TODAY'S EVENTS IN SPORTS HISTORY 2024

SEPT 14

British Golf Open

1865 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Scotsman Andrew Strath wins his first title; beats 2-time champion Willie Park Sr. by 2 strokes


GolferWillie Park Sr.

• 1913 Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against Giants (7-0)
• 1916 Christy Mathewson pitches & wins his final game

Dempsey KOs Firpo
1923 In his 4th heavyweight boxing title defence Jack Dempsey recovers after being sent through the ropes to KO Argentine challenger Luis Firpo in the 2nd round at the Polo Grounds, NYC


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJack Dempsey

• 1923 Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play

American League MVP
1924 Walter Johnson selected as the American League MVP


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

• 1929 A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox

US Men's Tennis Open
1929 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Bill Tilden wins 7th US title; beats Francis Hunter 3-6, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4


Tennis PlayerBill Tilden

• 1930 Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6

Waner Ties Hornsby Record
1936 Pittsburgh Pirates' future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 MLB hits for 7th time


MLB Hall of Fame 2nd Baseman and ManagerRogers Hornsby

• 1942 Yanks clinch pennant #13
• 1943 Yanks clinch pennant #14

US Men's Tennis Open
1947 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Jack Kramer wins second straight US title; beats fellow American Frank Parker 4-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-0, 6-3


Tennis PlayerJack Kramer
US Open Women's Tennis
1947 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Louise Brough beats Margaret Osborne duPoint 8-6, 4-6, 6-1 for her only US singles title


Tennis PlayerLouise Brough

• 1953 Yanks clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians

Baseball Record
1954 New York Giants Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record


MLB LegendWillie Mays

Baseball Player and ManagerMel Ott

• 1955 Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245)

Baseball History
1958 NY Yankees win 24th pennant and 9th under Casey Stengel


Baseball Hall of Fame ManagerCasey Stengel
Ellis vs Patterson
1968 Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title


Boxing ChampionFloyd Patterson
Baseball History
1968 MLB Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season


Baseball PitcherDenny McLain

• 1971 Cleveland Indians & Washington Senators, play 20 innings
• 1975 Milwaulkee Brewer Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's record, playing in 242 MLB games as a teen

Baseball History
1978 MLB Atlanta Braves' Jim Bouton (38) beats San Francisco Giants, his 1st win since 1970


Baseball Pitcher and AuthorJim Bouton

• 1980 Dwight Clark begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
• 1982 Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7"

Baseball History
1986 Bo Jackson's 1st HR-a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium)


NFL Running Back and Baseball OutfielderBo Jackson
NFL History
1986 NFL Bears running back Walter Payton scores his 100th career rushing touchdown, and gains 177 yards, surpassing 15,000-yard career plateau in 13-10 overtime win over visiting Philadelphia Eagles, at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois


NFL Running BackWalter Payton

• 1986 Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game

Baseball History
1987 Cal Ripken Jr.'s record streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is finally broken


MLB LegendCal Ripken Jr

• 1987 Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 HRs vs Baltimore Orioles

US Men's Tennis Open
1987 US Open Men's Tennis: Czech star Ivan Lendl wins 3rd straight US title; beats Sweden's Mats Wilander 6-7, 6-0, 7-6, 6-4


Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionIvan Lendl

Tennis Player and Seven-Time Major ChampionMats Wilander

• 1989 Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2
• 1989 Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons
• 1991 San Diego State freshman running back Marshall Faulk rushes for NCAA record 386 yards and scores 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific, 55-34
• 1994 MLB team owners vote to cancel remainder of 1994 season, as well as the World Series for only the second time in history, continuing labor dispute with Players Association

Baseball Record
1996 As' Mark McGwire is 13th player to hit 50-HRs in a season


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

• 1996 England Test cricket fast bowler Dean Headley equals WR by taking his 3rd hat-trick of the English County season for Kent v Hampshire at Canterbury
• 1996 NY Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 HRs by a catcher
• 2003 Baltimore running back Jamal Lewis sets the NFL single-game rushing record when he runs for 295 yards and 2 touchdowns on 30 carries in the Ravens 33-13 victory over Cleveland

Solheim Cup
2003 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Barsebäck G & CC: Europe regains Cup; after Catriona Matthew beat Rosie Jones 3 & 1 to clinch, amid controversy 4 of 5 remaining matches are conceded for final score of 17½-10½


GolferCatriona Matthew

• 2008 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Madrid, Spain: Svetlana Kuznetsova beats Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 to give Russia its 4th title in 5 years (ends, 4-0)

US Men's Tennis Open
2009 US Open Men's Tennis: Juan Martín del Potro of Argentina wins his first Grand Slam title; beats defending champion Roger Federer 3-6, 7-6, 4-6, 7-6, 6-2


Tennis ChampionRoger Federer

Tennis PlayerJuan Martín del Potro
Golf Major
2014 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: 19-year-old South Korean Kim Hyo-joo wins by 1 stroke ahead of Australian runner-up Karrie Webb


GolferKarrie Webb

• 2019 Former Welsh rugby union and league player Gareth Thomas reveals he is HIV positive

 

SEPT 15

• 1870 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris, Jr. wins third straight title; again beats Bob Kirk, this time by 12 strokes
• 1879 Pim Mulier forms Royal Haarlemsche Football Club based in Haarlem, Netherlands; oldest existing club in Dutch football
• 1899 US Open Men's Golf, Baltimore CC: Willie Smith wins by a comfortable 11 strokes from Scotsmen George Low & Val Fitzjohn and Bert Way of England

• 1902 Chicago Cubs infielders Tinker, Evers, & Chance turn their first double play together in a 6-3 win over Cincinnati
• 1912 Boston Red Sox pitcher "Smoky" Joe Wood ties then MLB record of 16 straight wins with a 2-1 victory over St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park
• 1922 Philadelphia catcher Butch Henline becomes first NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897 during Phillies' 10-9 win over St. Louis Cardinals at the Baker Bowl

US Men's Tennis Open

1923 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Germantown CC, Philadelphia: Bill Tilden wins 4th of 6 straight US singles titles; beats Bill Johnston 6-4, 6-1, 6-4


Tennis PlayerBill Tilden

• 1928 Kent leg-spinner Alfred "Tich" Freeman takes 2-102 and 4-75 for Rest of England vs Lancashire to become the only bowler to take 300 wickets (304) in an English cricket season
• 1928 St. Louis Cardinals set NL record of 18 men left-on-base; still beat Phillies, 8-6 at the Baker Bowl, Philadelphia
• 1940 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)
• 1940 Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher)
• 1946 Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats
• 1947 Yanks clinch pennant #15
• 1950 For a record 6th time, NY Yankees' first baseman Johnny Mize hits 3 HRs in one game
• 1953 Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner)
• 1957 SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game

Maurice Richard Retires
1960 Maurice Richard announces his retirement. He finishes his career with 544 goals, an NHL record at the time.


