TODAY'S EVENTS IN SPORTS HISTORY 2024

AUGUST 7

• 1903 Tommy Corcoran sets MLB record for shortstops when he records 14 assists in Cincinnati's 4 - 2 win v St. Louis Cardinals

Walter Johnson's 1st Win
1907 MLB Washington Senators legendary pitcher Walter Johnson wins first of his 416 career wins, 7-2 v Cleveland


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

• 1915 Dario Resta, driving a Peugeot, wins the first Champ Car race ever to average over 100mph at a 100-mile race in Chicago; average speed 101.8mph

Moeskops Wins 1st Sprint Championship
1921 Dutch cyclist Piet Moeskops wins the 1st of 4 straight, and 5 total world sprint championships when he beats defending champion Bob Spears of Australia in Copenhagen


Track CyclistPiet Moeskops
Ruth Ties Record
1929 NY Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games for the second time in a 13-1 win against the Philadelphia Athletics


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1936 A Finnish quinella in the 5,000m final at the Berlin Olympics; Gunnar Höckert runs an Olympic record to beat teammate Lauri Lehtinen
• 1936 Argentina wins the polo gold medal beating Great Britain 11-0 in the final at the Berlin Olympics; final time the sport is contested at the Olympics
• 1936 Twenty-two nations line-up as the first basketball competition in the Olympics Games starts in Berlin; Estonia beats France 34-29 in the first game

2,000th Brooklyn Dodgers HR
1938 2,000th Brooklyn Dodgers home run: legendary shortstop Leo Durocher homers off Reds hurler Peaches Davis in 8th inning of a 6-3 win


Baseball Player and ManagerLeo Durocher

• 1948 American Alice Coachman becomes the first black woman from any country to win an Olympic gold medal when she takes out the high jump at the London Games
• 1948 American swimmer Jimmy McLane wins the 1,500m for his 2nd gold medal at the London Olympics (4 x 200m freestyle relay); marks a US clean sweep of every men's swimming gold medal at the Games
• 1948 Delfo Cabrera of Argentina wins dramatic marathon in 2:34:51.6 at the London Olympics
• 1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands wins her 4th track & field gold medal of the London Olympics as part of the Dutch 4 x 100m relay team in 47.5
• 1948 Swedish race walker John Mikaelsson wins the gold medal in the 10k event by 30.6 seconds from teammate Ingemar Johansson at the London Olympics
• 1950 Tour de France: Ferdi Kübler becomes first Swiss rider to win Tour; Louison Bobet of France wins mountain classification

Sports History
1954 Englishman Roger Bannister beats Australia’s John Landy in the mile at the Empire Games in Vancouver; first time 2 men run sub-4 minute mile in the same race


Middle-Distance RunnerRoger Bannister

Satchel Paige
1956 51-year-old Satchel Paige (Miami Marlins) wins a game before the largest crowd in minor league history, 57,000 at Miami’s Orange Bowl; International League: Marlins 6-2 v Columbus Jets


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherSatchel Paige
Williams Fined for Spitting
1956 Boston Red Sox fine slugger Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at heckling Boston fans, third incident in 3 weeks


Baseball PlayerTed Williams
Palmer's 20th PGA Win
1960 Arnold Palmer's 20th PGA Tour win; rallies from a 5-stroke deficit to enter a playoff, then beats Jack Fleck and Bill Collins to win the Insurance City Open


GolferArnold Palmer

• 1964 31st NFL Chicago College All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 - 65,000 at Soldier Field
• 1970 First all-computer chess championship is conducted in New York and won by CHESS 3.0 (CDC 6400), a program written by Slate, Atkin & Gorlen at Northwestern University

Baseball Hall of Fame
1972 Yogi Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez, Early Wynn, Josh Gibson, Will Harridge, Buck Leonard & Ross Youngs are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame


MLB Catcher and ManagerYogi Berra

Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax

Negro League Baseball LegendJosh Gibson

• 1978 Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss and Larry MacPhail are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY

Waitz Wins Marathon
1983 Grete Waitz of Norway wins inaugural women's marathon at the 1st world athletics championships in Helsinki, Finland


Long Distance RunnerGrete Waitz
PGA Championship
1983 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Riviera CC: Hal Sutton wins his only major title by 1 stroke from Jack Nicklaus


GolferJack Nicklaus

• 1984 Japan beats US, 6-3 in the final of the Los Angeles Olympic baseball demonstration event
• 1984 The US collects its first Olympic gold medal in women's basketball history with a 85-55 win over South Korea in the final at the LA Games
• 1986 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina
• 1987 Javed Miandad becomes first to score 6,000 Test runs for Pakistan as he cracks 260 in drawn 5th Test v England at The Oval
• 1988 Future Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Delahoussaye wins his 4,000th career race aboard 2-year-old filly Fawn and Hahn in the 4th race at Del Mar

Americans Set Relay Record
1991 American team of Carl Lewis, Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell & Dennis Mitchell set 4 x 100m relay world record of 37.67 seconds in Zürich, Switzerland


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

• 1992 San Francisco Giants announce sale of MLB franchise to group of Tampa Bay investors; move blocked by other investors
• 1992 Taking advantage of 6 months training on home town Terrassa pitch, Spain wins their first hockey gold medal beating Germany 2-1 in the women's final at the Barcelona Olympics

Orlando Signs Shaq
1992 The Orlando Magic signs NBA No. 1 draft pick Shaquille O'Neal


Basketball PlayerShaquille O'Neal
Wade Boggs Record HR
1999 Tampa Bay 3rd baseman Wade Boggs becomes the first MLB player to hit a home run for his 3,000th hit in Devil Rays' 15-10 loss to Cleveland Indians


Baseball PlayerWade Boggs
Jerry West Retires
2000 Los Angeles Lakers announce retirement of former star player and Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations Jerry West; name Mitch Kupchak to succeed him


NBA GuardJerry West
Greg Maddux
2004 Cubs pitcher Greg Maddux enters the history books with his 300th career win in the Chicago's 8-4 triumph v San Francisco at SBC Park


MLB Pitching LegendGreg Maddux
Justin Gatlin
2005 American sprinter Justin Gatlin blitzes field to win 100m in 9.88 at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland


SprinterJustin Gatlin

• 2005 In one of cricket history's closest Tests, and despite a brave unbeaten 43 from Australian tail-ender Brett Lee, England sneaks a 2-run win in series turning 2nd Test at Edgbaston

Bonds Breaks Aaron Record
2007 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to break Hank Aaron's long-standing MLB record


MLB LegendBarry Bonds

• 2010 Hampered by a back injury Indian cricket batsman VVS Laxman scores a brave, unbeaten 103 to guide India to a 5 wicket win v Sri Lanka in Colombo; draw series

Baseball Hall of Fame
2010 Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith, John Randle, Russ Grimm, Rickey Jackson, Floyd Little & Dick LeBeau are inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame


American Football PlayerEmmitt Smith

NFL LegendJerry Rice
Katie Ledecky Wins Record Gold
2016 American swimmer Katie Ledecky sets a new world record with a time of 3:56.46 to win the gold medal in the women's 400m freestyle at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics


SwimmerKatie Ledecky
Adam Peaty's Gold Record
2016 British swimmer Adam Peaty records a world record 57.13 to win the gold medal in the men's 100m breaststroke at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics

Jim Furyk
2016 Jim Furyk fires 12-under-par 58 in final round of the Travelers Championship at TPC at River Highlands, Cromwell, Connecticut, becoming 1st player to shoot 58 in a PGA Tour event and 1st PGA Tour pro to card 2 sub-60 rounds


GolferJim Furyk
Suzuki Joins 3,000 Club
2016 Miami Marlins veteran Japanese outfielder Ichiro Suzuki becomes the 30th member of the 3,000 hit club in a 10 - 7 win v Rockies

• 2016 Sarah Sjöström of Sweden breaks world record in 55.48 to win the gold medal in the women's 100m butterfly at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics

Phelps Record 19th Gold
2016 United States men's 4 × 100m freestyle relay team wins the final in 3:09.92 at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Michael Phelps' record 19th Olympic gold medal


SwimmerMichael Phelps

• 2017 England breaks 19-year drought in home Test cricket series against South Africa; beat Proteas by 177 in 4th Test at Old Trafford; Moeen Ali 75no and 5/69
• 2021 As part of the winning American 4×400m relay team in Tokyo, Allyson Felix takes her total to 11 Olympic medals; becomes the most decorated female Olympian in track and field history
• 2021 Dutch athlete Sifan Hassan wins 10,000m gold medal in 29:55.32 at the Tokyo Olympics to claim the 5/10k double
• 2021 Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra makes history winning his country’s first-ever Olympic track and field gold with 87.58m in Tokyo

USA Win Men's Basketball
2021 Kevin Durant with 29 points leads USA to his third and the team's 4th consecutive Olympic men's basketball gold medal with an 87-82 win over France in Tokyo

• 2022 British Open Women's Golf, Muirfield GC: South Africa's Ashleigh Buhai wins her first major title; beats In Gee Chun of South Korea on 4th hole of a sudden death playoff

 

AUGUST 8

• 1870 1st America's Cup: New York Yacht Club’s first defense of America’s Cup; 'Magic' (NYYC) defeats 'Cambria' (Royal Thames YC, England; finishes 8th) and 16 fellow defenders from NY Harbour to Sandy Hook Light Vessel on the Atlantic and return (38 miles)
• 1900 1st International Lawn Tennis Challenge (precursor to Davis Cup) begins at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, won 3-0 by the US over the British Isles
• 1902 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Brooklyn, NY: Malcolm Whitman beats Reginald Doherty 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 to give US a 3-2 win over the British Isles

International Lawn Tennis Challenge

1903 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Boston, MA: Laurence Doherty beats William Larned 6-3, 6-8, 6-0, 2-6, 7-5 to give British Isles an unassailable 3-1 lead over US (ends 4-1)


Tennis PlayerLaurence Doherty

Tennis PlayerWilliam Larned

• 1920 Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
• 1922 Pirates set record of 46 hits in a doubleheader (against Phillies)
• 1930 MLB St Louis Cardinals are 12 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
• 1931 Washington Senators pitcher Bobby Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0 at Griffith Stadium, Washington D. C.
• 1936 A Finnish quinella in the 3,000m steeplechase at the Berlin Olympics; Volmari Iso-Hollo beats teammate Kaarlo Tuominen in world record time (9:03.8)
• 1936 American Glenn Morris' decathlon total of 7,254 points is a world record; teammates Bob Clark & Jack Parker complete US sweep in the gruelling event at the Berlin Olympics
• 1946 Dreyfuss family, owners of MLB Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney and John Galbreath for $25 million

Chadwick Breaks Channel Record
1950 Florence Chadwick swims the English Channel in a record time of 13 hours and 23 minutes [1]


SwimmerFlorence Chadwick

• 1961 Ham Tigercats (CFL) beat Buff Bills (NFL) 38-21 in Hamilton, Ontario

Baseball History
1970 NY Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 (BTG was there)


Baseball Hall of Fame ManagerCasey Stengel

• 1972 NY Yanks sign 30-year lease to play in remodeled Yankee Stadium
• 1976 Chicago White Sox suit up in shorts
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• 1977 Texas Rangers turn their 1st triple play (vs A's)

PGA Championship
1982 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Southern Hills CC: Ray Floyd wins his second PGA C'ship by 3 shots from fellow American Lanny Wadkins


Golfer and Four-Time Major Championship WinnerRay Floyd
1st Athletics World Championship
1983 1st Athletics World Championships: Carl Lewis wins gold in 100m


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

• 1984 Carl Lewis wins 3rd gold medal of the Los Angeles Olympics joining Kirk Baptiste and Thomas Jefferson in an American sweep of the 200m

Coutts Wins Sailing Gold
1984 Future 5-time America's Cup winner Russell Coutts of New Zealand wins the Finn Class sailing gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics


YachtsmanRussell Coutts

• 1984 Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco becomes the first female Olympic champion of a Muslim nation, and the first of her country in the 400m hurdles at the Los Angeles Olympics
• 1985 Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993
• 1987 Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game
• 1988 Cubs & Phillies attempt to play 1st night game ever at Wrigley Field but are rained out in 4th inning with Chicago leading, 3-1
• 1988 Minnesota Twins pull 2nd triple-play of year in 6-2 win over Cleveland

US Senior Golf Open
1988 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Medinah CC: Gary Player of South Africa wins by 2 strokes over New Zealander Bob Charles in an 18-hole playoff; his second straight US Senior title


GolferGary Player

GolferBob Charles

• 1990 Baltimore Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland)

Baseball Record
1990 Carlton Fisk ties Johnny Bench hitting 327 HRs as a catcher


MLB CatcherJohnny Bench
Peter Rise Goes to Jail
1990 MLB manager Pete Rose begins 5-month prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp for filing false income tax returns


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

• 1991 With two months left, White Sox set new home attendance (2,150,951)
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• 1992 Bulgarian canoeist Nikolay Bukhalov completes the C-1 500 / 1,000 double winning the latter at the Barcelona Olympics
• 1992 Fermín Cacho wins Spain's first ever Olympic gold medal in a running event when he takes out the 1,500m at the Barcelona Games
• 1992 Germany goes through the field hockey competition undefeated to win gold with a 2-1 win over Australia in the men's final at the Barcelona Olympics
• 1992 Spanish centre forward Kiko scores twice as the home team takes the football Olympic gold medal with a 3-2 win over Poland in front of 95,000 at Camp Nou, Barcelona

Dream Team Wins Gold
1992 The original US 'Dream Team' wins the basketball gold at the Barcelona Olympics 117-85 over Croatia; features superstars Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Scottie Pippen, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing


NBA LegendMagic Johnson

NBA Power ForwardCharles Barkley

NBA LegendLarry Bird

• 1997 Mariners Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Chicago White Sox

NHL History
2004 John Elway is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame


NFL QuarterbackJohn Elway

• 2008 XXIX Summer Olympic Games open in Beijing, China
• 2015 Argentine winger Juan Imhoff scores 3 tries as Pumas beat South Africa, 37-25 in Rugby Championship match at Durban; Argentina's first ever win against Springboks

Rugby History
2015 Australia clinches first Rugby Championship with 27-19 win over New Zealand in Sydney; All Blacks skipper Richie McCaw equals Irishman Brian O'Driscoll's record for most capped international player (141)


Rugby Union PlayerRichie McCaw

Rugby Union PlayerBrian O'Driscoll

• 2016 Australia beats New Zealand 24-17 to win the inaugural women's sevens rugby gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
• 2016 Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszú wins the women's 100m backstroke gold medal in a time of 58.45; her second gold medal of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games
• 2018 EPL club Chelsea sign Kepa Arrizabalaga from Spain's Athletic Bilbao for £72 million; world-record fee for a goalkeeper

Basketball Gold for US Women
2021 USA women's basketball team wins it's record extending 7th consecutive Olympic gold medal with 90-75 win over Japan in Tokyo; guards Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi each win their 5th straight gold


Basketball PlayerDiana Taurasi

• 2021 XXXII Summer Olympic Games officially close at the Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan

 

AUGUST 9

• 1900 1st International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Boston, MA: Dwight Davis and Holcombe Ward beat Ernest Black and Herbert Roper Barrett 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to give the US an unassailable 3-0 lead over the British Isles

TY Cobb Family Tragedy

1905 Ty Cobb's mother Amanda kills her husband after mistaking him for a burglar


MLB LegendTy Cobb

Tour de France
1908 Tour de France: French road cyclist Lucien Petit-Breton successfully defends his title beating François Faber of Luxembourg


CyclistFrançois Faber

• 1918 Cincinnati Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, and suspends him "for indifferent play"
• 1923 NY State Golf Association formed

Ruth's Only Pinch-hit
1925 Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1930 Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec)
• 1934 4th Women's World Games (track & field competition for women) is conducted over 3-days at the White City Stadium in London, England
• 1936 Helen Stephens claims the women's sprint double at the Berlin Olympics having won the 100m and as part of the victorious American 4 x 100m relay team
• 1936 Hungarian swimmer Ferenc Csik wins 100m freestyle gold medal in 57.6 at the Berlin Olympics, beating Japanese pair Masanori Yusa & Shigeo Arai

Owen Helps US Win Gold
1936 Jesse Owens is part of the American 4 x 100m relay team that wins gold in world record (39.8) at the Berlin Olympics; his 4th gold medal of the Games


Track and Field AthleteJesse Owens

• 1936 Korean nationals representing Japan earn medals in the marathon at the Berlin Olympics; Sohn Kee-chung won gold and Nam Sung-yong bronze
• 1937 Ranger (US) easily beats Endeavour II (England) in race 4 to wrap up the 17th America's Cup yachting series, 4-0; it's the final competition for 21 years
• 1946 First time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night
• 1948 Italian rider Mario Ghella beats Reg Harris of Great Britain for the gold medal in the cycling sprint final at the London Olympics
• 1948 The US crew blitzes the field to win the rowing eights gold medal at the London Olympics; beat silver medallists Great Britain by 10.2 seconds
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• 1957 24th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 22, All-Stars 12 (75,000)
• 1963 NY Met pitcher Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends with a complete game 7–3 win over the Chicago Cubs at the Polo Grounds, NYC
• 1964 Jim Bunning continues pitching perfectly to NY Mets until 2 outs in 5th, when Joe Christopher beats out a bunt. He totals 15 innings.

