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  1. Aug 26, 2024 #241
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    [​IMG]National Men's Championship

    1896 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Robert Wrenn beats Fred Hovey 7-5, 3-6, 6-0, 1-6, 6-1 for his third US singles title

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    Tennis PlayerFred Hovey

    • 1903 Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game
    [​IMG]National Men's Championship
    1903 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Englishman Laurence Doherty beats American defending champion William Larned 6-0, 6-3, 10-8; first non-American champion

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    Tennis PlayerLaurence Doherty
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    Tennis PlayerWilliam Larned
    • 1909 Australian cricket all-rounder Frank Tarrant scores 145 and takes 13-67 in a county game for Middlesex as they beat Gloucester by an innings and 31 runs in a single day
    [​IMG]Johnson's Winning Streak Ends
    1912 MLB pitcher Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends

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    MLB PitcherWalter Johnson
    [​IMG]US Men's Championship
    1912 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Maurice McLoughlin wins first of 2 straight US singles titles; beats Wallace F. Johnson 3-6, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2

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    Tennis PlayerMaurice McLoughlin
    • 1913 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Defending champion Maurice McLoughlin beats R. Norris Williams 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 6-1
    • 1920 Surrey cricket all-rounder Percy Fender scores 100 in 35 minutes [113no] in a county match vs Northamptonshire at the County Ground, Northampton
    [​IMG]Wilson Breaks Home Run Record
    1930 Chicago Cub's Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record

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    Baseball Hall of Fame Right FielderChuck Klein
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    Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderHack Wilson
    • 1933 Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km)
    • 1938 Montreal Maroons dropped from NHL
    • 1939 1st major league baseball telecast on W2XBS- Cincinnati Reds defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
    • 1940 RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk
    • 1947 Dodgers' Dan Bankhead, MLB's 1st African-American pitcher, homers in his 1st MLB at bat in 16-3 loss to Pittsburgh, at Ebbetts Field, Brooklyn, NYC
    • 1950 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Tom Brown beats Ken McGregor in 5 sets but Australia breaks US stranglehold on trophy with a dominant 4-1 victory
    • 1955 1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)
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    1956 Yankees announce purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from KC

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    Baseball PlayerEnos Slaughter
    • 1961 Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
    • 1962 Minnesota Twins Jack Kralick no-hits KC A's, 1-0
    • 1963 West Indies beat England 2-1 in series, 1st holders of Wisden Cricket Trophy
    • 1966 Baltimore Orioles Roznovsky & B.Powell are 4th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
    • 1967 Dean Chance pitches a 2-1 no-hitter, & Twins sweep Cleveland
    [​IMG]Bobby Orr
    1971 Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth one million dollars, the first million-dollar contract in NHL history

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    Ice Hockey LegendBobby Orr
    • 1971 MLB Baltimore Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game
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    1972 Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Houston Astros

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    Baseball Player and ManagerLeo Durocher
    • 1972 XX Summer Olympic Games open in Munich, West Germany
    • 1973 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, CA, beating a field of 1,500 runners
    • 1973 David Eisenhower writes his last sports column
    • 1984 Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record)
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1985 Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs California Angels

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    MLB 1st BasemanEddie Murray
    [​IMG]Mota Wins Marathon
    1986 Rosa Mota of Portugal wins the women's Stuttgart marathon (2:28:38)

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    Marathon RunnerRosa Mota

    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1987 Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4 ends hitting streak at 39 consecutive games

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    Baseball Player and ManagerPaul Molitor
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1990 Bo Jackson hits 4th of 4 consecutive HRs

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    NFL Running Back and Baseball OutfielderBo Jackson
    • 1991 Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0
    [​IMG]Lara Scores 179
    1995 Brian Lara completes his 7th Test Cricket century, scoring 179 at The Oval in London

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    CricketerBrian Lara
    • 2000 Australia clinches first Tri Nations Rugby Series with a 19-18 win over South Africa in Durban; Wallabies centre Stirling Mortlock lands 4 penalties and a conversion
    [​IMG]American Dominate 200m
    2004 An American 1-2-3 in the 200m medals at the Athens Olympics; Shawn Crawford gold in 19.79 ahead of Bernard Williams & Justin Gatlin

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    SprinterJustin Gatlin
    • 2004 Félix Sánchez wins the men's 400m hurdles 47.63 in Athens; the Dominican Republic's first ever Olympic gold medal
    • 2004 Germany wins its first ever Olympic women's field hockey gold medal with a 2-1 win against the Netherlands in Athens
    • 2004 Hamish Carter of New Zealand wins the men's gold medal ahead of teammate Bevan Docherty, whilst Kate Allen of Austria takes out the women's Triathlon at the Athens Olympics
    [​IMG]US Women Win Football Gold
    2004 Lindsay Tarpley and Abby Wambach score as the US beats Brazil 2-1, maintaining an undefeated record to win the women's football gold medal at the Athens Olympics

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    Soccer PlayerAbby Wambach
    [​IMG]NZ Win Tri Nations
    2006 New Zealand retain Tri Nations Rugby Series with 45-26 win over South Africa in Pretoria; All Blacks flyhalf Dan Carter lands 4 penalties and 4 conversions

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    Rugby PlayerDan Carter
    [​IMG]Lydia Ko
    2012 15 year-old New Zealand golfer, Lydia Ko, becomes the youngest LPGA Tour event winner and the 1st amateur winner since 1969 by winning the Canadian Women's Open by 3 strokes from Inbee Park

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    GolferLydia Ko
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    GolferInbee Park
    [​IMG]Burger King Buys Tim Hortons
    2014 Burger King agrees to purchase Canadian donut chain Tim Hortons for $11.4 billion

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    NHL Star and BusinessmanTim Horton
    [​IMG]Man City Starts Record
    2017 Manchester City scores a 2-1 win at Bournemouth to start EPL record 18 game winning streak; Raheem Sterling scores for City but is sent off with 2 yellow cards in injury time

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    FootballerRaheem Sterling
    • 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup: New Zealand Black Ferns defeat England 41-32 in the final in Belfast
    [​IMG]KSI vs Logan Paul
    2018 Boxing match between YouTubers KSI and Logan Paul ends in a draw in Manchester, England

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    YouTube Star and ActorLogan Paul
    • 2018 Gamer at a Madden NFL 19 gaming tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, loses then returns to shoot two dead and wound nine
    [​IMG]Milwaukee Bucks Forfeit
    2020 Milwaukee Bucks forfeit their NBA playoff game after the shooting of Jacob Blake, leading to the NBA postponing more games

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    Victim of Police BrutalityJacob Blake
     
  2. Aug 27, 2024 #242
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    [​IMG]US Men's Championship

    1884 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears makes it 4 straight US singles titles; beats Howard Taylor 6-0, 1-6, 6-0, 6-2

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    Tennis PlayerRichard Sears

    • 1890 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Oliver Campbell beats 2-time defending champion Henry Slocum 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1
    • 1894 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Robert Wrenn beats Irishman Manliff Goodbody 6-8, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4
    [​IMG]US Men's Championship
    1901 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats Beals Wright 6-2, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4 for the first of 7 US singles titles

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    Tennis PlayerWilliam Larned
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    Tennis PlayerBeals Wright
    • 1902 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Defending champion William Larned beats Englishman R.F. Doherty 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 8-6
    • 1908 Calgary City Rugby Football Club re-organizes as the Tigers
    [​IMG]Chesbro's Final Highlander Game
    1909 Future Baseball HOF pitcher Jack Chesbro's final game for NY Highlanders; 17-6 loss to the Tigers at Bennett Park, Detroit

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    Baseball PitcherJack Chesbro
    • 1909 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats William Clothier 6-1, 6-2, 5-7, 1-6, 6-1 for his 3rd straight & 5th overall US singles title
    • 1910 Using twenty 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park
    [​IMG]Walsh No-hits Red Sox
    1911 Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0 at White Sox Park

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    Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and ManagerEd Walsh
    • 1918 Christy Mathewson resigns as Cincinnati Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of US Army
    • 1920 American diver Louis Kuehn leads a US medal sweep in the men's 3m springboard event at the Antwerp Olympics; teammates Clarence Pinkston & Louis Balbach take the minor medals
    • 1921 J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
    [​IMG]World Record 3000m
    1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6)

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    Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi
    • 1926 2nd Women's World Games (track & field competition for women) is conducted over 3-days at the Slottsskogsvallen Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden
    [​IMG]Us Women's Open
    1928 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Helen Wills defeats fellow American Helen Jacobs 6–2, 6–1 for her 5th of 7 US singles crowns

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    Tennis PlayerHelen Jacobs

    • 1937 Brooklyn Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game
    [​IMG]Pearson No-hits Cleveland
    1938 New York Yankees pitcher Monte Pearson no-hits Cleveland Indians, 13-0; Joe DiMaggio hits 3 triples

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    Baseball PlayerJoe DiMaggio
    [​IMG]Zátopek Takes the Treble
    1952 Having already won 5,000m and 10,000m gold medals, Czech star Emil Zátopek claims rare Olympic treble taking out Helsinki Games marathon in OR 2:23:03.2

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    Distance RunnerEmil Zátopek
    [​IMG]Record 23 Strike Outs
    1955 Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts

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    Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax
    • 1960 Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
    • 1960 Australian swimmer John Devitt controversially wins the 100m freestyle gold medal at the Rome Olympics; recorded same time 55.2 as silver medallist American Lance Larson
    • 1960 British swimmer Anita Lonsbrough sets 200m breaststroke world record 2:49.5 to beat German pair Wiltrud Urselmann & Barbara Göbel for the gold medal at the Rome Olympics
    • 1966 Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak
    • 1974 NY Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat
    • 1975 1st night match at US Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
    • 1975 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
    • 1976 Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open
    • 1977 Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2
    • 1978 Dutch cyclist Gerrie Knetemann wins UCI Road World C'ship from Francesco Moser of Italy and Dane Jorgen Marcussenin in Nürburg, West Germany
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1978 MLB Cincinnati Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases

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    MLB Hall of Fame Infielder and BroadcasterJoe Morgan

    • 1978 MLB New York Yankees pitcher Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 record in month of August
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1982 Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark

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    MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson
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    Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderLou Brock
    [​IMG]Mary Joe Fernández
    1985 Mary Joe Fernández at 14 years 8 days old becomes youngest player to win at the US Tennis Open; beats England's Sara Gomer 6-1, 6-4 in a 1st round match

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    Tennis Player and BroadcasterMary Joe Fernández
    [​IMG]Team Manger
    1988 Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Philadelphia, 4-2

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    Baseball Pitcher and ManagerTommy Lasorda
    • 1990 Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
    [​IMG]Mota European Champion
    1990 Rosa Mota wins the women's marathon (2:31:27) at the European Championships in Split, Yugoslavia

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    Marathon RunnerRosa Mota
    • 1992 CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
    [​IMG]Baseball Trade
    1992 Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent & Ryan Thompson

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    Baseball PitcherDavid Cone
    [​IMG]Golf Tournament
    1995 95th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods

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    GolferTiger Woods
    • 1995 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Beaconsfield GC: Jenny Lidback wins by 1 stroke from Liselotte Neumann of Sweden
    [​IMG]NHL Trade
    1996 Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Detroit Red Wings to the Tampa Bay Lightning

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    NHL StarDino Ciccarelli
    • 2004 Australia wins its first ever Olympic men's field hockey gold medal with a 2-1 win a.e.t. against the Netherlands in Athens
    • 2004 China's first ever gold in Olympic Games men's track and field; Liu Xiang wins 110m hurdles in Athens, equalling Colin Jackson's 1993 world record time of 12.91 seconds
    • 2004 German kayaker Birgit Fischer wins gold in K-4 500m & silver in K-2 500m in Athens; first woman in any sport to win gold medals at 6 different Olympics, gold 24 years apart, and 1st person to win 2 or more medals in 5 different Games
    • 2004 In a huge upset in the men's basketball semi final at the Athens Olympics, Argentina beats a star-studded but unsettled US team 89-81; they go on to take gold and US bronze

    • 2004 Osleidys Menéndez of Cuba throws an Olympic record 71.53m to easily beat German Steffi Nerius for the women's javelin gold medal at the Athens Games
    • 2004 Timothy Mack vaults an Olympic record 5.95m to win the pole vault gold medal from fellow American Toby Stevenson (5.90m) at the Athens Olympics
    [​IMG]Golf Tournament
    2006 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Reserve Vineyards & GC: Eduardo Romero of Argentina wins first of 2 Champions Tour majors with birdie on 1st playoff hole against Lonnie Nielsen

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    GolferEduardo Romero
    • 2011 13th Athletics World Championships open at Daegu, South Korea
    • 2011 Australia claims final Tri Nations Rugby Series with 25-20 win over New Zealand in Brisbane; Argentina's Pumas join competition the following year; series rebranded The Rugby Championship
    [​IMG]Sports History
    2015 15th Athletics World Championships: Usain Bolt of Jamaica adds the men's 200m gold to his 100m win

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    Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt
    • 2017 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Ottawa Hunt GC: Park Sung-hyun of South Korea wins by 2 from Mirim Lee
    [​IMG]Mayweather vs McGregor
    2017 Former five-weight world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats MMA fighter Conor McGregor in his debut match in the 10th round in Las Vegas

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    BoxerFloyd Mayweather Jr.
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    Mixed Martial ArtistConor McGregor
    • 2018 Reigning French Open tennis champion Simona Halep becomes first top-seeded woman to lose in 1st round of the U.S. Open; loses to Kaia Kanepi 6-2, 6-4; first match at newly renovated Louis Armstrong Stadium
    • 2019 Race car driver Jessi Combs dies while setting new fastest women's land speed record of 522.783 mph at Alvord Desert, Oregon (posthumously awarded 2020)
    [​IMG]Biles Record Championships
    2023 Gymnast Simone Biles (26) wins her record 8th US Championship in San Jose, California

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    GymnastSimone Biles
     
  3. Aug 28, 2024 #243
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    • 1884 MLB pitcher Mickey Welsh makes record for most consecutive batters struck out to begin a game, striking out the 1st 9 men he faces
    [​IMG]US Men's Championship

    1886 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears beats R. Livingston Beeckman 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4 for his 6th consecutive US singles title

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    Tennis PlayerRichard Sears

    • 1888 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Henry Slocum beats Howard Taylor 6-4, 6-1, 6-0
    [​IMG]US Men's Championship
    1893 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, R.I.: Robert Wrenn beats Fred Hovey 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4; first of his 4 US singles titles

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    Tennis PlayerFred Hovey
    [​IMG]US Men's Championship
    1907 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats Robert LeRoy 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 for his third US singles title

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    Tennis PlayerWilliam Larned
    [​IMG]Suspension of Tris Speaker
    1918 Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on umpire Tom Connolly

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    Baseball PlayerTris Speaker
    • 1920 American swimmer Norman Ross wins his 2nd of 3 gold medals at the Antwerp Olympics; beats teammate Ludwig Langer in the men's 400m freestyle; also wins 1,500m and 4 x 200m freestyle relay
    [​IMG]World Record 300m
    1920 Ethelda Bleibtrey leads an American medal sweep of the Antwerp Olympic women's 300m freestyle with a world record swim of 4:34.0

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    SwimmerEthelda Bleibtrey
    [​IMG]Babe Ruth Starts Streak
    1921 Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games

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    Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
    • 1922 1st Walker Cup in Golf: US beats England 8-4
    • 1926 Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)
    • 1929 English cricket all-rounder Frank Woolley scores 176 for Kent v Middlesex at Lord's; his 100th first-class hundred
    • 1941 8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203)
    • 1942 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)
    • 1949 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: US takes trophy for third straight year with last day singles wins to Ted Schroeder and Pancho Gonzales; beat Australia, 4-1
    • 1951 Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000

    • 1951 Pirates snap NY Giants 16 game winning streak
    • 1956 Australia clings on for a draw in 5th Test at The Oval, London; England retain cricket Ashes with Jim Laker's 46 wickets a record series haul
    • 1958 American baseball player Nellie Fox sets record for consecutive games without striking out (98)
    • 1960 White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as umpire called time
    • 1967 MLB Boston Red Sox sign 1st free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus
    • 1970 Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970
    [​IMG]World Record 100m Relay
    1972 American 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of David Edgar, John Murphy, John Heidenreich & Mark Spitz swim a world record 3:26.42 to beat Soviet Union for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics

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    SwimmerMark Spitz
    [​IMG]World Record 200m Medley
    1972 Australian teenage swimmer Shane Gould sets a world record 2:23.07 to beat German Kornelia Ender in the 200m individual medley at the Munich Olympics; her first of 3 gold medals at the Games

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    SwimmerShane Gould
    • 1972 North Korean shooter Ri Ho-jun wins the 50m rifle prone event at the Munich Olympics; his nation's first ever Olympic gold medal
    [​IMG]Darling of Munich
    1972 Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut becomes media darling at the Munich Olympics; wins gold in the teams all-round ; follows with 2 gold and a silver

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    GymnastOlga Korbut
    • 1976 Toronto Metros-Croatia beat the Minnesota Kicks to the win the 1976 North American Soccer League championship
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1977 Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year

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    MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan
    • 1977 NY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland Ore, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship
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    1977 NY Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men & beats Texas Rangers 1-0

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    Baseball PitcherRon Guidry
    [​IMG]World Record Mile
    1981 Britain's Sebastian Coe sets a then 1-mile word record of 3:47.33

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    1500m RunnerSebastian Coe

    • 1987 2nd Athletics World Championships open at Rome, Italy
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1987 Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams & Willie McCovey with 522 HRs

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    MLB Third BasemanMike Schmidt
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    Baseball PlayerTed Williams
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    Baseball Hall of Fame 1st BasemanWillie McCovey
    • 1988 88th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1989 Frank Viola and NY Mets outduel Orel Hershiser and LA Dodgers 1-0

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    Baseball PitcherOrel Hershiser
    [​IMG]Big US Open Upset
    1990 #1 seed Stefan Edberg loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov in one of the biggest upsets in U.S. Open history

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    Tennis PlayerStefan Edberg
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1990 Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively

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    Baseball InfielderRyne Sandberg
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1991 Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martínez both perfect game pitcher

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    MLB PitcherDennis Martínez
    • 1992 Brewers beat Blue Jays 22-2 with AL record 31 hits in 9 innings
    • 1992 Test cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo
    [​IMG]Woods Wins Amateur Championship
    1994 94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods

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    GolferTiger Woods
    • 1994 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Ottawa Hunt GC: Martha Nause wins by 1 from Michelle Mcgann
    • 1995 Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson
    • 2004 A huge upset at the Athens Olympic Stadium in the men's 4×100m relay; Great Britain 38.07 edges the United States 38.08 to take the gold medal
    • 2004 British athlete Kelly Holmes wraps up the 800/1,500m double at the Athens Olympics taking out the 1.5k in 3:57.90
    • 2004 Carlos Tevez scores the winner as Argentina beats Paraguay 1-0, maintaining an undefeated record to win the men's football gold medal at the Athens Olympics