Ice Hockey PlayerMaurice Richard
U.S. Amateur Championship
1961 61st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus aged 21


GolferJack Nicklaus

• 1962 Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (US wins)
• 1963 Alou brothers - Felipe, Matty, & Jesús - appear in San Francisco Giants outfield for 1 inning in a 13-5 win over Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field

Baseball Record
1969 MLB St. Louis Cardinals Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 NY Mets in a game


Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton

• 1975 1st College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 17-3 in Foxborough

Baseball History
1977 Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when mgr Earl Weaver pulls team off field in 5th citing hazardous condition (small tarpaulin on bullpen mound)


MLB ManagerEarl Weaver

• 1978 Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans

Ali vs Spinks
1978 Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali

Heavyweight Boxing ChampionLeon Spinks

• 1979 Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL & NL (Astros)
• 1985 MLB New York Yankees trade 25-year-old pitching prospect Jim Deshaies to Houston Astros for 40-year-old pitcher Joe Niekro
• 1985 Ryder Cup Golf, The Belfry: Europe beats US, 16½-11½; first US loss since 1957; Sam Torrance clinches for Europe beating Andy North, 1 up
• 1988 Lillehammer, Norway, upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics
• 1988 Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi
• 1990 Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves
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• 1991 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Vancouver GC: Nancy Scranton wins by 3 shots from Debbie Massey
• 1991 US women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver)

Baseball Record
1995 St Louis Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith sets record of 1,554 double plays


Baseball PlayerOzzie Smith
President's Cup
1996 Presidents Cup Golf, Robert Trent Jones GC: Mark O'Meara and David Duval are undefeated as US edges International team, 16½-15½


GolferMark O'Meara

GolferDavid Duval
Baseball History
1996 Texas Rangers retire their 1st number, Nolan Ryan's #34


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 2000 27th Olympic Games opens at Sydney, Australia

NFL Record
2002 Oakland quarterback Rich Gannon begins NFL record-tying (Kurt Warner, Steve Young) streak of 6 consecutive 300-yard passing games, throwing for 403 yards in Raiders' 30-17 victory at Pittsburgh


NFL QuarterbackSteve Young

• 2004 NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announces a lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.

Golf Major
2013 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: Suzann Pettersen of Norway wins by 2 strokes over New Zealand amateur Lydia Ko; first time event has major title status


GolferLydia Ko

GolferSuzann Pettersen
Canelo KOs Golovkin
2018 Russian boxer Gennady Golovkin (38-1-1, 34 KOs) loses his first pro fight in record 20th title defense as well as undisputed world middleweight crown when outpointed by Mexican Canelo Álvarez (50-1-2, 34 KOs) in Las Vegas


BoxerCanelo Álvarez
Solheim Cup
2019 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Gleneagles: Europe beats US, 14½-13½; Suzann Pettersen of Norway sinks 8-footer on 18th hole of final match to beat Marina Alex, 1-up and regain Cup


GolferSuzann Pettersen
Gymnasts Testify Against Nassar
2021 US gymnasts, including Simone Biles, testify against former team doctor Larry Nassar at a Senate Committee hearing, criticizing a system that allowed it to happen


GymnastSimone Biles
Federer Retires
2022 Tennis great Roger Federer announces his retirement from professional tennis at 41 with 20 grand slam wins and 103 ATP titles [1]


Tennis ChampionRoger Federer

 

SEPT 16

• 1864 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Sr. wins third title; beats fellow Scot Andrew Strath by 2 strokes
• 1869 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: At just 18 years of age, Tom Morris Jr. retains his title; beats fellow Scot Bob Kirk by 11 strokes
• 1869 Golf's first recorded hole-in-one is scored by Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole in Scotland

• 1885 5th America's Cup: Puritan (NY Yacht Club) beats Genesta (Royal Yacht Squadron, Isle of Wight, UK) by 1:38 for 2-0 series win
• 1887 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park Jr wins first of 2 Open titles by 1 stroke from fellow Scot Bob Martin
• 1892 Amsterdam swimming club renamed "The Y"
• 1906 Kaarlo Nieminen wins 1st Finnish marathon

US Men's Tennis Open

1922 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Germantown CC, Philadelphia: Bill Tilden wins third straight US singles title; beats fellow American Bill Johnston 4-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4


Tennis PlayerBill Tilden
Baseball Record
1924 St. Cardinals future Baseball HOF first baseman Jim Bottomley sets MLB all-time single game RBI record of 12 in a 17-3 rout of Brooklyn Robins at Ebbets Field


Baseball PlayerJim Bottomley

• 1926 St Louis Cards beat Phillies 23-3
• 1930 Phillies trailing 10-5, score 5 in 9th, then Pirates score 4 in top of 10th, so Phillies score 5 in bottom of 10th to win 15-14
• 1931 St Louis Cards repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over Phillies

Redskins First Game
1937 Redskins NFL franchise play first game in Washington at Griffith Stadium; defeat the New York Giants in season opener, 13–3


American Football PlayerMel Hein

• 1938 British racing driver George Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH
• 1939 NY Yankees clinch their 11th & 4th successive pennant

Leo Durocher Suspended
1940 Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot"


Baseball Player and ManagerLeo Durocher

• 1950 Cleveland Browns (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, beat Philadelphia 35-10)
• 1951 US National League umpire Frank Dascoli clears the Dodgers bench, ejecting 15 players

US Women's Golf Open
1951 US Open Women's Golf, Druid Hills GC: Betsy Rawls wins first of her 8 major titles, 5 strokes ahead of runner-up Louise Suggs


LPGA GolferBetsy Rawls

Golfer and Co-Founder of the LPGALouise Suggs

• 1953 AL approves St Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles
• 1955 Bauer & Berra homer in 9th beating Red Sox 5-4 taking over 1st

Sports History
1955 Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

• 1957 Los Angeles City Council approves a 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for the Dodgers

Sports History
1960 Milwaukee Braves' future HOF pitcher Warren Spahn no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 4-0 at County Stadium