Baseball Hall of Fame
1971 Satchel Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherSatchel Paige

• 1975 Dodger Davey Lopes steals record 32nd consecutive base without being caught
• 1975 First NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston defeats Saints 13-7
• 1976 Clive Lloyd scores double-ton in 120 mins, WI v Glamorgan
• 1976 Pittsburgh Pirate John Candelaria no-hits the LA Dodgers, 2-0
• 1977 NHL refuses merger of six World Hockey Association clubs
• 1981 52nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland

Baseball History
1981 All-Star MVP: Gary Carter (Montreal Expos)


Baseball Hall of Fame CatcherGary Carter
PGA Championship
1981 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Atlanta Athletic Club: Larry Nelson wins by 4 strokes from Fuzzy Zoeller


Golfer and Three-Time Major Championship WinnerLarry Nelson

GolferFuzzy Zoeller

• 1984 Daley Thompson of Great Britain scores 8,797 points to win the Olympic decathlon in Los Angeles; later recognised as a world record
• 1984 Valerie Brisco-Hooks beats fellow American Florence Griffith to win the 200m gold at the LA Olympics; completes the 200-400m double
• 1987 LA Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London, England (NFL expo)
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• 1987 PGA Championship Men's Golf, PGA National Palm Beach: Larry Nelson wins 2nd PGA C'ship in a playoff with fellow American Lanny Wadkins
• 1988 Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field

NHL Trade
1988 Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to LA Kings for $15-$20 millions


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky

• 1992 Cuban boxer Félix Savón wins the first of 3 consecutive Olympic heavyweight gold medals when he dominates Nigerian David Izonritei on points at the Barcelona Games
• 1992 Future 6-weight boxing world champion Oscar De La Hoya of the US beats German Marco Rudolph on points to win the lightweight gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics

Cricket History
1992 Last day of Test Cricket for David Gower


Cricket Batsman and CaptainDavid Gower

• 1997 Yanks break Minnesota Twins Brad Radke's string of 12 straight wins
• 1998 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Portrush GC: Welshman Brian Huggett beats Eddie Pollard of Northern Ireland by a stroke on the first playoff hole

Baseball Record
2002 SF Giants outfielder Barry Bonds hits his 600th career home run


MLB LegendBarry Bonds

• 2008 United States takes all 3 medals in women's fencing sabre event at the Beijing Olympics; first US podium sweep of a fencing event since 1904; Mariel Zagunis takes gold ahead of Sada Jacobson & Rebecca Ward

Usain Bolt's Golden Double
2012 Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt wins the 200m at the London Olympics in 19.32 to become first to win 100/200m double in back-to-back Olympics


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt
Olympic Gold
2012 Women's Olympic Football Gold Medal won by the USA beating Japan 2-1 in the final


Football StarHope Solo
Katie Ledecky Wins Gold
2016 American swimmer Katie Ledecky wins her second gold medal of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 1:53.73 in the women's 200m freestyle ahead of Sarah Sjöström of Sweden and Australian Emma McKeon


SwimmerKatie Ledecky

SwimmerEmma McKeon
Olympic Gold
2016 American swimmer Michael Phelps swims 1:53.36 to win the men's 200m butterfly gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; beats Japan's Masato Sakai by 0.04 for his 20th Olympic gold medal


SwimmerMichael Phelps

• 2016 Chinese weightlifter Deng Wei sets a world record of 147kg in the clean & jerk, and another for a total score of 262kg, to win the women's 63kg gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
• 2016 Hungary's Katinka Hosszú records an Olympic record of 2:06.58 in the women's 200m individual medley, her 3rd gold medal of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
• 2018 EPL club Tottenham Hotspur fails to bring in one player during the transfer window; first time since FIFA made system compulsory in 2002-03
• 2020 PGA Championship Men's Golf, TPC Harding Park: 23-year-old American Collin Morikawa fires final round 64 (-6) to win his first major title by 2 strokes from Paul Casey of England

Serena Williams to Retire
2022 Tennis superstar Serena Williams announces her intention to retire in an interview with "Vogue" [1]


Tennis PlayerSerena Williams

• 2023 MLB Phillies pitcher Michael Lorenzen throws a no-hitter in his first career complete game, a 7-0 win over Washington Nationals, and outfielder Weston Wilson makes his MLB debut, hitting a home run in his first at bat, at Citizen's Bank Park in Philadelphia
• 2023 Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Michael Lorenzen no-hits Washington Nationals, 7-0 at Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia

 

AUGUST 10

Keefe's Winning Streak
1888 NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game winning streak record


Major League Baseball PitcherTim Keefe

• 1901 Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners

Chesbro Streak Ends
1904 NY Highlanders pitcher Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games in a 5-1 loss to Chicago White Sox at South Side Park, Chicago


Baseball PitcherJack Chesbro
US Women's Open
1933 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Helen Jacobs beats Helen Wills Moody 8-6, 3-6, 3-0, ret


Tennis PlayerHelen Wills Moody

Tennis PlayerHelen Jacobs
Ruth Announces Final Season
1934 Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1936 First time the Olympic cycling road race is conducted as a mass start event with Frenchmen Robert Charpentier and Guy Lapébie taking gold and silver, and France winning the teams gold medal
• 1944 Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cincinnati Reds 2-0

Bradman Scores 133*
1948 Bradman scores 133* Aust v Lancashire, 216 mins, 17 fours


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
Charles vs Lesnevich
1949 Ezzard Charles TKOs Gus Lesnevich in 8 for heavyweight boxing title


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionEzzard Charles

• 1954 All-time great English jockey Sir Gordon Richards retires from the saddle with British record 4,870 winning rides

Baseball History
1969 Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherDon Sutton

• 1971 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research

Baseball Record
1971 Twins' Harmon Killebrew is 10th to amass 500 HRs, & adds his 501st


Baseball PlayerHarmon Killebrew

• 1972 Finnish runner Lasse Virén wraps up the 5,000/10,000m double at the Munich Olympics; runs Olympic record 13:26.42 for the 5k gold medal

PGA Championship
1975 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Firestone CC: Jack Nicklaus wins his 4th PGA crown by 2 shots from Australian Bruce Crampton


GolferJack Nicklaus

GolferBruce Crampton

• 1977 Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM

Canadian Women's Open
1980 Canadian Open Women's Golf (Peter Jackson Classic), Richelieu Valley GC: Pat Bradley wins by 1 from JoAnn Carner for her first of 6 major titles


LPGA GolferPat Bradley

• 1980 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oak Hill CC: Jack Nicklaus wins 5th and final PGA C'ship by a convincing 7 strokes from Andy Bean

Baseball Record
1981 Pete Rose, 3,631 career hit, breaks Stan Musial's NL hit record


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

MLB LegendStan Musial
Lewis Wins Long Jump
1983 1st World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in Men's Long Jump


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

• 1984 Famous Mary Decker-Zola Budd collision during 3,000m at the LA Olympics; Decker falls, Budd finishes 7th; Maricica Puică of Romania wins
• 1984 Ian Ferguson of New Zealand wins 2 canoeing gold medals in the one day taking the K-1 500 and K-2 500 (with Paul MacDonald) at the LA Olympics; wins K-4 1000 the next day
• 1984 Sweden's Agneta Andersson takes out the women's canoeing 500m double at the Los Angeles Olympics with wins in the K-1 and K-2 (with Anna Olsson) events

US Olympic Basketball Gold
1984 The US beats Spain 96-65 to win the men's basketball gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics; future 'dream team' members Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing and Chris Mullin feature


Basketball SuperstarMichael Jordan

Hall of Fame NBA CentrePatrick Ewing
Baseball Record
1985 Oakland A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 HRs (off Matt Young at Seattle)


Baseball PlayerDave Kingman

• 1985 Uno Lindstron of Sweden juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles

Baseball History
1986 Pitcher Bob Forsch grand slams to lead Cardinals to a 5-4 win over Pittsburgh Pirates, in St. Louis


Baseball PitcherBob Forsch
Billy Martin Day
1986 Yankees retire Billy Martin Day's uniform number 1 during Billy Martin Day at Yankee Stadium


Baseball Player and ManagerBilly Martin

• 1987 Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball

Matt Biondi World Record
1988 Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 sec)


SwimmerMatt Biondi

• 1989 A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning
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• 1989 Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
• 1991 NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53
• 1995 Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly
• 1996 New Zealand beats South Africa, 29-18 in Cape Town to win the inaugural Tri Nations Rugby Series with an unbeaten record; All Blacks flyhalf Andrew Mehrtens lands 5 penalties and 2 conversions
• 1996 Yanks lose ending 3rd best home series victory streak at 24
• 1997 36th Walker Cup: US, 18-6
• 1997 Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine

Greg Maddux Signed
1997 Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to then record 5 year, $57.5 million deal


MLB Pitching LegendGreg Maddux

• 2002 New Zealand beats South Africa, 30-23 in Durban to win their fourth Tri Nations Rugby Series; All Blacks score 4 tries to 2

Phelps' World Record Medley
2008 American super-star swimmer Michael Phelps wins the 400m individual medley at the Beijing Olympics in world record 4:03.84


SwimmerMichael Phelps

• 2008 British cyclist Nicole Cooke wins the road race at the Beijing Olympics; Great Britain's 200th gold in the modern Olympics
• 2008 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Irishman Pádraig Harrington wins his second straight major by 2 shots from Sergio Garcia and Ben Curtis
• 2013 14th Athletics World Championships open at Moscow, Russia

PGA Championship
2014 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Valhalla GC: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland wins his second PGA C'ship by 1 shot from Phil Mickelson


GolferPhil Mickelson

GolferRory McIlroy

• 2016 18-year-old Australian Kyle Chalmers creates huge upset when he swims a junior world record 47.58 to win the blue ribband men's 100m freestyle gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
• 2016 South Korean shooter Jin Jong-oh recovers from 7th place during the final to record an Olympic record 193.7 and win gold in men's 50m pistol at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; first shooter to win 3 consecutive Olympic gold medals in one event
• 2016 Weightlifter Nijat Rahimov of Kazakhstan sets a world record 214kg in the clean & jerk, and finishes with 379kg overall, to win the gold medal in the men's 77kg at the Ro de Janeiro Olympics

 

AUGUST 11

• 1884 First double-century stand in Test cricket; Percy McDonnell (103) Billy Murdoch (211) for Australia in drawn 3rd Test v England in London
• 1907 St Louis Cardinals pitcher Ed Karger throws a perfect game vs Boston Doves; wins 4-0 in 7 innings at Robison Field, St. Louis

Green Bay Packers Founded

1919 Green Bay Packers football club founded by George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau - named after sponsor Indian Packing Company


NFL Head CoachCurly Lambeau

Speaker Hits 700th Double
1926 Cleveland Indians future Baseball HOF outfielder Tris Speaker hits his 700th double in 7-2 loss to Chicago White Sox at Dunn Field, Cleveland


Baseball PlayerTris Speaker
Hubbell 1st MLB Victory
1928 NY Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell registers first MLB victory, a 4-0 shutout of Philadelphia Phillies at the Polo Grounds, NYC


Baseball PitcherCarl Hubbell
Ruth 1st to Hit 500
1929 New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth becomes the first MLB player to hit 500 home runs (off Willis Hudlin) in a 6-5 loss to the Indians at League Park, Cleveland


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1948 The weightlifting competition at the London Olympics concludes with the US (4) and Egypt (2) dominant, combining to win all of the 6 gold medals
• 1950 17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885)
• 1950 Boston Braves pitcher Vern Bickford no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 7-0 at Braves Field

DiMaggio Benched
1950 In a 4 for 38 slump, New York Yankees great Joe DiMaggio is benched for first time; replacement Cliff Mapes hits a HR in 7-6 win over Philadelphia Athletics


Baseball PlayerJoe DiMaggio

• 1951 First televised baseball game in colour on WCBS in New York City; Boston Braves beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 8-1
• 1951 New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL), 38-6 in Ottawa
• 1951 NY Giants lose 4-0 to Philadelphia Phillies at the Polo Grounds, NYC to go 13½ games behind Brooklyn Dodgers; go on to win NL pennant with 98-59-0 record

Baseball Record
1961 Milwaukee Braves future Baseball HOF pitcher Warren Spahn records career victory #300; beats Cubs, 2-1 at County Stadium, Milwaukee


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherWarren Spahn

• 1962 LA Dodgers protest as San Francisco manager Alvin Dark orders Candlestick Park ground crew to water down base paths to hinder MLB All-Star Maury Wills' base-stealing attempts; Giants win 5-4

Baseball History
1968 Satchel Paige (62) and needing 158 days on a MLB payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Atlanta Braves; doesn't pitch and becomes coach


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherSatchel Paige

Baseball History
1969 Future Baseball HOF'er Don Drysdale, the last LA Dodger to play in Brooklyn, retires because of damage to his right pitching shoulder


MLB PlayerDon Drysdale

• 1970 Cincinnati Reds slugger Tony Perez becomes 1st to hitter to launch a HR into the red seats at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio

Baseball History
1970 Future Baseball HOF pitcher Jim Bunning becomes second Cy Young Award winner to win 100 games in both NL and AL, as his Philadelphia Phillies beat Astros 6-5 at Astrodome in Houston, Texas


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and SenatorJim Bunning
Baseball Record
1971 Harmon Killebrew hits HRs #500 & 501


Baseball PlayerHarmon Killebrew
PGA Championship
1974 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Tanglewood Park: Lee Trevino wins the first of his 2 PGA C'ships, 1 stroke ahead of defending champion Jack Nicklaus


GolferJack Nicklaus

GolferLee Trevino

• 1979 Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year

Baseball Record
1980 Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns


MLB Right FielderReggie Jackson

• 1984 101,799 fans at soccer match Brazil vs France

British 1 and 2 in 1,500m
1984 A British 1-2 in the 1,500m at the Los Angeles Olympics with Sebastian Coe edging teammate Steve Cram to become the only man to successfully defend his Olympic 1,500m title


1500m RunnerSebastian Coe
Lewis Equals Owens Record
1984 Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, winning his 4th Olympic gold medal as part of the US 4 x 100m relay team; world record (37.83)


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

Track and Field AthleteJesse Owens
Baseball History
1984 Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform


MLB CatcherJohnny Bench

• 1984 Future 4-weight world boxing champion Pernell Whitaker wins the lightweight gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics
• 1984 Ian Ferguson of New Zealand wins his 3rd canoeing gold medal of the LA Olympics taking out the K-4 1000 a day after victories in the K-1 500 & K-2 500

PGA Championship
1985 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Hubert Green wins by 2 strokes from fellow American Lee Trevino


GolferLee Trevino

• 1985 Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)

PGA Championship
1986 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Inverness Club: Bob Tway holes a famous bunker shot on the 18th to beat Australian Greg Norman by 2 stokes


GolferGreg Norman
Sports History
1988 225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR


Baseball Hall of Fame CatcherGary Carter
PGA Championship
1991 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Crooked Stick GC: John Daly wins by 3 strokes from fellow American Bruce Lietzke


Golfer and Two-Time Major ChampionJohn Daly
Baseball History
1992 Oakland A's rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game


MLB PlayerJosé Canseco

• 1993 NY Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke

Baseball Record
1993 Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out (Danny Tartabul-NY)


MLB Pitching LegendRoger Clemens

• 1996 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Vallhalla GC: Mark Brooks wins his first major title with birdie on first playoff hole against fellow American Kenny Perry

Women's British Open
2002 British Open Women's Golf, Turnberry Ailsa Resort: Karrie Webb wins by 2 strokes from fellow Australian Michelle Ellis & Paula Martí; 5th different major for Webb, career "Super Slam"