    • 2004 Led by San Antonio Spurs shooting guard Manu Ginóbili Argentina beats Italy 84-69 for the Olympic basketball gold medal in Athens; star-studded US team takes bronze
    • 2004 Moroccan super star athlete Hicham El Guerrouj wraps up the 1,500/5,000m double at the Athens Olympics taking the 5k gold in 13:14.39
    • 2004 The diving competition at the Athens Olympics concludes with the Chinese contingent dominant, winning 6 of the 8 gold medals
    • 2004 The US women's basketball team goes through the Athens Olympics undefeated to win its 5th Olympic gold medal, beating Australia 74-63 in the final
    • 2005 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Reserve Vineyards & GC: Loren Roberts wins first of 4 Champions Tour majors with bogey on 2nd playoff hole against Dana Quigley
    [​IMG]Canadian Women's Open
    2011 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Hillsdale CC: Brittany Lincicome wins by 1 stroke from Michelle Wie and Stacy Lewis

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    GolferBrittany Lincicome
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    GolferMichelle Wie
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    GolferStacy Lewis
    • 2016 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Priddis Green CC: Ariya Jutanugam of Thailand wins by 4 from Kim Sei-young of South Korea
    • 2021 MLB Los Angeles Angels pitcher/designated hitter Shohei Ohtani becomes 1st player in team history to reach 20 stolen bases and hit 40 home runs in a season, in 10-2 win over San Diego Padres
    [​IMG]Most Expensive Sports Memorabilia
    2022 A 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card sells for $12.6 million at auction, becoming the world's most expensive piece of sporting memorabilia [1]

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    Baseball LegendMickey Mantle
    [​IMG]Tour Championship
    2022 Tour Championship, Men's Golf, East Lake GC: Irishman Rory McIlroy wins $18m with 1 stroke win over Scottie Scheffler & Im Sung-jae; becomes first 3-time winner of the FedEx Cup

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    GolferRory McIlroy
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    GolferScottie Scheffler
     
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    [​IMG]Death of English Cricket

    1882 Australia beats England by 7 runs in a match dubbed the "Death of English cricket," Australian fast bowler Fred Spofforth gets 14-90 (7-46 & 7-44)


    [​IMG]1st Heavyweight Title Fight
    1885 Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between American boxers John L. Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey in Cincinnati, Ohio

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    Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJohn L. Sullivan
    • 1885 Phillies Charlie Ferguson no-hits Providence 1-0
    • 1889 1st American International professional lawn tennis contest (Newport, Rhode Island)
    • 1895 Northern Rugby Union is formed at the George Hotel in Huddersfield, England
    [​IMG]US Men's Championship
    1906 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Clothier beats defending champion Beals Wright 6-3, 6-0, 6-4

    [​IMG]US Men's CHampionship
    1908 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Defending champion William Larned beats Beals Wright 6-1, 6-2, 8-6 for his 4th of 7 US singles titles

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    Tennis PlayerWilliam Larned
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    Tennis PlayerBeals Wright
    [​IMG]US Men's Open
    1908 US Open Men's Golf, Myopia Hunt GC: Fred McLeod defeats fellow Scot Willie Smith by 6 strokes in an 18-hole playoff to win his only major title

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    GolferFred McLeod
    • 1920 An American sweep of the medals in the men's 100m freestyle at the Antwerp Olympics; Duke Kahanamoku sets world record 1:00.4 in defending his 1912 gold medal
    • 1920 An American sweep of the medals in the women's 3m springboard diving event at the Antwerp Olympics; Aileen Riggin wins gold ahead of teammates Helen Wainwright & Thelma Payne
    [​IMG]Bleibtrey Wins 3rd Gold
    1920 Ethelda Bleibtrey wins her 3rd gold medal of the Antwerp Olympics; teams with Irene Guest, Frances Schroth & Margaret Woodbridge in American 4 x 100m freestyle relay team; world record 5:11.6

    • 1920 Swedish swimmer Håkan Malmrot completes the breaststroke double at the Antwerp Olympics beating teammate Thor Henning in the 200m; also beats Henning for gold in the 400m
    [​IMG]Ruth Suspended
    1925 After a night on the town, Babe Ruth shows up late for batting practice Miller Huggins suspends Ruth & slaps a $5,000 fine on him

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    Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
    • 1935 2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 5, All-Stars 0 (77,450)
    • 1937 MLB Philadelphia A's Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
    • 1940 7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84,567)

    • 1950 International Olympic Committee votes to admit West Germany & Japan in 1952
    [​IMG]Dawn Fraser
    1960 Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser wins blue ribband 100m freestyle gold medal at the Rome Olympics; retains title won in Melbourne 1956; will win unprecedented 3rd consecutive 100m gold in Tokyo 1964

    • 1960 Italy wins cycling team pursuit and Sante Gaiardoni takes the sprint gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Italy wins all 4 track events and road team time trial to thoroughly dominate sport
    [​IMG]Fredriksson Makes it 6
    1960 Swedish canoeists Gert Fredriksson and Sven-Olov Sjödelius win the K2-1,000m in 3:34.73 at the Rome Olympics; Fredriksson's 6th gold medal in 4 Olympic Games

    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1963 Twins player Harmon Killebrew home runs off Senator Pete Burnside in DH

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    Baseball Player Harmon Killebrew
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1964 On Elston Howard Night, NY Yankees Mickey Mantle ties Babe Ruth's career strikeout record (1,330)

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    Baseball Legend Mickey Mantle
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    Baseball Catcher Elston Howard
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1965 San Francisco GiantsWillie Mays sets NL record for HRs in a month with his 17th of August

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    MLB Legend Willie Mays
    • 1967 Yanks longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yanks win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours & 19 minutes
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1968 First match in the US Open tennis era; on her way to the final, Billie Jean King beats fellow American Dr Vija Vuskains 6-1, 6-0

    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1969 Joe Pepitone quits NY Yankees after being fined $500 for leaving the bench

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    MLB First Baseman and OutfielderJoe Pepitone
    [​IMG]Sandy Neilson
    1972 Sandy Neilson wins the blue ribband women's 100m freestyle gold medal in 58.59 at the Munich Olympics beating fellow American Shirley Babashoff and Shane Gould of Australia

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    SwimmerShane Gould
    • 1972 SF Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1977 MLB St Louis Cardinals Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3

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    MLB LegendTy Cobb
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    Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderLou Brock
    • 1978 USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing NY
    • 1981 28th Golf Walker Cup: US wins 15-9

    • 1981 Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1982 Kansas City Royal George Brett gets his 1,500th hit

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    MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett
    • 1985 NY Yank Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1987 Houston Astro MLB player Nolan Ryan passes the 200-strikeout barrier for record 11th time

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    MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan
    [​IMG]Mota World Champion
    1987 Portuguese athlete Rosa Mota wins Women's Marathon at World Championships in Rome in 2hr 25:17mins

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    Marathon RunnerRosa Mota
    • 1993 93rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris
    [​IMG]Canadian Women's Open
    1993 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), London Hunt GC: Brandie Burton wins in a playoff from Betsy King

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    LPGA GolferBetsy King
    • 2004 28th Olympic Games closes at Athens, Greece
    • 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: Stefano Baldini of Italy wins men's gold in 2:10:55
    • 2004 Brazil takes out the men's volleyball gold medal with a 3-1 victory over Italy at the Athens Olympics
    • 2004 Future undisputed world light heavyweight boxing champion Andre Ward of the US wins the light heavyweight gold medal at the Athens Olympics beating Magomed Aripgadjiev of Belarus on points
    [​IMG]F1 World Champion
    2004 German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher clinches his 5th straight F1 World Drivers Championship with a 2nd place in the Belgian F1 Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps

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    Formula 1 DriverMichael Schumacher
    • 2004 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Reserve Vineyards & GC: Craig Stadler wins his final major event by 1 stroke from Allen Doyle and Jerry Pate
    • 2004 XXVIII Summer Olympic Games close at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece
    [​IMG]Ronaldo Debuts for Real Madrid
    2009 Cristiano Ronaldo makes his debut for Real Madrid, scoring a penalty in their 3-2 win over Deportivo La Coruña

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    Football StarCristiano Ronaldo
    [​IMG]Canadian Women's Open
    2010 Canadian Open Women's Golf, St. Charles CC: Michelle Wie wins by 3 from Suzann Pettersen, Jiyai Shin, Jee Young Lee & Kristy McPherson

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    GolferSuzann Pettersen
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    GolferMichelle Wie
    [​IMG]Armstrong Stripped of Titles
    2012 The USADA claims to have stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles

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    CyclistLance Armstrong
    [​IMG]Aaron Rodgers Record Contract
    2018 Star quarterback Aaron Rodgers signs NFL record contract extension with the Green Bay Packers; 4 years worth $134m rising to a possible $180m with a record $103m in guarantees

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    NFL QuarterbackAaron Rodgers
    [​IMG]Pujols Hits a Record
    2022 St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols hits career home run 694 off of major league record 450th different pitcher in 13-4 win over Reds in Cincinnati

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    MLB 1st BasemanAlbert Pujols
     
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    [​IMG]US National Men's Championship
    1887 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears wins 7th straight US singles title; beats Henry Slocum 6-1, 6-3, 6-2

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    Tennis PlayerRichard Sears

    • 1892 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, R.I.: Three straight US singles titles to Oliver Campbell; beats Fred Hovey 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
    • 1904 American runner Thomas Hicks wins marathon gold medal in a time of 3:28:53 over a 40k course at the St. Louis Olympics
    [​IMG]Ty Cobb Debuts
    1905 Detroit Tigers future Baseball HOF center fielder Ty Cobb makes his MLB debut, doubling off Jack Chesbro in a 5-3 win over the NY Highlanders at Bennett Park, Detroit

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    MLB LegendTy Cobb
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    Baseball PitcherJack Chesbro
    • 1906 Hal Chase becomes 1st NY Yankee to hit three triples in a game
    • 1910 MLB New York Highlanders Tom Hughes pitches 9-1/3 no-hit innings, but loses to Cleveland 5-0 in 11; 1991 rule change removed credit for no-hitter [1]
    • 1912 St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
    • 1913 Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled
    [​IMG]Babe Ruth Thrown Out
    1922 Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922

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    Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
    [​IMG]Hobbs Scores 316
    1926 Jack Hobbs scores 316 not out at Lord's (Surrey v Middlesex)

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    CricketerJack Hobbs
    [​IMG]US National Women's Championship
    1927 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Wills Moody beats England's Betty Nuthall Shoemaker 6-1, 6-4 for her 4th of 7 US singles titles

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    Tennis PlayerHelen Wills Moody
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    Tennis PlayerBetty Nuthall
    [​IMG]Louis vs Farr
    1937 Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

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    Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJoe Louis
    • 1939 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
    • 1939 NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
    • 1941 St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 2-0
    • 1944 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)

    • 1945 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)
    • 1954 BC Lions play franchise's first CFL game in Vancouver; lose to Saskatchewan Roughriders, 17-0
    • 1960 Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
    • 1960 US women's 4 x 100m medley relay team swims world record 4:41.1 to beat Australia and win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Lynn Burke, Patty Kempner, Carolyn Schuler & Chris von Saltza
    [​IMG]Fisher Walks 12 Angels
    1961 Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game

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    MLB PitcherJack Fisher
    [​IMG]Casey Stengel Retires
    1965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball

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    Baseball Hall of Fame ManagerCasey Stengel
    • 1969 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by American Steve Melnyk
    • 1972 American women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Shirley Babashoff, Jane Barkman, Jenny Kemp & Sandy Neilson beats East Germany by just 0.36 to win gold at the Munich Olympics; world record 3:55.19
    [​IMG]Gymnastics All-round Gold
    1972 Amidst Olga Korbut mania at the Munich Olympics, Soviet teammate Ludmilla Tourischeva wins the gymnastics individual all-round competition, her 2nd gold medal of the Games

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    GymnastOlga Korbut
    [​IMG]World Record 400m
    1972 Australian teenage swimmer Shane Gould with a world record 4:19.04 for the 400m, wins her second of 3 gold medals at the Munich Olympics

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    SwimmerShane Gould
    • 1972 Japanese breaststroker Nobutaka Taguchi beats American pair Tom Bruce & John Hencken to win the 100m gold medal in world record 1:04.94 at the Munich Olympic Games
    • 1972 Slalom canoeing is introduced at the Munich Olympics with East Germany winning all 4 events
    [​IMG]Cricket History
    1979 Cricketer Ian Botham passes 1000 runs and 100 wickets in Tests in his 21st match for England

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    CricketerIan Botham
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1979 In a wild encounter at the US Open, John McEnroe beats Ilie Năstase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; Năstase is defaulted by the umpire then reinstated

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    Tennis PlayerJohn McEnroe
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    Tennis ChampionIlie Năstase
    [​IMG]1st Jockey to Win $1 Million
    1981 Bill Shoemaker becomes the first jockey to win a $1 million thoroughbred horse race when John Henry takes the inaugural Arlington Million by a nose over The Bart

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    Racing Hall of Fame JockeyBill Shoemaker

    • 1984 Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
    • 1986 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
    • 1986 Yuriy Sedykh of the Soviet Union sets new world hammer throw record 86.74m (284 ft 6 in) in Stuttgart, Germany
    [​IMG]Lewis Wins, Johnson Disqualified
    1987 2nd World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in 100m after Ben Johnson is disqualified

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    Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis
    • 1987 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
    • 1987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100m in world record 9.83 sec
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1987 Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minn 10-6 win over Milwaukee

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    MLB Center FielderKirby Puckett
    • 1987 Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
    • 1987 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record 2.09m (6'10½"), one of the most long-standing records in athletics
    • 1987 Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
    • 1988 Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games
    • 1991 Dan O'Brien sets US decathlon record with 8,812 points
    • 1991 Mike Powell of US sets then long jump record at 29' 4½" (8.95m)
    • 1992 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
    • 1997 1st WNBA Championship: Houston Comets beat NY Liberty
    • 1997 Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (US Open)
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    2006 MLB Atlanta Braves pitcher Greg Maddux wins his 330th career game

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    MLB Pitching LegendGreg Maddux
    [​IMG]Roddick to Retire
    2012 Andy Roddick announces he will retire following the U.S. Open

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    Tennis Player and US Open ChampionAndy Roddick
     
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    • 1881 1st US men's single tennis championships held at Newport, Rhode Island
    • 1891 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Oliver Campbell beats Clarence Hobart 2-6, 7-5, 7-9, 6-1, 6-2; second of 3 straight titles
    • 1894 Phillies outfielder Billy Hamilton equals George Gore's MLB single game stolen bases record with 7 steals in 10-8 win vs Washington Senators in Philadelphia

    • 1900 Brooklyn pitcher Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Philadelphia Phillies in 2nd inning of the Superbas' 9-4 loss at Washington Park; Kennedy still achieves his 4th 20-win season
    • 1903 New York Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month, beating the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-1 and 9-2 at the Polo Grounds
    • 1904 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier 10-8, 6-4, 9-7 for his lone major singles title
    • 1905 25th US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Beals Wright beats defending champion Holcombe Ward 6-2, 6-1, 11-9 for his lone major singles title
    • 1909 A. J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball
    • 1909 Swedish runner Thure Johansson runs world record marathon (2:40:34.2) in Stockholm
    • 1913 Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven, Netherlands
    • 1915 Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
    • 1918 Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
    [​IMG]World Record 10,000m

    1924 Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2)

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    Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi
    • 1934 1st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 0, All-Stars 0 (79,432)
    • 1935 Chicago White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleveland Indians, 5-0
    • 1938 5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250)

    • 1947 NY Giants set season record for HRs by a club 183 (en route to 221)
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1950 Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs & a single in a game vs Braves

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    MLB First BasemanGil Hodges
    • 1954 Cincinnati 1st baseman Ted Kluszewski hits 2 HRs in a 9-3 loss v Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium, Philadelphia; 1st Redleg to ever hit 40 MLB HRs, en route to season total 49
    • 1954 Indians beat Yanks 6-1 for record tying 26 wins in August (1931 A's)
    • 1959 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2)
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1959 Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean's NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game

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    Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax
    • 1960 US sweeps the medals in the shot put at the Rome Olympics; Bill Nieder wins gold with 19.68m, ahead of countrymen Parry O'Brien and Dallas Long
    • 1964 Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of MLB California Angels
    • 1966 Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
    • 1968 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
    [​IMG]Cricket History
    1968 Garfield Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over

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    CricketerGarfield Sobers
    • 1970 59th Davis Cup: US beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0); American 22nd title
    • 1971 Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
    [​IMG]World Record 200m Relay
    1972 American 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of John Kinsella, Fred Tyler, Steve Genter & Mark Spitz swim a world record 7:35.78 to beat West Germany for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics

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    SwimmerMark Spitz
    • 1972 American super swimmer Mark Spitz wraps up the Olympic butterfly double with a world record 54.27 in the 100m in Munich, having already won the 200m in world record time 2:00.70

    • 1972 Australian swimmer Gail Neall with a world record 5:02.97 wins the 400m individual medley gold medal at the Munich Olympics
    • 1972 Finnish runner Lasse Viren runs Olympic and world record 10,000m (27:38.4)
    [​IMG]Darling of Munich
    1972 Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut wins balance beam & floor exercise gold medals at the Munich Olympics; follows gold in the teams all-round

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    GymnastOlga Korbut
    [​IMG]Teen Prodigies Face Off
    1979 In the battle of American teenage tennis prodigies, 16-year-old Tracy Austin beats 14-year-old Andrea Jaeger 6-2, 6-2 in the 2nd round at US Open

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    Tennis PlayerTracy Austin
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    Tennis PlayerAndrea Jaeger
    • 1980 80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
    • 1981 Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, v England at Lord's
    • 1981 MLB Kansas City Royals fire manager Jim Frey, replace him with Dick Howser
    • 1984 Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
    [​IMG]Ángel Cordero
    1985 Ángel Cordero Jr. becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100m

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    JockeyÁngel Cordero Jr.
    [​IMG]Curtis Strange Earnings Record
    1987 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385)

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    GolferCurtis Strange
    • 1987 The Great Potato Incident: Minor league Williamsport Bills catcher Dave Bresnahan attempts to lure an opposing baserunner off third base using a potato carved to look like a baseball. Umpire calls runner safe, and the catcher is fined $50 and released by the team [1] [2]
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1990 Baseball outfielders Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr. become the 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), the pair hit back-to-back singles in the first inning and both scored

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    Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderKen Griffey Jr.
    • 1990 Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season
    • 1991 Colorado Rockies bat out of order against Montreal Expos in 1st inning
    • 1991 Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3

    • 1993 Minnesota Twins beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 22 innings
    [​IMG]Kasarov Loses to Computer
    1994 Pentium computer beats world chess champ Garry Kasparov

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    Chess Grandmaster and Political ActivistGarry Kasparov
    [​IMG]Thierry Henry Debut
    1994 Thierry Henry makes his professional debut for Monaco in a 2–0 loss against Nice

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    Footballer and ManagerThierry Henry
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1997 Don Mattingly's #23 is retired by NY Yankees

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    Baseball Player and ManagerDon Mattingly
    • 1997 Eddie George runs for 216 yards on 35 carries and scores a touchdown as the Oilers, playing their first NFL game in Tennessee, beat Oakland 24-21 in overtime at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis
    [​IMG]NHL History
    1999 Dino Ciccarelli retires from the NHL

