22nd roundtripper of the year and finishes off his tour of the bases with a backflip to home plate, a move that, while he did it infrequently, became something of a trademark for him. |
| 1986: Yakult pitcher Takashi Maruyama is born. |
| 1979: Hankyu outfielder Bernie Williams belts the 40,000th homer in Japanese baseball history. |
| 1976: Kintetsu and Rakuten outfielder Kenshi Kawaguchi is born. |
| 1976: Nippon Ham pitcher Ryuhei Endo is born. |
| 1965: Hanshin pitcher Gene Bacque throws a no hitter against Yomiuri at Koshien Stadium in a 7-0 victory. |
| 1964: Daiei outfielder Kevin Reimer is born. |
| 1961: Seibu, Yomiuri and Lotte outfielder Yoshihiro Nishioka is born. |
| 1960: Orix infielder Junichi Fukura is born. |
| 1958: Orix infielder Yujiro Yumioka is born. |
| 1957: Chunichi and Nankai pitcher Hisato Aoyama is born. |
| 1956: Nankai outfielder Raihatsu Lee is born. |
| 1952: Hiroshima pitcher Kojiro Ikegaya is born. |
| 1952: Kokutetsu pitcher Masaichi Kaneda strikes out 15 against Shochiku at Osaka Stadium to tie a then pro yakyu record. |
| 1950: Yomiuri pitcher Hideo Fujimoto throws the first perfect game in Japanese history against Nishi Nihon at Aomori Municipal Stadium in a 4-0 victory. |
| 1946: Yomiuri hitting great Tetsuharu Kawakami returns to action after spending the initial months after the war tending to the family farm in Kumamoto. |
| 1944: Nankai infielder Tadao Yamamoto is born. |
| 1944: Hanshin infielder Hal Breeden is born. |
| 1943: Yomiuri and Lotte infielder Keisuke Senda is born. |
| 1943: Toei outfielder Susumu Sakudo is born. |
| 1942: Yomiuri infielder Shozo Doi is born. |
| 1937: Hankyu infielder Cal Emery is born. |
| 1935: Toei catcher Junzo Ando is born. |
| 1910: Yomiuri and Taiyo outfielder Haruyasu Nakajima is born. |
| 2005: Yokohama outfielder Hitoshi Tamura is involved in an auto accident in Kanagawa Prefecture and is injured. He would be out for a month. He was also deemed responsible for causing the collision by police. |
| 1990: Lotte rookie outfielder Hiroyasu Hayashi slugs a homer in his first pro at bat, becoming just the fourth first year man right out of high school to do that in Japanese history and the 27th player overall. |
| 1984: Orix infielder Keiji Obiki is born. |
| 1979: Yokohama pitcher Kuniyuki Taniguchi is born. |
| 1978: Yakult pitcher Masahiro Yoshikawa is born. |
| 1973: Daiei outfielder Pedro Valdez is born. |
| 1973: Orix infielder Makoto Shiozaki is born. |
| 1970: Chunichi infielder Hiroyuki Watanabe is born. |
| 1964: Hanshin pitcher Susumu Mikoshiba is born. |
| 1960: Daimai extends its winning streak to 18 games to tie a Japan record. |
| 1959: Yakult pitcher Yuichi Goto is born. |
| 1948: Nankai infielder Noriyoshi Yabe is born. |
| 1945: Taiyo outfielder Masayuki Nakatsuka is born. |
| 1939: Nishitetsu infielder Seisaku Ueda is born. |
| 1937: Yomiuri pitcher Tsunetoshi Nakamura is born. |
| 1936: Daiei Stars infielder Sachio Kimura is born. |
| 1935: Nankai, Lotte and Seibu catcher Katsuya Nomura is born. |
| 1934: Yomiuri and Kintetsu outfielder Minoru Kakurai is born. |
| 1928: Daimai catcher Nick Testa is born. |
| 2006: During a game between Yakult and Yokohama at Yokohama Stadium, the two sides combine for 13 doubles, a new Central League record and it tied the pro yakyu mark. |
| 2006: Chunichi third baseman Kazuyoshi Tatsunami ties a pro yakyu record with his fifth career five hit outing in a game with Hiroshima at Nagoya Dome. |
| 2006: Yomiuri drops its tenth straight game in a loss to Hanshin, the first time that they experienced that kind of tailspin in 31 years. It was only the second time the Giants had suffered that kind of ill fate in their history. |
| 1984: Hanshin pitcher Keiji Uezono is born. |
| 1969: Yokohama pitcher Hiroki Nomura is born. |
| 1963: Lotte pitcher Joji Tago is born. |
| 1962: Seibu infielder Tony Fernandez is born. |
| 1949: Hanshin pitcher Kazuyuki Yamamoto is born. |
| 1945: Kintetsu outfielder Takashi Wakisaka is born. |
| 1944: Hiroshima and Nippon Ham infielder Makoto Kamigochi is born. |
| 1943: Lotte and Yakult infielder Yoshiaki Shinohara is born. |
| 1935: Hankyu, Hiroshima and Yomiuri pitcher Yusaku Akimoto is born. |
| 1933: Yakult and Kintetsu outfielder Dave Roberts is born. |
| 1933: Hiroshima pitcher Moritake Sakakibara isborn. |
| 1929: Mainichi, Takahashi, Daiei Stars and Daimai pitcher Yoshihiko Taki is born. |
| 1921: Asahi, Pacific, Taiyo, Goldstar, Daiei and Hankyu catcher Masumi Isekawa is born. |
| 1920: Nankai catcher Tadashi Mimura is born. |