Gatlin Takes Sprint Double
2005 American Justin Gatlin becomes only the 2nd athlete to take sprint double, winning 200m in 20.04 at the World Championships in Helsinki, Finland

• 2007 Jason Koumas makes his Wigan Athletic debut
• 2008 Abhinav Bindra wins men's 10m air rifle at the Beijing Olympics, the first ever individual Olympic gold medal for India, and India's first gold medal in any Olympic event since 1980
• 2008 Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitajima repeats 1st leg of his Athens Olympics 100/200m breaststroke double at the Beijing Games winning the 100m in world record 58.91; goes on to win 200m event

US Smash World Record
2008 The US 4 x 100m freestyle replay team of Michael Phelps, Garrett Weber-Gale, Cullen Jones & Jason Lezak beats France by 8 seconds to win gold and smash world record at the Beijing Olympics

PGA Championship
2013 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oak Hill CC: Jason Dufner wins first major title by 2 shots from fellow American Jim Furyk

Usain Bolt Wins 100m
2013 Usain Bolt of Jamaica records best time of the year (9.77s) to edge out American Justin Gatlin and win 100m at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia

• 2016 American Simone Manuel and Penny Oleksiak of Canada dead heat for the gold medal in coveted 100m freestyle at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; tie in Olympic record 52.70; Sarah Sjöström (Sweden) takes bronze; her 3rd medal of the Games
• 2016 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins men's 200m individual medley in 1:54.66 at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; 3rd athlete and 1st swimmer to win 4 consecutive Olympic gold medals in one event
• 2016 Fiji wins inaugural men's rugby sevens gold medal with a comfortable 43-7 rout of Great Britain at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics

Messi Signs with Paris Saint-Germain
2021 Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi confirms signing a rich 2-year contract with French Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain after leaving FC Barcelona

 

AUGUST 12

• 1876 Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup
• 1879 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)
• 1884 Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211 at The Oval

W. G. Grace's Highest Score

1886 W. G. Grace makes his highest Test Cricket score, scoring 170 vs Australia at The Oval


CricketerW. G. Grace

• 1896 Willem II soccer team forms in Tilburg
• 1928 IX Summer Olympic Games close in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1936 After 24 year absence a baseball demonstration game is played between 2 American teams at Berlin Olympics, World Champions beat US Olympics, 6-5
• 1936 American diver Marjorie Gestring wins 3m springboard gold at the Berlin Olympics, youngest Olympic gold medalist (13 years 268 days)
• 1936 The gymnastics competition at the Berlin Olympics concludes with Germany dominating, winning 6 of 9 gold medals including the men’s & women’s teams events
• 1948 Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game
• 1948 Indian maestro Balbir Singh Dosanjh scores twice as India beats Great Britain 4-0 for the field hockey gold medal at the London Olympics; India's 4th consecutive Olympic hockey title
• 1948 The canoeing program at the London Olympics concludes with Sweden (4) and Czechoslovakia (3) dominant, combining for 7 of the 9 gold medals
• 1949 16th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 38, All-Stars 0 (93,780)
• 1950 First international game by an NFL team, New York Giants beat CFL's Ottawa Roughriders, 20-6 at Ottawa's Lansdowne Stadium
• 1953 Ann Davison arrives in Miami in her 23 foot boat Felicity Ann, becoming the 1st woman to sail solo across the Atlantic
• 1960 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)

World Record Long Jump
1960 American Ralph Boston sets a then long jump world record of 8.21m at the US Olympic trials, overtaking Jesse Owens' record


Long JumperRalph Boston
Baseball History
1963 Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year


MLB LegendStan Musial
Baseball Record
1964 Mickey Mantle switch-hits a HR for the record 10th and final time in a game, with one going 502 feet


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

• 1965 Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise
• 1967 New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St Louis 23-14
• 1969 Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million

Baseball History
1970 Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball [1]


Baseball PlayerCurt Flood
Cricket History
1972 Ian & Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings


CricketerGreg Chappell
PGA Championship
1973 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Canterbury GC: Jack Nicklaus wins 3rd of 5 PGA C'ships by 4 from Bruce Crampton of Australia


GolferJack Nicklaus

GolferBruce Crampton
Baseball Record
1974 Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 & walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1974 Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st teammates inducted to hall of fame on same day
• 1978 NFL New England Patriots wide receiver Darryl Stingley suffers a spinal cord injury leaving him with incomplete quadriplegia from a hit by Oakland Raiders Jack Tatum, in a pre-season exhibition game
• 1984 Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls & 19 ejections
• 1984 Carlos Lopes of Portugal wins the men's marathon at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2:09:21, an Olympic record that stands for 24 years

Baseball Hall of Fame
1984 Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, & Luis Aparicio are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY


Baseball PlayerHarmon Killebrew

Baseball PlayerRick Ferrell

MLB PlayerDon Drysdale

• 1985 Baltimore Orioles W Gross & L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
• 1986 Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season
• 1986 Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single
• 1988 Boston Red Sox beat Tigers 9-4 for AL record 23rd consecutive win at home

PGA Championship
1990 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Shoal Creek: Wayne Grady of Australia wins his only major title by 3 strokes from American Fred Couples


Golfer and PGA ChampionWayne Grady

Golfer and Masters ChampionFred Couples
Cricket History
1991 Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon & Marshall


Cricketer and Master BlasterViv Richards

• 1994 1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition - SF vs Denver)
• 1994 Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association go on strike leading to cancellation of World Series for only the second time in MLB history (1904); labour dispute

Cricket History
1995 Lara completes 6th Test Cricket century, 152 at Trent Bridge


CricketerBrian Lara
PGA Championship
2007 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Southern Hills CC: Defending champion Tiger Woods wins his 4th PGA C'ship by 2 shots from Woody Austin


GolferTiger Woods
Phelps Makes it Three
2008 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 3rd of 8 gold medals at the Beijing Olympics when he takes the 200m freestyle in world record 1:42.96


SwimmerMichael Phelps

• 2008 American swimmer Natalie Coughlin becomes the first to successfully defend the gold medal in the women's 100 m backstroke when she wins event at the Beijing Olympics

Peirsol Swims Record Gold
2008 An American 1-2 in the 100m backstroke at the Beijing Olympics with Aaron Peirsol swimming a world record 52.54 to beat teammate Matt Grevers


SwimmerAaron Peirsol
PGA Championship
2012 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Kiawah Island Golf Resort: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland wins by 8 strokes from Englishman David Lynn


GolferRory McIlroy

• 2012 XXX Summer Olympic Games close in London, England

Katie Ledecky Most Decorated
2016 American star swimmer Katie Ledecky sets world record 8:04.79 to dominate the women's 800m field at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; medal tally of 4 gold, 1 silver make her most decorated US female athlete at one Olympics


SwimmerKatie Ledecky

• 2016 Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszú wins her 4th medal of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics finishing 2nd in the women's 200m backstroke; gold to American Maya DiRado in 2:05:99
• 2016 Italian jockey Frankie Dettori aboard Predilection rides his 3,000th British winner at Newmarket
• 2016 Joseph Schooling of Singapore sets Olympic record 50.39 to win men's 100m butterfly gold at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; rare 3-way tie for silver at 51.14, Michael Phelps (USA), Chad le Clos (South Africa) & László Cseh (Hungary)

Usain Misses Last Race
2017 Usain Bolt injures himself in his very last race, the men's 4x100m relay, Jamaica misses gold at world championships


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt

• 2018 100th PGA Championship Men's Golf, Bellerive CC: Brooks Koepka becomes only the 5th player to win 2 major titles in a calendar year (US Open 2018) when he beats Tiger Woods by 2 strokes
• 2019 Baltimore Orioles concede 7 home runs in doubleheader defeats against NY Yankees to break the American League single season HRs allowed record with 248 and counting

Kawhi Leonard
2021 Kawhi Leonard re-signs with the Los Angeles Clippers to a max four-year, $176.3 million contract


Basketball ForwardKawhi Leonard
Mori Wins Lead Climbing
2023 Ai Mori wins a gold medal in lead climbing at the IFSC World Championships in Bern, Switzerland


Rock ClimberAi Mori

 

AUGUST 13

• 1902 English cricket team beats Australia by one wicket in a famous victory at The Oval, in London
• 1906 Chicago Cub's pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 MLB games (187 complete, 15 relief) against Brooklyn Superbas in 3rd inning of an 11-3 win at Washington Park, NYC

Cy Young Celebrated

1908 Future Baseball HOF pitcher Cy Young's career is celebrated with special day in his name in Boston; he pitches briefly for Red Sox against an All-Star team


MLB PitcherCy Young

• 1910 Brooklyn Superbas and Pittsburgh Pirates play "the game of perfect symmetry" in baseball to 8-8 tie, both have 8 runs, 13 hits, 2 errors, 12 assists, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 hit baseman, and 1 passed ball
• 1917 Milt Stock (2), Fred Luderus (2) and Possum Whitted of the Philadelphia Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning in 3-0 win against Boston at Braves Field
• 1919 American thoroughbred racehorse Man o' War's only defeat in 21 start career; Upset wins Sanford Memorial Stakes at Saratoga Race Course

US Men's Open
1920 US Open Men's Golf, Inverness GC: Isle of Jersey native Ted Ray pars the 18th, giving him a 1-stroke win over runners-up Harry Vardon, Jock Hutchison, Leo Diegel & Jack Burke Sr


Golfer and Two-Time PGA ChampionLeo Diegel

GolferHarry Vardon

GolferJock Hutchison

• 1931 Cincinnati Reds second baseman Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6 in 17-3 rout of Boston at Braves Field

Ruffing's Winning HR
1932 Yankees hurler Red Ruffing becomes first MLB pitcher since 1906 to hit an extra-inning, game-winning home run in NY's 1-0 win over the Senators in Washington


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherRed Ruffing

• 1933 Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist

PGA Men's Championship
1933 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Blue Mound CC: Gene Sarazen defeats Willie Goggin, 5 & 4 for 3rd of his 3 PGA C'ship titles; 6th of his 7 majors


GolferGene Sarazen

• 1936 Americans Dorothy Poynton-Hil and Velma Dunn take the gold and silver medals in the 10m platform diving at the Berlin Olympics
• 1936 Nida Senff and Rie Mastenbroek make it a Dutch 1-2 in the women’s 100m backstroke final at the Berlin Olympics
• 1936 Rie Mastenbroek of the Netherlands swims an Olympic record 1:05.9 to win the women’s 100m freestyle at the Berlin Olympics, beating Jeannette Campbell of Argentina by 0:05
• 1939 Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's
• 1948 3 Finnish gymnasts dead heat for the gold medal in the pommel horse section at London Olympics; Paavo Aaltonen, Veikko Huhtanen & Heikki Savolainen all awarded gold
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• 1948 Hungarian boxer László Papp wins the first of 3 consecutive Olympic gold medals; beats British middleweight Johnny Wright on points at the London Games
• 1948 Johan Gren scores twice as Sweden beats Yugoslavia 3-1 to win the football gold medal at the London Olympics
• 1948 José Beyaert of France wins the cycling road race at the London Olympics; Belgium takes gold in the teams section beating Great Britain & France

Satchel Paige Pitches 1st MLB Game
1948 Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherSatchel Paige

• 1948 The United States successfully defends its Olympic basketball title with a 65-21 win over France at the London Games

Baseball Record
1955 Larry Doby's ends AL record of 167 errorless games in outfield


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderLarry Doby
Baseball History
1958 MLB Cleveland Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut, hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2


Baseball PlayerRocky Colavito
Baseball History
1962 Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously


Baseball PlayerBert Campaneris
Sports History
1963 Dave DeBusschere pitches a shutout against the Cleveland Indians


NBA Forward and MLB PlayerDave DeBusschere
Sports History
1963 Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherWarren Spahn
Baseball History
1969 Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0


Baseball PlayerJim Palmer
Bowie Kuhn
1969 Temporary Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term as MLB Commissioner by unanimous vote


MLB CommissionerBowie Kuhn
Cricket History
1975 Batsman Viv Richards out for 291 v England for the West Indies, at the cricket Oval, London


Cricketer and Master BlasterViv Richards
Baseball Record
1979 MLB St Louis Cardinals Lou Brock, is 14th MLB player to get 3,000 hits


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderLou Brock

• 1981 American swimmer Mary T. Meagher breaks her own world women's 200 m butterfly record (2:05.96) in Brown Deer, Wisconsin
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• 1981 Test Cricket debut of Mike Whitney for Australia versus England at Old Trafford

Jackie Joyner-Kersee
1987 Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5½" jump


Track and Field AthleteJackie Joyner-Kersee

• 1988 Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games
• 1988 US beats Jamaica 5-1 in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup

PGA Championship
1989 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Kemper Lakes GC: Payne Stewart wins first of 3 major titles by 1 from Andy Bean, Mike Reid & Curtis Strange


GolferPayne Stewart

GolferCurtis Strange

• 1991 American Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60) at the World Championships in Fort Lauderale, Florida
• 1993 4th Athletics World Championships open at Stuttgart, Germany

Baseball History
1993 Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24


MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson
PGA Championship
1995 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Riviera CC: Steve Elkington of Australia wins his first major title in a playoff with Scotsman Colin Montgomerie


Golfer and PGA ChampionSteve Elkington

GolferColin Montgomerie

• 1997 Boston Red Sox trade Mike Stanley back to the NY Yankees
• 1997 San Diego Padres trade Rickey Henderson to Anaheim Angels

Canadian Women's Open
2000 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Royal Ottawa GC: Meg Mallon wins by 1 from Rosie Jones


LPGA GolferMeg Mallon

• 2004 28th Olympic Games opens at Athens, Greece
• 2006 Canadian Open Women's Golf, London Hunt CC: Christie Kerr wins by 1 shot from Angela Stanford
• 2006 Cleveland Indians first baseman Travis Hafner ties Don Mattingley's MLB mark of 6 grand slams in a season when he homers off Kansas City's Luke Hudson

Three Record Golds in One Day
2008 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins three gold medals, all in world record time, in one day at the Beijing Olympics: 200m IM (1:54.23), 200m butterfly (1:52.03), and 4x200m freestyle relay (6:58.56)


SwimmerMichael Phelps

• 2008 Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice wraps up the medley double at the Beijing Olympics when she swims world record 2:08.45 to win the 200m I/M gold medal
• 2008 Italian swimmer Federica Pellegrini sets new world record 1:54.82 to claim 200m freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Olympics; runner-up Sara Isaković is Slovenia's first Olympic swim medal winner
• 2012 Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus is stripped of her shot-put gold medal after failing a drugs test
• 2016 American swimmer Michael Phelps ends his career at the Rio Olympics as part of the winning 4x100 medley relay, his record 23rd gold medal

Mo Farah
2016 British super-star Mo Farah wins 1st leg of 5,000/10,000m double (repeat of London 2012) in 27:05.17 in the 10k at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Kenya's Paul Tanui wins silver just 0.47 behind


Long-distance RunnerMo Farah

• 2016 Great Britain sets a world record of 3:14.051 to comfortably beat the United States in the women's cycling team pursuit at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics

Thompson Wins 100m Gold
2016 Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson wins blue ribband women's 100m gold in 10.71 at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; American Tori Bowie second in 10.83 and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica 3rd 10.86

• 2016 The dominant Great Britain men's crew wins the eight at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; US scores a comfortable win over GB in the women's eight

PGA Championship
2017 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Quail Hollow GC: Justin Thomas wins his first major by 2 shots from Francesco Molinari, Patrick Reed & Louis Oosthuizen

• 2023 British Open Women's Golf, Walton Heath GC: American Lilia Vu wins her second major title of the year with a 6 stroke win from local favourite Charley Hull

 

AUGUST 14

Jeffries TKOs Corbett

1903 Champion James J. Jeffries scores a 10th round TKO win over former champion James J. Corbett in San Francisco; his 6th heavyweight boxing title defense


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJames J. Jeffries

BoxerJames J. Corbett

• 1919 Chicago White Sox outfielder Happy Felsch ties MLB record of 4 outfield assists in a game in 15-6 loss to Boston Red Sox
• 1920 VII Summer Olympic Games open in Antwerp, Belgium; first time Olympic Oath voiced, doves released to symbolise peace, and Olympic Flag flown
• 1932 Brooklyn Dodgers reliever John Quinn, 49, becomes oldest pitcher to win a MLB game in a 2-1, 10th inning victory over NY Giants at the Polo Grounds
• 1932 X Summer Olympic Games close at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