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    NHL StarDino Ciccarelli
    [​IMG]Golf Tournament
    2003 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Reserve Vineyards & GC: Tom Watson wins his third of 6 Champions Tour majors by 1 stroke from Jim Ahern & Tom Kite

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    GolferTom Watson
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    GolferTom Kite
    • 2019 Minnesota Twins smash 6 HRs in 10-7 loss to the Tigers in Detroit; break MLB record by hitting 268th home run of the season
    [​IMG]Ronaldo's Second Man U Transfer
    2021 36-year old Cristiano Ronaldo is confirmed as a Manchester United player for a second time when his transfer from Juventus is ratified; Ronaldo left United in 2009 to join Real Madrid

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    Football StarCristiano Ronaldo
     
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    • 1881 The Dwyer Brothers' 3-year-old Kentucky Derby winner Hindoo wins his 19th consecutive race, a purse event at Sheepshead Bay; winning streak snapped 6 days later in the September Handicap at Sheepshead
    • 1890 Brooklyn Bridegrooms win 3 MLB games in one day‚ feasting on the Pittsburgh Alleghenys 10 - 9‚ 3 - 2‚ and 8 - 4
    • 1893 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Scotland's William Auchterlonie wins by 2 shots from amateur Johnny Laidley

    • 1906 New York Highlanders win their 6th consecutive MLB game in 3 days from Washington Senators; sweep AL record 3 straight double headers
    • 1906 Philadelphia beats the Red Sox 4-1 in 24 innings in Boston in the longest game in AL baseball history; both starters go the distance as A's hurler Jack Coombs overcomes Boston's Joe Harris
    [​IMG]US National Men's Championship

    1914 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, R.I.: R. Norris Williams wins his first major title beating defending champion Maurice McLoughlin 6-3, 8-6, 10-8; final event at Newport Casino, moves to Forest Hills, NY

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    Tennis PlayerMaurice McLoughlin
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    Tennis PlayerR. Norris Williams
    • 1915 Jerome Travers establishes a US Amateur Golf Championship record by downing George Crump, 14 & 13, in a 1st-round match at the Country Club of Detroit in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
    • 1922 NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"
    • 1925 Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of International Olympic Committee; replaced by Henri de Baillet-Latour of Belgium
    [​IMG]Gehrig Leads Yankee Win
    1931 Future Baseball Hall of Fame 1st baseman Lou Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days & 6th homer in consecutive games in NY Yankees' 5-1 win v Boston Red Sox

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    Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig
    • 1936 Belgian boxer Gustave Roth beats Heinz Lazek of Austria in a 15 round points decision to win the EBU and vacant IBU world light heavyweight title in Vienna
    • 1939 Last day of 1st-class cricket in England before the declaration of war against Germany; great slow left-armer Hedley Verity finishes with amazing figures of 7 for 9 v Sussex to give Yorkshire the County Championship
    • 1945 Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Vince DiMaggio smashes his 4th grand slam of season, tying NL record, in an 8-3 win v Boston Braves
    [​IMG]1st US Women's Golf Open
    1946 1st US Open Women's Golf, Spokane CC: Patty Berg wins inaugural Open and only one played in match play format; takes 36-hole final 5 & 4 over Betty Jameson

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    GolferPatty Berg
    • 1947 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: USA retains title as Ted Schroeder outlasts Australian Dinny Pails 6-3, 8-6, 4-6, 9-11, 10-8 4-1 for a 3-1 lead; ends 4-1
    • 1947 Infielder Jack Lohrke hits NY Giants' 183rd homer of season in 2-1 win v Boston Braves; breaks NY Yankees MLB mark of 182 set in 1936
    [​IMG]Australia vs South of England
    1948 Australian Test batsmen Don Bradman (143), Lindsay Hassett (151) & Neil Harvey (110) score centuries in Australia's 1st innings of drawn cricket tour match v South of England at Hastings

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    Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
    • 1949 Finnish long distance runner Viljo Heino runs 10,000m world record 29:27.2 in Kouvola, Finland
    • 1953 Buck Baker takes lead with 10 laps remaining to win the Southern 500 at Darlington in the most competitive event in NASCAR Grand National history; four drivers swap lead a record 35 times
    • 1958 St Louis Cardinals pitcher Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a NL record 9 batters in a 1-0 shutout of Cincinnati Reds
    • 1960 German sprinter Armin Hary wins the coveted 100m gold medal in 10.2 at the Rome Olympics; first non-American to win the event since 1928
    • 1960 US 4 x 100m medley relay team swims world record 4:05.4 to beat Australia and win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Frank McKinney, Paul Hait, Lance Larson & Jeff Farrell
    • 1960 US 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of George Harrison, Dick Blick, Mike Troy & Jeff Farrell swim world record 8:10.2 to beat Japan by 3.3 seconds and win gold medal at the Rome Olympics
    • 1963 Walter Kennedy begins his tenure as the commissioner of the NBA, succeeding Maurice Podoloff
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1964 SF Giants reliever Masanori Murakami becomes the first Japanese-born player to appear in US MLB; on debut, the Osuki native throws a scoreless inning in a 4-1 loss v New York Mets

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    Baseball Player In Major LeaguesMasanori Murakami
    • 1967 Cincinnati Reds reliever Bob Lee walks Dick Groat with bases loaded in 21st inning to give SF Giants a 1-0 win at Crosley Field; 20 scoreless innings ties MLB mark, Pirates v Braves 1918
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1971 Australian John Newcombe becomes 1st male top-seed to lose in US Open 1st round when beaten by eventual finalist Jan Kodeš 6-2, 6-7, 6-7, 3,-6

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    Tennis PlayerJohn Newcombe
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1971 Pittsburgh Pirates start what is believed to be first all-black line-up (including several Latinos) in MLB history‚ in 10-7 win v Philadelphia Phillies; includes future Hall of Famers Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell

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    Baseball PlayerRoberto Clemente
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    Baseball Player Willie Stargell
    [​IMG]1st American Chess Champion
    1972 American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer beats Russian champion Boris Spassky 12.5-8.5 in Reykjavik, Iceland; most publicised world title match ever played; Fischer 1st American to win title

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    Bobby Fischer playing 50 opponents simultaneously in 1964. He won 47 of the matches, drew 2 and lost 1
    • 1972 An American sweep of the medals in the women's 200m butterfly at the Munich Olympics; Karen Moe takes gold in world record 2:15.57 ahead of teammates Lynn Colella and Ellie Daniel
    [​IMG]Shane Gould
    1972 Australian swimmer Shane Gould wins the 200m freestyle in world record 2:03.56 at the Munich Olympics; her 3rd gold medal & 3rd world record of the Games

    • 1972 Japanese gymnast Sawao Kato wins the parallel bars gold medal at the Munich Olympics, his 3rd gold of the Games including team & individual all-round victories
    • 1972 Polish shooter Józef Zapędzki successfully defends his Olympic 25m rapid fire pistol title at the Munich Games with an Olympic record 595 points
    • 1972 Valeriy Borzov of the Soviet Union runs 10.14 to beat American Robert Miller and Lennox Miller of Jamaica in the coveted men's 100m final at the Munich Olympics
    • 1972 Welshman Richard Meade representing Great Britain and riding Laurieston grabs the equestrian individual and team 3-day event gold medals at the Munich Olympics
    • 1973 Gloucestershire beats Sussex by 40 runs in the Gillette Cup cricket final at Lord's to win their first major trophy since the Championship in 1877; South African all-rounder Mike Procter stars with 94 and 2 for 37
    [​IMG]Foreman KOs Roman
    1973 In his first title defense George Foreman retains his WBC & WBA heavyweight crowns when he KOs Jose "King" Roman of Puerto Rico in round 1 in Tokyo, Japan

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    Boxing Champion George Foreman
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1975 NY Mets pitcher Tom Seaver shuts out Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-0; first to reach 200 strikeouts for a MLB-record 8th straight season

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    Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher Tom Seaver
    [​IMG]Tracy Austin
    1977 Tracy Austin at age 14 years, 8 months, 20 days, becomes the youngest female to play in the US Open, beating German Heidi Eisterlehner 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 in a 1st round match

    • 1978 Baltimore Orioles pitcher Sammy Stewart fans 7 consecutive batters in his MLB debut, en route to 9-3 win v Chicago White Sox
    [​IMG]Terry Fox
    1980 Canadian one-legged distance runner Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario with Fox unable to continue because of illness

    • 1981 Fast bowler Terry Alderman takes his 42nd wicket of the series on the last day of the 5th cricket Test vs England at The Oval; haul remains record by an Australian bowler in England; England wins series 3-1
    • 1981 Mike Brearley's last day as England cricket captain in 6th Test draw v Australia at The Oval; maintains his unbeaten record at home as England's 3-1 series win confirmed
    • 1984 Middlesex beats Kent off the last ball of the Nat West Trophy cricket final in London; John Emburey hits Kent seamer Richard Ellison to square leg for 4 for the winning runs
    [​IMG]NFL History
    1984 Willie Totten for Mississippi Valley State makes Division I-AA record 536 yards & 9 TDs in 86-0 win v Kentucky State; Jerry Rice catches 17 passes for 294 yards & 5 TDs; breaks own Division I-AA record for total yardage in pass receptions

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    NFL Legend Jerry Rice
    [​IMG]Elliott's $1Million Bonus
    1985 Bill Elliott claims a $1 million bonus for winning 3 of the 4 crown jewel races on the NASCAR schedule: the Daytona 500, Winston 500 and Southern 500

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    Auto Racer Bill Elliott

    • 1985 Dutch cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes the oldest road race elite world champion at 38 years, 8 months, 29 days; beats Greg Lamonde & Marino Argentin in Giavera del Montello
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1987 15-year-old American tennis player Michael Chang becomes youngest man to win a match at the US Open when he beats Australian Paul McNamee in 4 sets in the opening round

    [​IMG]Chris Evert
    1989 Chris Evert becomes the first player ever to win 100 matches in the US National/Open Tennis Championship by beating Patricia Tarabinia 6-2, 6-4

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    Tennis Legend Chris Evert
    • 1990 Toronto Argonauts beat BC Lions 68-43 at the Skydome in Toronto for the highest combined score (111) in Canadian Football League history
    • 1991 Japanese runner Hiromi Taniguchi wins the marathon in 2:14:57 at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan
    [​IMG]US Open's Longest Tiebreak
    1993 Goran Ivanišević and Daniel Nestor play a 20–18 tiebreaker in their US Open first round match, eventually won by Ivanišević 6–4, 7–6, 7–6(20–18); longest tiebreak in US Open history

    [​IMG]Ivan Lendl Retires
    1994 8-time major winner Ivan Lendl (34) plays his final professional tennis match; forced to retire with back pain trailing Bernd Karbacher of Germany 6-4, 7-6, 1-0 in the 2nd round of the US Open

    • 1996 The Carolina Panthers outgun the Atlanta Falcons 29-6 in their first regular season NFL game at Ericsson Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina
    • 1996 Vinny Testaverde completes 19 from 33 for 254 yards as the Baltimore Ravens beat Oakland Raiders, 17-14 in their NFL debut at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1997 Two-time defending US Open champion Pete Sampras has his 17-match winning streak, the 4th-longest of the Open Era in men’s singles, snapped in a 6-7, 7-5, 7-6, 3-6, 7-6 loss to Petr Korda of Czech Republic

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    Tennis PlayerPete Sampras
    • 1998 American harness trainer and driver Dave Palone wins his 6,000th race, driving Oompa’s Terminator to victory at The Meadows Racetrack in Pennsylvania
    [​IMG]NHL History
    1999 Ex-Pittsburgh Penguins star Mario Lemieux is approved as new owner of the struggling franchise; Penguins become first club in pro sports history to be owned by a former member of the team

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    NHL Legend and OwnerMario Lemieux
    • 2001 Australian Rugby Union team gives all-conquering captain John Eales perfect send off in his final international with a famous last minute, 29-26 win over New Zealand in Sydney; Wallabies retain Tri Nations Series
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    2001 Facing 4-time Cy Young Award winner Greg Maddux, Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa hits the longest home run in Turner Field history as his 53rd of the season travels 471 feet to straight away center

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    MLB Pitching LegendGreg Maddux
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    MLB OutfielderSammy Sosa
    • 2001 Jockey Tim Moccasin caps a streak of 14 consecutive victories, a North American record, at Marquis Downs in Saskatoon, Canada aboard Intricate Stitch in the 5th race
    [​IMG]Bryant Charge Dropped
    2004 Sexual assault charge against LA Lakers star Kobe Bryant is dropped by the Eagle County District Attorney's offices in Colorado after the victim decides not to participate

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    NBA GuardKobe Bryant
    [​IMG]Roger Goodell
    2006 Roger Goodell begins his tenure as NFL Commissioner

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    Commissioner of the National Football League (NFL)Roger Goodell
    • 2006 The United States men's basketball team is upset at the World Basketball Championships in Saitama, Japan, as the hot-shooting Greece pulls off a 101-95 semi final victory
    • 2007 Clay Buchholz becomes first Boston Red Sox rookie to pitch a no-hitter. In just his second MLB appearance; beats Baltimore Orioles 10-0 at Fenway Park
    • 2007 In one of the biggest upsets in college football history, 109,218 fans see Appalachian State's Corey Lynch block a Jason Gingell 37-yard field goal attempt with 6 seconds remaining to inspire an epic 34-32 win v Michigan at Ann Arbor
    • 2007 Tyson Gay helps US win the men's 4 x 100m relay at the world track & field championships in Osaka, Japan to join Carl Lewis and Maurice Greene as the only men to win 3 gold medals at one world meet
    [​IMG]Anna Stöhr
    2013 Anna Stöhr wins a gold medal in bouldering at the European Championship in Eindhoven, Netherlands

    [​IMG]Gareth Bale
    2013 Gareth Bale transfers from Tottenham Hotspur FC to Real Madrid for an estimated world record fee of £85.3 million (€100 million)

    • 2015 India scores their first Test cricket series victory in Sri Lanka since 1993 winning 3rd Test in Colombo by 117 runs; Ravichandran Ashwin (4) & Ishant Sharma (3) combine for 7 Sri Lankan 2nd innings wickets
    [​IMG]Kaepernick Kneels
    2016 NFL San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneels in protest during the US national anthem before pre-season game against the Chargers at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium, objecting to racial injustice and police brutality in the US

    [​IMG]Räikkönen Fastest Lap Speed
    2018 Finnish Ferrari driver Kimi Räikkönen qualifies in 1:19.119 during Q3 of the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix at Monza; record for fastest average lap speed in F1 (263.588 kph or 163.786 mph)

    • 2019 Houston Astros starter Justin Verlander strikes out 14 as he throws his third career no-hitter in a 2-0 decision against the Toronto Blue Jays
    [​IMG]Ronaldo Goal Record
    2021 Cristiano Ronaldo breaks world record for goals scored in men's international football; hits his 110th and 111th goals for Portugal in 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over Republic of Ireland in Faro
     
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    g8orbill Old Gator Moderator Premium Member VIP Member

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    • 1878 Surrey left-arm slow round-arm bowler Ted Barratt takes 10-43 for the Players in Australia's 1st innings in a cricket tour match on his home ground at The Oval; all ten are caught or stumped; Australia wins by 8 runs
    [​IMG]US National Men's Championship

    1882 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Richard Sears beats Clarence M. Clark 6-1, 6-4, 6-0

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    Tennis PlayerRichard Sears

    • 1905 New Zealand beats Australia 14-3 in cold, wet conditions in the first international Rugby Union match between the countries on New Zealand soil at Tahuna Park in Dunedin
    • 1923 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, NYC, NY: Bill Johnson beats John Hawkes 6-0, 6-2, 6-1 for unassailable 3-1 lead for US over Australia; ends 4-1; US 4th straight win
    [​IMG]US National Men's Championship
    1924 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Bill Tilden wins 5th straight US singles title; beats Bill Johnston for 3rd consecutive year 6-1, 9-7, 6-2

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    Tennis PlayerBill Tilden
    • 1936 NFL Chicago College All-Star Game: All-Stars 7, Detroit Lions 7; 76,000 at Soldier Field
    [​IMG]PGA Men's Championship
    1940 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Hershey CC: Byron Nelson wins his first PGA C'ship, beating Sam Snead 1 up in the Monday 36-hole final

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    GolferByron Nelson
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    GolferSam Snead
    [​IMG]Hogan Makes it a Triple
    1946 American golfer Ben Hogan wins the Golden State Open at California CC in Los Angeles; his 3rd consecutive PGA event and 11th title of the season; 2nd time that year he wins 3 straight tournaments

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    GolferBen Hogan
    [​IMG]F1 World Champion
    1956 British Ferrari driver Peter Collins sportingly hands over his car to retired teammate Juan Manuel Fangio during season ending Italian Grand Prix at Monza; Fangio finishes 2nd to win F1 World Drivers Championship

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    Auto RacerJuan Manuel Fangio
    • 1956 Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina finishes 2nd in Italian GP at Monza to win his 3rd straight F1 World Drivers Championship by 3 points from Englishman Stirling Moss
    • 1957 Milwaukee 1st baseman Frank Torre scores 6 runs to tie the MLB record; Braves rout Chicago Cubs 23-10
    • 1960 American Mike Troy swims 200m butterfly world record 2:12.8 to win the gold medal from Australian Neville Hayes at the Rome Olympics
    [​IMG]Wilma Rudolph
    1960 American sprinter Wilma Rudolph wins the coveted 100m gold medal at the Rome Olympics in 11.0; beats Britain's Dorothy Hyman by 0.3; 1st of 3 gold medals for Rudolph

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    AthleteWilma Rudolph
    • 1960 New Zealand middle distance runner Peter Snell claims first of 3 career Olympic gold medals when he wins the 800m in Rome
    • 1960 Tamara & Irina Press (Soviet Union) become first sisters to win Olympic gold medals; Tamara wins Rome Olympics shot put one day after Irina takes out 80m hurdles
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1962 St. Louis 1st baseman Stan Musial's records his 3,516th hit in Cards' 4-3 loss v NY Mets; overtakes Tris Speaker into 2nd place behind Ty Cobb on the MLB all-time list

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    MLB LegendStan Musial
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    Baseball PlayerTris Speaker

    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1965 Chicago Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his MLB 400th career HR (off Curt Simmons) in a 5-3 win over St. Louis at Wrigley Field; Simmons also gave up Willie Mays' 400th HR in 1963

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    MLB shortstopErnie Banks
    [​IMG]NFL History
    1966 Joe Auer returns the opening kickoff 95 yards for a Miami touchdown in the Dolphins' first ever NFL regular-season game; Oakland Raiders go on to win 23-14 at the Orange Bowl before 26,776 fans

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    NFL Coach and SportscasterJohn Madden
    • 1969 Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage New York Yankees at $65,000 a season, then the biggest salary in MLB
    • 1970 US Open first Grand Slam tournament tiebreak is used to decide a set at 6-6; first player to reach 5 points with sudden death at 4-4
    [​IMG]Evert and Conner's Open Debut
    1971 Teenage debutants Chris Evert & Jimmy Connors win their first matches at the US Open Tennis Championships at Forest Hills

