This photo is colorized -- or "colourised" -- but it's real.
April 30, 1927: Newcastle United, under manager Frank Watt, defeat their North-East England arch-rivals, Sunderland, 1-0 at St. James Park, and clinch the Football League title.
It is the 4th title won by "The Toon" (that's "The Town" in Geordiespeak), "The Geordies" (a nickname for people from the Newcastle area, and from the North-East in general), or "The Magpies" (for their black and white stripes). They have never won another.
Among their players was halfback Tom Curry, who would later be the trainer for Manchester United, and was killed in the Munich Air Disaster of 1958; and the great Scottish forward Hughie Gallacher, whose life would end in a very different kind of tragedy the year before, driven to suicide by an easily avoidable scandal. As far as I can tell (a lot of these guys seemed to "disappear into history"), the last survivor was outside right Jimmy Boyd, who lived until 1991.
Newcastle won the League in 1905, 1907, 1909 and 1927. Infamously, they blew a big lead in 1996, and finished 2nd that season, and again in 1997. They won the FA Cup in 1910, 1924, 1932, 1951, 1952 and 1955; losing in the Final in 1905, 1906, 1908, 1911, 1974, 1998 and 1999. They lost the Final of the League Cup in 1976. In 1969, they won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, now known as the UEFA Europa League.
Since then, they have only won minor trophies: The 1973 Anglo-Italian Cup, the 1974 and 1975 Texaco Cup, and the 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup. Why are these trophies considered "minor"? They already were at the time, but they have all been discontinued: The Texaco Cup after Newcastle's win in 1975, the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1996, and the Intertoto Cup in 2008.
UPDATE: Newcastle again lost the League Cup Final in 2023, but won it in 2025, their 1st major trophy since 1969.
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April 30, 1927 was a Saturday. These baseball games were played:
* The New York Yankees lost to the Boston Red Sox, 3-2 at Fenway Park in Boston. Hal Wiltse outpitched Urban Shocker. Babe Ruth went 2-for-3 with a walk. Lou Gehrig went 0-for-4.
* The New York Giants beat the Boston Braves, 8-7 at the Polo Grounds. The Giants had a 6-1 lead after 4 innings, but blew it, trailing 7-6 going to the bottom of the 9th. Andy Reese led off with a single, Edd Roush walked, Rogers Hornsby singled Reese home, Bill Terry bunted the runners over, George Harper was intentionally walked, and Doc Farrell singled Roush home with the winning run.
* The Brooklyn Robins (as the Dodgers were known from 1914 to 1931, in honor of manager Wilbert Robinson) beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1 at Ebbets Field. Jesse Petty outpitched Hal Carlson.
Harper went 3-for-4 with a home run and 4 RBIs, plus that walk. Hornsby went 1-for-3 with 2 walks and an RBI. Terry went 1-for-3 with a walk.
* The Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5-4 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. The Cubs scored 2 in the 8th to tie the game, the Bucs 1 in the 8th to retake the lead, then the Cubs 2 more in the 9th to win it, on a home run by Lewis "Hack" Wilson.
* The Cleveland Indians beat the Detroit Tigers, 6-2 at Navin Field (later Briggs Stadium and Tiger Stadium) in Detroit.
* The Chicago White Sox beat the St. Louis Browns, 2-0 at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Ted Blankenship pitched a 4-hit shutout. George Sisler went 1-for-3 with a walk.
* A doubleheader was split at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. The St. Louis Cardinals won the opener, 8-4. Jesse Haines outpitched Eppa Rixey. The Cincinnati Reds won the nightcap, 9-8. Frankie Frisch hit 2 home runs, but it wasn't enough.
* And the Philadelphia Athletics and the Washington Senators were rained out at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. The game was made up as part of a doubleheader on June 21. The Senators won the 1st game, 5-4. Hollis Thurston didn't finish the 5th inning, but, under the rules of the time, was credited as the winning pitcher. For the A's, Eddie Rommel didn't get an out in the 3rd inning. Jimmie Foxx only appeared as a pinch-hitter, and struck out. He did not appear in the 2nd game.
The A's won the 2nd game, 8-2. Rube Walberg went the distance, outpitching Walter Johnson. Despite it being his last season, Johnson also pitched a complete game, and went 1-for-2 with a walk and both Senator RBIs.
Over the 2 games, for the A's, Al Simmons went 3-for-9 with an RBI, Mickey Cochrane went 1-for-6 with a walk, former Brooklyn star Zack Wheat went 4-for-9 with 2 RBIs, and former Detroit star Ty Cobb did not appear in either game. For the Senators, player-manager Bucky Harris went 2-for-8, former Boston and Cleveland star Tris Speaker went 1-for-7 with 2 RBIs (on a sacrifice fly and a groundout), and Goose Goslin went 2-for-8.
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