Cleveland Stadium

==Records and milestones==
*July 1, 1931 – Dedication
*July 3, 1931 – Opening event: World Heavyweight Championship boxing match between [[Max Schmeling]] and [[Young Stribling]], with 37,000 fans in attendance.
*July 31, 1932 – First Cleveland Indians game, vs. Philadelphia Athletics (loss, 1–0); pitched by [[Mel Harder]]<ref name="Harder1">{{cite book |last=Fox|first=John L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HiwDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA80 |title=I Pitched Opening Game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium|work=Baseball Digest|date=September 1993|page=82|access-date=July 19, 2010}}</ref>
*December 16, 1945 – The Cleveland Rams [[1945 NFL Championship Game|defeated the Washington Redskins]] 15–14, to win the NFL championship. Twenty-seven days later the Rams moved to Los Angeles.
*December 24, 1950 – The Browns defeated the [[Los Angeles Rams]] 30–28 in the [[1950 NFL Championship Game]].
*December 28, 1952 – The [[Detroit Lions]] defeated the Browns 17–7 in the [[1952 NFL Championship Game]].
*September 12, 1954 – A league record 84,587 people attended a Yankees-Indians game.
*December 26, 1954 - The Browns defeated the Lions 56–10 in the [[1954 NFL Championship Game]].
*April 19, 1960 – The Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians played 15 innings on Opening Day, tying the record for the longest Opening-Day game.
*June 17, 1960 – [[Ted Williams]] hits his 500th career home run.
*December 27, 1964 – The Browns defeated the [[Indianapolis Colts|Baltimore Colts]] 27–0 in the [[1964 NFL Championship Game]].
*August 14, 1966 – [[The Beatles]] performed at the stadium.
*June 21, 1970 – Detroit's [[César Gutiérrez]] got seven hits in seven at bats in 12 innings.
*September 21, 1970 - The first ever Monday Night Football game was played, with the Browns defeating the New York Jets.
*June 4, 1974 – [[Ten Cent Beer Night]]: The Indians hosted the [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]] while promoting unlimited beer for $.10/cup for the fans in order to attract fans to the stadium. Due to the rowdiness of the intoxicated fans, the Indians were forced to [[Forfeit (baseball)|forfeit]] the game.
*April 8, 1975 - MLB First Black Manager:  Hall-of-Famer Frank Robinson made his debut as the first black manager in the history of Major League Baseball.  Robinson, in the latter stages of his career, had been acquired as a player in the last month of the previous season.  He served that Opening Day as a player-manager, hitting a home run to add to the historic day, helping lead the Indians to a 5–3 win over the Yankees before over 56,000 fans.
*June 25, 1977 – 83,199 people attended a concert by the British rock group [[Pink Floyd]].
*January 4, 1981 – The Browns lost their divisional playoff game against the [[Oakland Raiders]] when an [[interception]] occurred during a play called [[Red Right 88]]. The Browns only needed a field goal to take the lead but had an ailing [[placekicker|kicker]].
*May 15, 1981 – [[Len Barker's perfect game]]: [[Len Barker]] pitched the tenth [[Perfect game (baseball)|perfect game]] in baseball history
*August 21, 1986 – Boston's [[Spike Owen]] tied a Major League record by scoring six runs
*January 11, 1987 – [[The Drive (American football)|The Drive]]: In one of Cleveland's many sports disappointments, [[John Elway]] led the [[Denver Broncos]] 98 yards down the field for the tying score late in the [[1986–87 NFL playoffs#AFC: Denver Broncos 23, Cleveland Browns 20 (OT)|AFC Championship Game]]. Denver won in overtime, 23–20, earning the right to play in [[Super Bowl XXI]]
*September 2, 1990 – Toronto's [[Dave Stieb]] pitched the first [[no-hitter]] in franchise history
*October 3, 1993 – Last Cleveland Indians game, vs. [[Chicago White Sox]] (loss, 4–0)
*December 17, 1995 – Last Cleveland Browns game, vs. [[Cincinnati Bengals]] (win, 26–10)
*December 3, 1996 – Stadium catches fire during demolition
*March 1, 1997 – Demolition completed