Foxx Sets AL Record
1933 Jimmie Foxx hits for cycle & sets AL record with 9 RBIs


MLB Hall of Fame 1st BasemanJimmie Foxx

• 1936 American swimmers Adolph Kiefer and Al Vande Veghe quinella the 100m backstroke at the Berlin Olympics
• 1936 The Berlin Olympics rowing competition concludes with Germany winning 5 of 7 gold medals, although the United States wins the coveted eights gold
• 1936 United States beats Canada, 19-8 in poor conditions outdoors to win the gold medal in the inaugural men's basketball competition at the Olympic Games in Berlin
• 1937 Detroit Tigers score MLB record 36 runs in double header vs St. Louis Browns at Navin Field; win 16-1 & 20-7
• 1939 First night MLB game in the City of Chicago is played at Comiskey Park; White Sox beat St. Louis Browns, 5-2

Didrikson Zaharias Goes Pro
1947 Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000


All-Round Athlete and GolferBabe Didrikson Zaharias
Record English Dismissal
1948 Australian fast bowler Ray Lindwall takes 6-20 as England dismissed for a record low 52 in 5th cricket Test at the Oval; Don Bradman out for 0 in final Test innings


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

• 1948 XIV Olympic Games close at Wembley Stadium, London, England
• 1953 20th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 24, All-Stars 10 (93,818)
• 1959 26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000)
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• 1959 First (American Football League) meeting is held in Chicago; charter memberships handed to Dallas, NY, Houston, Denver, LA and Minneapolis-Saint Paul; 'AFL' named following week
• 1960 Australian driver Jack Brabham clinches his second consecutive F1 World Drivers Championship by winning the Portuguese Grand Prix at Boavista
• 1961 Philadelphia Phillies crash, 9-2 to Chicago Cubs for 17th straight defeat; 11th straight time opposing pitcher throws complete game against Phillies
• 1964 LA Angels pitcher Bo Belinsky is suspended after hotel room fight with elderly Los Angeles Times sportswriter Braven Dyer
• 1969 NY Mets fall 9½ games back, later to win pennant

NFL History
1973 Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Baltimore Colts


NFL QuarterbackJohnny Unitas
PGA Championship
1977 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Pebble Beach: Lanny Wadkins wins his only major title in event's 1st sudden-death playoff with Gene Littler


GolferGene Littler
Sports History
1981 Phils Mike Schmidt hits his 300th career HR off NY Met Mike Scott


MLB Third BasemanMike Schmidt

• 1982 Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over Padres

Baseball Record
1982 Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron)


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

• 1983 Robert de Castella wins Helsinki marathon (2:10:03)
• 1986 Phillies & Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days

Baseball Record
1987 Oakland's Mark McGwire sets rookie HR record at 39, en route to 49


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

• 1988 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oak Tree GC: Jeff Sluman wins his only major title by 3 shots from Paul Azinger
• 1990 Denver votes for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise

Baseball History
1991 MLB Minnesota Twins Dave Winfield is 23rd to hit 400 HR


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderDave Winfield
Reggie Jackson Day
1993 NY Yankees retire Jackson's uniform number 44 on Reggie Jackson Day


MLB Right FielderReggie Jackson
Women's British Open
1994 British Open Women's Golf, Woburn, Duke's Course: Liselotte Neumann wins by 3 strokes from fellow Swede Annika Sörenstam; first LPGA sanctioned Open


GolferAnnika Sörenstam

• 1994 MLB pitcher Doc Gooden completes substance abuse rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Center in Ranch Mirage, California

PGA Championship
1994 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Southern Hills CC: Nick Price of Zimbabwe wins his 2nd PGA C'ship by 6 strokes from American Corey Pavin


GolferNick Price

GolferCorey Pavin

• 1999 New Zealand win their 3rd Tri Nations Rugby Series as South Africa edges Australia, 10-9 in Cape Town; All Blacks' only defeat comes in final round dead rubber, 28-7 against Wallabies in Sydney
• 2004 The Australian women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Alice Mills, Lisbeth Lenton, Petria Thomas & Jodie Henry smash the world record to take gold in 3:35.94 at the Athens Olympics
• 2008 A popular Chinese 1-2 in the 200m butterfly at the Beijing Olympics with Liu Zige swimming world record 2:04.18 to beat teammate Jiao Liuyang
• 2008 Australian women's 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of Stephanie Rice, Bronte Barratt, Kylie Palmer & Linda Mackenzie swims world record 7:44.31 to beat China and take the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
• 2008 French swimmer Alain Bernard wins the coveted 100m freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Olympics beating Eamon O'Sullivan of Australia by 0.11
• 2008 Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitajima repeats his Athens Olympics 100/200m breaststroke double at the Beijing Games winning the 200m in Olympic record 2:07.64
• 2010 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games opens in Singapore
• 2011 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Atlanta Athletic Club: Keegan Bradley wins first major title by 1 stroke in 3-hole aggregate playoff with fellow American Jason Dufner
• 2016 An all-British final in the men's cycling sprint with Jason Kenny beating teammate Callum Skinner at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics

Andy Murray Wins Gold
2016 Great Britain's Andy Murray wins the men's tennis singles gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics 7–5, 4–6, 6–2, 7–5 over Juan Martín del Potro of Argentina


Tennis ChampionAndy Murray

Tennis PlayerJuan Martín del Potro

Bolt's Third 100m Gold
2016 Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt wins coveted 100m Olympic 100m gold medal in 9.81 at Rio de Janeiro Olympics - first man to win the event 3 times


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt

• 2016 Justin Rose of Great Britain finishes with a score of 16 under par to win the inaugural men's individual golf gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Rose is 2 strokes ahead of Henrik Stenson (Sweden) and 3 from American Matt Kuchar
• 2016 Kenya's Jemima Sumgong wins women's marathon gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2:24:04; Eunice Kirwa (Bahrain) takes silver, and Mare Dibaba (Ethiopia) bronze
• 2016 South African athlete Wayde van Niekerk sets world record 43.03 to win the men's 400m gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Kirani James (Grenada) silver, American LaShawn Merritt bronze
• 2016 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Scioto CC: Gene Sauers wins by 1 stroke ahead of Miguel Ángel Jiménez and Billy Mayfair
• 2019 French woman Stephanie Frappart is the first woman to referee a major match in a European men's tournament - UEFA Super Cup Chelsea vs Liverpool in Istanbul

Pakistan Criticizes Kashmir Lockdown
2019 Pakistan PM Imran Khan strongly criticizes India for revoking Kashmir's special status and putting it under lockdown in address in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir


Cricketer and Prime Minister of PakistanImran Khan
Joshua Cheptegei
2020 Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda breaks Ethiopian legend Kenenisa Bekele’s 16-year-old 5,000m world record with a run of 12:35.36 at the Diamond League meet in Monaco


Long-Distance RunnerKenenisa Bekele

• 2021 Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Tyler Gilbert no-hits SD Padres, 7-0 at Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona
• 2021 Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Tyler Gilbert throws a no-hitter in his MLB debut, defeating San Diego Padres, 7-0 in Phoenix; record equalling 8th no-hitter of the season

 

AUGUST 15

• 1886 American MLB pitcher Guy Hecker scores 7 runs in 1 game
• 1899 Louisville's pitcher Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game
• 1903 New Zealand's All Blacks play their first rugby test match against Australia's Wallabies at the Sydney Cricket Ground; New Zealand wins 22-3

• 1905 Philadelphia A's future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell no-hits St Louis Browns, 2-0 in 5 innings
• 1912 Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game

International Lawn Tennis Challenge

1914 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, NYC, New York: Norman Brookes beats American Dick Norris Williams 6-1, 6-2, 8-10, 6-3 to give Australasia unassailable 3-1 lead; win 3-2


Tennis PlayerNorman Brookes

• 1925 White Sox Dickie Kerr, 1st appearance since winning 2 world series games in 1919
• 1931 Dutch Spakenburg football team forms
• 1936 Americans make a clean sweep of the 3m diving medals via Marjorie Gestring, Katherine Rawls and Dorothy Poynton-Hill at the Berlin Olympics
• 1936 Annibale Frossi scores twice as Italy beats Austria 2-1 in extra time in the soccer final at the Berlin Olympics

A Kiss for Hitler
1936 Carla de Vries, an American tourist at the swimming event of the Berlin Olympics finds Adolf Hitler “so friendly and gracious” she shakes his hand and gives him a kiss


A kiss for a surprised Fuehrer. Photo: rarehistoricalphotos.com

• 1936 Marshall Wayne and Elbert Root make it an American 1-2 in the 10m platform diving at the Berlin Olympics
• 1936 The Berlin Olympic fencing competition concludes with Italy winning 4 of the 7 gold medals and Hungary taking the other 3
• 1939 First night game at baseball's Comiskey Park in Chicago, White Sox beat Cleveland Browns 5-2
• 1945 Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually

US Women's Open
1948 US Open Women's Golf, Atlantic City CC: Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins by 8 strokes from Betty Hicks


All-Round Athlete and GolferBabe Didrikson Zaharias

Charles TKOs Beshore
1950 Ezzard Charles TKOs Freddie Beshore in 14 to retain heavyweight boxing title


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionEzzard Charles

• 1952 19th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Los Angeles 10, All-Stars 7 (88,316)
• 1958 25th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 35, Detroit 19 (70,000)
• 1960 CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium
• 1960 Chicago Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo)

Ralph Boston
1964 American long jumper Ralph Boston sets then world record 27' 3½" (8.31m) at Kingston, Jamaica


Long JumperRalph Boston

• 1964 Fred Trueman takes 300th Test Cricket wicket (Neil Hawke)

Ernie Banks Day
1964 Mayor Richard J. Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago, honoring the Cubs baseball player [1]


MLB shortstopErnie Banks

• 1964 MLB Philadelphia Phillies turn triple-play in 8-1 over Mets at Shea Stadium, NYC

Masanori Murakami Day
1965 Japanese community of San Francisco holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues


Baseball Player In Major LeaguesMasanori Murakami
PGA Championship
1965 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Laurel Valley GC: Dave Marr wins his only major title, beating Billy Casper and Jack Nicklaus by 2 strokes


GolferJack Nicklaus

GolferBilly Casper

• 1966 Puerto Rican champion José Torres beats American Eddie Cotton on points in Las Vegas to retain the WBC/WBA light-heavyweight boxing title
• 1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
• 1971 Charles Lismont wins Helsinki marathon (2:13:09.0)

F1 World Champion
1971 Despite crashing out on lap 36, Scotsman Jackie Stewart clinches his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship at the Austrian Grand Prix at Österreichring; Swiss driver Jo Siffert of the BRM team wins the race


Auto RacerJackie Stewart

• 1975 MLB Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver is ejected from both games of a home doubleheader against the Texas Rangers
• 1977 England regain cricket Ashes by taking a 3-0 series lead over Australia

Cricket History
1981 Ian Botham scores a century in 86 balls v Australia at Old Trafford


CricketerIan Botham

• 1981 Robin Leamy of US swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m

Dave Dravecky
1989 In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines


MLB OutfielderTim Raines

• 1989 Italian swimmer Giorgio Lamberti sets world record 200m freestyle (1:46.69) in Bonn, West Germany

Baseball Record
1990 Mark McGwire is 1st to hit 30 HRs in each of his 1st 4 seasons


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

• 1992 Striker Brian Deane scores both goals for Sheffield United in a season-opening 2-1 home win over Manchester United at Bramall Lane; first of Deane's goals is the first in EPL's inaugural season

PGA Championship
1993 75th PGA Championship Men's Golf, Inverness GC: Paul Azinger wins his first major title in a playoff with Greg Norman of Australia


GolferGreg Norman
Nolan Ryan
1993 Nolan Ryan, 324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1997 Dan Wilson hits Seattle Mariners 3,000th HR

Dodgers Retire #2
1997 Los Angeles Dodgers retire manager Tommy Lasorda's #2


Baseball Pitcher and ManagerTommy Lasorda
PGA Championship
1999 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Medinah CC: Tiger Woods wins his 2nd major by 1 stroke from Spaniard Sergio Garcia


GolferTiger Woods

GolferSergio García

• 2004 Bay of Plenty defeat Auckland 33-26 in Rugby Union to win NZ's Ranfurly shield for the first time in the shield's 102 year history and after 28 unsuccessful challenges

PGA Championship
2004 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Whistling Straits GC: Vijay Singh of Fiji wins his 2nd PGA C'ship in a playoff with Chris DiMarco & Justin Leonard


GolferVijay Singh

GolferChris DiMarco

• 2004 South African 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend & Ryk Neethling smash the world record with 3:13.17 at the Athens Olympics

PGA Championship
2005 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Baltusrol GC: American Phil Mickelson wins by 1 stroke from Australian Steve Elkington and Thomas Bjørn of Denmark


GolferPhil Mickelson

Golfer and PGA ChampionSteve Elkington

• 2008 American breaststroker Rebecca Soni avenges her defeat to Leisel Jones of Australia in the 100m when she swims world record 2:20.22 to beat Jones in 200m at the Beijing Olympics

Lochte Swims a World Record
2008 An American 1-2 in the 200m backstroke at the Beijing Olympics with Ryan Lochte swimming a world record 1:53.94 to beat teammate Aaron Peirsol


SwimmerRyan Lochte

SwimmerAaron Peirsol

• 2008 Despite China winning the women's gymnastics team all-round gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, Americans Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson go 1-2 in the individual all-round
• 2008 German swimmer Britta Steffen beats Australian Libby Trickett by 0.04 to win the blue ribband 100m freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
• 2009 12th Athletics World Championships open at Berlin, Germany
• 2010 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Whistling Straits GC: Martin Kaymer of Germany wins his first major title by 1 stroke in 3-hole aggregate playoff with Bubba Watson
• 2012 Seattle Mariners' Felix Hernandez becomes 23rd pitcher to throw a perfect game (1-0 vs Tampa Bay)
• 2016 Anita Włodarczyk of Poland sets a world record 82.29m to win the women's hammer throw gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Zhang Wenxiu (China) silver, and Sophie Hitchon (Great Britain) bronze.
• 2016 Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas dives at the line to win the women's 400m gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; beats American 6-time Olympic gold medallist Allyson Felix by 0.07
• 2016 Thiago Braz da Silva of Brazil sets an Olympic record 6.03m to win the men's pole vault gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games
• 2019 60th annual finger wrestling (Fingerhakeln) championships takes place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, part of Partenkirchner Festival week

 

AUGUST 16

• 1743 Champion of England titleholder Jack Broughton publishes "Rules of the Ring," the earliest boxing code
• 1883 Dutch soccer club FC Dordrecht is established in Dort in the Western Netherlands (KNVB Cup 1914, 32)
• 1920 Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman is hit in head by NY Yankees pitcher Carl Mays; he dies the next day in only MLB game related fatality

US Women's Open

1924 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Helen Wills Moody beats 7-time winner Molla Bjurstedt Mallory 6-1, 6-3


Tennis PlayerHelen Wills Moody
Ruth's 1st HR
1927 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth tees off Tommy Thomas in the 5th inning to hit first HR hit out of Comiskey Park, Chicago; New York beats White Sox, 8-1


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1928 Belgian cyclist Georges Ronsse wins men's road race at UCI Road World Championships in Budapest, Hungary
• 1936 The Berlin Olympic equestrian competition concludes with Germany winning all 6 gold medals in an unprecedented team achievement
• 1936 XI Summer Olympic Games close at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany

Pirates 12 Cardinals 7
1947 Future Baseball HOF outfielder Ralph Kiner hits 3 successive HRs for host Pittsburgh Pirates in a 12-7 win over St. Louis Cardinals; both clubs smash a then MLB record 10 homers


Baseball Hall of Fame Left FielderRalph Kiner

• 1954 American brand management company Authentic Brands Group first publishes sports magazine "Sports Illustrated"

Baseball History
1956 MLB Cleveland Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4


Baseball PlayerRocky Colavito
Golf Tournament
1959 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Ranier G&CC: Betsy Rawls wins her second WO by 6 strokes from JoAnne Gunderson and Patty Berg


LPGA GolferBetsy Rawls

GolferPatty Berg

• 1964 Mildred Sampson of New Zealand runs female world marathon record 3:19:33 in Auckland, New Zealand

Baseball History
1964 St. Louis Cardinals center fielder Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader split against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium


Baseball PlayerCurt Flood
Miami Dolphins Franchise
1965 American Football League's 9th franchise is officially awarded to Joe Robbie and television star Danny Thomas; Miami Dolphins start play in AFL's Eastern Division in 1966