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    Tennis LegendChris Evert
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    Tennis LegendJimmy Connors
    • 1972 American breaststroker Cathy Carr swims a world record 1:13.58 to win the 100m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
    • 1972 American breaststroker John Hencken beats David Wilkie of Great Britain to win the 200m gold medal in world record 2:21.55 at the Munich Olympic Games
    • 1972 Chicago Cubs pitcher Milt Pappas no-hits San Diego Padres, 8-0
    • 1972 East German sprinter Renate Stecher sets world record 11.07 to beat Raelene Boyle of Australia for the women's 100m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
    • 1972 East German swimmer Roland Matthes wraps up the Olympic backstroke double with a world record 2:02.82 in the 200m in Munich, having already won the 100m in Olympic record time
    • 1972 For the first time since the advent of the Modern Olympics in 1896, a non-American wins the pole vault gold medal; East German Wolfgang Nordwig clears 5.5m at the Munich Games
    • 1972 French track cyclist Daniel Morelon successfully defends his Olympic sprint title beating Australian John Nicholson for the gold medal in Munich
    • 1972 John Akii-Bua of Uganda with a world record 47.82 wins the 400m hurdles gold medal at the Munich Olympics
    [​IMG]Bill Martin
    1973 Billy Martin is fired as Detroit Tigers manager due to continual differences with the front office; goes on to manage Texas, Oakland and NY Yankees (in 5 separate stints)

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    Baseball Player and ManagerBilly Martin
    • 1973 Netherlands win their first men’s hockey World Cup, 4-2 on penalties over India in Amstelveen, Netherlands
    [​IMG]PGA Players Championship
    1974 PGA Tournament Players Championship, Atlanta CC: Jack Nicklaus wins inaugural event; first of his 3 TPC titles, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up J. C. Snead

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    GolferJack Nicklaus
    [​IMG]Rene Richards
    1977 One of the great anti-climaxes in sport; 43-year-old transsexual Rene Richards, who fought for over a year for right to play in a major event, is beaten 6-1, 6-4 by Wimbledon champion Virginia Wade at the US Open

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    Tennis Player and Three-Time Major ChampionVirginia Wade
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1978 Yankees right fielder Reggie Jackson hits his 20th HR of the season in a 6-2 home win over Seattle; 19th MLB player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years

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    MLB Right FielderReggie Jackson
    [​IMG]Golf History
    1979 US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, Canterbury GC: Mark O'Meara wins 8 & 7 over John Cook

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    GolferMark O'Meara
    [​IMG]Cricket History
    1980 Australian cricket batsman Kim Hughes becomes 3rd player to bat on all 5 days of a Test match as the rain affected Centenary Test peters out to a draw at Lord's; BBC's John Arlott calls his final match

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    CricketerKim Hughes
    • 1987 Houston outfielder Kevin Bass becomes 1st NL player to switch hit HRs in a game twice in one season in Astros 10-1 win v Cubs
    • 1990 Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dave Stieb throws MLB record 9th no-hitter of the season; beats Cleveland, 3-0
    [​IMG]Miguel Induráin
    1994 Spanish road cyclist Miguel Induráin sets UCI hour world record distance 53.04 kilometers in Bordeaux, France

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    CyclistMiguel Induráin
    [​IMG]Bruno vs. McCall
    1995 British boxer Frank Bruno beats American champion Oliver McCall in a unanimous 12 round points decision in London for the WBC heavyweight title

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    BoxerFrank Bruno
    [​IMG]Schumacher Wins #52
    2001 German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins the Belgian Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps for his record 52nd F1 Grand Prix victory

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    Formula 1 DriverMichael Schumacher
     
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    g8orbill

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    [​IMG]US National Men's Championship

    1881 1st US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears wins inaugural event beating William E. Glyn 6-0, 6-3, 6-2

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    Tennis PlayerRichard Sears

    • 1889 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Henry Slocum defeats Quincy Shaw 6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2
    • 1903 American yacht Reliance (largest gaff-rigged cutter ever built) defends America's Cup for the NYYC beating UK challenger Shamrock III off the New Jersey shore for a 3-0 series win
    • 1904 For the only time in Olympic Games history, there is a throw-off in the discus final after Americans Martin Sheridan & Ralph Rose tie with a best throw of 128' 10½" in St. Louis; Sheridan wins with 127' 10¼"
    • 1906 After an 8 minute argument over an umpire call the NY Highlanders win on forfeit over Philadelphia A's; Highlanders' MLB record 5th doubleheader sweep on consecutive days
    • 1906 Philadelphia Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Philadelphia before 10,000 fans; black baseball's largest crowd ever
    [​IMG]Burns KOs Lang
    1908 Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs Australian Bill Lang in 6 rounds in Melbourne in a warmup fight for his famous title bout with Jack Johnson

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    Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionTommy Burns
    [​IMG]US National Men's Championship
    1911 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: William Larned wins his 5th consecutive & 7th overall US singles title; beats Maurice McLoughlin 6-4, 6-4, 6-2

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    Tennis PlayerWilliam Larned
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    Tennis PlayerMaurice McLoughlin
    [​IMG]US Men's National Championship
    1918 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Robert Lindley Murray successfully defends title; beats Bill Tilden 6-3, 6-1, 7-5

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    Tennis PlayerBill Tilden
    • 1921 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, NYC, NY: Americans Watson Washburn & William Norris beat Japanese pair Ichiya Kumagae & Zenzo Shimizuto 6-2, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5 for 3-0 lead; ends 5-0
    [​IMG]Ty Cobb's Final Hit
    1928 Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Ty Cobb records his 4,189th and final career hit, as a pinch hitter for Philadelphia A's in 6-1 loss v Washington Senators

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    MLB LegendTy Cobb
    [​IMG]Jimmie Foxx Hits #51
    1932 A's first baseman Jimmie Foxx smashes his 50th & 51st home runs to become only 3rd player to reach 50 in a MLB season; joins Babe Ruth & Hack Wilson

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    MLB Hall of Fame 1st BasemanJimmie Foxx
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    Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderHack Wilson
    [​IMG]300 mph Barrier Broken
    1935 First automobile to exceed 300cmph, Malcolm Campbell powers Bluebird to 301.129mph at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah

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    Motor RacerMalcolm Campbell
    • 1936 For the first and only time in the history of the Walker Cup golf event, there is a shutout; the United States routs Great Britain, 9-0 at Pine Valley GC in New Jersey
    • 1938 1940 Olympic site is changed from Tokyo, Japan to Helsinki, Finland because of the Second Sino-Japanese War; WWII causes eventual cancellation
    • 1945 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills: American Frank Parker successfully defends title; beats William Talbert 14-12, 6-1, 6-2

    • 1945 US Women's National Tennis Championship, Forest Hills: Sarah Palfrey Cooke wins second US title; beats Pauline Betz Addie 3-6, 8-6, 6-4
    • 1947 New York Yankees total 18 hits, all singles to rout Boston Red Sox, 11-2 at Fenway Park
    • 1947 Philadelphia A's rookie pitcher Bill McCahan no-hits Washington Senators, 3-0
    [​IMG]Farina 1st Formula 1 Champion
    1950 Giuseppe "Nino" Farina wins inaugural Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship by taking out the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in an Alfa Romeo, finishing 3 points ahead of Juan Manuel Fangio

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    Auto RacerJuan Manuel Fangio
    [​IMG]Jockey Longden Sets Win Record
    1956 American Johnny Longden becomes thoroughbred racing's winningest rider, breaking the record of 4,870 wins by British jockey Sir Gordon Richards; rides Arrogate to victory in the Del Mar Handicap

    • 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers play their final game in Jersey City, a 3-2 loss v Philadelphia Phillies; 11-4 record in New Jersey
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1957 Milwaukee Braves pitcher Warren Spahn sets an NL record for a left-hander with 41st shut-out; beats Cubs, 8-0

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    Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher Warren Spahn
    • 1960 Livio Berruti of Italy runs a world record 20.5 to win the gold medal in the 200m at the Rome Olympics
    • 1960 US women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Joan Spillane, Shirley Stobs, Carolyn Wood & Chris von Saltza swim world record 4:08.9 to beat Australia by 2.4 seconds and win gold medal at Rome Olympics
    • 1965 Preparing a move to Anaheim, the Los Angeles Angels change their name to the California Angels
    [​IMG]Contract of Interest
    1966 Future Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Orr signs his first NHL contract with the Boston Bruins; 2 year deal paying a then record $70,000 plus signing bonus

    • 1966 Houston Oilers hold Denver Broncos to no 1st downs in their NFL season opening 45-7 win at Rice Stadium
    • 1970 After playing a NL record 1,117 consecutive MLB games, Chicago Cubs outfielder Billy Williams asks to sit out
    [​IMG]World Record
    1972 American swimmer Keena Rothhammer has to swim world record 8:53.68 to beat Australian wonder-kid Shane Gould in the 800m at the Munich Olympics

    [​IMG]World Record
    1972 American swimmer Mark Spitz wins coveted 100m gold medal in world record 51.22 at the Munich Olympics; completes the freestyle sprint double having already won 200m in world record 1:52.78

    • 1972 American women's 4 x 100m medley relay team of Melissa Belote, Cathy Carr, Deena Deardurff & Sandy Neilson swim world record 4:20.75 to beat East Germany for gold at the Munich Olympics
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1972 Atlanta Braves slugger Hank Aaron earns his 6,135th total base to break Stan Musial’s MLB record in an 8-0 home defeat to the Philadelphia Phillies

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    Baseball Player Hank Aaron
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    MLB Legend Stan Musial
    • 1972 Finnish runner Lasse Virén scores a famous victory in the 10,000m at the Munich Olympics in world record 27:38.35
    • 1972 Great Britain's Mary Peters sets a new world record of 4801 points to win the Munich Olympics pentathlon gold by just 10 points from Heide Rosendahl of West Germany
    • 1972 Jerry Grant runs the first official 200mph qualifying lap in Champ Car history, posting a lap of 201.414mph around Ontario Motor Speedway
    • 1972 Swedish swimmer Gunnar Larsson wraps up the Olympic medley double when he sets world record 2:07.17 in the 200m I/M in Munich, having already won the 400m I/M
    [​IMG]Golf Tournament
    1973 American golfer Billy Casper finishes at 20-under-par 264 to beat Australian Bruce Devlin by 1 stroke to win the Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford Open; his 50th PGA Tour title

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    Golfer Billy Casper
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    Singer, Actor and TV Host Sammy Davis Jr.
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1974 Future Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame guard Oscar Robertson retires; leaves NBA with 26,710 points, 9,887 assists & 7,804 rebounds in 1,040 games

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    NBA Player Oscar Robertson
    • 1974 SF Giants' pitcher John Montefusco in his MLB debut, homers in his first at bat and pitches 9 innings in relief to earn a 9 - 5 victory over the Dodgers
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1975 Dodgers 1st baseman Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak in a 13-2 loss v Cincinnati Reds

    • 1975 England cricket batsman Bob Woolmer scores 149 on the final day to save the 4th Test v Australia at The Oval; longest first-class match ever played in England; 32 hours 17 minutes
    • 1977 Japanese baseball superstar Sadaharu Oh hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron as all-time career leader in professional baseball
    • 1981 Longest MLB game in Fenway Park history is suspended after 19 innings at Seattle Mariners 7, Boston Red Sox 7; Mariners win 8-7 in 20 the following morning
    • 1984 MLB St. Louis Cardinals closer Bruce Sutter breaks his own NL record for saves in a season with his 45th in 7-3 win over NY Mets; record broken in 1991, by Lee Smith of the St. Louis Cardinals
    • 1985 England cricket swing bowler Richard Ellison with 5 for 76 helps dismiss Australia for 129 in 6th Test win at the Oval; England regains Ashes 3-1
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1985 NY Mets catcher Gary Carter smashes 3 consecutive HRs in an 8-3 win v San Diego Padres at Jack Murphy Stadium

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    Baseball Hall of Fame Catcher Gary Carter
    • 1986 Houston Astros & Chicago Cubs use MLB record 53 players, including 17 pitchers in a 2-day 18 inning marathon; Astros win 8-7
    [​IMG]Evert Defeats Seles
    1989 American tennis star Chris Evert beats 15-year-old Monica Seles 6-0, 6-2 in a 4th round match for her 101st and last US Open singles victory

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    Tennis Legend Chris Evert
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    Tennis Player and Nine-Time Major Champion Monica Seles
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1990 White Sox closer Bobby Thigpen tops Dave Righetti's MLB record with 47th save in Chicago's 4-2 win v Royals; Thigpen finishes season with 57 saves

    • 1994 Florida's Terry Dean tosses an NCAA football record 7 touchdown passes in the first half as the Gators roll to a 70-21 drubbing of New Mexico State
    • 1994 Miami rout Georgia Southern 56-0, breaking NCAA football record with its 58th consecutive home win; Alabama won 57 straight at home between 1962-82
    • 1995 Carolina Panthers lose their debut NFL game in overtime 23-20 to the Atlanta Falcons in front of 58,808 fans at the Georgia Dome
    • 1995 In their NFL debut game the Jacksonville Jaguars fall to the Houston Oilers 10-3; 72,363 fans attend the Jacksonville Municipal Stadium
    [​IMG]NHL History
    1999 Mario Lemieux's ownership group officially takes over the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins; Lemieux is first player in the modern era of sports to buy the team he once played for

    • 2001 In just his 11th start, St. Louis Cardinals' rookie pitcher Bud Smith no-hits the San Diego Padres, 4-0
    • 2005 After beating South Africa the previous weekend, New Zealand clinch their 6th Tri Nations Rugby Series with a 34-24 win over Australia in Auckland; All Blacks winger Doug Howlett crosses for 3 tries
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2006 Andre Agassi loses to 112th-ranked Benjamin Becker of Germany 7-5, 6-7, 6-4, 7-5 in the 3rd round at the US Open in his final career match; 8-time Grand Slam winner finishes with record of 870-274

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    Tennis Legend Andre Agassi
    • 2006 Los Angeles Sparks center Lisa Leslie wins the WNBA's Most Valuable Player award, joining Sheryl Swoopes as the league's only three-time winners
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    2007 Pedro Martínez returns from the disabled list, wins his 207th career game, and collects his 3,000th career strikeout

    • 2008 The new Oklahoma City NBA franchise announces the team will be named the 'Thunder'; reference to powerful storms in the area
    • 2009 Pedro Martínez becomes the 10th pitcher in history to win at least 100 games in each league
    [​IMG]Bolt Runs Season Best
    2011 Following his disqualification in the 100m, Jamaica's Usain Bolt runs a season best 19.40 to win the 200m at the World Athletics Championships in South Korea

    • 2017 Adam Ondra climbs Silence in Norway, the world's first-ever 9c (5.15d) route
    [​IMG]Lewis Donates Winnings
    2017 Stacy Lewis wins the Cambia Portland Classic and donates her winnings to Hurricane Harvey relief

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    Golfer Stacy Lewis
    • 2020 Philadelphia Phillies retire infielder Dick Allen's number 15 on the 57th anniversary of his MLB debut.
    [​IMG]Serena's Final Match
    2022 23-time Grand Slam tennis champion Serena Williams plays her final match at the US Open, going down 7-5, 6-7, 6-1 to Ajla Tomljanovic of Australia in a third round match in New York

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    Tennis Player Serena Williams
    [​IMG]Mori Wins World Cup
    2022 Ai Mori wins gold in lead climbing at the IFSC World Cup in Koper, Slovenia

    [​IMG]10 Straight F1 Wins
    2023 Dutch world champion Max Verstappen scores his record 10th straight F1 victory of the season in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza; beats Red Bull teammate Sergio Pérez by 6.064s
     
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    • 1906 New York Highlanders beat Boston Pilgrims, 7 - 0 and 1 - 0 for their MLB record 5th straight doubleheader sweep
    • 1916 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitchers Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown face each other for a final time; after 25 contests Mathewson takes a 13-12 advantage with Reds 10-8 winners over Cubs
    [​IMG]US Men's National Championship

    1919 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Bill Johnston wins his second US title; beats Bill Tilden 6-4, 6-4, 6-3

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    Tennis PlayerBill Tilden

    • 1920 Man o' War wins the 1 5/8-mile Lawrence Realization Stakes at Belmont Park by 100 lengths, the largest winning margin in modern thoroughbred racing history; world record time 2.40.8
    [​IMG]World Record 2000m
    1922 Finnish super athlete Paavo Nurmi runs a 2000m world record 5:26.3 in Tampere, Finland

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    Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi
    • 1922 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, NYC, NY: Bill Tilden beats James Anderson 6-4, 5-7, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 for unassailable 3-1 lead for US over Australasia; US retains title, ends 4-1
    • 1923 New York Yankees pitcher "Sad" Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia A's, 2-0
    [​IMG]Lindbergh Visits Idaho
    1927 Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour

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    AviatorCharles Lindbergh
    • 1932 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Keller GC: Olin Dutra wins the first of 2 major titles, beating Frank Walsh, 4 & 3
    [​IMG]Bradman Scores 149no
    1934 Australian cricket super-batsman Don Bradman scores 149 not out in just 104 minutes (17 fours, 4 sixes) in drawn tour match v England XI at Folkestone

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    Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
    • 1937 15-year-old cyclist Doris Kopsky becomes 1st Amateur Bicycle League of America woman's national champion in 4:22.4 in Buffalo, NY
    • 1941 New York Yankees clinch their 3rd straight AL pennant; beat the Red Sox, 6-3; earliest date in baseball history a team has captured a flag
    • 1944 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American Frank Parker wins 1st of 4 Grand Slam titles; beats William Talbert 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
    • 1944 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Pauline Betz Addie wins her third straight US title; beats Margaret Osborne 6-3, 8-6
    • 1945 American chess grandmaster Reuben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid (10 seconds per move) games blindfolded in New York City
    • 1947 Champion Middlesex cricket batsman Denis Compton scores 101 for South of England in tour match defeat to South Africa at Lord's; his record 17th century of the English season

    • 1950 NASCAR’s first paved super speedway, Darlington Raceway hosts Southern 500, first 500-mile event in NASCAR history; winner Johnny Mantz in a Plymouth
    • 1966 Australian Jack Brabham clinches his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship with a 6th place in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza
    • 1972 16-year-old Ulrike Meyfarth of West Germany with a world record equalling 1.92m, wins the women's high jump gold medal at the Munich Olympics; youngest winner of individual athletics event in Olympic history
    • 1972 American swimmer Melissa Belote with a world record 2:19.19 takes the 200m backstroke gold medal at the Munich Olympics; wraps up backstroke double having won the 100m in Olympic record time
    • 1972 American swimmer Mike Burton sets a world record 15:52.58 to win the 1,500m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
    • 1972 Italian diver Klaus Dibiasi wins his 2nd of 3 consecutive 10m platform gold medals the Munich Olympics
    • 1972 Kenyan legend Kipchoge Keino follows his 1,500m gold in Mexico City with an Olympic record 8:23.64 to win the 3,000m steeplechase at the Munich Olympics
    • 1972 Soviet sprinter Valeriy Borzov runs 20.00 to win the men's 200m gold medal at the Munich Olympics; wraps up the 100/200m double at the Games
    [​IMG]Spitz's Record 7th Gold
    1972 US 4 x 100m medley relay team of Mike Stamm, Tom Bruce, Mark Spitz, and Jerry Heidenreich set a world record of 3:48.16 to win gold at the Munich Olympics; Mark Spitz becomes the first athlete to win seven Olympic gold medals at a single Games