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherWarren Spahn

• 1962 Brian Kilby wins marathon: (2:23:18.8)
• 1965 Boston Red Sox Dave Morehead no-hits Cleveland Indians, 2-0
• 1967 Anni Pede runs female world record marathon (3:07:26)

NFL Record
1973 Buffalo running back O.J. Simpson rushes for a then NFL record 250 yards in the Bills, 31-13 win at New England


NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal O.J. Simpson

• 1975 MLB Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Rennie Stennett is second to hit 7-for-7 in a 9-inning MLB game in a 22-0 rout of Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field in Chicago
• 1978 New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox, 3-2; at Yankee Stadium; Blue Bombers 6th win over arch rivals in 2 weeks
• 1979 Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium
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• 1979 Ryder Cup Golf, The Greenbrier: US wins, 17-11; new Team Europe replaces Great Britain & Ireland as official opposition to the United States

Schwarzenegger Becomes an American
1983 Austrian weightlifter and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen


Actor, Body Builder and Governor of CaliforniaArnold Schwarzenegger

• 1987 Calif's Bob Boone catches record 1,919th major league game
• 1988 Cincinnati Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats LA Dodgers, 1-0
• 1988 Javed Miandad completes 211, his 5th Test Cricket double, v Australia

Baseball Record
1993 Minnesota Twins Dave Winfield is 19th to get 3,000 hits


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderDave Winfield
Baseball Record
1995 Greg Maddux of Braves sets record of 17 consecutive road victories


MLB Pitching LegendGreg Maddux
Baseball Record
1996 MLB Minnesota Twins' Paul Molitor becomes 21st player to reach 3,000 hits


Baseball Player and ManagerPaul Molitor

• 1997 American Basketball League MVP Nikki McCray signs with the WNBA

Baseball History
1997 Mark McGwire signs with the St Louis Cardinals for $26M


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire
Baseball Record
2000 Sammy Sosa becomes the second player to hit 50 or more home runs in three consecutive years, joining Mark McGwire


MLB OutfielderSammy Sosa

MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

• 2007 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Moscow, Russia: Svetlana Kuznetsova beats Francesca Schiavonea of Italy 4-6, 7-6, 7-5 to give Russia an unassailable 3-0 lead (ends, 4-0)
• 2007 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Halmstad GK, Sweden: US retains Cup 16-12; after trailing by a point US dominates singles 8½-3½

Women's British Open
2012 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: Jiyai Shin wins her second Open title, 9 strokes ahead of fellow South Korean Inbee Park


GolferInbee Park

• 2012 NHL locks out its players after the expiry of the collective bargaining agreement
• 2016 Chris Sharma free solos Alasha in Mallorca, Spain, the world's first 9b (5.15b) deep-water solo route
• 2017 New Zealand All Blacks rugby union team hands South Africa their biggest test match defeat in history; beat Springboks, 57-0 in Rugby Championship round in Albany, NZ
• 2018 Cycling land speed record broken for men and women by Denise Mueller-Korenek riding 183.932 mph (296.010 km/h) Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
• 2018 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: At age 40, American Angela Stanford wins her first major title by 1 stroke from Amy Olson, Austin Ernst, Mo Martin & Kim Sei-young

NFL Record
2018 Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes sets an NFL record of 10 touchdowns in first 2 weeks of a season, torching Pittsburgh’s secondary with 6 TD passes; leads Chiefs to 42-37 victory on the road


NFL QuarterbackPatrick Mahomes

 

SEPT 17

• 1897 US Open Men's Golf, Chicago GC: Englishman Joe Lloyd wins his only major title by 1 stroke over runner-up Willie Anderson of Scotland; last 36-hole US Open

Eddie Collins Debut

1906 Playing as "Sullivan" Columbia University jr Eddie Collins debuts with A's


Baseball Legend Eddie Collins

Baseball History
1912 Center fielder Casey Stengel breaks in with Brooklyn & hits 4 singles


Baseball Hall of Fame Manager Casey Stengel
Honus Wagner Retires
1917 American baseball shortstop Honus Wagner retires at 43, Pirates retire his #33


MLB Shortshop Honus Wagner

• 1920 National Football League is born in Canton, Ohio; 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Professional Football Association; renamed the NFL in 1922

Piet Moeskops
1922 Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world sprint champ

US Men's Tennis Open
1927 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Frenchman Rene Lacoste successfully defends title; beats Bill Tilden 11-9, 6-3, 11-9

• 1928 Boston Braves pitcher Ray Boggs hits 3 batters in 1 inning during his 4th and final major league appearance, in 15-5 loss to Chicago Cubs

US Men's Tennis Open
1928 US National Championship Men's Tennis: Frenchman Henri Cochet wins his only US title; beats American Frank Hunter 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3

• 1931 Boston Red Sox outfielder Earl Webb sets record with 65 en route to 67 MLB doubles
• 1937 1st NFL game in Washington, D.C.; Redskins beat NY Giants 13-3

US Men's Tennis Open
1939 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Reigning Wimbledon champion Bobby Riggs beats fellow American Welby van Horn 6-4, 6-2, 6-4

US Open Women's Tennis
1939 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Dual champion Alice Marble beats Helen Jacobs 6-0, 8-10, 6-4

Stan Musial Debut
1941 Stan Musial makes his major league debut for the St. Louis Cardinals, going 2-for-4


MLB Legend Stan Musial
Jackie Robinson
1947 Jackie Robinson is named Rookie of Year by Sporting News


Baseball Player Jackie Robinson

• 1949 Ryder Cup Golf, Ganton GC: US beats Great Britain, 7-5; Americans win 6 of 8 singles matches to claim victory
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• 1950 San Francisco 49ers (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, lose 21-17

Ernie Banks
1953 Ernie Banks becomes Chicago Cubs 1st black player


MLB shortstop Ernie Banks
Marciano KOs Charles
1954 In a quick re-match at Yankee Stadium, NYC, Rocky Marciano KOs Ezzard Charles in the 8th round to retain his world heavyweight boxing title


Heavyweight Boxing Champion Rocky Marciano
Baseball History
1955 Future MLB Hall of Famer Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson goes 2-4 in his 1st game


Baseball Hall of Fame Third Baseman Brooks Robinson

• 1956 Yanks clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of year

Golf Tournament
1959 59th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus

US Men's Tennis Open
1960 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-Australian final Neale Fraser wins 2nd straight US title; beats Rod Laver 6-4, 6-4, 9-7

US Open Women's Tennis
1960 US National Championship Women's Tennis: American Darlene Hard wins her first US singles title; beats defending champion Maria Bueno of Brazil 6-4, 10-12, 6-4