Actor, Comedian and TV HostDanny Thomas
PGA Championship
1970 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Southern Hills CC: Dave Stockton wins 1st of 2 PGA C'ships by 2 shots from Bob Murphy and Arnold Palmer


Golfer and Two-Time PGA ChampionDave Stockton

GolferArnold Palmer

• 1976 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Congressional CC: Dave Stockton wins 2nd PGA C'ship in a Monday bad weather finish; by 1 stroke from Ray Floyd & Don January
• 1976 St. Louis Cardinals beat San Diego Chargers, 20-10 in Tokyo, Japan (NFL Expo)
• 1977 Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th
• 1981 American swimmer Mary T. Meagher breaks her own world women's 100 m butterfly record (57.93) in Brown Deer, Wisconsin; holds 100/200m double WR
• 1981 Highest score in World Cup soccer match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
• 1984 Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500)
• 1987 NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-10 at Wrigley Field, Chicago; Greg Maddox records the loss

Nigel Mansell F1 Champion
1992 British Williams driver Nigel Mansell finishes second in Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship


Auto RacerNigel Mansell

• 1992 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), St. Charles CC: American Sherri Steinhauer wins first of 2 majors (British Open 2006) by 3 from Judy Dickinson

PGA Championship
1992 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Bellerive CC: Nick Price of Zimbabwe wins by 3 from John Cook, Nick Faldo, Jim Gallagher & Gene Sauers


GolferNick Price

Golfer and Six-Time Major Championship WinnerNick Faldo

• 1997 For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia)
• 1997 New Zealand beats Australia, 36-24 in Dunedin to retain the Tri Nations Rugby Series with an unbeaten record; All Blacks flyhalf Carlos Spencer lands 5 penalties and 3 conversions; halftime NZ, 36-0
• 1997 The South African soccer team, Bafana Bafana wins against the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at First National Bank stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa

PGA Championship
1998 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Sahalee CC: Vijay Singh of Fiji wins by 2 shots from American Steve Stricker


GolferVijay Singh
Ronaldo Debuts with Man U
2003 Cristiano Ronaldo (18) makes his debut for Manchester United and the Premier League in a 4–0 home victory over Bolton Wanderers


Football StarCristiano Ronaldo

• 2003 New Zealand beats Australia, 21-17 at Eden Park, Auckland to win their 5th Tri Nations Rugby Series; All Blacks have undefeated 4-0 record and regain Bledisloe Cup from Wallabies
• 2004 Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe wins the men's 200m freestyle in Olympic record 1:44.71, giving him the 200/400m freestyle double at the Athens Olympics

Phelps Wins 100m Butterfly
2008 American swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 7th of 8 gold medals at the Beijing Olympics when he takes the 100m butterfly in Olympic record 50.58; beats Milorad Čavić of Serbia by 0.01


SwimmerMichael Phelps

• 2008 British cyclist Bradley Wiggins becomes the first rider ever to successfully defend his Olympic title in the individual pursuit when he takes gold at the Beijing Olympics

Ainslie Wins Third Finn Gold
2008 British sailor Ben Ainslie convincingly wins the Finn class at the Beijing Olympics, his third gold medal in as many Games


SailorBen Ainslie

• 2008 British swimmer Rebecca Adlington wraps up the 400/800m freestyle double at the Beijing Olympics with a world record 8:14.10 in the 800
• 2008 British team of Tom James, Steve Williams, Pete Reed & Andrew Triggs Hodge wins the men's rowing coxless fours in Beijing, the third straight Olympics that Great Britain wins gold in this event
• 2008 César Cielo wins the men's 50m freestyle in 21.30 in Beijing, Brazil's first ever swimming Olympic gold medal

Bolt wins Record 100m Gold
2008 Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt sets a new world record of 9.69 seconds to win the coveted 100m gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt

• 2008 Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe swims a world record 2:05.24 to beat American Margaret Hoelzer by 1.01 and win the 200m backstroke at the Beijing Olympics
• 2008 New Zealand rowers Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell successfully defend their 2004 Olympic title in the women's double sculls by beating Germany by 0.01 seconds at the Beijing Games
• 2008 Romanian rower Georgeta Andrunache wins the women's coxless pairs at the Beijing Olympics; her 5th career gold medal, and her 3rd consecutive Olympic gold in the event
• 2008 South Korean weightlifter Jang Mi-Ran wins the women's unlimited (+75 kg) division at the Beijing Olympics by breaking world records 5 times: once in snatch, twice in clean-and-jerk, and twice in total

PGA Championship
2009 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Hazeltine National GC: Yang Yong-eun of South Korea wins his first major title by 3 strokes from Tiger Woods


GolferTiger Woods

• 2009 Usain Bolt of Jamaica edges American Tyson Gay to win 100m in world record 9.58s at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin

PGA Championship
2015 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Whistling Straits GC: Australian Jason Day wins setting major championship record of 20-under-par; beats Jordan Spieth by 3 shots


Professional GolferJordan Spieth

• 2016 Croatian discus thrower Sandra Perković retains her Olympic title with a distance of 69.21m at the Rio de Janeiro Games
• 2016 Georgian weightlifter Lasha Talakhadze sets a world record of 473 total kilograms to win the men's +105kg gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
• 2016 New Zealand canoeist Lisa Carrington retains her K-1 200m Olympic title with a time of 39.864 at the Rio de Janeiro Games
• 2016 Russian pair Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina retain their Olympic synchronised swimming duet title at the Rio de Janeiro Games with final score 194.9910
• 2018 Brandt Snedeker shoots 10th sub-60 round in PGA history with an 11-under par 59 in the opening round of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina
• 2018 Brooke Raboutou wins a gold medal in lead climbing at the IFSC Youth World Championships in Moscow, Russia
• 2018 International Tennis Federation votes to change format of the Davis Cup to a big prize money, season-ending, 18-team tournament at a neutral site; 24 team qualifying tournament to start in February 2019

World Snooker Championship
2020 World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Englishman Ronnie O'Sullivan wins his 6th world title with an 18-8 win over countryman Kyren Wilson


Snooker PlayerRonnie O'Sullivan

• 2022 Philadelphia Phillies 11-4 win over visiting Cincinnati Reds makes them 9th MLB team with 10.000 franchise victories (and last of those founded in 19th century); they were the 1st to lose 10,000, in 2007

 

• 1904 Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 6-0
• 1920 New York Yankees cancel game with Cleveland Indians in memory of Ray Chapman who dies after being hit by a pitch the previous day

Lou Gehrig's Playing Streak

1933 MLB player Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game


Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig

• 1938 Henry Armstrong wins his 3rd concurrent boxing championship
• 1944 Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game
• 1948 Phillies commit 8 errors in a baseball game for the 2nd time
• 1950 Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) & Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park HRs
• 1951 18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180)

Baseball History
1957 Baseball player Richie Ashburn fouls and hits fan Alice Roth twice in the same at-bat playing for the Philadelphia Phillies, 1st hit breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher


Baseball PlayerRichie Ashburn

• 1963 Jim Hickman becomes the first NY Met to hit for the cycle
• 1964 Boycott scores his 1st Test cricket century, 113 vs Australia at The Oval

Baseball Record
1966 San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time HR list


MLB LegendWillie Mays

• 1969 NY Jets beat NY Giants, 37-14 in their first meeting (pre-season)

PGA Championship
1969 PGA Championship Men's Golf, NCR CC: Ray Floyd wins first of his 4 major titles by 1 stroke from South African Gary Player


Golfer and Four-Time Major Championship WinnerRay Floyd

GolferGary Player
Baseball History
1972 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game


Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton
Golf History
1973 American golfer Lee Trevino hits his 1st hole-in-one


GolferLee Trevino

• 1973 Mets first baseman Willie Mays hits 660th & last career home run. off Don Gullett of Cincinnati Reds, in 2-1 loss at Shea Stadium, in New York

Baseball History
1980 George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401


MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett

• 1982 LA Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 6-5 in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)

Pete Rose Returns
1984 Pete Rose returns to Cincinnati Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits)


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

• 1986 Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones and pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen and outfielder Dave Henderson

Baseball Record
1987 Bunt single gives Milwaukee Brewers' Paul Molitor longest MLB hit streak of 1980's at 32 games


Baseball Player and ManagerPaul Molitor
Muhammad Ali
1987 Muhammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali

• 1989 32nd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 12½-11½

Cal Ripken
1989 Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken plays in his 1,208th consecutive game, moves to 3rd place all-time, behind NY Yankees Lou Gehrig and Boston Red Sox/NY Yankees Everett Scott


MLB LegendCal Ripken Jr

• 1990 Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th HR

Mike Tyson Sued
1990 Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

• 1991 Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league HR since 1983
• 1992 Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0

Marco van Basten Retires
1995 Dutch AC Milan manager and former player Marco van Basten announces his retirement from professional football


Soccer StarMarco van Basten
PGA Championship
1997 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Winged Foot GC: Davis Love III wins his only major title by 5 strokes from Justin Leonard


GolferDavis Love III

• 2003 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oak Hill CC: Shaun Micheel wins his lone major title by 2 strokes from Chad Campbell
• 2004 Yana Klochkova of Ukraine wins the 200m individual medley in 2:11.14 at the Athens Olympics to wrap up the 200/400m medley double
• 2008 Australian women's 4 x 100m medley relay team of Emily Seebohm, Leisel Jones, Jessicah Schipper & Libby Trickett upset the United States to win the gold medal in world record 3:52.69 at the Beijing Olympics

Canadian Women's Open
2008 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Ottawa Hunt GC: Australian Katherine Hull wins by 1 from Se Ri Pak


LPGA GolferSe Ri Pak

• 2008 China wins its 33rd gold medal of the Beijing Olympics by beating Singapore in the table tennis women's team event; most successful Olympiad ever for China; wins all 10 singles and all 5 doubles matches
• 2008 Four years after winning Olympic silver in the rowing quad sculls in Athens, Briton Rebecca Romero becomes only 2nd woman to earn medals in 2 different sports at the summer Games when she wins the pursuit track cycling gold in Beijing
• 2008 German swimmer Britta Steffen beats American Dara Torres by 0.01 in the 50m to wrap up the 50/100m double at the Beijing Olympics
• 2008 Gulnara Samitova-Galkina of Russia wins the 3,000m steeplechase gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in world record 8:58.81
• 2008 Jamaica dominates the 100m at the Beijing Olympics with Shelly-Ann Fraser taking the gold medal in 10.78; her teammates Sherone Simpson & Kerron Stewart dead-heat for silver in 10.98

Nadal Olympic Champion
2008 Rafael Nadal of Spain beats Chile's Fernando González 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 to win the men's tennis singles at the Beijing Olympics; Spain's first ever Olympic gold medal in tennis


Tennis ChampionRafael Nadal
Golf History
2008 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Crosswater Club: Fred Funk wins first of 3 Champions Tour majors by 3 strokes from Mike Goodes


GolferFred Funk
Phelps Breaks Spitz Record
2008 US team Michael Phelps, Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen & Jason Lezak wins 4 x 100m medley relay at the Beijing Olympics in world record 3:29.34; Phelps' 8th gold medal of Games breaks Mark Spitz's 1972 record (7)


SwimmerMichael Phelps

SwimmerAaron Peirsol
Bolt 200m Champion
2013 14th Athletics World Championships: Usain Bolt wins 200m


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt
LPGA Championship
2014 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Monroe GC: Defending champion Inbee Park of South Korea beats runner-up Brittany Lincicome on 1st hole of a sudden-death playoff for her 5th major title


GolferInbee Park

GolferBrittany Lincicome

• 2015 2012 Olympic 1500m champion from Turkey Asli Cakir Alptekin is stripped of her gold medal for doping by the IAAF
• 2016 American sweep in 100m women's hurdles at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics with Brianna Rollins taking gold ahead of Nia Ali & Kristi Castlin; 1st time US has swept medals in an Olympic women's track & field event
• 2016 German pair Laura Ludwig & Kira Walkenhorst upsets Brazilian hometown favourites Ágatha Bednarczuk & Bárbara Seixas 21–18, 21–14 to win the Olympic women's beach volleyball gold in Rio de Janeiro
• 2016 Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson wins 200m gold medal in 21.78; wraps up 100/200m Rio de Janeiro Olympics double
• 2016 Kenyan runner Conseslus Kipruto records an Olympic record 8:03.28 to win the men's 3,000m steeplechase gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Games
• 2021 Joel Embiid signs a four-year, $196 million NBA extension with the 76ers

 

AUGUST 18

• 1886 Carr Baker Neel & Samuel Neel win US Lawn Tennis Association doubles
• 1914 Swiss track and road bicycle racer Oscar Egg sets new hour world record of 44.247 km at the outdoor Vélodrome Buffalo in Paris; record stands until 1933
• 1915 Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat St. Louis Cardinals, 3-1

• 1920 1st class cricket debut of Walter Hammond

PGA Men's Championship

1922 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oakmont CC: 20-year old US Open champion Gene Sarazen defeats Emmet French, 4 & 3 in the final


GolferGene Sarazen

• 1923 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Brisbane: Pat O'Hara Wood wins his 2nd Australasian title; beats fellow Australian Bert St John 6-1, 6-1, 6-3
• 1923 Australasian Championships Women's Tennis, Brisbane: Margaret Molesworth retains title; beats Esna Boyd 6-1, 7-5

US National Women's Championship
1923 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Germantown CC, PA: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla Bjurstedt Mallory 6-2, 6-1 for her first of 7 US singles crowns


Tennis PlayerHelen Wills Moody

• 1926 England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0

Gehrig's 1,000 Game Streak
1931 Lou Gehrig hitless in Detroit, his 1,000th consecutively played game


Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig
World Record Partnership
1934 Don Bradman (244) and Bill Ponsford (205 no) put on 451 in world record partnership for Australia on Day 1 of 5th cricket Test win against England at the Oval


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

CricketerBill Ponsford
US Women's National Championship
1934 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Jacobs beats fellow American Sarah Palfrey Cooke 6-1, 6-3 for her third straight US singles title


Tennis PlayerHelen Jacobs

• 1941 Phillies commit 8 errors in a baseball game

Hubbell's Final Game
1943 Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell wins his 253rd and final game as NY beats Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-2 at the Polo Grounds, NYC


Baseball PitcherCarl Hubbell

• 1945 Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds & Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off
• 1946 Golf Writers Association of America forms
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• 1951 Cricket 1st-class debut of Raymond Illingworth
• 1956 Cincinnati Reds (8) & Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 HRs in a 9 inning game
• 1957 Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4½")

Patterson TKOs Harris
1958 Floyd Patterson TKOs Roy Harris in 13 for heavyweight boxing title at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, California


Boxing ChampionFloyd Patterson
Baseball History
1959 Branch Rickey resigns as MLB Pittsburgh Pirates' CEO to be President of new baseball Continental League


Baseball Player and Sports ExecutiveBranch Rickey

• 1960 Milwaukee Braves pitcher Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
• 1964 South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies
• 1964 The Beatles arrive in San Francisco, California on their second US visit, and first cross-country tour, encompassing 32 shows in 25 cities over 31 days
• 1965 Dutch soccer team FC Den Bosch (successor to BVV 1906 and Wilhelmina 1890) is established at 's-Hertogenbosch

Baseball History
1965 Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of batter's box


Baseball PlayerHank Aaron
Baseball History
1965 Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his third career triple play (tying George Sisler, Deacon McGuire and Joe Start)


Baseball Hall of Fame Third BasemanBrooks Robinson

• 1967 Boston Red Sox Tony Conigliaro is beaned by Angels Jack Hamilton at Fenway Park; injuries including a fractured cheekbone, dislocated jaw, and eye damage kept him from returning for a year and a half, and led to improvements in batting helmets
• 1973 Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record

Baseball Record
1977 Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton throws his NL record tying 5th one-hitter


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherDon Sutton
Baseball History
1980 KC Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400


MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett

• 1981 Football running back, Herschel Walker, of U of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million
• 1982 Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago IL, ends after 22 innings - before LA Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th)
• 1982 NYSE tops 100m shares traded for the 1st time, sets a new record of 132.69m shares traded

Baseball History
1982 Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose
Baseball Record
1983 KC Royals defeat NY Yankees, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes); Hal McRae strikes out & Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order


MLB PlayerDan Quisenberry

• 1986 Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)
• 1987 Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL
• 1989 Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as NY Yankee manager