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    SwimmerMark Spitz
    • 1972 Willem Ruska of the Netherlands wins gold medals in both the heavyweight & open class Olympic judo competitions in Munich; first judoka to win 2 Olympic gold medals at one Games
    [​IMG]Cricket History
    1979 Sunil Gavaskar scores his third double century in Test cricket (221) to guide India to a famous draw against England in the 4th Test at The Oval

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    CricketerSunil Gavaskar
    • 1981 Longest MLB game at Fenway Park ends in 20 innings; Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox, 8-7
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1983 Greg LeMond wins UCI World Road Race Championship in 7h 01' 21" in Altenrhein, Switzerland; first American cyclist to take the title

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    CyclistGreg LeMond
    • 1983 US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, North Shore CC: Jay Sigel successfully defends title 8 & 7 over Chris Perry
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1985 NY Mets catcher Gary Carter's 2 HRs in a 9-2 win in San Diego ties MLB record of 5 HRs in 2 games

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    Baseball Hall of Fame CatcherGary Carter

    • 1985 Russian Igor Paklin sets new high jump world record at 2.41m in Kobe, Japan
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1988 Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills, NY

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    Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson
    • 1988 The relocated Phoenix Cardinals play first regular-season NFL game; lose 21-14 v Bengals at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1991 MLB Statistical Accuracy Committee votes to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris' 1961 home run record of 61 (passing Babe Ruth's 60) & determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings

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    Baseball PlayerRoger Maris
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1992 In his record 115th and final US Open singles match, Jimmy Connors is beaten by Ivan Lendl 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-0 in a 2nd-round night match

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    Tennis LegendJimmy Connors
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    Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionIvan Lendl
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1993 Mats Wilander beats fellow Swede Mikael Pernfors in a US Open marathon 7-6, 3-6, 1-6, 7-6, 6-4 in 4 hours, 1 minute; match ends at 2:26am

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    Tennis Player and Seven-Time Major ChampionMats Wilander
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    Tennis PlayerMikael Pernfors
    • 1993 MLB New York Yankees 1-handed pitcher Jim Abbott no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0 at Yankee Stadium
    • 1993 Penn State University plays its first football game in the Big 10, beating Minnesota 38-20; quarterback John Sacca throws 4 touchdown passes to Bobby Engram
    • 1994 Chinese diver Fu Mingxia wins 10m platform gold medal at World Swimming Championships in Rome, Italy; becomes first female to win back-to-back world titles in the event
    [​IMG]NFL Record
    1994 Miami quarterback Dan Marino throws 5 touchdown passes in Dolphins' 39-35 win over New England; sets NFL record with his 18th game of 4-or-more touchdown passes

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    Hall of Fame NFL QuarterbackDan Marino
    • 1994 Tom Tupa scores the first 2-point conversion in NFL history, running in a fake extra point attempt for the Cleveland Browns in a 28-20 win at Cincinnati
    • 1995 Chicago White Sox third baseman Robin Ventura hits grand slams in consecutive innings, the 4th and 5th, of a 14-3 rout of the Texas Rangers
    • 1998 NY Yankees beat Chicago White Sox, 11-6, to win their 100th game on the earliest date in MLB history besting the 1906 Chicago Cubs & 1954 Cleveland Indians by 5 days
    • 1999 MLB's Cincinnati Reds set a National League record with 9 home runs as they rout the Philadelphia Phillies, 22-3
    [​IMG]Cricket History
    2000 England claim first series (3-1) over West Indies since 1969; win 5th Test by 158 runs at The Oval, London; Windies captain Courtney Walsh's 132nd and final Test

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    West Indian CricketerCourtney Walsh
    • 2002 After blowing an 11-run lead to Kansas City, Scott Hatteberg's bottom of the 9th walk off HR gives Oakland a historic MLB victory, 12-11; A's set AL record 20 game winning streak
    • 2002 Argentina pulls off one of the biggest upsets in basketball history, beating the US, 87-80 in 2nd round of the World Championships; 1st US loss in 59 games since sending NBA players to international competition in 1992
    [​IMG]Kyle Busch
    2005 20-year-old Kyle Busch becomes youngest driver to win a NASCAR Cup Series race when he out duels Greg Biffle in the Sony HD 500 at California Speedway

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    Auto RacerKyle Busch
    • 2006 Damon Allen moves past ex-CFL & NFL star Warren Moon as pro football's all-time leading passer; throws for 207 yards & 2 scores as Toronto routs Hamilton, 40-6; Allen 70,595 career passing yards
    [​IMG]Golf Tournament
    2006 Tiger Woods matches the lowest final round of his career (8-under 63) in the Deutsche Bank C'ship at Norton, MA to win for the 5th straight time and 7th time this PGA Tour season

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    GolferTiger Woods
     
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    • 1901 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, better known as Minor League Baseball is formed at the Leland Hotel in Chicago
    • 1906 Saint Louis University quarterback Bradbury Robinson throws first legal forward pass in the history of American football for a TD to Jack Schneider at Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin; Saint Louis wins, 22-0
    • 1908 Brooklyn Superbas pitcher Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0 at Washington Park, Brooklyn

    • 1913 Phillies & Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open

    1916 US National Championship Men's Tennis: R. Norris Williams beats Bill Johnston 4-6, 6-4, 0-6, 6-2, 6-4 for his 2nd and final US singles crown

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    Tennis PlayerR. Norris Williams
    • 1918 Due to WWI, 15th Baseball World Series begins a month early; Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago Cubs, 1-0 at Comiskey Park
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1921 Walter Johnson sets MLB strikeout mark at 2,287

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    MLB PitcherWalter Johnson
    • 1922 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1)
    • 1923 Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously
    [​IMG]Golf Tournament
    1925 29th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones

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    GolferBobby Jones
    • 1938 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Philadelphia, PA: US retain title as Don Budge beats Australian Adrian Quist 8-6, 6-1, 6-2 for unbeatable 3-1 lead; ends 3-2
    [​IMG]International Lawn Tennis Challenge
    1939 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Haverford, PA: John Bromwich beats American Frank Parker 6-0, 6-3, 6-1 to give Australia the title, 3-2

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    Tennis PlayerJohn Bromwich
    • 1946 Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game, in his hometown of St. Louis; 2 RBI's in Cardinals' win over Chicago Cubs
    • 1948 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: 3 straight titles for US as Gardnar Mulloy & Bill Talbert beat Australians Colin Long & Bill Sidwell 8-6, 9-7, 2-6, 7-5 for unassailable 3-0 lead; ends 5-0
    • 1949 US National Championship Men's Tennis: Pancho Gonzales beats fellow American Ted Schroeder 16-18, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4; longest singles final match by games (67), before tiebreaker introduction
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1949 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Margaret Osborne duPont beats fellow American Doris Hart 6-4, 6-1

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    Tennis PlayerDoris Hart

    • 1950 38.7 inches (98.3 cm) rainfall - over several days - at Yankeetown, Florida (state record)
    • 1950 US National Championship Men's Tennis: American Art Larsen beats countryman Herb Flam 6-3, 4-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 for his only Grand Slam title
    • 1950 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-American final Margaret Osborne duPont beats Doris Hart 6-3, 6-3 for her third consecutive US singles crown
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1951 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Frank Sedgman of Australia beats American Vic Seixas 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 for his first of 2 straight US singles crowns

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    Tennis PlayerVic Seixas
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    Tennis PlayerFrank Sedgman
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1951 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Maureen Connolly wins her 1st of 9 Grand Slam singles titles; beats fellow American Shirley Fry 6-3, 1-6, 6-4

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    Tennis playerMaureen Connolly
    • 1955 Dodger Don Newcombe hits NL pitcher record 7th HR of season
    [​IMG]A. J. Foyt's 1st Win
    1960 A. J. Foyt wins the first of 67 Indy car victories at Du Quoin, Illinois. State Fairgrounds

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    Racing Car DriverA. J. Foyt
    [​IMG]Cassius Clay Wins Gold
    1960 Cassius Clay [Muhammad Ali] beats 3-time European champion Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland by unanimous points decision to win Olympic light heavyweight boxing gold medal at the Rome Games

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    Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali
    [​IMG]Benvenuti Wins Boxing Gold
    1960 Future world middleweight boxing champion Nino Benvenuti of Italy beats Yuri Radonyak of the Soviet Union to win welterweight gold medal at the Rome Olympics

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    BoxerNino Benvenuti
    • 1962 Atletico Madrid of Spain win 2nd European Cup Winner's Cup against ACF Fiorentina of Italy 3-0 in Stuttgart (replay)
    • 1962 Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games at 78 & consecutive errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th
    • 1971 Astros pitcher J R Richard debut, strikes out 15 Giants in a 5-3 win
    • 1971 NY Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet
    • 1972 Eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and later killed by the Palestinian Black September group at the Munich Olympics
    • 1973 1st one-day Cricket international for West Indies (vs England) - lose by 1 wicket

    • 1977 Cleveland Indians stage 1st "I hate the Yankee Hanky Night", inspired by local radio personality Pete Franklin; home team sweeps a doubleheader over New York at Cleveland Municipal Stadium
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1979 American Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his bullet serve and upsets top-seed Björn Borg 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 in the US Open Tennis quarterfinals

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    Tennis PlayerRoscoe Tanner
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    Tennis PlayerBjörn Borg
    • 1979 Oakland A's pitcher Matt Keough beats Milwaukee Brewers, 6-1 for first win after 14 straight losses, ended 1978 with 18 defeats (1 shy of the MLB record 19)
    • 1982 US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, The Country Club: Jay Sigel wins 8 & 7 over David Tolley
    [​IMG]Carl Lewis
    1987 2nd World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in Men's Long Jump

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    Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis
    [​IMG]McEnroe Fined
    1987 John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at US Tennis Open

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    Tennis PlayerJohn McEnroe
    • 1988 CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return & 58-yd pass reception
    [​IMG]Evert's Final US Open Match
    1989 Chris Evert's final US Open tennis match; defeated by Zina Garrison 7-6, 6-2 in the quarter finals

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    Tennis LegendChris Evert
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    Tennis PlayerZina Garrison
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1990 #12 seed Pete Sampras ends #3 Ivan Lendl's bid for 9th straight US Open final with classic 6-4, 7-6, 3-6, 4-6, 6-2 quarter final win; goes on to win 1st career Grand Slam title

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    Tennis PlayerPete Sampras
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    Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionIvan Lendl
    • 1992 Dan O'Brien sets world record decathlon (8891 pts)
    • 1994 Jingyi Le swims world record 100m women's freestyle (54.01 sec)
    [​IMG]NFL Record
    1994 SF wide receiver Jerry Rice catches 2 touchdown passes and runs for another score in 49ers' 44-14 rout of the Raiders; surpasses Jim Brown as NFL's career TD leader with 127

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    NFL LegendJerry Rice
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    NFL Legend and Civil Rights ActivistJim Brown
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1995 Cal Ripken Jr ties Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 straight games

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    MLB LegendCal Ripken Jr
    • 1997 Athens in Greece, selected to host 2004 Olympics
    • 1997 Orioles beat Yankes 13-9 in longest 9 inning game
    • 2020 146th Kentucky Derby: 8-1 underdog Authentic with John R. Velazquez aboard holds off heavy favourite Tiz the Law to give trainer Bob Baffert his record-tying 6th Derby win
    • 2021 Tour Championship, Men's Golf, East Lake GC, GA: Patrick Cantlay claims richest prize in golf ($15m) with 1 stroke win over Jon Rahm; runner-up Rahm pockets $5m
     
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    [​IMG]Debut of W. G. Grace

    1880 First Test cricket game in England begins with W. G. Grace scoring 152 on debut against Australia at The Oval

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    CricketerW. G. Grace

    • 1883 Chicago White Stockings beat Detroit Wolverines, 26-6 at Lake Front Park, Chicago; smash MLB record 18 runs in 7th inning
    • 1904 Soccer team Rheden forms
    • 1905 Chicago White Sox pitcher Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0
    • 1913 19th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers
    [​IMG]Dempsey KOs Miske
    1920 Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight

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    Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJack Dempsey
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1920 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Bill Tilden wins first of 6 straight US singles titles; beats Bill Johnston 6-1, 1-6, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3

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    Tennis PlayerBill Tilden
    • 1924 Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field championships
    • 1930 3rd Women's World Games (track & field competition for women) is conducted over 3-days at the Letná Stadium in Prague, Czechoslovakia
    • 1930 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
    • 1942 Czech marathon runner Oskar Hêks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
    • 1943 Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in American League history at 16years, 8 months
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1943 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Joe Hunt beats fellow American Jack Kramer 6-3, 6-8, 10-8, 6-0 for his lone major title

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    Tennis PlayerJack Kramer
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1943 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American Pauline Betz successfully defends title; beats Louise Brough Clapp 6-3, 5-7, 6-3

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    Tennis PlayerLouise Brough
    • 1945 A's catcher Greek George punches umpire Joe Rue gets suspended
    • 1946 All-America Football Conference begins regular season play as the Cleveland Browns beat the Miami Seahawks 44-0 before 60,135 at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1953 Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38

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    MLB CatcherRoy Campanella
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1954 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Vic Seixas beats Australian Rex Hartwig 3-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 for his second and final major singles title

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    Tennis PlayerVic Seixas
    • 1954 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Doris Hart beats Louise Brough Clapp 6-8, 6-1, 8-6 for the first of her 2 US singles titles
    • 1954 Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
    • 1958 US performs nuclear test over the South Atlantic Ocean, third and final part of Operation Argus to study the Christofilos effect, a theoretic defensive shield to cloud Soviet radar
    • 1960 American Otis Davis runs a world record 44.9 to win the gold medal in the 400m at the Rome Olympics; German Carl Kaufmann records same time but ruled second via photo finish
    • 1960 Australian middle distance runner Herb Elliott breaks his own world record in winning the 1,500m at the Rome Olympics in 3:35.6
    • 1960 In a famous victory American decathlete Rafer Johnson scores Olympic record 8,392 points to win the gold medal in Rome; beats rival & friend C.K. Yang of China by 58 points
    • 1963 Historian Lee Allen says Cleveland Indians - Washington Senators game is 100,000th in Major League Baseball history
    • 1972 Summer Olympics resume in Munich, Germany after massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by Black September Palestinian terrorist organization
    [​IMG]Tennis Open
    1975 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for US political asylum in New York City during the US Open

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    Tennis PlayerMartina Navratilova
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1975 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Chris Evert wins her first of 6 US singles titles; beats Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia 5-7, 6-4, 6-2

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    Tennis LegendChris Evert
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    Tennis PlayerEvonne Goolagong Cawley
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1977 Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash, 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977

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    Baseball PlayerDave Kingman
    • 1980 French runner Chantal Langlacé sets women's 100k world record (7h 27m 22s) in Amiens, France
    • 1980 US College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for Macalester College (St. Paul)

    • 1980 US Open Women's Tennis: In the centenary women's singles final, Chris Evert-Lloyd wins her 5th US title; beats Hana Mandlíková 5-7, 6-1, 6-1
    • 1981 Robert Granville "Bob" Lemon named NY Yankee manager for 2nd time
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1982 Pittsburgh Pirates retire Willie Stargell's #8

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    Baseball PlayerWillie Stargell
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1985 Mark Messier loses control of his Porsche and totals three cars, and would later be charged with hit and run and careless driving (he would pay a fine)

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    NHL LegendMark Messier
    • 1986 Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
    • 1986 US Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins her 3rd US singles title; beats Czech star Helena Suková 6-3, 6-2
    • 1987 Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48)
    • 1987 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
    • 1991 33rd Walker Cup: US, 14-10
    • 1994 Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30)
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1995 Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games

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    MLB LegendCal Ripken Jr
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1996 Baltimore Orioles' Eddie Murray's 500th career HR

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    MLB 1st BasemanEddie Murray
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1997 US Open Women's Tennis: Martina Hingis wins her first US title; outclasses Venus Williams 6-0, 6-4

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    Tennis PlayerMartina Hingis
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    Tennis PlayerVenus Williams
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    2003 US Open Women's Tennis: In an all-Belgian final Justine Henin-Hardenne wins her first US title; beats Kim Clijsters 7-5, 6-1

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    Tennis PlayerJustine Henin
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    Tennis PlayerKim Clijsters
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    2008 US Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams wins her third US title; beats Jelena Janković of Serbia 6-4, 7-5

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    Tennis PlayerSerena Williams
    [​IMG]Canadian Women's Open
    2009 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Priddis Greens GC: Suzann Pettersen of Norway wins by 5 strokes from a group of 5 players

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    GolferSuzann Pettersen
    • 2018 World Surf League announces from 2019 there would be equal prize money for men and women across elite tour events; first US-based global sports league with gender pay parity
    • 2019 Sri Lankan cricket fast bowler Lasith Malinga takes 4 wickets in 4 balls and finishes with 5 for 6 as New Zealand all out for 88 in 37-run defeat in 3rd T-20 International in Pellekele
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2020 World #1 tennis player Novak Đoković is sensationally disqualified in 4th round of US Open after hitting a ball in frustration, striking a line judge; trailed Pablo Carreño Busta 5-6 in 1st set

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    Tennis ChampionNovak Đoković
    • 2021 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Inverness GC, OH: Europe retains title 15-13; Emily Kristine Pedersen of Denmark edges Danielle Kang 1-up to clinch Cup for Europe
     
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    • 1880 Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters
    [​IMG]Corbett KOs Sullivan

    1892 James Corbett KOs 4 to 1 favourite and defending champion John L. Sullivan in 21 rounds at the Olympic Club, New Orleans for world heavyweight boxing title; Sullivan's only defeat and his last fight

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    Heavyweight Boxing Champion John L. Sullivan

    • 1896 A. H. Whiting wins the first automobile race held on a closed-circuit track in Cranston, Rhode Island
    • 1897 George Davis (Giants) HR off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH
    • 1903 Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY
    • 1923 Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Philadelphia A's, 4-0
    • 1932 Earl Grace, ends NL catcher record streak of 110 cons errorless games
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1941 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: 1939 champion Bobby Riggs beats Frank Kovacs 5-7, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3

    • 1941 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Sarah Palfrey Cooke beats fellow American Pauline Betz Addie 7-5, 6-2; sweeps all 3 women's titles
    • 1942 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American Ted Schroeder wins his first of 2 Grand Slam events; beats countryman Frank Parker 8-6, 7-5, 3-6, 4-6, 6-2
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1942 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Pauline Betz beats fellow American Louise Brough Clapp 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 for her first of 3 straight US singles titles