Tarkenton's 1st Game
1961 Fran Tarkenton plays his first NFL Game against the Chicago Bears, coming off the bench to lead the Vikings to a 37-13 victory, also becoming the only QB to throw four touchdown passes in his first career game


NFL Quarterback Fran Tarkenton

• 1961 Minnesota Vikings' 1st NFL game (beat Chicago Bears 37-13)

Baseball History
1964 Yankee Mickey Mantle gets career hits #1999, 2000 & 2001 & his 450th HR in 6-2 victory over Los Angeles Angels at New York


Baseball Legend Mickey Mantle

• 1966 Cleveland pitchers set AL record striking out 19 batters in 1st 9 innings
• 1967 New Orleans Saints 1st NFL game, they lose to LA Rams 27-13

Baseball History
1968 San Francisco Giants Gaylord Perry no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 1-0


Baseball Pitcher Gaylord Perry

• 1974 Courageous (US) beats Southern Cross (Aust) in 23rd America's Cup

Baseball History
1977 Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer, Reggie hits 2 more

• 1977 Ryder Cup Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes: US wins 12½-7½; last time a Great Britain and Ireland team competes for Ryder Cup
• 1978 After 6 losses to the New York Yankees in September, the Boston Red Sox finally score a 7-3 win over their arch rivals at Yankee Stadium

Baseball Record
1979 Royals' George Brett is 6th to have 20 doubles/triples/HRs in a season


MLB Third Baseman George Brett
Baseball History
1981 Fernando Valenzuela sets NL rookie record with 8th shutout of season


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher Fernando Valenzuela

• 1983 Chicago White Sox clinch their 1st-ever AL West championship

Baseball Record
1984 Dwight Gooden ties record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games


Baseball Pitcher Dwight Gooden
Baseball Record
1984 Reggie Jackson is 13th to hit 500 HRs


MLB Right Fielder Reggie Jackson

• 1988 24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea
• 1988 Jeff Reardon becomes 1st to record 40 or more saves in both AL & NL
• 1989 NYC court of appeals overturns lower court decision & returns America's Cup back to US (from NZ)
• 1991 4,355 turn out to see Expos play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
• 1992 NFL decides to suspend World League Football
• 1996 Dodger Hideo Nomo no-hits Colorado Rockies, 9-0 at Coors Field

NFL History
2000 Dan Marino's #13 jersey is retired by the Miami Dolphins


Hall of Fame NFL QuarterbackDan Marino
Baseball History
2001 Despite suffering from lung cancer and Parkinson's disease, Jack Buck stirs emotions by reading a patriotic-themed poem during the pregame ceremonies on baseball's first night back after the September 11th terrorist attacks


Sportscaster Jack Buck
Baseball Record
2004 SF Giants outfielder Barry Bonds hits his 700th career MLB home run, off San Diego's Jake Peavy


MLB Legend Barry Bonds
Federation Cup
2006 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Charleroi, Belgium: Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium withdraws with an injured knee with decisive doubles match level at 1-set all; Italy wins first ever title, 3-2

• 2017 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: Anna Nordqvist of Sweden beats Brittany Altomare at 1st sudden-death playoff hole; event reduced to 54 holes after day 1 abandoned (bad weather)

Baseball History
2019 MLB San Francisco Giants outfielder Mike Yastrzemski homers in his first game at Boston's Fenway Park, long-time home field of his grandfather Carl Yastrzemski of the Red Sox


MLB OutfielderCarl Yastrzemski

 

SEPT 18

• 1848 Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner

British Golf Open

1863 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park, Sr. wins his 2nd title; beats rival Tom Morris Sr. by 2 strokes


GolferWillie Park Sr.

• 1903 Phillies' Chick Fraser no-hits Chicago Cubs, 10-0
• 1909 Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det

US Men's Tennis Open
1926 US National Championship Men's Tennis: Frenchman René Lacoste wins first of 2 straight US titles; beats countryman Jean Borotra 6-4, 6-0, 6-4


Tennis PlayerRené Lacoste

Tennis PlayerJean Borotra

• 1928 St. Louis beat Phillies, 4-2 at the Baker Bowl, Philadelphia; 20th Cards' win of 22 starts between the 2 clubs in 1928
• 1929 Pirates loss to Braves & clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
• 1930 Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (UK) in 15th America's Cup

Baseball Record
1930 NY Yankee future Baseball HOF pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherRed Ruffing

• 1938 Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers 2-0
• 1938 Despite losing a double header (4-3, 8-7) to the St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park III, the New York Yankees clinch their 10th AL pennant

Louis KOs Mauriello
1946 Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1st round for heavyweight boxing title


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJoe Louis

• 1949 Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit
• 1954 Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2)

Baseball Record
1955 Willie Mays hits record tying 9th HR at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock)


MLB LegendWillie Mays
Baseball Record
1956 Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a season


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

• 1962 Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games
• 1963 Final MLB game at Polo Grounds, New York City; 1,752 see Philadelphia Phillies defeat New York Mets 5-1
• 1965 Mickey Mantle Day is celebrated at Yankee Stadium as Mantle plays his 2,000th game

NFL Record
1966 Baltimore quarterback Johnny Unitas throws 4 touchdown passes in 38-23 win at Minnesota to surpass Y.A. Tittle as NFL's career leader with 212; finishes career with 290 TD passes


NFL QuarterbackJohnny Unitas

• 1967 Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Australia) in 21st America's Cup yacht race at Newport, Rhode Island
• 1968 Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits SF Giants 2-0
• 1971 Ryder Cup Golf, Old Warson CC: US beats Europe, 18½-13½; after leading by 1 match, GB loses all Friday morning 4-ball matches to lose momentum
• 1972 1st black NL umpire is Art Williams for Los Angeles vs San Diego

Baseball History
1976 MLB Cleveland Indians player-manager Frank Robinson's last game as a player


Baseball Outfielder and ManagerFrank Robinson
Baseball History
1977 Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore


Baseball Hall of Fame Third BasemanBrooks Robinson
24th America's Cup
1977 Ted Turner's Courageous (US) sweeps Alan Bond's Australia 4-0 in the 24th America's Cup


Businessman and SailorTed Turner

• 1983 New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chicago Bears 34-31

Sports History
1984 Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons


MLB OutfielderTim Raines
Cricket History
1986 David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras


