• January 9, 1903 - Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase Baltimore franchise of American League and move team to New York City. Cost is $18,000. • March 12, 1903 - New York Highlanders approved as members of American League. • April 22, 1903 - Highlanders lose opener at Washington, 3-1, under manager Clark Griffith. • April 30, 1903 - Highlanders win home opener at Hilltop Park (168th St. and Broadway), 6-2 over Washington. • April, 1913 - Highlanders change name to Yankees, move to share Polo Grounds with Giants. • January 11, 1915 - Col. Jacob Ruppert and Col. Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston purchase Yankees for $460,000. • April 22, 1915 - Pinstripes first appear on Yankee uniforms. The 1920s • January 3, 1920 - Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox. • October 29, 1920 - Ed Barrow is appointed general manager of the Yankees. • September, 1921 - Yankees clinch first American League pennant. • May 5, 1922 - Construction begins on Yankee Stadium. • May 21, 1922 - Ruppert buys out Huston for $1,500,000. • April 18, 1923 - Yankee Stadium opens, Ruth hits first home run. • October 15, 1923 - Yankees beat Giants for first World Championship. • June 1, 1925 - Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp at first base. • September 30, 1927 - Ruth's record 60th home run caps off season for "Murderers' Row" Yankees. • April, 1928 - Season opens with left-field stands in Stadium enlarged. • April 16, 1929 - Yankees become the first team to wear uniform numbers. • September 25, 1929 - Manager Miller Huggins dies. The 1930s • April 12, 1931 - Joe McCarthy debuts as Yankee manager. • July 14, 1934 - Ruth hits 700th career home run. • November 21, 1934 - Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco (Pacific Coast League). • April, 1937 - Season opens, right-field stands in Stadium enlarged. • May 30, 1938 - Record 81,841 attend doubleheader vs Boston. • January 13, 1939 - Col. Ruppert dies. • May 2, 1939 - Lou Gehrig's playing streak of 2,130 consecutive games ends. • July 4, 1939 - Lou Gehrig Day, his uniform is the first to be retired. The 1940s • May 15, 1941 - DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak begins. • June 2, 1941 - Lou Gehrig dies at age 37. • July 17, 1941 - DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland. • January 25, 1945 - Dan Topping, Del Webb and Larry MacPhail purchase Yankees for $2,800,000. • May 28, 1946 - First night game played in Yankee Stadium. • April 27, 1947 - Babe Ruth Day. • June 13, 1948 - Ruth's uniform number is retired. • August 16, 1948 - Babe Ruth dies at age 53. • October 12, 1948 - George Weiss brings Casey Stengel to New York as manager. The 1950s • April 17, 1951 - Mickey Mantle makes Yankee debut. • December 12, 1951 - Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement. • April, 1953 - Stadium sold to Earl and Arnold Johnson of Kansas City. • April 17, 1953 - Mantle hits 565-foot home run in Washington. • October 5, 1953 - Yankees win record fifth consecutive World Championship. • January 29, 1955 - John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962). • October 8, 1956 - Don Larsen hurls only perfect game in World Series history. • April, 1959 - First message scoreboard unveiled at Yankee Stadium. The 1960s • October 1, 1961 - Roger Maris' 61st home run establishes new record. • June 24, 1962 - Jack Reed's 22nd-inning HR wins longest Yankee game in history. • November 2, 1964 - CBS purchases 80% of Yankees for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20%. • Winter, 1966-67 - Yankee Stadium painted blue and white. • June 8, 1969 - Mickey Mantle's uniform number retired on Mickey Mantle Day. The 1970s • August 8, 1972 - Yankees sign 30-year lease to play in remodeled Yankee Stadium, beginning in 1976. • January 3, 1973 - A limited partnership, headed by George Steinbrenner III as its managing general partner, purchases the Yankees from CBS. • September 30, 1973 - Yankees complete 50th Anniversary season at Stadium; Ralph Houk resigns as manager. • April 6, 1974 - Yankees begin first of two seasons at Shea Stadium, play first home game outside Yankee Stadium since 1922. • December 31, 1974 - Free agent Catfish Hunter signs record 5-year contract. • August 1, 1975 - Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager. • April 15, 1976 - Remodeled Yankee Stadium opens. • October 14, 1976 - Chris Chambliss' 9th-inning HR gives Yankees their 30th pennant. • November 29, 1976 - Yankees sign free agent Reggie Jackson to 5-year contract. • October 18, 1977 - The Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games to 2, over the Los Angeles Dodgers - Reggie Jackson hits 3 HR. • January 13, 1978 - Joe McCarthy dies at age 90. • July 24, 1978 - Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager. • July 25, 1978 - Yankees name Bob Lemon as manager. • July 29, 1978 - On Old Timer's Day, Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as Yankee manager in 1980, when Bob Lemon will become general manager. • October 2, 1978 - Yankees, at one point in the season 14 games behind Boston, beat the Red Sox, 5-4 in Fenway