    [​IMG]Ascari Formula 1 Champion
    1952 Alberto Ascari of Italy in a Ferrari wins Formula 1 World Drivers Championship with victory in season ending Italian Grand Prix at Monza; wins title by 12 points from countryman Giuseppe Farina

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    Auto RacerAlberto Ascari
    • 1952 NY Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yanks a 5-1 win at Washington, giving him a HR in all 15 major league parks
    • 1952 Outfielder Don Grate throws a baseball a record 434'1" (Tenn)
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1953 Roy Campanella sets catcher record of 125 (en route to 142) RBIs

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    MLB Catcher Roy Campanella
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1953 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Tony Trabert beats fellow American Vic Seixas 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 to win his first of 5 major titles

    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1953 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-American final Maureen Connolly becomes first female to achieve a Grand Slam; beats Doris Hart 6-2, 6-4

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    Tennis playerMaureen Connolly
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    Tennis PlayerDoris Hart
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1955 New York Yankee Whitey Ford becomes 5th MLB pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters

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    MLB Pitcher Whitey Ford
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1958 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Ashley Cooper outlasts fellow Australian Mal Anderson 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 10-8, 8-6 for his 3rd Grand Slam event win of the year

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    Tennis Player and Four-Time Major Champion Ashley Cooper
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1958 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
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    Tennis PlayerAlthea Gibson
    • 1960 American weightlifter Charles Vinci wins 2nd consecutive bantamweight gold medal at the Rome Olympics with world-record equalling 3-lift (snatch, clean & jerk, overhead press) total of 345.0 kilograms
    • 1960 Danish yachtsman Paul Elvstrøm wins the Finn class at the Rome Olympics; his 4th straight Olympic gold medal in the category
    • 1960 Future Constantine II, last King of Greece, wins Dragon class sailing gold medal at the Rome Olympics
    • 1960 Japan wins the men's gymnastics teams combined exercises gold for the first of 5 consecutive Olympics at the Rome Games; beats Soviet Union by just 2.5 points
    • 1960 Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3)
    [​IMG]Olympic Gold
    1960 US sweeps the medals in the men's discus at the Rome Olympics; Al Oerter wins his 2nd of 4 career discus gold ahead of fellow Americans Rink Babka and Dick Cochran

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    Discus Thrower Al Oerter
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1968 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: England's Virginia Wade wins first Open era US singles title; beats Billie Jean King 6-4, 6-2
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    Tennis Player and Three-Time Major ChampionVirginia Wade
    [​IMG]F1 World Champion
    1969 Scottish Matra-Ford driver Jackie Stewart wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; his 6th F1 win of the season

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    Auto Racer Jackie Stewart
    • 1970 White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader & lose both games
    • 1972 American athletes Vincent Matthews & Wayne Collett finish 1-2 in 400m at the Munich Olympics; acted casually on the medal stand, did not face the flag during anthem; banned from the Olympics for life
    • 1972 American Rod Milburn with a world record 13.24 wins the 110m hurdles gold medal at the Munich Olympics; just 0.10 seconds ahead of Frenchman Guy Drut

    • 1972 East German sprinter Renate Stecher runs a world record equalling 22.40 in the 200m final to repeat her 100m win over Australia's Raelene Boyle at the Munich Olympics
    • 1972 Future world professional cycling road race champion Hennie Kuiper of the Netherlands wins the road race gold medal at the Munich Olympics in 4:14:37
    • 1972 Nadezhda Chizhova of the Soviet Union throws a world record 21.03m to win the women's shot put at the Munich Olympics
    • 1973 Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Association's 4th commissioner
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1974 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Billie Jean King wins her 4th and final US singles title; beats Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia 3-6, 6-3, 7-5

    • 1975 Cincinnati Reds, win earliest NL division title
    [​IMG]Cricket History
    1975 Pakistani all-time great batsman Hanif Mohammad plays final day of 1st-class cricket for Pakistan International Airlines v Hyderabad at Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1975 US Open Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Manuel Orantes of Spain wins his only Grand Slam title; upsets #1 seed Jimmy Connors 6-4, 6-3, 6-4; played on green Har-Tru clay surface

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    Tennis LegendJimmy Connors
    • 1978 1st game of Boston Massacre, NY Yankees beat Red Sox, 15-3
    • 1979 Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) launches, first show is SportsCenter
    • 1980 Oakland A's pitch record 78th complete game of season
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1980 US Open Men's Tennis: In centenary men's singles final John McEnroe retains title; beats Björn Borg 7-6, 6-1, 6-7, 5-7, 6-4

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    Tennis PlayerJohn McEnroe
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    Tennis PlayerBjörn Borg
    • 1981 Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 57 pass attempts
    • 1981 West Tampa Fl defeats Rich Va, 6-4 to win American Legion World Series
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1984 Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236

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    Baseball Pitcher Dwight Gooden

    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1985 US Open Women's Tennis: Hana Mandlíková beats Martina Navratilova 7-6, 1-6, 7-6 for her first US title
    • 1986 Cleveland Browns become 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31
    [​IMG]NFL History
    1986 Dan Marino throws his 100th career touchdown pass, the fastest QB in NFL history to do so

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    Hall of Fame NFL QuarterbackDan Marino
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1986 US Open Men's Tennis: In an all-Czech final Ivan Lendl retains his title; beats Miloslav Mečíř 6-4, 6-2, 6-0
    [​IMG]Hockey Hall of Fame
    1988 Guy Lafleur, Tony Esposito & Brad Park inducted in NHL Hall of Fame

    [​IMG]
    NHL LegendGuy Lafleur
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1988 NY Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist

    • 1991 1st South African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics
    • 1991 Brigham Young University quarterback Ty Detmer passes NCAA record 11,606 yards
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1991 US Open Women's Tennis: Monica Seles of Yugoslavia wins her first US title; beats Martina Navratilova 7-6, 6-1
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    Tennis Player and Nine-Time Major ChampionMonica Seles
    • 1992 Baseball commissioner Faye Vincent resigns
    • 1992 Former owner and team president of the Milwaukee Brewers Bud Selig is appointed interim Commissioner of Major League Baseball; holds office until becoming official Commissioner in 1998
    • 1993 St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Mark Whiten hits 4 HRs & 12 RBIs in 15-2 win at Cincinnati Reds
    • 1994 Jingyi Le, Ying Shan, Ying Le and Bin Lu swimming 4x100 freestyle (3:37.91)
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1996 US Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf retains her title; beats Monica Seles 7-5 6-4 for her 5th and final US singles crown

    • 1997 US Open Men's Tennis: Patrick Rafter of Australia wins his first Grand Slam title; beats Canadian Greg Rusedski 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    2002 US Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams wins second US title; beats older sister Venus Williams 6-4, 6-3

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    Tennis PlayerSerena Williams
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    Tennis PlayerVenus Williams
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2003 US Open Men's Tennis: American Andy Roddick wins his only career Grand Slam title; beats Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain 6-3, 7-6, 6-3

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    Tennis Player and US Open ChampionAndy Roddick
    [​IMG]Dravid Player of the Year
    2004 Indian cricketer Rahul Dravid is named Player of the Year by the International Cricket Council

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    CricketerRahul Dravid
    • 2014 American brothers Bob and Mike Bryan beat Spanish pair Marcel Granollers & Marc López 6–3, 6–4 to win their Open era record 5th US men's tennis doubles title; extends record for most Grand Slam doubles titles (16)
    • 2014 US Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams wins her 3rd straight US title; beats Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 6-3, 6-3
    • 2017 Rashid Khan takes the first hat-trick in the history of the Caribbean Premier League
    • 2019 US Open Women's Tennis: Bianca Andreescu becomes first Canadian to win a Grand Slam singles title; stuns Serena Williams 6-2, 7-5
    • 2020 Tour Championship, Men's Golf, East Lake GC: Dustin Johnson wins by 3 strokes from Xander Schauffele & Justin Thomas; claims FedEx Cup, equal biggest winner's prize in golf, US$15m
     
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    g8orbill

    g8orbill Old Gator Moderator Premium Member VIP Member

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    • 1883 New York Gothams score 13 runs in an inning in a 16-6 win over Philadelphia Quakers at Recreation Park, Philadelphia; MLB record (18) set 2 days earlier
    [​IMG]1st Boxing Match Film

    1894 Employed by Thomas Edison, William K.L. Dickson films first boxing match at West Orange, New Jersey, an exhibition between world heavyweight champion James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney

    • 1905 Pittsburgh Pirates strand NL record 18 men on base in 8-3 defeat to Cincinnati Reds at Exposition Park, Pittsburgh
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1915 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: William Johnston beats Maurice McLoughlin 1-6, 6-0, 7-5, 10-8 in first US event held at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, New York

    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1939 Cleveland Indians Bob Feller, 20, is youngest pitcher to win 20 games

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    Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher Bob Feller
    • 1939 Yanks beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7, game called because of lightning
    • 1943 NY Giants' pitcher Ace Adams sets record by working in his 62nd game
    • 1946 San Francisco 49ers play 1st AAFC game, lose to NY Yankees 21-7
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1946 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Jack Kramer beats fellow American Tom Brown Jr. 9-7, 6-3, 6-0 for his first of 2 straight US singles crowns

    • 1946 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-American final Pauline Betz Addie beats Patricia Canning Todd 11-9, 6-3 for her 4th and last US singles title
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1952 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Australian Frank Sedgman wins his second straight US title; beats American Gardnar Mulloy 6-1, 6-2, 6-3; last amateur major before turning pro in 1953

    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1952 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Maureen Connolly beats fellow American Doris Hart 6-3, 7-5

    [​IMG]Sports History
    1954 With a 3-2 count, Phillies Richie Ashburn fouls next 14, then walks

    • 1955 Earliest clinching of an NL pennant (Brooklyn Dodgers)
    [​IMG]F1 World Champion
    1957 Juan Manuel Fangio confirms his F1 World Drivers Championship, finishing 2nd in the season ending Italian GP at Monza; takes record 5th title by 15 points from Stirling Moss
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1957 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-Australian final Mal Anderson wins his only Grand Slam event; beats Ashley Cooper 10-8, 7-5, 6-4


    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1957 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Althea Gibson beats Louise Brough Clapp 6-3, 6-2 for the first of her 2 home singles crowns

    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1958 Pirate Roberto Clemente ties modern record of 3 triples in a game

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    Baseball Player Roberto Clemente
    [​IMG]Wilma Rudolph 3 Golds
    1960 American sprinter Wilma Rudolph wins her third gold medal of the Rome Olympics anchoring the US 4 x 100m relay team; earlier won 100/200m double

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    Athlete Wilma Rudolph
    • 1960 German 4 x 100m relay team equal world record 39.5 to win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf & Martin Lauer
    • 1960 US 4 x 400m relay team of Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis & Otis Davis run a world record 3:02.2 to win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1963 Milwaukee Braves future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn ties Christy Mathewson with 13 x 20-win seasons

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    Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher Warren Spahn
    [​IMG]F1 World Champion
    1963 Scottish Lotus driver Jim Clark wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch his first F1 World Drivers Championship; Clark's 5th GP win of the season

    • 1963 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Rafael Osuna of Mexico beats Frank Froehling 7-5, 6-4, 6-2 for his lone major singles title
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1963 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Maria Bueno of Brazil wins second of 4 US singles crowns; beats defending champion Margaret Smith of Australia 7-5, 6-4

    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1965 Kansas City A's Bert Campaneris plays all 9 positions in a game

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1968 US Open Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Arthur Ashe wins first Open era US title; beats Dutchman Tom Okker 14-12, 5-7, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3

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    Tennis Player Arthur Ashe
    [​IMG]Tennis Tournament
    1969 US amateur Men's Tennis: Stan Smith beats Bob Lutz (97 63 61)

    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1969 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Australian Margaret Court wins her third US singles title & 16th Grand Slam singles event; beats Nancy Richey 6-2, 6-2

    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1972 Chic Cub Ferguson Jenkins wins his 20th game for 6th straight year

    • 1972 East German Annelie Ehrhardt with a world record 12.59 takes the 100m hurdles gold medal at the Munich Olympics; beats Romanian Valeria Bufanu by just 0.25

    • 1972 Mykola Avilov representing the Soviet Union scores a world record 8454 points to win the decathlon gold medal at the Munich Olympics; beats teammate Leonid Lytvynenko by 419 points
    [​IMG]Team Manger
    1973 Billy Martin named manager of the Texas Rangers

    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1973 Hank Aaron sets the record for the most home runs in one league (709)

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    Baseball Player Hank Aaron
    • 1973 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Margaret Court wins her 24th and final Grand Slam singles title; beats fellow Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley 7-6, 5-7, 6-2
    • 1974 England's Ian Thompson wins European Championship marathon in 2:13:18.8 in Rome, Italy
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1974 US Open Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Jimmy Connors wins his first of 5 US singles titles; outclasses veteran Australian Ken Rosewall 6-1, 6-0, 6-1 in last event played on grass

    • 1978 2nd game of Boston Massacre; NY Yankees beat Red Sox, 13-2
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1979 US Open Women's Tennis: Tracy Austin becomes youngest US champion (16 years, 9 months); beats Chris Evert 6-4, 6-3
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1980 Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely due to drug arrest

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    Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and Coach Ferguson Jenkins
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1984 US Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova retains her title; beats Chris Evert-Lloyd 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1985 Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with 4,191 hits
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1985 US Open Men's Tennis: Czech star Ivan Lendl wins his first US title; beats NYC home town favourite John McEnroe 7-6, 6-3, 6-4

    • 1988 Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43m
    • 1988 NL president A. Bartlett Giamatti is unanimously elected Major League Baseball's 7th Commissioner
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1989 American MLB player George Brett gets his 2,500th hit


    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1990 US Open Women's Tennis: Gabriela Sabatini becomes only Argentine woman to win a Grand Slam singles event; beats Steffi Graf 6-2, 7-6

    • 1991 NFL Buffalo Bill QB Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns vs Pittsburgh Steelers (52-34)
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1991 US Open Men's Tennis: Stefan Edberg of Sweden wins his first US title; beats American Jim Courier 6-2, 6-4, 6-0

    • 1992 Danny Tartabull has 9 RBIs as Yanks beat Orioles 16-4
    • 1993 Baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format OKed in AL
    • 1993 Houston's Darryl Kile throws 3rd MLB no-hitter of season in Astros' 7-1 win over New York Mets
    • 1994 Sri Lanka defeat Australia to win Singer World Series at Colombo
    • 1995 Cleveland Indians clinch 1st AL Central Division title
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1996 US Open Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras retains his title; beats fellow American Michael Chang 6-1, 6-4, 7-6

    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    2001 US Open Women's Tennis: Venus Williams successfully defends title; beats younger sister Serena Williams 6-2, 6-4

    • 2002 Rookie quarterback David Carr throws for 2 TDs as the Houston Texans beat Dallas Cowboys 19-10 to become only the 2nd expansion team (1961 Minnesota Vikings) to win their inaugural game
    • 2002 Texas Rangers set a major league record by homering in their 26th consecutive game as Texas falls to the Tampa Bay
    • 2002 US Open Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras wins 14th and final Grand Slam title; beats fellow American Andre Agassi 6-3, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
    • 2007 US Open Women's Tennis: Belgian Justin Henin beats Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia 6-1, 6-3; Henin wins event without losing a set
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2008 US Open Men's Tennis: Roger Federer beats Scotsman Andy Murray 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 for his 5th consecutive US title

    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    2013 US Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams successfully defends her title; beats Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 7-5, 6-7, 6-1

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    Tennis PlayerSerena Williams
    • 2014 US Open Men's Tennis: Marin Čilić of Croatia wins his maiden grand slam title; beats Kei Nishikori of Japan 6-3, 6-3, 6-3
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    2018 US Open Women's Tennis: Naomi Osaka first Japanese female to win a Grand Slam singles final; beats Serena Williams in controversial match 6-2, 6-4

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2019 US Open Men's Tennis: Rafael Nadal defeats Daniil Medvedev of Russia 7-5, 6-3, 5-7, 4-6, 6-4 to win his 19th Grand Slam singles title, and 4th US crown

    [​IMG]Baseball Hall of Fame
    2021 Derek Jeter, Ted Simmons, Larry Walker, and Marvin Miller are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY; elected in 2020, ceremony was postponed due to pandemic

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    Baseball PlayerDerek Jeter
    • 2022 Australian Stephanie Gilmore wins her eighth world surfing title at Lower Trestles, California - making her the most successful women's champion in history
     
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    g8orbill

    g8orbill Old Gator Moderator Premium Member VIP Member

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    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1945 Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th and final home run

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    MLB Hall of Fame 1st BasemanJimmie Foxx
    • 1948 Brooklyn Dodger Rex Barney no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
    • 1955 Don Zimmer, hits 4,000th Dodger home run
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1956 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-Australian final Ken Rosewall wins his first US singles title, beating Lew Hoad 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3

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    Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionKen Rosewall


    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1956 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-American final Shirley Fry Irvin beats Althea Gibson 6-3, 6-4 for her only US singles crown


    • 1960 Denver Broncos beat Boston Patriots, 13-10 in the American Football League's first game before 21,597 fans at Nickerson Field in Boston
    • 1960 Pakistan ends India's run of 6 consecutive Olympic field hockey gold medals with a 1-0 win over their sub-continent rivals at the Rome Games
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1965 LA Dodgers future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax throws his 4th career no-hitter and first perfect game in a 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs at Dodger Stadium

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    Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1969 US Open Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Rod Laver beats fellow Australian Tony Roche 7-9, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 to claim his record second Grand Slam



    • 1970 Feyenoord wins soccer's Club World Cup
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1970 MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspends Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain for carrying a gun

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    MLB CommissionerBowie Kuhn
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    Baseball PitcherDenny McLain
    • 1971 NHL great Gordie Howe retires (for the first time), after 25 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings
    • 1972 Soviet runner Lyudmila Bragina with a world record 4:01.38 wins the women's 1,500m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
    • 1972 Soviet Union beats the United States 51-50 in the most controversial game in international basketball history; with the US leading 50-49, the final 3 seconds are replayed 3 times until the Soviets finally win
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1972 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Billie Jean King retains her title; beats Kerry Melville Reid of Australia 6-3, 7-5


    • 1972 West German equestrian rider Liselott Linsenhoff follows her dressage teams gold in Mexico City with the individual dressage title at her home Olympics in Munich
    [​IMG]F1 World Champion
    1973 4th place finish in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza is enough to clinch Jackie Stewart his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship

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    Auto RacerJackie Stewart
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1973 US Open Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Australian John Newcombe wins his second US singles title; beats Jan Kodeš 6-4, 1-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3


    • 1978 3rd game of Boston Massacre; NY Yankees beat Red Sox, 7-0
    • 1978 Baltimore Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto)
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1978 US Open Women's Tennis, Flushing Meadows, NY: Chris Evert wins her 4th straight US singles title; beats fellow American Pam Shriver 7-5, 6-4; first time event played on hard courts