Women's British Open
1996 British Open Women's Golf, Woburn, Duke's Course: Emilee Klein wins by 7 strokes ahead of fellow Americans Amy Alcott and Penny Hammel


GolferAmy Alcott
Canadian Women's Open
2002 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Summerlea GC: Meg Mallon wins by 3 from Michelle Ellis, Rosie Jones, Catriona Matthew & Michele Redman


LPGA GolferMeg Mallon

GolferCatriona Matthew
PGA Championship
2002 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Hazeltine National GC: American Rich Beem wins his first major title by 1 stroke from Tiger Woods


GolferTiger Woods

• 2004 Dutch swimmer Pieter van den Hoogenband wins the coveted 100m freestyle gold medal in 48.17 ahead of Roland Schoeman of South Africa at the Athens Olympics
• 2004 Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitajima wraps up the 100/200m breaststroke double at the Athens Olympics when he wins the 200m in 2:09.44, an Olympic record
• 2004 Shot put event at the Athens Olympics held in Ancient Olympia, site of the ancient Olympic Games; first time women ever compete in venue; Yumileidi Cumbá of Cuba wins women's gold; American Adam Nelson men's gold
• 2004 US women's 4 × 200m freestyle relay team of Natalie Coughlin, Carly Piper, Dana Vollmer & Kaitlin Sandeno smash long-standing world record set by GDR in 1987 to win gold at the Athens Olympics (7:53.42)
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• 2008 An American 1-2-3 in the 400m hurdles at the Beijing Olympics; Angelo Taylor wins gold in 47.25 ahead of Kerron Clement and Bershawn Jackson
• 2008 Belarusian weightlifter Andrei Aramnau breaks three world records in the snatch, clean and jerk, and total on his way to winning the men's 105 kg gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
• 2008 Emulating the Chinese women, the men win the team table tennis gold medal at the Beijing Olympics without losing a match; win all 10 singles and all 5 doubles matches
• 2008 Russian pole-vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva sets a new world record of 5.05m to win the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics; her 24th world record
• 2013 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Colorado GC: Europe retain Cup for the first time in record winning margin 18-12; Sweden's Caroline Hedwall becomes first player to win 5 matches in a single competition
• 2016 Great Britain's Alistair Brownlee records time of 1:45.01 to retain his Olympic men's triathlon title at the Rio de Janeiro Games; 0:06 in front of second-place finisher, brother Jonathan Brownlee

Bolt's Third 200m Gold
2016 Jamaica's Usain Bolt wins the gold medal in the men's 200m for the 3rd successive Summer Olympics, recording a time of 19.78 in Rio de Janeiro


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt
NZ Wins 49er Gold
2016 New Zealand's 2017 America's Cup winning helmsman Peter Burling teams with Blair Tuke to win the gold medal in the 49er class sailing at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics


YachtsmanPeter Burling

• 2016 Ukranine canoeist Yuriy Cheban sets an Olympic record 39.279 to win the men's C-1 200m gold at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; retains title he won in London 2012
• 2018 Australian mare Winx wins her Australasian record 26th consecutive race, the renamed Winx Stakes at Royal Randwick in Sydney; 19th Group One win for thoroughbreds

Imran Khan Prime Minister
2018 Imran Khan becomes the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan after gaining the support of independent members after his party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) won the most votes but not a majority in the general election


Cricketer and Prime Minister of PakistanImran Khan

• 2021 MLB Los Angeles Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani becomes fastest player in team history to reach 40 home runs in a season, also pitches 8 innings in 3-1 win at Detroit

 

AUGUST 19

• 1900 Start of first and only Olympic cricket match, Great Britain beats France by 158 runs in Paris
• 1903 Philadelphia Phillies suffer record 9th straight postponed game
• 1909 Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens in Speedway, Indiana, home of the Indy 500

• 1911 NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times
• 1917 Sunday benefit baseball game at NYC's Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws

Ty Cobb 3000 Hits

1921 Detroit's Tiger Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits against Boston Red Sox, the youngest ever


MLB LegendTy Cobb
US National Women's Championship
1922 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Germantown CC, PA: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody 6-3, 6-1 for her 7th US singles crown


Tennis PlayerHelen Wills Moody
US National Women's Championship
1932 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin Babcock Stark 6-2, 6-2 for her first of 4 straight US singles crowns


Tennis PlayerHelen Jacobs
Frisch's Umbrella Ejection
1941 Baseball umpire Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout


Baseball HOF InfielderFrankie Frisch
Foxx's 1st Seven Innings Pitch
1945 Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs Reds & wins


MLB Hall of Fame 1st BasemanJimmie Foxx
Baseball History
1951 Bill Veeck (St. Louis Browns) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" little person, to pinch-hit; he walked on four pitches.


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck

• 1953 England regains cricket Ashes from Australia after winning series 1-0
• 1955 US raises import duty on bicycles 50%
• 1957 NY Giants board of directors vote 8-1 to move their baseball franchise to San Francisco in 1958 [1]
• 1959 Honolulu, Hawaii seeks a franchise in baseball's new Continental League
• 1962 Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55
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• 1965 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jim Maloney throws his second no-hitter of the season in 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs

Baseball History
1969 MLB Chicago Cubs pitcher Ken Holtzman no-hits visiting Atlanta Braves, 3-0 at Wrigley Field


Baseball PitcherKen Holtzman
Baseball Record
1980 Kansas City Royals' George Brett hitting streak ends at 30 games


MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett

• 1982 Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec
• 1983 Dodgers trade Dave Stewart & Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut

Billy Cannon Sentenced
1983 LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting


NFL Running BackBilly Cannon
PGA Championship
1984 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Shoal Creek: Lee Trevino wins his 2nd PGA C'ship by 4 shots from Gary Player and Lanny Wadkins


GolferGary Player

GolferLee Trevino
NHL History
1988 NY Rangers sign ex-Canadian great Guy LaFleur out of retirement


NHL LegendGuy Lafleur

• 1990 Dodger Jose Offerman hits HR in his 1st at bat
• 1992 Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL v Australia)
• 1992 Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 v Australia
• 1993 34th Walker Cup: US, 19-5
• 1993 Sally Gunnell runs women's world record 400m hurdles (52.74")
• 1995 Bruce Seldon TKOs Joe Hipp in 10 for heavyweight boxing title

Boxing History
1995 Mike Tyson returns to the ring after serving 3 years in prison and DQs Peter McNeeley in 89 seconds


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

Baseball History
1997 NY Yank 3rd baseman Wade Boggs pitches a scoreless inning vs Anaheim


Baseball PlayerWade Boggs
Canadian Women's Open
2001 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Angus Glen GC: Annika Sörenstam wins by 2 from Kelly Robbins


LPGA GolferKelly Robbins

GolferAnnika Sörenstam
F1 World Champion
2001 German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins the Hungarian Grand prix at the Hungaroring to clinch his 4th F1 World Drivers Championship and equal Alain Prost's record of 51 Grand Prix victories


Formula 1 DriverMichael Schumacher

Formula 1 DriverAlain Prost
PGA Championship
2001 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Atlanta Athletic Club: David Toms wins his first major title by 1 stroke from Phil Mickelson


GolferPhil Mickelson

GolferDavid Toms
Aaron Peirsol Double
2004 American swimmer Aaron Peirsol wins the men's 200m backstroke in Olympic record 1:54.95, giving him the 100/200m backstroke double at the Athens Olympics


SwimmerAaron Peirsol
Phelps Medley Double
2004 American swimmer Michael Phelps wraps up the 200/400m individual medley double at the Athens Olympics when he wins the 200m (1:57.14 OR) ahead of teammate Ryan Lochte


SwimmerMichael Phelps

SwimmerRyan Lochte

• 2004 Australian swimmer Jodie Henry records 53.84 to win the blue ribband 100m freestyle gold medal ahead of Dutch star Inge de Bruijn at the Athens Olympics
• 2004 US gymnast Carly Patterson becomes the 2nd American woman to win the all-around gold medal, and 1st to win at a non-boycotted Olympic games, when she takes gold in Athens

Canadian Women's Open
2007 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Royal Mayfair GC: Mexican Lorena Ochoa wins by 3 from Paula Creamer


GolferLorena Ochoa

• 2007 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Crosswater Club: Mark McNulty of Zimbabwe wins lone career major title by 5 strokes from David Edwards
• 2008 Britain's Victoria Pendleton beats Anna Mears in the women's cycling sprint final at the Beijing Olympics; GB dominates the track winning 7 of 10 gold medals
• 2008 Chris Hoy encapsulates British dominance of track cycling at the Beijing Olympics beating teammate Jason Kenny to win the sprint, adding to his keirin and team sprint gold medals
• 2008 Reigning world champion, Christine Ohuruogu wins the women's 400m at the Beijing Olympics; GB's 50th gold medal in Olympic track & field competition
• 2008 The men's gymnastics program at the Beijing Olympics concludes with the home team from China dominating the medals tally takes 7 of 8 gold medals; Zou Kai wins 3
• 2016 A 6-way tie for first place in the final of the equestrian individual jumping competition at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Nick Skelton of Great Britain wins gold medal jump-off
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• 2016 Chloe Esposito of Australia sets Olympic record overall score of 1,372 points to win the women's modern pentathlon in Rio de Janeiro. Élodie Clouvel of France second (1,356 points), Oktawia Nowacka of Poland third (1,349)
• 2016 Colombian BMX rider Mariana Pajón successfully defends her Olympic title when she beats American Alise Post in the final in Rio de Janeiro
• 2016 Germany beats Sweden 2-1 in the women's football gold medal match at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; 52,432 at the Maracanã Stadium
• 2016 Great Britain upsets the heavily favoured Netherlands to win the women's field hockey gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after drawing 3-3 in regulation time; win dramatic penalty shootout, 2-0
• 2016 Kiley Neushul scores 3 goals as the US women's water polo team routs Italy 12-5 to win the gold medal in Rio de Janeiro and retain their Olympic title
• 2016 Tajikistan's Dilshod Nazarov throws 78.68m to win the men's hammer throw gold medal the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; first gold medal for Tajikistan in Olympic history
• 2016 Vivian Cheruiyot of Kenya goes one better than her London silver medal when she wins women's 5,000m at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; runs Olympic record time of 14:26.17

Đoković 1st to Nine Masters
2018 Novak Đoković beats Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the Cincinnati Masters to become the first player to win all nine Masters 1,000 tennis tournaments since the series started in 1990


Tennis ChampionNovak Đoković

Tennis ChampionRoger Federer

• 2023 MLB Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Trea Turner hits two solo home runs in same inning in 12-3 win over the Nationals in Washington

 

AUGUST 20

• 1888 In an epic first-round US men's singles tennis match, Palmer Presbrey takes 80 games to defeat TS Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4
• 1900 Great Britain beats France by 158 runs in Paris; cricket's only appearance at an Olympic Games

Johnson's Sets AL Record

1912 Washington Senators future Baseball HOF pitcher Walter Johnson wins AL-record 15th straight, beating Cleveland Naps, 4-2; in nightcap Carl Cushion no-hits Naps, 2-0 in 6 innings


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

• 1915 Chicago White Sox obtain 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson from Cleveland for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer & $31,500; Jackson involved in 'Black Sox Scandal' 1919
• 1919 Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for .505 average)

American Professional Football Association
1920 American Professional Football Association forms with Jim Thorpe as president; later becomes the National Football League (NFL)


Versatile AthleteJim Thorpe

• 1921 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Germantown CC, PA: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory wins her 6th US singles title; beats 3-time champion Mary Browne 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
• 1922 1st Women's World Games (first track & field competition for women) is conducted over 1-day at the Pershing Stadium in Paris

Bradman Leads Australia to Test Victory
1930 A week before his 22nd birthday Australian cricket's batting genius Don Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test win over England at The Oval in London


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
US National Women's Championship
1931 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Wills Moody beats Eileen Bennett Whittingstall of England 6-4, 6-1 for her 7th and final US singles title


Tennis PlayerHelen Wills Moody
Ponsford Scores 266
1934 Australian cricket opening batsman Bill Ponsford is dismissed for 266 in his final Test match against England at The Oval; out for 22 in 2nd innings


CricketerBill Ponsford
Lou Gehrig's 23rd Grand Slam
1938 NY Yankees future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & final grand slam in 11-3 win over Philadelphia A's at Shribe Park


Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig
PGA Men's Championship
1944 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Manito G & CC: Bob Hamilton wins his only major title, 1 up in the 36-hole final over heavily favoured Byron Nelson


GolferByron Nelson

• 1945 17-year-old Dodgers utility Tommy Brown becomes youngest player to hit a MLB home run in Brooklyn's 11-1 rout of Pittsburgh Pirates at Ebbets Field
• 1947 Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
• 1948 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
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• 1949 78,382 fans watch the White Sox play the Indians in Cleveland
• 1957 Chicago White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Washington Senators, 6-0
• 1958 Chicago Cubs use 1st baseman Dale Long as their 1st major league lefty catcher since 1906
• 1961 Philadelphia Phillies beat Milwaukee Braves, 7-4 at County Stadium; end losing streak with dubious MLB record of 23 straight loses

Sports History
1964 New York Yankees player Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite manager Yogi Berra's orders


MLB Catcher and ManagerYogi Berra

• 1964 Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 v India in only Test Cricket innings

Baseball Record
1965 Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team


Baseball PlayerHank Aaron
Golf Tournament
1967 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Pekin CC: Kathy Whitworth wins by 7 strokes from Sandra Haynie


LPGA GolferKathy Whitworth

GolferSandra Haynie
Ryan's Record Pitch
1974 Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1980 Cleveland Indians pitcher Dan Spillner, 5.45 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when Chicago White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles
• 1980 NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
• 1980 Pittsburgh Pirate Omar Moreno pillages record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season
• 1982 Don Lever becomes first captain of NHL New Jersey Devils

Baseball History
1985 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)


Baseball PitcherDwight Gooden

• 1985 Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
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• 1988 Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)

Baseball Record
1989 MLB New York Mets infielder Howard Johnson joins Barry Bonds and Willie Mays, hitting 30 HRs and stealing 30 bases in a season


MLB Third BasemanHoward Johnson

MLB LegendWillie Mays

• 1990 Gene Michael names NY Yankee VP/GM replacing Harding Peterson

Steinbrenner Steps Down
1990 George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner


New York Yankees OwnerGeorge Steinbrenner

• 1990 NY Yankee Kevin Maas is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)

NFL History
1991 Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million


Hall of Fame NFL QuarterbackDan Marino

NFL QuarterbackJoe Montana

• 1991 Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29)
• 1993 Colin Jackson runs a world record 110m hurdles in 12.91 seconds
• 1994 Vuyani Bungu, the South African junior featherweight, wins the IBF World Boxing Title

Women's British Open
1995 British Open Women's Golf, Woburn, Duke's Course: Australian Karrie Webb scores a 6 stroke win over runners-up Annika Sörenstam and Jill McGill


GolferAnnika Sörenstam

GolferKarrie Webb

• 1999 7th Athletics World Championships open at Seville, Spain

PGA Championship
2000 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Valhalla GC: Tiger Woods wins back-to-back PGA titles after a three-hole playoff with Bob May, becoming the first to win three majors in a calendar year since Ben Hogan in 1953


GolferTiger Woods

GolferBen Hogan
Phelps Double Gold
2004 American swimmer Michael Phelps wraps up the 100/200m butterfly double at the Athens Olympics when he wins the 100m (51.25 OR) ahead of teammate Ian Croker


SwimmerMichael Phelps
Ethiopia Dominates 10,000m
2004 Ethiopian runners Kenenisa Bekele (27:05.10 OR) and Sileshi Sihine go 1-2 in the 10,000m at the Athens Olympics


Long-Distance RunnerKenenisa Bekele

• 2006 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Medinah CC: Tiger Woods wins his 3rd PGA C'ship by 5 strokes from Shaun Micheel
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• 2008 Russian long-distance swimmer Larisa Ilchenko wins inaugural women's open water marathon (10k) in 1:59:27.7 at the Beijing Olympics

Usain Bolt Double
2008 Usain Bolt of Jamaica wraps up the 100/200m double in style with a new 200m world record 19.30 at the Beijing Olympics

• 2009 12th Athletics World Championships: Usain Bolt wins 200m

Senior Players Championship
2011 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, Westchester CC: Fred Couples wins first of 2 Champions Tour major titles with birdie on 3rd playoff hole against John Cook