Cricket BatsmanDavid Boon

• 1987 Detroit first baseman Darrell Evans hits home run #30 off Bill Wegman in 5th inning of Tigers' 7-6 win over the Milwaukee Brewers; first 40-year-old to hit 30 MLB HRs in a season
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• 1990 Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
• 1991 American Major League Baseball executive John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians
• 1991 NCAA places Tennessee on 2 years probation for football recruiting violations
• 1991 Robert Helmick resigns as president of US Olympic Committee
• 1993 LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins
• 1993 Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, & Yanks rally to beat Boston 4-3

President's Cup
1994 1st Presidents Cup Golf, Robert Trent Jones GC: Davis Love III is undefeated as US beats International team, 20-12 in inaugural event


GolferDavis Love III
Baseball
1994 Ken Burn's documentary miniseries "Baseball" premieres on PBS (Emmy for Outstanding Informational Series)


Baseball Player and CoachBuck O'Neil
Baseball Record
1996 Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts


MLB Pitching LegendRoger Clemens
Golf History
1997 Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame


Golfer and Five-Time Major WinnerSeve Ballesteros

Golfer and Six-Time Major Championship WinnerNick Faldo
Federation Cup
2005 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Paris, France: Russian pair Elena Dementieva & Dinara Safina win deciding doubles rubber 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 over Amélie Mauresmo & Mary Pierce of France; clinches Russia's 2nd consecutive title, 3-2


Tennis PlayerMary Pierce

Tennis PlayerAmélie Mauresmo

• 2016 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: Chun In-gee of South Korea wins her 2nd major title by 4 strokes from Ryu So-yeon & Park Sung-hyun; 21-under-par score a record for all women's majors

Wayne Rooney Banned
2017 England footballer Wayne Rooney pleads guilty to drunk driving and is banned for driving for 2 years


English FootballerWayne Rooney

 

SEPT 19

• 1876 Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa
• 1879 Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11' 2½" at age 17 years & 198 days
• 1901 11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of President William McKinley

• 1912 Soccer team NAC (Noad Advendo Combination) forms in Breda

US Men's Tennis Open

1921 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Germantown CC, Philadelphia: Bill Tilden successfully defends title; beats Wallace F. Johnson 6-1, 6-3, 6-1


Tennis PlayerBill Tilden

• 1925 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Bill Tilden wins 6th consecutive US title; beats Bill Johnston for 4th straight year 4-6, 11-9, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
• 1931 Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1

PGA Championship
1931 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Wannamoisett CC: 20-year-old American Tom Creavy beats Denny Shute, 2 & 1 in the final for his lone major title


GolferDenny Shute

• 1933 NY Giants clinch the pennant

Robinson Rookie of the Year
1947 Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of the Year"


Baseball PlayerJackie Robinson

• 1948 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Pancho Gonzales wins first of 2 consecutive US singles titles; beats Eric Sturgess 6-2, 6-3, 14-12

US Open Women's Tennis
1948 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Margaret Osborne duPont wins first of 3 straight US singles crowns; beats Louise Brough Clapp 4-6, 6-4, 15-13


Tennis PlayerLouise Brough
Baseball Record
1955 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits record 5th grand slam of season


MLB shortstopErnie Banks

• 1966 Mike Burke named Yankees pres

Baseball History
1968 MLB Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain's 31st win of the season, despite Mickey Mantle's 535th career home run, at Tiger Stadium in Detroit


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

Baseball PitcherDenny McLain

• 1971 New York City Marathon: inaugural women's race won by Beth Bonner in 2:55:22; 2nd men's race won by Norman Higgins in 2:22:54

Baseball Record
1973 Frank Robinson, Angels OF, homers in record 32nd major league ballpark - Arlington Stadium (Arlington, Texas), against the Rangers


Baseball Outfielder and ManagerFrank Robinson

• 1973 NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington, D.C.
• 1982 New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chicago Bears 10-0
• 1986 Australian cricketer Dean Jones scores 210 v India at Madras
• 1986 Chicago White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits California Angels, 7-1

Greg Louganis
1988 American diver Greg Louganis smashes his head on diving board during the 3m springboard preliminaries at the Seoul Olympics; recovers to qualify for the final which he wins the following day


DiverGreg Louganis

• 1988 Australian swimmer Duncan Armstrong sets world record 1:47.25 to win the 200m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; beats Anders Holmertz of Sweden by 0.64
• 1988 British swimmer Adrian Moorehouse wins 100m breaststroke gold medal in 1:02.04 at the Seoul Olympics; edges Károly Güttler of Hungary by 0.01
• 1988 US women's all-round gymnastics team is controversially penalised 0.5 after compulsory round at the Seoul Olympics; substitute an alternate athlete on uneven bars medal podium; Americans finish 4th just 0.3 behind East Germany
• 1989 Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)

Baseball History
1992 Barry Bonds joins Willie Mays, Howard Johnson & Ron Gant as having (2) 30-HR/30-steal MLB seasons


MLB LegendBarry Bonds

MLB Third BasemanHoward Johnson

MLB OutfielderRon Gant

• 1992 Demolition begins of JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; built in 1926 as Sesquicentennial Stadium, also known as Municipal Stadium, it hosted the 1926 Tunney-Dempsey fight, 41 Army-Navy football games, The Beatles; The Rolling Stones; victory rallies for The NHL Flyers and MLB Phillies; and the US portion of Live-Aid
• 1992 Sergei Boebka pole vaults world record (6.13m)
• 1993 San Diego Chargers' kicker John Carney boots 6 field goals in an 18-17 win over Houston to set a new NFL record with 29 consecutive field goals made

Baseball History
1993 Tom Glavine wins 20 games in 3 straight years


Baseball PitcherTom Glavine

• 1995 Colorado Rockies Andres Galarraga becomes 4th team member to hit 30 HRs in the sesaon
• 1995 MLB San Diego Padres Ken Caminiti switch hits HRs in 3rd of 4 games

Federation Cup
1999 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Stanford, California: Lindsay Davenport beats Elena Likhovtseva of Russia 6-4, 6-4 to give US an unassailable 3-0 lead (ends, 4-1) and their record extending 16th title


Tennis PlayerLindsay Davenport
Baseball Record
2000 Ken Griffey Jr. pinch-hits his 400th home run becoming the first major league player to reach the mark as a pinch-hitter


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderKen Griffey Jr.
NFL History
2004 NFL Oakland Raider wide receiver Jerry Rice ends NFL streak of 274 consecutive games with a reception in a 13-10 victory over Buffalo Bills [1]


NFL LegendJerry Rice

• 2004 Ryder Cup Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Europe retains Cup wins 18½-9½; victory margin largest by a European team in history of the event