    • 1979 South African Ferrari driver Jody Scheckter wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; first RSA champion
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1979 US Open Men's Tennis: John McEnroe wins first Grand Slam title; beats fellow American Vitas Gerulaitis 7-5, 6-3, 6-3



    [​IMG]Tennis Tournament
    1983 Vitas Gerulaitis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat 100th ranked male tennis player



    • 1984 US Open Men's Tennis: John McEnroe wins his 4th US title and final Grand Slam singles event; beats Ivan Lendl 6-3, 6-4, 6-1
    • 1987 Largest US Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016
    [​IMG]NBA History
    1987 Larry Bird of the Celtics begins an NBA free throw streak of 59

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    NBA LegendLarry Bird
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1987 MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter

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    MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan
    • 1988 MLB Atlanta Braves Bruce Sutter joins Rollie Fingers & Gooses Gossage with 300 MLB career saves
    • 1988 US Stars & Stripes H3 defeats NZ's KZ-1 at the 27th America's Cup: NZ appeal in court but eventually lose
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1989 US Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf retains her title; beats Martina Navratilova 3-6, 7-5, 6-1

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    Tennis PlayerSteffi Graf
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    Tennis PlayerMartina Navratilova
    • 1990 Oakland beats NY 7-3 to complete a 12-game sweep of Yankees this year
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1990 US Open Men's Tennis: 19-year-old Pete Sampras wins his first Grand Slam title; beats fellow American Andre Agassi 6-4, 6-3, 6-2; Sampras youngest male US Open winner

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    Tennis PlayerPete Sampras
    [​IMG]
    Tennis LegendAndre Agassi
    [​IMG]Boxing History
    1991 Mike Tyson indicted for rape of Desiree Washington

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    Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson
    • 1991 Only 1,695 fans watch Boston Red Sox play Cleveland
    • 1992 Baltimore Orioles draw 3 million fans at home for the first time
    • 1992 MLB player Robin Yount, is 17th to reach 3,000 hits

    • 1995 US Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf wins her 4th US title; beats Monica Seles 7-6, 0-6, 6-3
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    2000 US Open Women's Tennis: Venus Williams wins her first US title; beats fellow American Lindsay Davenport 6-4, 7-5

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    Tennis PlayerVenus Williams
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    Tennis PlayerLindsay Davenport
    • 2001 US Open Men's Tennis: Lleyton Hewitt of Australia becomes youngest (20) world #1 player; beats Pete Sampras 7-6, 6-1, 6-1
    • 2002 MLB Arizona Diamondbacks' lefthanded pitcher Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his major league record
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    2006 US Open Women's Tennis: Maria Sharapova of Russia wins her first US title; overpowers Belgian Justine Henin-Hardenne 6-4, 6-4

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    Tennis PlayerMaria Sharapova
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    Tennis PlayerJustine Henin
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2007 US Open Men's Tennis: Switzerland's Roger Federer wins 4th consecutive US title; beats Novak Đoković of Serbia 7-6, 7-6, 6-4[​IMG]
    Tennis ChampionRoger Federer
    • 2012 Armenia wins the 40th FIDE Chess Olympiad
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    2012 US Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams wins her 4th US title; beats Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6-2, 2-6, 7-5

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2013 US Open Men's Tennis: Spaniard Rafael Nadal wins his second US title; beats Novak Đoković 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1
    • 2017 US Open Women's Tennis: In the first all-American final since 2002 unseeded Sloane Stephens defeats Madison Keys 6-3, 6-0
    • 2018 Green Bay Packers start 100th season with historic 24-23 comeback win over Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field; first ever Packer recovery from 17+ points deficit at 3/4 time (20-3)
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2018 US Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković wins his third US title; beats '09 champion Juan Martín del Potro 6-4, 7-6, 6-3; equals Pete Sampras' 14 Grand Slams

    [​IMG]NFL History
    2021 Tom Brady becomes first player in NFL history to start 300 regular season games as he guides Tampa Bay Buccaneers to an opening day 31-29 win at home to Dallas Cowboys

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    NFL QuarterbackTom Brady
    • 2023 US Open Women's Tennis: American Coco Gauff (19) wins her first major title with a comeback 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Aryna Sabalenka (25) of Belarus
     
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    [​IMG]British Golf Open

    1875 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park Sr. wins his 4th title; beats fellow Scot Bob Martin by 2 strokes


    • 1918 Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs players threaten to boycott the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers
    • 1919 Cleveland Indians pitcher Ray Caldwell no-hits New York Yankees, 3-0 at the Polo Grounds, NYC
    • 1922 New York Yankees play their farewell home games in Polo Grounds, win both games of doubleheader against Philadelphia Athletics; move to Yankee Stadium the following season
    [​IMG]Giants Destroy Braves 22-1
    1924 New York Giants rip Boston Braves, 22-1 at the Polo Grounds; future Baseball HOF infielder Frankie Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out

    [​IMG]International Lawn Tennis Challenge
    1926 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Philadelphia, PA: Vincent Richards & R. Norris Williams clinch US 7th straight title; beat Jacques Brugnon & Henri Cochet of France 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 for 3-0 lead; ends 4-1

    • 1927 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Philadelphia, PA: Henri Cochet beats Bill Johnson 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 to clinch a 3-2 win for France and break 7 title US win streak
    [​IMG]Tennis Tournament
    1931 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Ellsworth Vines beats George Lott 7-9, 6-3, 9-7, 7-5 for his first of 2 straight US singles titles

    • 1932 Dodgers' Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season
    • 1932 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills: American Ellsworth Vines successfully defends his title; beats Frenchman Henri Cochet 6–4, 6–4, 6–4
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1933 US National Championship Men's Tennis: Englishman Fred Perry robs Australian Jack Crawford of his Grand Slam chance; wins final 6-3, 11-13, 4-6, 6-0, 6-1

    • 1937 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0)
    • 1937 Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0
    [​IMG]Bradman Scores 153
    1948 Australian cricketer Don Bradman scores 153 in his last 1st-class cricket innings in England

    [​IMG]DiMaggio's Three Home Runs
    1950 Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium

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    Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1954 Attempting to handle New York Giants pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball, catcher Ray Katt sets major league record with 4 passed balls

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    Baseball Player and Knuckleball Pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm

    [​IMG]Africa's 1st Gold Medal
    1960 Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia runs WR 2:15:16.2 barefoot to take out the men's marathon at the Rome Olympics; Africa's first ever Olympic gold medal

    • 1960 Fencer Aladár Gerevich is part of the gold medal winning Hungarian sabre team at the Rome Olympics; Gerevich's 6th consecutive gold medal in the event
    [​IMG]Olympic Gold
    1960 Future Hall of Famer Jerry Lucas scores 23 points as the US wins its 5th straight men's basketball Olympic gold medal with a 90-63 drubbing of Brazil at the Rome Games

    [​IMG]Olympic Gold
    1960 Gymnastics competition at the Rome Olympics concludes with the Soviet Union taking 10 of the 15 gold medals; Soviet gymnasts Boris Shakhlin & Larisa Latynina win 3 gold medals each

    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1960 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit

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    Baseball Legend Mickey Mantle
    • 1960 Yugoslavia dominates Denmark 3-1 to win the men's football gold medal at the Rome Olympics
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1961 75th US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Darlene Hard beats England's Ann Jones 6-3, 6-4

    • 1961 American Ferrari driver Phil Hill wins Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch F1 World Drivers Championship; first American F1 world champion
    • 1961 Italian F1 Grand Prix, Monza: a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators hit by his Ferrari
    • 1961 Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1961 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-Australian final Roy Emerson beats Rod Laver 7-5, 6-3, 6-2; Emerson's second Grand Slam title

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1962 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Rod Laver completes his first Grand Slam defeating fellow Queenslander Roy Emerson 6-2, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4

    • 1962 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Australian Margaret Smith beats defending champion Darlene Hard 9-7, 6-4 for her first US singles crown
    • 1963 Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1963 Stan Musial hits a HR in his 1st at bat as a grandfather

    [​IMG]
    MLB Legend Stan Musial

    • 1965 Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards
    [​IMG]Ali TKOs Mildenberger
    1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

    • 1967 Chicago White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Det Tigers, 6-0
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1967 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: John Newcombe of Australia defeats American Clark Graebner 6–4, 6–4, 8–6 for first of 2 US singles titles

    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1967 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Billie Jean King defeats England's Ann Haydon-Jones 11–9, 6–4 for first of 4 US singles crowns
    • 1969 NY Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time
    • 1972 American freestyle wrestler Dan Gable wins the 68kg division gold medal at the Munich Olympics; only Olympic wrestler not to have a single point scored against him in the competition
    • 1972 American long-distance runner Frank Shorter achieves a famous win in the men's marathon with a time of 2:12:19.8 at the Munich Olympics
    • 1972 American men's 4 x 100m relay team of Larry Black, Robert Taylor, Gerald Tinker & Eddie Hart combine for a world record 38.19 to beat the Soviet Union for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
    • 1972 An American double in the inaugural Olympic archery competition in Munich; John Williams wins the men's individual gold medal; Doreen Wilber takes the women's gold
    • 1972 Cuban boxer Teófilo Stevenson wins first of 3 consecutive Olympic heavyweight gold medals when Munich Games opponent Ion Alexe of Romania withdraws from the final because of a broken thumb
    • 1972 East v West in a women's 4 x 100m relay at the Munich Olympics; West Germany beats East Germany by 0.13 seconds for the gold medal
    • 1972 Kazimierz Deyna scores twice as Poland beats Hungary 2-1 in the Olympic football gold medal match; 80,000 at the Munich Olympic Stadium
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1972 US Open Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Ilie Năstase of Romania beats Arthur Ashe 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, 6-3 for his first Grand Slam title
    • 1972 West Germany beats Pakistan 1-0 to become first European nation since 1920 to win the field hockey Olympic title; marred by disgraceful behaviour of Pakistani players, fans & officials after losing the Munich final

    • 1972 Yugoslavia beats Czechoslovakia, 21-16 in the inaugural Olympic handball final in Munich
    • 1973 Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton on a 12 round split decision for NABF heavyweight boxing title at the Forum, Inglewood, California
    • 1973 NY Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St Louis
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1974 MLB St Louis Cardinals Lou Brock ties (104) & then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark

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    Baseball Hall of Fame Outfielder Lou Brock
    • 1974 Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs
    [​IMG]NHL History
    1975 Darryl Sittler is named captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
    • 1977 Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits
    • 1977 Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5)
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1977 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Chris Evert wins her 3rd straight US singles title; beats Wendy Turnbull of Australia 7-6, 6-2; final time event played at West Side Tennis Club

    • 1978 4th game of Boston Massacre; NY Yankees beat Red Sox, 7-4 to tie for AL East 1st place; Yanks out hit arch rivals, 67-21; score 42-9
    [​IMG]F1 World Champion
    1978 The single point American Lotus driver Mario Andretti earns for finishing 6th at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza is enough to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1978 US Open Men's Tennis, Flushing Meadows, NY: Jimmy Connors beats Björn Borg 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 to become the first player to win the US Open on 3 different surfaces

    [​IMG]Holmes TKOs Frank
    1983 Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1983 US Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert-Lloyd 6-1, 6-3 for her first US singles title

    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1988 US Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf of Germany wins her first US title and completes the Grand Slam; beats Gabriela Sabatini 6-3, 3-6, 6-1

    • 1989 Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record
    [​IMG]NFL History
    1989 Five days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners, MLB and NFL player Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown, his first

    [​IMG]NFL History
    1989 Indianapolis running back Eric Dickerson rushes for 106 yards against San Francisco to become the fastest player to top the 10,000 yard plateau; 91st career game

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1989 US Open Men's Tennis: Boris Becker of Germany wins his only US title; beats Czech Ivan Lendl 7-6, 1-6, 6-3, 7-6

    • 1990 First time in NY Yankees history they are completely swept in a season series, as the Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0
    • 1990 For the first time since 1968, all eight Grand Slam tennis champions are different people
    • 1991 Gail Devers runs US female record 100m hurdles (12.48 secs)
    • 1994 US Open Women's Tennis: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario of Spain wins her only US singles title; beats Steffi Graf 1-6, 7-6, 6-4
    • 1995 35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats US, 14-10
    • 1995 Cleveland's major league sports franchises, NFL Browns & MLB Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleveland for only time, both win; Browns 22-6 v Tampa, Indians 5-3 v Orioles
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1995 US Open Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras wins his 3rd US title; beats fellow American Andre Agassi 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5

    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1997 Mark McGwire joins Babe Ruth as only the players to hit 50 HRs in 2 consecutive years

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    MLB First Baseman Mark McGwire
    [​IMG]
    Baseball Legend Babe Ruth
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1999 Pedro Martínez pitches a near-perfect game against the New York Yankees, with only a solo home run by Chili Davis

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    Baseball Pitcher Pedro Martínez
    • 2000 Indiana University fires basketball coach Bob Knight after an altercation with a student; Knight had spent 29 years at the school, compiling a 662-239 record
    • 2000 US Open Men's Tennis: Marat Safin of Russia wins his first Grand Slam title; beats home favourite Pete Sampras 6-4, 6-3, 6-3
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    2005 125th US Open Women's Tennis: Belgian Kim Clijsters wins her first of 4 Grand Slam titles; beats Mary Pierce of France 6-3, 6-1

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2006 US Open Men's Tennis: Roger Federer wins 3rd straight US title; beats home favourite Andy Roddick 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1

    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    2011 US Open Women's Tennis: Samantha Stosur becomes first Australian to win a Grand Slam title since 1980; upsets Serena Williams 6-2, 6-3

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2012 US Open Men's Tennis: Andy Murray of Scotland wins his first Grand Slam event; beats defending champion Novak Đoković 7-6, 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2

    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    2016 US Open Women's Tennis: Angelique Kerber beats Karolína Plíšková 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 to become first German player to win the event since Steffi Graf in 1996

    [​IMG]Sports History
    2017 Ai Mori wins gold in lead climbing at the IFSC Youth World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2017 US Open Men's Tennis: Spain's Rafael Nadal wins his 3rd US title; beats Kevin Anderson of South Africa 6-3, 6-3, 6-4

    • 2018 Australian newspaper the "Herald Sun" criticized for "racist" cartoon of American tennis star Serena Williams
    • 2022 US Open Women's Tennis: World #1 Iga Świątek of Poland wins her 3rd major title with a 6–2, 7–6 (7–5) victory over Tunisia's Ons Jabeur
    • 2023 Luis Rubiales, head of Spain's football federation, resigns a month after grabbing and kissing Spanish player Jenni Hermoso, after the team's World Cup win [1]
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2023 US Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković (36) wins his 4th US title and record tying 24th major singles event with a 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 over Russia's Daniil Medvedev (27)
     
  17. Sep 11, 2024 at 6:19 AM #257
    g8orbill

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    • 1839 1st Canadian track and field meet held at Caer Howell Grounds
    [​IMG]British Golf Open

    1862 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Sr retains his title; beats Willie Park Sr. by 3 strokes

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    GolferWillie Park Sr.

    • 1886 6th America's Cup: Mayflower (NY Yacht Club) beats Galatea (Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club, Scotland) for 2-0 series victory
    • 1890 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: John Ball becomes first Englishman and first amateur to win the Open; beats Willie Fernie and Archie Simpson by 3 strokes
    • 1895 FA Cup stolen in Birmingham
    [​IMG]Collins Steals Record
    1912 Philadelphia second baseman Eddie Collins steals MLB record 6 bases in the Athletics' 9-7 win over Detroit Tigers at Navin Field

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    Baseball LegendEddie Collins
    • 1918 Baseball World Series: Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 2-1 at Fenway Park for 4-2 series win; Sox 5th WS title
    • 1923 After a single, Boston Red Sox pitcher Howard Ehmke retires next 27 New York Yankees
    • 1923 Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run
    • 1926 21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1), for their 7th straight championship
    • 1926 Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
    [​IMG]Ruth Hits 50
    1927 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth hits 50th home run during his MLB record 60 HR season in New York's 6-2 loss to St. Louis Browns at Yankee Stadium

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    Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
    [​IMG]Ty Cobb's Last Hit
    1928 Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees

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    MLB LegendTy Cobb
    • 1933 Antwerps Sportpaleis, the largest indoor arena in Europe opens; renovated 2010-13
    • 1936 A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game
    • 1937 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American Don Budge wins first of 2 straight US titles; beats Gottfried von Cramm of Germany 6-1, 7-9, 6-1, 3-6, 6-1

    • 1937 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Anita Lizana of Chile becomes first Latin American to win a major; beats Jadwiga Jędrzejowska of Poland 6-4, 6-2
    [​IMG]Chadwick Swims Channel
    1951 Florence Chadwick becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France, taking 16 hours and 19 minutes

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    SwimmerFlorence Chadwick
    [​IMG]Tennis Tournament
    1955 75th US National Championships Men's Tennis: American Tony Trabert wins his second home title; beats Ken Rosewall of Australia 9-7, 6-3, 6-3

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    Tennis Player and Five-Time Major ChampionTony Trabert
    [​IMG]
    Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionKen Rosewall
    [​IMG]F1 World Champion
    1955 Juan Manuel Fango in a Mercedes wins season ending Italian Grand Prix at Monza to take his third Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 17 points from Englishman Stirling Moss

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    Auto RacerStirling Moss
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1955 US National Championship Women's Tennis: Defending champion Doris Hart beats Patricia Ward Hales of England 6-4, 6-2

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    Tennis PlayerDoris Hart
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1956 Cincinnati Reds outfielder Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR

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    Baseball Outfielder and ManagerFrank Robinson
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1956 New York Yankees Yogi Berra ties career record for HRs (236) by a catcher

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    MLB Catcher and ManagerYogi Berra
    • 1959 Baltimore starter Jerry Walker pitches all 16 innings as the Orioles edge the Chicago White Sox, 1-0 at Memorial Stadium
    • 1959 Elroy Face's 22 game winning streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4
    • 1960 XVII Summer Olympic Games close at Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy
    • 1965 Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets
    • 1966 Johnny Miller becomes 1st New York Yankee to hit a HR on his 1st MLB at bat; his 2nd HR came on his final MLB at bat in 1969
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1971 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-American final Billie Jean King beats doubles partner Rosemary Casals 6-4, 7-6

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    Tennis LegendBillie Jean King
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    Tennis PlayerRosemary Casals
    • 1972 XX Summer Olympic Games close at the Olympiastadion in Munich, German FR
    • 1976 Minnie Minoso bats for White Sox after a 12-year hiatus (hitless)
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1976 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Chris Evert retains her title; dominates Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia 6-3, 6-0

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    Tennis LegendChris Evert
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    Tennis PlayerEvonne Goolagong Cawley
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1977 US Open Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Guillermo Vilas becomes the only Argentine to win US title; beats Jimmy Connors 2-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-0; final time event played at West Side Tennis Club

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    Tennis Player and Four-Time Major ChampionGuillermo Vilas
    [​IMG]
    Tennis LegendJimmy Connors
    • 1982 US Open Women's Tennis: Chris Evert wins her 6th and final US title, beating Hana Mandlíková 6-3, 6-1
    • 1983 Pittsburgh running back Franco Harris runs for 118 yards in Steelers 25-21 win at Green Bay to become the only the third player in NFL history to rush for 11,000 yards
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1983 US Open Men's Tennis: American Jimmy Connors retains title; repeats previous year's win over Czech Ivan Lendl 6-3, 6-7, 7-5, 6-0