Park, in only the second playoff game in American League history. • October 17, 1978 - Yankees beat Dodgers for their 22nd World Championship. • June 18, 1979 - Billy Martin returns as Yankee manager, replacing Bob Lemon. • August 2, 1979 - Thurman Munson dies in plane crash at age 32. • October 28, 1979 - Dick Howser is named Yankee manager, replacing Billy Martin. The 1980s • September 20, 1980 - Bronze plaque for left field memorial park is dedicated to the memory of Thurman Munson. • October 5, 1980 - Yankees finish season with a then-American League attendance record of 2,627,417, breaking record set in 1948 by Cleveland Indians. • November 21, 1980 - Gene Michael is named 25th Yankee manager, replacing Dick Howser, who resigns. • December 15, 1980 - Free agent Dave Winfield signs record long-term contract. • September 6, 1981 - Bob Lemon named Yankee manager for second time. • October 15, 1981 - Yankees capture 33rd American League pennant, sweeping 3 games from the Oakland A's. • April 26, 1982 - Gene Michael becomes Yankee manager for second time. • August 3, 1982 - Clyde King named Yankee manager. • January 11, 1983 - Billy Martin named Yankee manager for third time. • June 20, 1983 - Bobby Murcer retires. • July 4, 1983 - Dave Righetti pitches no-hit win over Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. • August 7, 1983 - Bobby Murcer Day. • December 16, 1983 - Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for second time. • August 5, 1984 - Lou Piniella Day. • September 30, 1984 - Don Mattingly wins A.L. batting title with .343 BA. • April 28, 1985 - Billy Martin named Yankee manager for fourth time. • July 13, 1985 - Uniform numbers retired for Roger Maris (9) and Elston Howard (32). • August 4, 1985 - Phil Rizzuto Day, his uniform number 10 retired. • October 17, 1985 - Lou Piniella named Yankee manager. • December 14, 1985 - Roger Maris dies at age 51. • August 10, 1986 - Billy Martin Day, his uniform number 1 retired. • July 18, 1987 - Don Mattingly homers off Texas' Jose Guzman to tie Dale Long's Major League record of hitting a home run in 8 consecutive games. • September 29, 1987 - Don Mattingly hits a grand slam off Boston's Bruce Hurst, setting a Major League record with 6 grand slams in a season. • October 19, 1987 - Woody Woodward resigns as general manager, Lou Piniella is named general manager, and Billy Martin is named Yankee manager for fifth time. • October 7, 1988 - Dallas Green named Yankee manager. • December 9, 1988 - Yankees sign 12-year television contract with Madison Square Garden Network. • July 12, 1989 - Ron Guidry retires. • August 18, 1989 - Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as Yankee manager. • October 13, 1989 - Bob Quinn resigns as vice president and general manager. Harding Peterson named vice president and general manager. • December 25, 1989 - Billy Martin dies at age 61. The 1990s • June 6, 1990 - Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as Yankee manager. • July 1, 1990 - Andy Hawkins throws no-hitter in old Comiskey Park, losing 4-0. • August 20, 1990 - Gene Michael named vice president and general manager, replacing Harding Peterson. • September 13, 1990 - Robert E. Nederlander appointed managing general partner. • October 29, 1991 - Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as Yankee manager. • December 31, 1991 - Daniel R. McCarthy elected managing general partner. • March 22, 1992 - Joseph A. Molloy elected general partner. • September 4, 1993 - Jim Abbott pitches 4-0, no-hit win over Indians at Yankee Stadium. • February 25, 1994 - Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee, inducted on July 31. • April 4, 1994 - Opening Day crowd of 56,706 is the largest Opening Day Crowd in Yankee history and the largest regular-season crowd at new Yankee Stadium. • August 9, 1994 - Phil Rizzuto Hall of Fame Night. • August 12, 1994 - Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike. • September 14, 1994 - Owners of the 28 Major League teams vote to cancel the remainder of the 1994 season, the Division Series, the League Championship Series and the World Series. • December 23, 1994 - Major League Baseball, at an impasse in labor negotiations with the players' union, implemented a revenue-sharing plan and salary cap proposal that would provide the players with 50 percent of baseball revenue. • August 13, 1995 - Mickey Mantle dies at age 63. • September 6, 1995 - Baltimore's Cal Ripken, Jr. plays in his 2,131 st consecutive game, breaking Lou Gehrig's major League record. • October 23, 1995 - Bob Watson named general manager, replacing Gene Michael. • November 2, 1995 - Joe Torre named the Yankees' 31st manager, replacing Buck Showalter. • May 14, 1996 - Dwight Gooden hurls 8th regular-season no-hitter in Yankee history, a 2-0 blanking of the Seattle Mariners at Yankee Stadium. • August 25, 1996 - Monument in honor of Mickey Mantle unveiled in Yankee Stadium's Monument Park. • October 26, 1996 - Yankees overcome a 2-games-to-none deficit to the Atlanta Braves and capture their 23rd World Championship in six games. • August 31, 1997 - Don Mattingly Day, his uniform number (23) retired.