Cricket History
2007 MS Dhoni named Captain of Indian Cricket team for the 1st time for the ICC World Twenty20


CricketerMS Dhoni
Baseball History
2008 Greg Maddux pitches his 5,000th career inning against the San Francisco Giants


MLB Pitching LegendGreg Maddux
Thierry Henry
2008 Thierry Henry scores his first goal for Barcelona in a 3–0 Champions League group stage win over Lyon


Footballer and ManagerThierry Henry

• 2015 Japan beats South Africa 34-32 in Brighton, England in the biggest upset in Rugby World Cup history
• 2017 Kansas City Royal Alex Gordon hits home run #5,694, setting a MLB record for the most home runs in a season

 

• SEPT 20
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• 1876 Ottawa Football Club forms
• 1902 Chicago White Sox pitcher Jimmy 'Nixey' Callahan no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
• 1907 Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Nick Maddox no-hits Brooklyn Superbas, 2-1 at Exposition Park, Pittsburgh

• 1908 Chicago White Sox Frank Smith 2nd no-hitter, beats Philadelphia 1-0
• 1911 Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header

US Golf Open

1913 US Open Men's Golf, The Country Club: 20-year old amateur Francis Ouimet wins his only Open title in an 18-hole playoff, 5 strokes ahead of Britons Harry Vardon & Ted Ray


GolferHarry Vardon
Baseball Record
1919 Legendary baseball slugger Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's MLB mark of 27 home runs with a 9th inning blast in Boston Red Sox 4-3 win against Chicago White Sox


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
PGA Championship
1919 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Engineers CC: Defending champion Jim Barnes defeats Fred McLeod, 6 & 5 in the final


Pioneering GolferJim Barnes

GolferFred McLeod
Baseball Record
1922 St. Louis Cardinals future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games


MLB Hall of Fame 2nd Baseman and ManagerRogers Hornsby

• 1924 Carl Mays is 1st pitcher to win 20 games seasons for 3 different teams
• 1924 Cub's Grover Cleveland Alexander beats NY Giants to win 300th game

PGA Championship
1924 PGA Championship Men's Golf, French Lick CC: 1921 champion Walter Hagen beats Englishman Jim Barnes 2-up in the final


GolferWalter Hagen

Pioneering GolferJim Barnes
Gehrig Breaks Own Record
1931 MLB's Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184


Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig

• 1932 Chicago Cubs clinch the NL pennant
• 1933 Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2

Louis KOs Pastor
1939 Joe Louis puts Bob Pastor down 5 times before an 11th round KO at Briggs Stadium, Detroit in his 8th heavyweight boxing title defense


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJoe Louis

• 1948 Mexican Baseball league disbanded
• 1949 Top American tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional
• 1951 MLB owners elect National League President Ford Frick as 3rd Baseball Commissioner for a 7-year term at a then massive $65,000 per annum

Baseball History
1953 Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR


MLB shortstopErnie Banks
Roger Bannister Honored
1954 Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy


Middle-Distance RunnerRoger Bannister
Baseball Record
1955 Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both games of a doubleheader


MLB LegendWillie Mays

• 1955 Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 HRs in a season

Baseball History
1958 Baltimore Oriole knuckleball pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits NY Yankees 1-0


Baseball Player and Knuckleball PitcherHoyt Wilhelm
Baseball Record
1961 New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. as Yankees clinch their 26th pennant


Baseball PlayerRoger Maris

• 1964 20th America's Cup yachting: Eric Ridder skippered Constellation beats English challenger Sovereign for a 4-0 American series sweep off Newport, RI

Baseball Record
1968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle
Davis Cup
1969 58th Davis Cup: American pair Bob Lutz & Stan Smith clinch final 8-6, 6-1, 11-9 over Ilie Năstase & Ion Țiriac of Romania in Cleveland, OH; ends 5-0


Tennis ChampionIlie Năstase

Tennis PlayerStan Smith

• 1969 MLB Pittsburgh Pirate Bob Moose no-hits NY Mets, 4-0

Ryder Cup
1969 Ryder Cup Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: US, Great Britain tie, 16-16; great sporting gesture, America's Jack Nicklaus concedes missable 3-foot putt to Tony Jacklin at the 18th hole for the draw


Golfer Jack Nicklaus
Battle of the Sexes
1973 Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match

• 1973 Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season

Ryder Cup
1975 Ryder Cup Golf, Laurel Valley GC: US beats Great Britain & Ireland, 21-11; Arnold Palmer non-playing American captain; Bernard Hunt GB & I skipper


Golfer Arnold Palmer

• 1980 Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of catcher Thurman Munson unveiled at Yankee Stadium: Munson died in plane crash in 1979

Baseball History
1980 George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good


MLB Third Baseman George Brett

• 1980 Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out
• 1981 Ryder Cup Golf, Walton Heath GC: US wins 18½-9½; 6th and final Ryder Cup for Jack Nicklaus as a player; wins all 4 of his matches
• 1983 3,112 turn out to see Pirates play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
• 1984 Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time
• 1985 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players

NFL Record
1987 Chicago running back Walter Payton scores his NFL record 107th rushing touchdown in the Bears' 20-3 victory over Tampa Bay


NFL Running Back Walter Payton
Sports History
1987 French driver Alain Prost wins Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril; his record 28th Formula 1 victory

• 1987 San Francisco wide receiver Dwight Clark's NFL record streak of 105 consecutive games with a reception ends in 49ers 27-26 victory in Cincinnati

Louganis Wins Gold
1988 American diver Greg Louganis wins the 3m springboard gold medal at the Seoul Olympics after famously hitting his head on the board the previous day

Baseball Record
1988 Boston Red Sox Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons


Baseball Player Wade Boggs

• 1988 Detroit first baseman Darrell Evans hits home run #18 in Tigers' 4-3 loss to Cleveland Indians; Evans' 400th MLB career HR
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• 1995 Cincinnati Reds becomes 1st team to clinch NL Central
• 1997 Yanks clinch 37th appearance in post season, 3rd consecutive

Federation Cup
1998 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Geneva, Switzerland: Conchita Martínez & Arantxa Sánchez Vicario beat Martina Hingis & Patty Schnyder of Switzerland 6-0, 6-2 in doubles decider to clinch Spain's 5th title, 3-2

• 1998 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Muirfield Village: US retains Cup; beats Europe 16-12 for third consecutive victory
• 2013 Alex Rodriquez sets new MLB record with 24 Grand Slam home runs for the New York Yankees
• 2015 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, GC St. Leon-Rot: US regains Cup 14½ to 13½; Paula Creamer beats Sandra Gal 4 & 3 in deciding singles match