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    Tennis LegendJimmy Connors
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    Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionIvan Lendl
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1985 Pete Rose of Cincinnati Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record

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    MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose
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    MLB LegendTy Cobb
    • 1985 Sri Lanka achieves its first Test cricket victory, defeating India by 149 runs
    • 1988 Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1988 US Open Men's Tennis: Mats Wilander of Sweden wins his only US title and 7th & final Grand Slam event; beats Ivan Lendl 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 in the longest final in event's history

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    Tennis Player and Seven-Time Major ChampionMats Wilander
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    Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionIvan Lendl
    • 1991 Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers & Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0
    • 1991 NY Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1993 US Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf wins 15th Grand Slam singles title, 3rd US title; beats Helena Suková 6-3, 6-3

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    Tennis PlayerSteffi Graf
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1994 US Open Men's Tennis: Andre Agassi wins first US title; beats Michael Stich of Germany 6-1, 7-6, 7-5

    • 1995 Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day"
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1999 US Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams wins her first Grand Slam title; beats World #1 Martina Hingis 6-3, 7-6

    • 2004 US Open Women's Tennis: In an all-Russian final Svetlana Kuznetsova wins her first Grand Slam title; beats Elena Dementieva 6-3, 7-5
    [​IMG]Solheim Cup
    2005 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Crooked Stick GC: US regains Cup 15½–12½; Meg Mallon clinches with 3 & 1 victory over Karen Stupples

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2005 US Open Men's Tennis: Roger Federer retains title; beats Andre Agassi 6-3, 2-6, 7-6, 6-1; Agassi's last appearance in a Grand Slam fina
    • 2008 Chris Sharma redpoints Jumbo Love at Clark Mountain, California, the world's first-ever consensus 9b (5.15b) route
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    2010 US Open Women's Tennis: Belgian defending champion Kim Clijsters beats Vera Zvonareva of Russia 6-2, 6-1 for her third US singles crown

    • 2014 South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (and is later found guilty of culpable homicide)
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2016 US Open Men's Tennis: Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland wins his 3rd major title; beats defending champion Novak Đoković 6-7, 1-7, 6-4, 7-5, 6-3

    • 2018 James Anderson takes his 564th Test wicket to become the most prolific fast bowler in cricket history as England beats India by 118 runs in the 5th Test at The Oval for a 4-1 series victory; Alistair Cook's final Test
    • 2021 US Open Women's Tennis: Emma Raducanu ends Britain's 44-year wait for a women's Grand Slam singles title beating Leylah Fernandez of Canada 6-4, 6-3; first qualifier to win a major title in Open era
    [​IMG]Climbing World Cup
    2022 Ai Mori wins gold in lead climbing at the IFSC World Cup in Edinburgh, Scotland

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2022 US Open Men's Tennis: Spain's Carlos Alcaraz defeats Casper Ruud of Norway 6–4, 2–6, 7–6, 6–3 for his first major title
     
  18. Sep 12, 2024 at 4:27 AM #258
    g8orbill

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    • 1885 Highest football score recorded in any 1st-class soccer match: Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord in Scotland
    • 1895 Annie Londonderry [Annie Kopchovsky] arrives in Chicago to complete first round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle in 15 months and collects her $10,000 prize
    • 1895 Defender (US) beats Valkyrie III (England) in 10th America's Cup

    [​IMG]Cy Young vs Christy Mathewson

    1911 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitchers dual for final time; Boston Rustlers' Cy Young vs Christy Mathewson of the Giants; NY wins, 11-2

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    MLB PitcherCy Young
    • 1914 Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager
    • 1920 VII Summer Olympic Games close at the Olympisch Stadion in Antwerp, Belgium
    [​IMG]5000m World Record
    1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4)

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    Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi
    [​IMG]International Lawn Tennis Challenge
    1924 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Philadelphia, PA: Bill Johnston & Bill Tilden clinch US 5th straight title beating Australians Pat O'Hara Wood & Gerald Patterson 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1 for 3-0 lead; ends 5-0

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    Tennis PlayerBill Tilden
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    Tennis PlayerGerald Patterson
    • 1925 20th Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (5-0)
    [​IMG]International Lawn Tennis Challenge
    1925 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Philadelphia, PA: Vincent Richards & R. Norris Williams clinch US 6th straight title; beat Jean Borotra & René Lacoste of France 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 for 3-0 lead; ends 5-0

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    Tennis PlayerRené Lacoste
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    Tennis PlayerJean Borotra
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    Tennis PlayerR. Norris Williams
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1930 Brooklyn catcher Al López hits major league's last recorded bounce HR

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    Baseball PlayerAl López
    • 1932 Brooklyn Dodger Johnny Frederick hits his record 6th pinch hit HR
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1934 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Englishman Fred Perry retains title; beats Wilmer Allison of the US 6-4, 6-3, 1-6, 8-6

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    Tennis Player and BroadcasterFred Perry
    • 1935 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Wilmer Allison beats Sidney Wood 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 for his lone major singles title
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1935 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah Palfrey Cooke 6-2, 6-4 for her 4th consecutive US singles title

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    Tennis PlayerHelen Jacobs
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1936 50th US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: #3 seed Alice Marble beats top seeded fellow American Helen Jacobs 4-6, 6-3, 6-2

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    Tennis ChampionAlice Marble
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    Tennis PlayerHelen Jacobs

    • 1936 US National Championship Men's Tennis: Englishman Fred Perry wins his 8th and final Grand Slam event before turning pro; beats American Don Budge 2-6, 6-2, 8-6, 1-6, 10-8
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1947 Pittsburgh's future Baseball HOF left fielder Ralph Kiner hits 2 HRs in Pirates' 4-3 win over the Boston Braves at Forbes Field; record 8th HR in 4 games

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    Baseball Hall of Fame Left FielderRalph Kiner
    • 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers clinch NL pennant earlier than any other team, defeating Milwaukee Braves 5-2. Brooklyn finishes season with record of 105-49.
    • 1954 Indians sweep Yanks at Municipal Stadium; largest AL crowd (86,563)
    • 1954 White Sox win 90th game, 1st time they win this many since 1920
    • 1962 Washington Senator Tom Cheney strikes out record 21 Orioles in 16 inn game
    [​IMG]World Record Long Jump
    1964 American long jumper Ralph Boston sets then world record 27' 4 1⁄4" (8.34m) at Los Angeles, California

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    Long Jumper Ralph Boston
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1965 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Australian Margaret Smith wins her second of 5 US singles titles; beats American rival Billie Jean Moffitt 8-6, 7-5

    • 1965 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Spaniard Manuel Santana beats Cliff Drysdale of South Africa 6-2, 7-9, 7-5, 6-1 for his lone US singles crown
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1966 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Maria Bueno of Brazil beats American Nancy Richey 6-3, 6-1 for her 7th and final Grand Slam singles crown

    [​IMG]Tennis Tournament
    1966 US National Championships Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-Australian final Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe 4-6, 12-10, 6-3, 6-4; his second and final major singles title

    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1970 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Margaret Court of Australia completes Grand Slam; beats American Rosemary Casals 6-2, 2-6, 6-1

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1971 US Open Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American Stan Smith wins first career Grand Slam event; beats Czech star Jan Kodeš 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-6

    • 1972 Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as President International Olympic Committee
    • 1976 Seattle Seahawks play 1st regular-season game (St L 30, Sea 24)
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1976 US Open Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Jimmy Connors wins his second US title; beats Björn Borg of Sweden 6-4, 3-6, 7-6, 6-4

    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1979 Boston Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski gets his 3,000th hit off NY Yankee Jim Beattie

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    MLB Outfielder Carl Yastrzemski
    • 1979 Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1981 Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits Yanks for 8 innings before Rick Cerone & Dave Winfield lead off 9th with back-to-back doubles

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    Baseball Hall of Fame Outfielder Dave Winfield
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1981 US Open Women's Tennis: Tracy Austin wins her second US title; beats Martina Navratilova 1-6, 7-6, 7-6

    [​IMG]European Marathon
    1982 European Championship marathon won by Dutchman Gerard Nijboer (2:15:16) & Rosa Mota of Portugal (2:36:04)

    • 1982 US Open Men's Tennis: Jimmy Connors wins his 4th US title; beats Czech star Ivan Lendl 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1984 NY Met Dwight Gooden sets rookie strike out record at 251

    • 1986 MLB Minnesota Twins fire manager Ray Miller and replace him with coach Tom Kelly
    • 1987 Vince Coleman steals his 100th base for 3rd straight year
    • 1988 1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1991 Nolan Ryan's 4-3 victory over Minnesota Twins is his 312th career win

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    MLB Pitching Legend Nolan Ryan
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1992 Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang 6-7, 7-5, 7-6, 5-7, 6-4 in 5 hours and 26 minutes, the longest match in US Open history at the time (eclipsed in 2024)

    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1992 US Open Women's Tennis: Monica Seles retains her title; beats Arantxa Sánchez Vicario of Spain 6-3, 6-3

    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1993 Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career


    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1993 US Open Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras wins his second US title; beats Frenchman Cédric Pioline 6-4, 6-4, 6-3

    • 1997 NY Met John Olerud hits for the cycle
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1998 US Open Women's Tennis: Lindsay Davenport wins her first career Grand Slam title; beats defending champion Martina Hingis 6-3, 7-5

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1999 US Open Men's Tennis: Andre Agassi wins 2nd and final US title; beats fellow American Todd Martin 6-4, 6-7, 6-7, 6-3, 6-2
    • 2004 Detroit Lions beat the Chicago Bears 20-16 at Soldier Field to snap their NFL-record 24-game road losing streak
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2004 US Open Men's Tennis: Roger Federer of Switzerland wins first US title; outclasses Australian Lleyton Hewitt 6-0, 7-6, 6-0

    [​IMG]NHL History
    2005 Mark Messier announces on ESPN radio that he will retire from the NHL

    • 2009 South Africa claims 3rd Tri Nations Rugby Series with 32-29 win over defending champions New Zealand in Hamilton; Steyn bros dominate with the boot; Morné kicks 2 penalties, 2 conversions & dropped goal; François, 3 penalties
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    2009 US Open Women's Tennis: Belgian Kim Clijsters becomes first unseeded player and wildcard to win the tournament; beats Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 7-5, 6-3

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2011 US Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković wins his first US title; beats Rafael Nadal 6-2, 6-4, 6-7, 6-1

    • 2015 US Open Women's Tennis: In an all-Italian final Flavia Pennetta wins her only Grand Slam title; beats Roberta Vinci 7-6, 4-7, 6-2; first Italian to win US title
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    2020 US Open Women's Tennis: Naomi Osaka of Japan wins her second US title; beats Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 1-6, 6-3, 6-3

    • 2021 US Open Men's Tennis: Russia's Daniil Medvedev wins his first major title by shattering Novak Đoković's hopes of completing a Grand Slam in one-sided 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 final
     
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    [​IMG]British Golf Open

    1866 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park Sr. wins his 3rd title; beats his brother Davie Park by 2 strokes

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    GolferWillie Park Sr.

    • 1872 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris, Jr. wins 4th consecutive title; beats fellow Scot Davie Strath by 3 strokes
    • 1883 Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses a 1-0 no-hitter against Philadelphia
    [​IMG]Tinker to Evers to Chance
    1902 Chicago Cubs infielders Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, & Frank Chance appear together as teammates for 1st time, creating the famed double-play combination of "Tinker to Evers to Chance"

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    Baseball HOF First BasemanFrank Chance
    • 1907 Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) forms with merge of Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) and Ottawa Rough Riders, Montreal FC (QRFU)
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1909 Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR (all inside-the-park)

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    MLB LegendTy Cobb
    • 1910 Regina Rugby Club forms
    • 1924 19th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (5-0)
    • 1925 MLB Brooklyn Robins pitcher Dazzy Vance no-hits the visiting Philadelphia Phillies, 10-1 at Ebbets Field
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1927 NY Yankees clinch AL pennant after 5-3 win over Cleveland Indians at Yankee Stadium; Babe Ruth hits HR #52 en route to MLB record 60

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    Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
    • 1930 50th US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: John Doeg beats Frank Shields 10-8, 1-6, 6-4, 16-14 for his lone major singles title
    [​IMG]World Record 20,000m
    1930 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4)

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    Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi
    [​IMG]PGA Championship
    1930 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Fresh Meadow CC: American based Scotsman Tommy Armour defeats Gene Sarazen 1-up in the final for the second of his 3 major titles

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    GolferGene Sarazen
    [​IMG]
    GolferTommy Armour
    • 1930 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3
    • 1932 NY Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant
    [​IMG]World Series Rights Deal
    1934 MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000

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    1st MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis

    [​IMG]Feller's Strike Out Record
    1936 17-year-old Cleveland Indians future Baseball HOF pitcher Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 Philadelphia A's in 5-2 win at League Park, Cleveland

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    Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher Bob Feller
    [​IMG]Alexander Cartwright
    1938 Alexander Cartwright is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
    • 1942 Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning
    • 1946 Boston Red Sox clinch AL pennant
    • 1949 Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in NYC
    • 1951 St Louis Cards beat NY Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0
    [​IMG]Ascari Retains Championship
    1953 Italian Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari retains Formula 1 World Drivers Championship although forced to retire (engine trouble) in season ending Italian Grand Prix at Monza; wins title by 6.5 points from Juan Manuel Fangio
    • 1953 Pitcher Bob Trice becomes the first black player for Philadelphia Athletics
    • 1954 Cincinnati first baseman Ted Kluszewski scores a run in his record 17th consecutive game as Reds lose 5-4 to Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1958 Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times

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    Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher Warren Spahn
    • 1959 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Australian Neale Fraser wins first of 2 straight US singles titles; beats Alex Olmedo of Peru 6-3, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1959 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Maria Bueno of Brazil wins her first of 4 US singles crowns; beats England's Christine Truman 6-1, 6-4

    • 1960 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1963 Jim Bouton's 20th win clinches New York Yankees' 28th pennant

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    Baseball Pitcher and Author Jim Bouton
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1964 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Roy Emerson beats fellow Australian Fred Stolle 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 for his 3rd Grand Slam title of the year

    • 1964 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Maria Bueno of Brazil wins her 3rd US singles title; dominates American Carole Graebner 6-1, 6-0
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1965 Willie Mays's 500th HR (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win

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    MLB Legend Willie Mays
    • 1969 Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title
    [​IMG]Sports History
    1969 San Francisco Giant Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player

    • 1970 New York City Marathon: inaugural event won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1970 US Open Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Ken Rosewall wins second US title; beats fellow Australian Tony Roche 2-6, 6-4, 7-6, 6-3; first major in which tiebreak used to decide sets at 6-6
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1971 Frank Robinson hits his 500th HR

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    Baseball Outfielder and Manager Frank Robinson
    • 1973 ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics
    • 1973 US Congress passes & sends a bill to President Nixon to lift NFL football's television blackout of sold out games
    • 1974 Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17
    • 1976 2nd Enterprise, approach & lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s)
    • 1978 New York Yankees recover from 14 games behind to gain sole possession of AL East 1st place with 7-3 win over the Tigers in Detroit
    • 1981 Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in 4th quarter (vs Green Bay)
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1981 US Open Men's Tennis: John McEnroe wins 3rd straight US title; beats Björn Borg 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3 in Borg's last Grand Slam match

    • 1982 Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game
    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1982 MLB Phillies Steve Carlton tosses a complete-game shutout and hits a home run for the 4th time in his career, in 2-0 win over St. Louis, at Veteran's Stadium, Philadelphia; he becomes only pitcher to do so in three different decades

    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1983 Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save

    [​IMG]Baseball Record
    1983 Oakland's Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season

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    MLB Outfielder Rickey Henderson
    • 1983 US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
    • 1986 Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 HRs in a season
    • 1987 Tampa Bay quarterback Steve DeBerg establishes a franchise record with 5 touchdown passes in the Buccaneers 48-10 win over the Atlanta Falcons
    [​IMG]US Open Women's Tennis
    1987 US Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova retains her title; beats Steffi Graf of Germany 7-6, 6-1
    • 1988 10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams
    • 1989 Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner
    • 1990 Robert E Nederlander appointed NY Yankee managing general partner
    [​IMG]Baseball History
    1991 Joe Carter 1st baseball player with 3 consecutive 100 RBI seasons with 3 different teams (Indians, Padres, Blue Jays)

    • 1991 Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts
    • 1992 NY Giants trailing Dallas Cowboys 34-0 in 3rd, lose 34-28
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    1992 US Open Men's Tennis: Stefan Edberg retains his title; beats Pete Sampras 3-6, 6-4, 7-6, 6-2
    • 1997 Carolina Hurricanes' first exhibition game, defeat NY Islanders 4-1
    • 1998 US Open Men's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Patrick Rafter retains title; beats Mark Philippoussis 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 6-0
    [​IMG]NFL History
    1999 John Elway's #7 jersey is retired by the Denver Broncos

    [​IMG]Sports History
    2003 Anna Stöhr wins a gold medal in lead climbing at the European Youth Cup in Niederwangen, Switzerland

    [​IMG]Rugby History
    2008 New Zealand beats Australia, 28-24 in Brisbane to clinch their 4th straight Tri Nations Rugby Series; flyhalf Dan Carter scores a try and lands 4 conversions for the All Blacks

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2010 US Open Men's Tennis: Rafael Nadal wins his first US crown; beats Novak Đoković 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2; first Spanish man to win US title since Manuel Orantes 1975

    [​IMG]Golf Tournament
    2013 Jim Furyk fires 12-under-par 59 in the 2nd round of the BMW Championship at Conway Farms GC in Lake Forest, Illinois, becoming just the 6th player to shoot sub-60 in a PGA Tour event

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    Golfer Jim Furyk
    [​IMG]Golf Major
    2015 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: Lydia Ko of New Zealand wins by 6 strokes over Lexi Thompson to become the youngest major winner at 18 years and 142 days

    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2015 US Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković beats Roger Federer 6–4, 5–7, 6–4, 6–4; third man to reach all 4 Grand Slam finals in the same year in Open Era after Rod Laver and Federer
    • 2017 International Olympic Committee announces Paris (2024) and Los Angeles (2028) will host the Olympic games
    • 2018 Amazon live streams “Thursday Night Football” Cincinnati beats Baltimore 34-23; first all-female broadcast booth in NFL history; Andrea Kremer calls game with Hannah Storm
    • 2020 ANA Inspiration Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Mirim Lee of South Korea wins her first major title; beats Brooke Henderson and Nelly Korda with a birdie on first playoff hole
    • 2020 Chicago Cubs pitcher Alec Mills no-hits the Milwaukee Brewers, 12-0 at Miller Park, Milwaukee
    [​IMG]US Men's Tennis Open
    2020 US Open Men's Tennis: Austrian Dominic Thiem becomes first in 70 years to recover from 2 sets down to win US crown; beats Alexander Zverev of Germany 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6
     
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