Golfer and Masters Champion Fred Couples

• 2012 South Africa become the top-ranked test cricket nation after defeating England
• 2016 4 women's high jump competitors tie at clearing winning height 1.97m at the Rio Olympics; all then fail at 2.00m; Ruth Beitia of Spain wins the gold based on having no misses prior to bar being raised to 2.00m
• 2016 Canoeists Max Rendschmidt and Marcus Gross part of winning German crew in K-4 100m at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; wrap up K-2 / K-4 1,000m double
• 2016 Chinese diver Chen Aisen does the Olympic 10m platform double in Rio de Janeiro; having already won the synchronised event, he wins the individual gold by a comfortable margin
• 2016 Controversial South African middle distance runner Caster Semenya retains her Olympic women's 800m title in a time of 1:55.28 in the final in Rio de Janeiro
• 2016 German canoeist Sebastian Brendel teams with Jan Vandrey to win the C-2 1,000m at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; wraps up C-1 / C-2 1,000m double
• 2016 In a blanket finish American triathlete Gwen Jorgensen takes the Olympic gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Games in 1:56.16; 0.40 ahead of Nicola Spirig Hug of Switzerland, and Great Britain's Vicky Holland by 0:45
• 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics: team sports - China beats Serbia, 3-1 for the women's indoor volleyball gold; in the men's water polo final, Serbia downs Croatia, 11-7 for first Olympic title

First Women's Golfing Gold
2016 South Korean golfer Inbee Park wins the inaugural Olympic women's individual gold with a final score of 16 under par in Rio de Janeiro; Lydia Ko (New Zealand) 11 under par; Shanshan Feng (China) 10 under par
Mo Farah Wins Double
2016 Star British runner Mo Farah wins the men's 5,000m in 13:03.30 at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; wraps up 5k/10k double which he also completed in London 2012

• 2016 The Hungarian crew wins canoe sprint K-4 500m at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Danuta Kozák becomes the only female to win K1, K2 and K4 at the same Olympics
• 2017 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Des Moines G & CC: US retains Cup 16½- 11½; down by 5, Europe can only halve the singles 6-6
• 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, Stadium Australia, Sydney: Spanish captain Olga Carmona scores the only goal of the game as La Furia Roja score a 1-0 win over England

 

AUGUST 21

• 1878 Surrey wicket-keeper Ted Pooley completes a then-1st class cricket record 8 stumpings in a County match against Kent at The Oval
• 1899 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Malcolm Whitman wins second of 3 consecutive US singles titles; beats J. Parmly Paret 6-1, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5

National Men's Championship

1900 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Malcolm Whitman beats William Larned 6-4, 1-6, 6-2, 6-2 to win his third straight US singles title


Tennis PlayerWilliam Larned

• 1901 Baltimore Orioles pitcher Joe McGinnity is suspended from MLB for punching & spitting on umpire Tom Connolly in previous day's 5-2 loss to Detroit Tigers; lifetime suspension reduced to 12 days

US Men's Golf Open
1914 US Open Men's Golf, Midlothian CC: 21-year old Walter Hagen holds off amateur Chick Evans by 1 stroke to win the first of his 2 Open titles; first of 11 major championships


GolferWalter Hagen

• 1915 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Brisbane: Englishman Gordon Lowe beats Horace Rice of Australia 4-6, 6-1, 6-1, 6-4

PGA Men's Championship
1920 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Flossmoor CC: American based Scotsman Jock Hutchison beats J. Douglas Edgar of England, 1-up; first of Hutchinson's 2 majors


GolferJock Hutchison

• 1925 Dutch football club FC Emmen is formed in the town of Emmen in north-eastern province of Drenthe in the Netherlands
• 1926 Chicago White Sox pitcher Ted Lyons no hits Boston Red Sox, 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway Park

Ruth 1st to 600 HRs
1931 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth becomes the first MLB player to hit 600 career home runs as NY defeats St. Louis Browns, 11-7 at Sportsman's Park


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
Ferrell's 20 Game Record
1932 Cleveland Indians pitcher Wes Ferrell first to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons


Baseball PitcherWes Ferrell

• 1948 Cleveland Indians 47-inning scoreless streak is broken as future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Lemon yields a home run to Aaron Robinson in a 3-2 loss to Chicago White Sox

Baseball Hires John Norman Lewis
1953 Baseball player representatives Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire labor leader John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiations with team owners


Baseball Hall of Fame Left FielderRalph Kiner

Baseball PitcherAllie Reynolds
Women's Western Open
1966 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Rainbow Springs CC; Mickey Wright wins her 13th and final major title by 1 from Margie Masters & Jo Ann Prentice


LPGA GolferMickey Wright

• 1967 MLB Kansas City Athlteics utility player Ken Harrelson becomes baseball's first free agent when he is abruptly released by the team, after he reputedly refers to team owner Charlie Finley "a menace to baseball"
• 1977 American water skier Donna Patterson Brice sets women's high speed record 111.11 mph at Long Beach, California
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• 1979 Mets win a protested game against Astros, 5-0
• 1982 American MLB Milwaukee Brewers' relief pitcher Rollie Fingers becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300

Cricket Record
1986 Ian Botham takes world-record 356th Test cricket wicket (vs NZ, The Oval)


CricketerIan Botham

• 1986 Red Sox Spike Owens scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of Cleveland Indians
• 1986 With 2 outs in 6th inning, Red Sox score 11 runs
• 1987 "Mack Lobell" set harness racing's trotting mil (1:52)

Phelps Wins 6th Gold
2004 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 6th gold medal of the Athens Olympics even though he doesn't swim the final of men's 4 x 100m medley relay; US wins in world record 3:30.68


SwimmerMichael Phelps

• 2004 Belarusian sprinter Yulia Nestsiarenka runs 10.93 to beat American Lauryn Williams and win the 100m gold medal at the Athens Olympics
• 2004 Nicolás Massú & Fernando González win the men's doubles tennis at the Athens Olympics beating German pair Nicolas Kiefer & Rainer Schüttler in 5 sets; it's Chile's first Olympic gold medal
• 2004 South Africa clinch their 2nd Tri Nations Rugby Series on points differential with a 23-19 win over Australia in Durban; Wallabies score 3 tries to 2, but Percy Montgomery lands 5 goals for Springboks
• 2004 The archery competition concludes at the Athens Olympics with South Korea dominant with 3 of 4 gold medals; venue is the Panathenaic Stadium, in which the 1896 games were held
• 2004 The Australian women's 4 x 100m medley relay team of Giaan Rooney, Leisel Jones, Petria Thomas & Jodie Henry smashes the world record to take gold in 3:57.32 at the Athens Olympics
• 2008 After winning the event in Athens, Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown makes it consecutive 200m Olympic titles beating American Allyson Felix by 0.19 in Beijing
• 2008 American pair Misty May-Treanor & Kerry Walsh dominate China's Tian Jiathe & Wang Jie 21-18, 21-18 in the beach volleyball final to repeat of their gold medal from Athens; don't lose a set in the competition
• 2008 An American sweep of the 400m medals at the Beijing Olympics; LeShawn Merritt wins gold in 43.75 ahead of Jeremy Wariner and David Neville
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• 2008 Daniëlle de Bruijn scores a match winning 7 goals as the Netherlands upset the United States 9-8 to take the women's water polo gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
• 2008 Dutch swimmer and cancer survivor Maarten van der Weijden wins inaugural men's open water marathon (10k) in 1:51:51.6 at the Beijing Olympics
• 2008 Japan edges the United States 3-1 for the gold medal in the final of the women's softball tournament at the Beijing Olympics

US Women Win Football Gold
2008 Striker Carli Lloyd scores in extra time as the United States beat Brazil 1-0 to take the women's football gold medal at the Beijing Olympics


Football StarHope Solo

• 2010 New Zealand clinch their 10th Tri Nations Rugby Series with one match remaining, scoring 2 tries in the last 3 minutes to beat South Africa, 29–22 in the first-ever Test at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg
• 2016 Brazil takes 3rd Olympic men's indoor volleyball gold medal at the Rio Games with 25–22, 28–26, 26–24 win over Italy

Kipchoge Wins Marathon
2016 Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge wins the Olympic men's marathon gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Games in a time of 2:08.44; Feyisa Lilesa (Ethiopia) second in 2:09:54, and Galen Rupp (US) third in 2:10:05


Long Distance RunnerEliud Kipchoge
US Men Basketball Gold
2016 Kevin Durant scores 30 as the US retains the Olympic men's basketball title with a comfortable 96-66 win over Serbia at the Rio de Janeiro Games


Basketball ForwardKevin Durant

• 2016 XXXI Summer Olympic Games close at the Estadio Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Golf Record
2020 American golfer Scottie Scheffler makes birdie on 4 of final 5 holes to become 12th player in PGA Tour history to shoot 59 in 2nd round of the Northern Trust at TPC Boston


GolferScottie Scheffler
Henry Named Manager
2023 Thierry Henry is named as the new manager of the France national under-21 team


Footballer and ManagerThierry Henry

 

AUGUST 22

• 1851 100 Guineas Cup is raced around Isle of Wight; US schooner 'America' beats British cutter 'Aurora' by 24 minutes; first competition for the America's Cup yachting trophy

US National Men's Championship
1885 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears wins 5th consecutive US singles title; beats Godfrey M. Brinley 6-3, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3


Tennis PlayerRichard Sears

• 1898 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Malcolm Whitman wins first of 3 straight US singles titles; beats Dwight F. Davis 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-1
• 1917 Pittsburgh Pirates play 4th straight extra inning game; left fielder Carson Bigbee sets MLB record of 11 at-bats in 22 inning, 6-5 loss to Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field

Ruth's 40th Home Run
1927 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth hits 40th home run during his MLB record 60 HR season in New York's 9-4 loss to Cleveland Indians at Dunn Field


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1930 Australian cricket slow-medium bowler Percy Hornibrook takes 7-92 as England dismissed for 251 in an innings defeat in 5th Test at The Oval; Australia regain Ashes, 2-1
• 1933 Chicago Cubs president William Veeck, Sr. urges MLB to incorporate midsummer inter-league games and a split season
• 1934 Australian cricket spin bowler Clarrie Grimmett takes 5-64 as England dismissed for 145 in 5th Test at The Oval; Australia wins by 562 runs to regain Ashes, 2-1
• 1946 Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it
• 1946 Mikko Hietanen wins Oslo marathon (2:24:55)
• 1947 14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chicago Bears 0 (105,840)

Gibson 1st Black Player
1950 Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competitor in a US national tennis competition


Tennis PlayerAlthea Gibson

• 1951 Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052

F1 World Champion
1954 Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina clinches his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by winning Swiss Grand Prix at Bremgarten in a Maserati


Auto RacerJuan Manuel Fangio
Rademacher vs Patterson
1957 Olympic heavyweight boxing champion Pete Rademacher becomes first to contest the world title in his first professional bout; knocked out by Floyd Patterson in 6th round at Sicks' Stadium, Seattle


Boxing ChampionFloyd Patterson

• 1959 American Football League officially named at a meeting in Dallas, Texas; charter members Dallas, NY, Houston, Denver, LA and Minneapolis-Saint Paul

Baseball Record
1959 Cincinnati Reds future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs (6 RBIs) in 11-4 win over St. Louis Cardinals at Crosley Field


Baseball Outfielder and ManagerFrank Robinson
Baseball Record
1960 Gil Hodges set NL right handed HR record with #352


MLB First BasemanGil Hodges
Baseball Record
1961 New York Yankee Roger Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers


Baseball PlayerRoger Maris

• 1965 San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marachal hits LA Dodger catcher John Roseboro on the head with his bat causing a 14 minute brawl
• 1972 Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee for its racist policies.
• 1975 McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens

White Sox Sold
1980 Bill Veeck agrees to sell MLB Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck
Baseball Record
1984 Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200


Baseball PitcherDwight Gooden

• 1985 30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11

Baseball Record
1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson

• 1991 Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100m backstroke (1:00.31)

Cricket History
1992 Greg Matthews (4/76) & Shane Warne (3/11) spin Australia to a famous 16-run win v Sri Lanka in 1st cricket Test in Colombo


Cricketer and BroadcasterShane Warne
O.J. Simpson Linked to Murder
1994 DNA testing links O.J. Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman


NFL Running Back and Convicted CriminalO.J. Simpson

• 1998 South Africa beats Australia, 29-15 in Johannesburg to win their first Tri Nations Rugby Series with an unbeaten record; Springboks fullback Percy Montgomery lands 5 penalties and 2 conversions
• 2004 After winning the doubles tennis gold medal at the Athens Olympics, Chile's Nicolás Massú wins the men's singles gold 6–3, 3–6, 2–6, 6–3, 6–4 over American Mardy Fish

Gatlin Wins 100m
2004 American sprinter Justin Gatlin wins the coveted Olympic 100m gold medal in Athens in 9.85 ahead of Francis Obikwelu of Portugal & American Maurice Greene


SprinterJustin Gatlin

• 2004 Athens Olympic marathon is run on same route as 1896 Games, start at site of the Battle of Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens: Mizuki Noguchi of Japan wins women's gold in 2:26:20

Henin Olympic Tennis Champion
2004 Justine Henin of Belgium wins the women's singles tennis gold medal at the Athens Olympics 6-3, 6-3 over Amélie Mauresmo of France


Tennis PlayerJustine Henin

Tennis PlayerAmélie Mauresmo

• 2004 The rowing program at the Athens Olympics ends with the United States winning the men's eights, and Romania taking the gold in the women's eights
• 2007 The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
• 2008 American decathlete Brian Clay wins 4 of the 10 events and finishes 2nd in 2 others to dominate field and take the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
• 2008 Anne-Caroline Chausson of France and Māris Štrombergs of Latvia win the inaugural gold medals in BMX, winning the women's and men's events respectively at the Beijing Olympics
• 2008 Ethiopian distance runner Tirunesh Dibaba wraps up the women's 5,000/10,000m double at the Beijing Olympics when she takes gold in the 5k in an Olympic record 15:41.40
• 2008 Maurren Higa Maggi wins the women's long jump with a leap of 7.04m at the Beijing Olympics; Brazil's first ever gold medal in any women's individual event
• 2008 Russia wins the women's 4 × 100 m relay ahead of Belgium & Nigeria at the Beijing Olympics; disqualified in 2016 when reanalysis of Yulia Chermoshanskaya’s samples result in positive test for prohibited substances
• 2008 Steven Hooker wins the men's pole vault with 5.96m at the Beijing Olympics; Australia's first gold medal in men's athletics since 1968

Jamaica Sets Relay Record
2008 The Jamaican team led by Usain Bolt smashes the world 4 x 100m relay record in the final at the Beijing Olympics; disqualified in 2017 as Nesta Carter tests positive for prohibited substance


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt
Golf History
2010 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Crosswater Club: Fred Funk wins last of 3 Champions Tour majors by 1 stroke from Michael Allen and Taiwan's Lu Chien-soon


GolferFred Funk

• 2015 15th Athletics World Championships open at Beijing, China
• 2021 British Open Women's Golf, Carnoustie CC: Anna Nordqvist of Sweden finishes 1 stroke clear of Madelene Sagström, Lizette Salas and Georgia Hall to win her third major title

 

AUGUST 23

• 1883 Philadelphia Quakers make 27 errors against Providence Grays in 28-0 shutout defeat at Messer Street Grounds; wild pitches, walks, passed balls count as errors in MLB prior to 1888
• 1897 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Robert Wrenn beats Wilberforce Eaves 4-6, 8-6, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 for his 4th US singles title
• 1906 Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Washington Senators, 4-1 at American League Park

• 1907 Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Howie Camnitz no-hits NY Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game at the Polo Grounds, NYC
• 1920 American swimmer Warren Kealoha wins first of 2 consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 100m backstroke, beating teammate Ray Kegeris at the Antwerp Games

Mile World Record

1923 Paavo Nurmi of Finland runs world record for 1 mile of 4:10.4 in Stockholm; record stands until 1931


Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi
US National Women's Championship
1926 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan 4-6, 6-4, 9-7 for her 8th and final US singles title


Tennis PlayerElizabeth Ryan
US National Women's Championship
1930 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: England's Betty Nuthall Shoemaker beats Anna McCune Harper 6-1, 6-4 for her lone major title


Tennis PlayerBetty Nuthall

• 1933 First televised boxing match — 6-round exhibition at Broadcasting House in London between middleweights Archie Sexton and Lauri Raiteri; aired by BBC-TV

Feller's 1st Game
1936 17-year-old Cleveland Indians future Baseball HOF pitcher Bob Feller's first MLB game as a starter; strikes out 15 St Louis Browns in 4-1 win at League Park, Cleveland


