On this day in sports: May 17

1. 1859 Members of the Melbourne Football Club codify the first rules of Australian rules football. Source
2. 1875 Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby with the jockey Oliver Lewis (2:37.75). Source
3. 1939 The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City. Source
4. 1990 Born: Will Clyburn, American basketball player Source
5. 1995 Died: Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1912) Source
6. 2011 Died: Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1936) Source

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