Sports History
2017 Alex Puccio completes the first female ascent of The Wheel of Chaos V14 (8B+) in Rocky Mountain National Park

• 2020 107th Tour de France: Slovenian Tadej Pogačar claims yellow jersey from countryman Primož Roglič; also wins mountains and U25 classifications; green jersey, Sam Bennett
• 2020 US Open Men's Golf, Winged Foot CC: American Bryson DeChambeau claims his first career major title as the only player to score under par; wins by 6 strokes from Matthew Wolff
• 2021 Kansas City Royals' Salvador Perez hits his 46th home run to break Hall of Famer Johnny Bench's MLB record for most in a season by a catcher, in Royals 7-2 win in Cleveland

Kipchoge Breaks Own World Record
2022 Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge breaks his own world record for the marathon in 2 hours 1 minute 9 seconds in Berlin (previous record 2:01:39) [1]

 

SEPT 21

• 1906 New York Highlanders 1st baseman Hal Chase has 22 put-outs to tie MLB record in a 6-3 win over Chicago White Sox at South Side Park
• 1934 St Louis Cardinals pitching Dean brothers shut-out Brooklyn Dodgers in a doubleheader; Dizzy, in a 13-0 rout and Paul, with a 3-0 no-hitter

Sports History

1951 Emil Zatopek runs 15,000m in record 44 min, 54.6 sec


Distance RunnerEmil Zátopek

• 1952 MLB Boston Braves play what turns out to be their last home game at Braves Field in Boston, losing to the Brooklyn Dodgers 8–2 before crowd of 8,822; team relocates to Milwaukee before start of next season

Marciano KOs Moore
1955 In his last fight, undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano KOs light heavyweight Archie Moore in the 9th round at Yankee Stadium, NYC


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionRocky Marciano

Boxing ChampionArchie Moore
Baseball Record
1956 New York Yankees set dubious MLB record, stranding 20 on base; Mickey Mantle hits a 500' plus homer but rival Boston Red Sox win 13-9 at Fenway Park


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

• 1969 NY Jet Steve O'Neal punts 98 yards against Denver Broncos
• 1969 Ron Hill wins European marathon (2:16:47.8)

Baseball History
1970 Oakland A's Vida Blue no-hits Minnesota Twins, 6-0


Major League Baseball pitcherVida Blue

• 1971 AL OKs Washington Senator move to Arlington (Texas Rangers)

Contract of Interest
1973 Nate Archibald signs 7 yr contract with NBA KC Kings for $450,000


NBA Point GuardNate Archibald

• 1973 NY Mets go into 1st place (at .500) after trailing 12½ games

Free Diving World Record
1974 Enzo Maiorca sets the world record for free diving of 90 metres


Free DiverEnzo Maiorca

• 1980 LA Ram Johnnie Johnson scores a 99 yard interception
• 1980 Richard Todd of NY Jets completes 42 passes in a game (NFL record)
• 1981 Enterprise Radio (all sports) goes off the air

Baseball Record
1981 MLB Philadelphia Phillies lefthander Steve Carlton strikes out NL record 3,118th (Andre Dawson)


MLB StarAndre Dawson

Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton

• 1982 2,251 turn out to see Expos play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
• 1982 NFL players begin a 57-day strike

Spinks vs Holmes
1985 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 to become Heavyweight Boxing Champion


WBC Heavyweight ChampionLarry Holmes

• 1986 New Orleans Saints Mel Gray returns kickoff 101 yards for a touchdown
• 1986 NY Jets beat Miami Dolphins 51-45 in OT; record 884 passing yards
• 1986 SD Padre Jimmy Jones pitches 1-hitter in his major league debut
• 1988 East German swimmer Silke Hörner sets world record 2:26.71 to win the 200m breaststroke gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; first of 2 gold (4 x 100m medley relay)
• 1988 Hungarian swimmer Tamás Darnyi sets world record 4:14.75 to win the 400m individual medley at the Seoul Olympics; also wins 200m I/M gold for the medley double

Boxing History
1988 Mike Tyson smashes TV camera outside his Bernardsville, New Jersey home


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson
Olympic Gold
1988 Suriname swimmer Anthony Nesty wins 100m butterfly at the Seoul Olympics; Suriname's first gold; first black to win individual Olympic swim gold medal; thwarts Matt Biondi's attempt at 7 gold medals


SwimmerMatt Biondi

• 1990 MLB Commissioner Faye Vincent turns down Chicago White Sox bid to reinstate 68-year-old Minnie Miñoso
• 1990 Oakland A's Bob Welch becomes 1st 25 game winner in 10 years
• 1991 USA Basketball announces "Dream Team" for the 1992 Olympics
• 1997 Mike Piazza is 2nd to hit a HR out of Dodger Stadium

Baseball Record
1997 NY Yankee Cecil Fielder hits his 300th HR


Baseball PlayerCecil Fielder

• 2008 Final home game is played at the original Yankee Stadium against the Baltimore Orioles
• 2008 Ryder Cup Golf, Valhalla GC: US lead from start to finish to win 16½-11½ and regain Cup after 3 consecutive European victories
• 2017 Andre Ward, unified light heavyweight champion and world’s top pound-for-pound boxer, announces his retirement

 

SEPT 22

• 1861 Federal troops shoot and kill 12 Navajo men, women and children, and wound 40 more, following a dispute over a friendly horse race during monthly "Ration Day" at Fort Fauntleroy in Bear Springs. Territory of New Mexico [1]
• 1905 US Open Men's Golf, Myopia Hunt GC: Willie Anderson wins his 3rd consecutive Open title, and his record 4th overall, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Alex Smith
• 1910 Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms with an initial 9 team competition

Cy Young's Final Victory

1911 Boston Rustlers' future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young beats Pittsburgh Pirates, 1-0 at Forbes Field for his final career victory, number 511


MLB PitcherCy Young
Baseball Record
1912 Philadelphia second baseman Eddie Collins becomes only player in MLB history to steal 6 bases in one game for a second time as A's beat St. Louis Browns, 8-2


Baseball LegendEddie Collins

• 1915 Boston Red Sox ask Boston Braves for use of Braves Field (10,000+ capacity) for Baseball World Series against Philadelphia Phillies
• 1920 Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that eight White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series
• 1925 New York left fielder Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park-home runs as the Yankees score an 11-6 home victory over Chicago White Sox