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherBob Feller
Johnson Pitches to Ruth
1942 Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NYY-Washington MLB doubleheader at Yankee Stadium; raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1946 13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380)
• 1947 1st Baseball Little League World Series, Williamsport, Pennsylvania: Maynard Midgets beat Lock Haven All Stars, 16-7
• 1953 Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
• 1953 Former Boston Braves pitcher Phil Paine becomes first major leaguer to play in Japan; on military service with U.S. Air Force plays first of 9 games for Nishitetsu Lions

F1 World Champion
1953 Italian Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari clinches his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by winning Swiss Grand Prix at Bremgarten


Auto RacerAlberto Ascari

• 1953 Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3")
• 1964 St Louis Cardinals are 11 games back in NL; go on win Baseball World Series, 4-3 v New York Yankees
• 1968 Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
• 1969 Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno Czechoslovakia
• 1969 France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)

Baseball Record
1970 Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game


Baseball PlayerRoberto Clemente
Baseball Record
1972 Chicago White Sox Dick Allen is 4th player to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers; previously slugged by only Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, & Alex Johnson


Baseball PlayerHank Greenberg

Baseball PlayerAlex Johnson

• 1974 Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan v England at The Cricket Oval
• 1980 Charles O. Finley sells Oakland A's MLB franchise for $12.7m to Walter Haas Jr. (owner and CEO of Levi Strauss)

Baseball History
1982 Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter


Baseball PitcherGaylord Perry

• 1985 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games

Boxing History
1988 Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem, NYC


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

• 1989 LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR)
• 1991 3rd Athletics World Championships open at Tokyo, Japan
• 1992 Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to record 40 saves in 4 different seasons

Baseball Record
1993 Fred McGriff & David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game


MLB OutfielderDavid Justice

• 2003 9th Athletics World Championships open at Saint-Denis, France
• 2004 An American sweep in the 400m medals at the Athens Olympics; Jeremy Wariner gold in 44.00 ahead of Otis Harris and Derrick Brew
• 2004 Outstanding British athlete Kelly Holmes wins 1st leg of her 800/1,500m double at the Athens Olympics taking the gold medal in 1:56.38
• 2004 Winning pitcher Lisa Fernadez (4-0) leads the US to the softball gold medal at the Athens Olympics, beating Australia 5-1
• 2008 Australian diver Matthew Mitcham wins the men's 10m platform gold medal with final dive at the Beijing Olympics; prevents Chinese from winning every diving event; achieves highest score for an individual dive in Olympic history (112.10)

Bekele Double Gold
2008 Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele wraps up the 5,000/10,000m double at the Beijing Olympics when he takes gold in the 5k in an Olympic record 12:57.82


Long-Distance RunnerKenenisa Bekele

• 2008 Midfielder Ángel Di María scores a 58th minute winner as Argentina beats Nigeria 1-0 to take the men's football gold medal at the Beijing Olympics; 89,102 at the National Stadium

US Women's Basketball Gold
2008 The star-studded American women's basketball team led by the likes of Lisa Leslie, Sue Bird & Diana Taurasi win the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics with a convincing 92-65 win over Australia


Basketball PlayerDiana Taurasi

• 2009 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Rich Harvest Farms: US wins 3rd consecutive Cup 16-12; win 8 of 12 singles to dominate final day
• 2009 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Crosswater Club: Mike Reid wins his second Champions Tour major with birdie on first playoff hole against John Cook

Sports History
2014 Alex Puccio places second in the Boulder World Championship in Munich, Germany


Rock ClimberAlex Puccio
Canadian Women's Open
2015 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Vancouver GC: Lydia Ko of New Zealand wins in a playoff with Stacy Lewis for her third success in the event


GolferLydia Ko

GolferStacy Lewis

• 2015 English Indycar driver Justin Wilson suffers a head injury during a race crash at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania
• 2020 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Troon GC: Sophia Popov of Germany claims her first Tour title by 2 strokes from Thailand's Jasmine Suwannapura; at #304, lowest ranked player to win a major
• 2020 Indianapolis 500: 2017 champion Takuma Sato of Japan wins his 2nd title under yellow caution flag after a crash with 3 laps remaining

UEFA Champions League Final
2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Lisbon: Kingsley Coman heads German giants Bayern Munich to the club's 6th crown in a 1-0 win over Paris St-Germain


Football StarThomas Müller

 

AUGUST 24

• 1877 American outlaw John Wesley Hardin, wanted for murder, is arrested by Texas Rangers on a train in Pensacola, Florida

US National Men's Championship

1883 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Two-time defending champion Richard Sears wins 3rd straight title; beats James Dwight 6-2, 6-0, 9-7


Tennis PlayerRichard Sears

• 1905 Chicago Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings
• 1906 Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game
• 1907 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Brisbane : Australian Horace Rice beats Harry Parker of New Zealand 6-3, 6-4, 6-4

Burns KOs Squires
1908 Canadian champion Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13th round at the Sydney Stadium, Australia to retain world heavyweight boxing title; Burns' 3rd KO of Squires


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionTommy Burns

• 1908 NY Giants scores shown on electric diamonds known as "Compton's Baseball Bulletin" at Madison Square Garden

Parade for US Olympians
1912 Ticker-tape parade held in NYC for Jim Thorpe and victorious US Olympians


Versatile AthleteJim Thorpe

• 1918 Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
• 1918 Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players
• 1919 Having pitched into the 9th inning Cleveland's Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning; goes on to record final out for Indians' 2-1 win over Philadelphia A's
• 1922 1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams)

3 Mile World Record
1923 Paavo Nurmi of Finland runs world record 3 mile time of 14:11.2 in Stockholm; intermediate time during 5000m event


Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi
US National Women's Championship
1925 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Wills Moody beats Kitty McKane of England 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 for her third straight US singles title


Tennis PlayerHelen Wills Moody

• 1929 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Wills Moody beats England's Phoebe Holcroft Watson 6-4, 6-2 for her 3rd straight and 6th overall US singles title
• 1938 Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game

Red Sox 12 Detroit Tigers 1
1940 Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams pitches the last 2 innings in a 12-1 loss to Detroit Tigers, Williams allows 3 hits & 1 run


Baseball PlayerTed Williams
Feller's Post War Return
1945 MLB Cleveland Indians ace Bob Feller returns from serving in the US Navy and strikes out 12


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherBob Feller
Grandstand Manager's Day
1951 Bill Veeck's MLB St. Louis Browns hold "Grandstand Manager's Day" - coaches hold up placards for fans to vote on strategy options; Browns defeat visiting A's, 5-3


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck

• 1957 At age 17 future England soccer striker Jimmy Greaves scores on his First Division debut for Chelsea against Tottenham Hotspur in a 1–1 draw at White Hart Lane
• 1958 Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0) (WR)

Durocher's Allergic Reaction
1962 Los Angeles Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds, NYC


Baseball Player and ManagerLeo Durocher

• 1963 John Pennel is first person to pole-vault 17'

Hockey Hall of Fame
1972 Gordie Howe and Jean Béliveau inducted into the Ice Hockey Hall of Fame


Ice Hockey LegendGordie Howe

NHL LegendJean Béliveau
Cricket History
1973 Garfield Sobers scores 26th and last Test Cricket ton 150 vs England at Lord's


CricketerGarfield Sobers
PGA Players Championship
1975 PGA Tournament Players Championship, Colonial CC: Al Geiberger leads wire-to-wire to finish 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Dave Stockton


Golfer and Two-Time PGA ChampionDave Stockton

• 1975 SF Giant Ed Halick no-hits NY Giants, 6-0
• 1979 NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new
• 1982 KCs' John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record

Baseball Record
1983 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose
Golf Record
1984 Pat Bradley sets LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 during 2nd round of Columbia Savings National at Green Gables CC, Denver, CO


LPGA GolferPat Bradley

• 1989 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
• 1991 Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0
• 1992 1st structural steel beams are erected at Jacobs Field (now Progressive Field) baseball stadium in Cleveland, Ohio
• 1992 NFL Cleveland Browns suffer their worst pre-season loss, 56-3, to Minnesota Vikings
• 1993 Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
• 1994 Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66)
• 1994 Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00)
• 1997 97th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Joel Kribel
• 2004 Americans Kerri Walsh and Misty May team up to win the women's beach volleyball gold at the Athens Olympics beating Brazilian pair Shelda Bede & Adriana Behar 21–17, 21–11

Early Usain Bolt Failure
2004 Future 8-time Olympic gold medal winner Usain Bolt of Jamaica finishes 5th in his 200m heat in 21.05, failing to qualify for the 2nd round at the Athens Olympics


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt

• 2004 Kenyan runners sweep the medals in the 3000m steeplechase at the Athens Olympics; Ezekiel Kemboi wins gold ahead of Brimin Kipruto and Paul Kipsiele Koech
• 2004 Moroccan super star athlete Hicham El Guerrouj wins 1st leg of his 1,500/5,000m double at the Athens Olympics in 3:34.18
• 2004 Roman Šebrle of the Czech Republic (8,893 points OR) edges American Bryan Clay (8,820) in the decathlon at the Athens Olympics
• 2004 Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia vaults 4.91m to break her own pole vault world record and win the gold medal from teammate Svetlana Feofanova at the Athens Olympics

Jerry Rice's One-day Contract
2006 After signing a one-day contract with the San Francisco 49ers, Jerry Rice officially retires from the NFL


NFL LegendJerry Rice

• 2007 11th Athletics World Championships open at Osaka, Japan
• 2008 Dániel Varga & Péter Biros score 3 goals each as Hungary wins the men's water polo gold medal at the Beijing Olympics; third consecutive Olympic gold medal
• 2008 Samuel Wansiru becomes first Kenyan to win the men's Olympic marathon in Beijing; wins in Olympic record time; silver medallist Joauad Gharib of Morocco also faster than OR, yet 44 seconds behind
• 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing becomes the most watched event on TV ever - nearly 5 billion, 70% of world's population

US Men's Basketball Gold
2008 The star-studded American men's basketball team led by the likes of LeBron James, Chris Paul & Kobe Bryant win the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics with a relatively narrow 118-107 win over Spain


Basketball PlayerLeBron James

NBA GuardKobe Bryant

• 2008 XXIX Summer Olympic Games close at the Beijing National Stadium
• 2014 Canadian Open Women's Golf, London Hunt CC: Ryu So-yeon wins by 2 from fellow South Korean Na Yeon Choi

French Ban Serena's Catsuit
2018 French Open Tennis bans Serena Williams' black Nike catsuit from future tournaments citing 'respect for the game and the place'


Tennis PlayerSerena Williams
Chess World Cup
2023 Norwegian Magnus Carlsen defeats Indian teenager Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa in a tiebreak to win his first Chess World Cup championship [1]


Chess GrandmasterMagnus Carlsen

 

AUGUST 25

• 1804 Alicia Thornton becomes the first female jockey in England, riding at Knavesmire in Yorkshire

Captain Webb Conquers English Channel

1875 Captain Matthew Webb makes the first observed and unassisted swim across the English Channel in 21 hours and 45 minutes


An artist from the Illustrated London News drew this scene depicting Captain Webb’s arrival at Calais

US National Men's Championship
1895 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Fred Hovey beats defending champion Robert Wrenn 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 for his lone major singles title


Tennis PlayerFred Hovey
Jeffries TKOs Munroe
1904 Champion James J. Jeffries scores a 2nd round TKO win over Jack Munroe in San Francisco; Jeffries retires after his 7th heavyweight boxing title defense


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJames J. Jeffries
US National Men's Championship
1910 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats Tom Bundy 6-1, 5-7, 6-0, 6-8, 6-1 for his 4th consecutive US singles title


Tennis PlayerWilliam Larned

• 1917 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Robert Lindley Murray beats Nathaniel W. Niles 5-7, 8-6, 6-3, 6-3 for first of 2 straight US singles titles
• 1920 American swimmer Norman Ross wins his first of 3 gold medals at the Antwerp Olympics in dominating men's 1,500m freestyle; also wins 400m freestyle and 4 x 200m freestyle relay

1st US Female Olympic Champion
1920 Ethelda Bleibtrey leads an American medal sweep of the Antwerp Olympics women's 100m freestyle with a world record 1:13.6; first US female Olympic champion


SwimmerEthelda Bleibtrey

• 1920 Swedish divers sweep the medals in the men's plain high diving event at the Antwerp Olympics; Arvid Wallman wins gold ahead of teammates Nils Skoglund & John Jansson
• 1921 Yankee pitcher Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying record
• 1922 Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game

Johnson's 2nd No-hitter
1924 MLB Washington Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

• 1928 Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina & Winnipeg
• 1936 3 Braves hit twice in an inning getting 2 hits each
• 1943 10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471)

PGA Men's Champonship
1946 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Portland GC: Ben Hogan beats Ed Oliver, 6 & 4 for first of his 9 major titles


GolferBen Hogan

Bradman's Last Crack at Lords
1948 Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord's


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
Robinson KOs Basora
1950 Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title


Champion BoxerSugar Ray Robinson

• 1951 Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game
• 1952 Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0
• 1954 Ivan Filin wins Berne marathon (2:25:26.6) (260m)

Baseball History
1956 To make room for Enos Slaughter, NY Yankees release Phil Rizzuto


Sportscaster and MLB ShortstopPhil Rizzuto

Baseball PlayerEnos Slaughter

• 1960 AFL begins placing players names on back of their jerseys
• 1960 XVII Summer Olympic Games open at Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy
• 1967 Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1

Ashe Wins US Open
1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship


Tennis PlayerArthur Ashe
Baseball History
1968 NY Yankee outfielder Rocky Colavito pitches second 2/3 innings and beats Tigers 6-5; he played right field in second game and homered


Baseball PlayerRocky Colavito

• 1969 Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montreal (NFL expo)
• 1976 Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings

Hockey Hall of Fame
1977 Canadian NHL player Tim Horton posthumously inducted into Hockey Hall of Fame


NHL Star and BusinessmanTim Horton

• 1978 MLB baseball umpires stage a 1 day strike
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• 1979 California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2

Sports History
1980 MLB Texas Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and CoachFerguson Jenkins

• 1983 Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark

Baseball History
1985 Met Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)


Baseball PitcherDwight Gooden
McGwire Hits 1st HR
1986 A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

• 1990 Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8½")

Lewis Breaks 100m Record
1991 Carl Lewis runs 100m in a world record 9.86 seconds


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

• 1991 Cubs Doug Dascenzo commits his 1st career error after 242 games
• 1991 Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.62)
• 1991 Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53)

Symonds Record Innings
1995 Gloucestershire cricketer Andrew Symonds scores 254 vs Glamorgan, including a then first-class record of 16 sixes


Cricket All-RounderAndrew Symonds
Tiger Woods Amateur Champion
1996 96th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods


GolferTiger Woods

• 2004 Cuba beats Australia 6-2 to win the baseball gold medal at the Athens Olympics; Japan takes bronze; US did not qualify
• 2004 Emanuel Rego & Ricardo Santos win Brazil's first gold medal in men's beach volleyball with a 21–16, 21–15 victory over Spanish pair Javier Bosma & Pablo Herrera
• 2004 Gal Fridman becomes Israel's first Olympic gold medallist when he wins the men's Mistral One Design windsurfing event at the Athens Games
• 2004 Greek athlete Fani Chalkia comes out of retirement to compete in her home Olympics in Athens; wins 400m hurdles gold medal in 52.82
• 2004 Olga Kuzenkova of Russia throws an Olympic record 75.02m to edge the field and win the women's hammer throw gold medal at the Athens Games

Canadian Women's Open
2013 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Royal Mayfair GC: New Zealand amateur Lydia Ko successfully defends her title by 5 shots from Karine Icher


GolferLydia Ko

• 2019 Ben Stokes with an unbeaten 135 leads England to a record run chase of 362-9 and victory over Australia in the 3rd cricket Test at Headingley, Leeds; keeps Ashes Series alive at 1-1

Tour Championship
2019 Tour Championship, Men's Golf, East Lake GC: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland wins by 4 strokes from Xander Schauffele; biggest winner's prize in golf, US$15m


GolferRory McIlroy

GolferXander Schauffele

• 2020 Chicago White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito no-hits the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-0 at Guaranteed Rate Field, Chicago
• 2020 England's James Anderson becomes first fast bowler to reach 600 wickets in Test cricket; Pakistan batsman Azhar Ali caught at first slip on 5th day of 3rd Test at Southampton