The Long Count Fight
1927 "The long count" - in a famous boxing rematch, Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey by 10-round unanimous decision at Soldiers Field, Chicago to retain world heavyweight title; crowd 104,943; gate $2,858,660


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJack Dempsey

• 1927 New York Yankees Earle Coombs hits 3 triples
• 1935 Boston Braves lose NL record 110th game of year en route to 115
• 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers clinch NL pennant as Chicago defeats St. Louis Cardinals in second game of a double header
• 1954 Brooklyn Dodger pitcher Karl Spooner strikes out 15 NY Giants in his 1st MLB game

Baseball Record
1957 Duke Snider's 39th & 40th home runs are last hit at Ebbets Field


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderDuke Snider

• 1959 Chicago White Sox clinch AL pennant
• 1961 MLB Baltimore Orioles Jim Gentile ties record of 5 grand slams in a single season
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• 1966 Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game
• 1966 Orioles beat A's 6-1 to clinch their 1st AL pennant
• 1967 Phillies release pitcher Dallas Green, their future manager
• 1968 Minnesota Twins utility César Tovar pitches a hitless inning & plays all 9 positions in a 2-1 win over Oakland A's at Metropolitan Stadium

Baseball Record
1969 San Francisco Giant Willie Mays, becomes second player to hit 600 home runs


MLB LegendWillie Mays

• 1973 Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry hits 3 triples vs Milwaukee Brewers
• 1973 Ryder Cup Golf, Muirfield: US beats Great Britain & Ireland, 19-13; first time 'Ireland' included in team name
• 1977 Minnesota Twin Bert Blyleven no-hits California Angels, 9-0
• 1979 Montreal Expo Larry Parrish HRs off Phillies Rawly Eastwick in DH
• 1982 Duleep Mendis completes twin cricket tons for Sri Lanka v India
• 1983 Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4"

Baseball History
1985 Billy Martin's right arm is broken by pitcher Ed Whitson


Baseball Player and ManagerBilly Martin

• 1985 St Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man
• 1986 India v Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie

Baseball History
1986 LA Dodger Fernando Valenzuela is 1st Mexican to win 20 games


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherFernando Valenzuela

Baseball Record
1987 Boston Red Sox Wade Boggs ties AL record of 200 hits for 5 straight seasons


Baseball PlayerWade Boggs

• 1987 NFL players go on strike for 24 days (2nd regular-season strike)
• 1988 American swimmer Janet Evans sets a world record 4:03.85 to win the 400m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; 3rd gold medal of the Games (400m I/M, 800m)

Olympic Gold
1988 American swimmer Matt Biondi wins the men's 100m freestyle gold medal in Olympic record 48.63 at the Seoul Games; beats countryman Chris Jacobs & Stéphan Caron of France


SwimmerMatt Biondi

• 1988 South Korean coaches attack NZ referee after disputing his decision, Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in
• 1988 Soviet gymnast Vladimir Artemov wins individual all-round gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; follows his teams all-round victory; wins 4 gold for the Games
• 1989 MLB St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Leon Durham suspended for 60 days due to drugs

Baseball Record
1990 Andre Dawson steals his 300th base & is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 HRs, 300 steals & 2,000 hits


MLB StarAndre Dawson

MLB LegendWillie Mays
NFL History
1991 Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula records his 300th career NFL victory


NFL Head CoachDon Shula

• 1991 NY MTA yanks 6,000 ads for "Dr Tusch" (Dr Jeffrey Lavigne)

Baseball History
1993 Texas Ranger player Nolan Ryan at 46, pitches his last game


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1996 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, St. Pierre Hotel & CC: US retains Cup; beats Europe 17-11; in expanded format US wins 10 of 12 singles matches in final day blowout
• 1997 American sportcaster Marv Albert pleads not guilty to sexual assault charges
• 2002 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Interlachen CC: US regains Cup 15½-12½; Rosie Jones gains winning point in her 3 & 2 victory over Karine Icher

Baseball Record
2004 SF Giants outfielder Barry Bonds was intentionally walked 4 times in a 9-inning game (MLB record) for the second time (1 May 2004)


MLB LegendBarry Bonds
Tennis Tournament
2019 Laver Cup Men's Tennis, Geneva: Alexander Zverev beats Milos Raonic 6-4 3-6 10-4 to earn Team Europe a dramatic 13-11 win over Team World; Europe's 3rd straight win


Tennis PlayerAlexander Zverev

 

SEPT 23

• 1845 The first baseball team, the NY Knickerbockers, organizes and adopts a rulebook
• 1868 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Jr. beats his father, Tom Morris Sr. by 3 strokes; at 17 young Morris remains youngest Open champion
• 1873 Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title

• 1892 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Harold Hilton wins by 3 shots from amateur John Ball, Sandy Herd & Hugh Kirkaldy
• 1908 Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch second, causing the third out in the ninth and disallowing the winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay and pennant)
• 1914 Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves
• 1925 Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh is named AL MVP

Upset of the Decade

1926 "Upset of the Decade" - Gene Tunney beats defending champion Jack Dempsey by 10-round unanimous decision at Sesquicentennial Stadium (later known as JFK Stadium), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for world heavyweight boxing title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJack Dempsey

• 1933 MLB New York Yankees commit 5 errors (3 by shortstop Frankie Crosetti), but beat Red Sox 16-12 at Fenway Park, Boston
• 1937 Yankees lose 9-5 but clinch pennant when Red Sox beat Detroit
• 1939 Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits & beat Phillies 22-4
• 1948 Braves clinch NL pennant

Indians Bury Pennant
1949 MLB Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck

• 1952 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event
• 1952 Brooklyn Dodgers clinch NL pennant with a record of 96-57 over the New York Giants 92-62

Marciano KOs Walcott
1952 Undefeated Rocky Marciano KOs defending champion Jersey Joe Walcott in the 13th round at Municipal Stadium, Philadelphia for the world heavyweight boxing title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionRocky Marciano

Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJersey Joe Walcott

• 1955 Yanks clinch pennant by beating Red Sox, 3-2
• 1957 Milwaukee Braves clinch NL pennant by beating Cards 4-2
• 1962 LA Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills breaks Ty Cobb's 1915 MLB steals record, recording #97 on his way to 104

Baseball Record
1979 MLB St Louis Cardinals legend Lou Brock steals 938th & final base of his career


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderLou Brock

• 1983 Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa KOs American Michael Dokes in 10 rounds in Richfield. Ohio for WBA heavyweight boxing title

Baseball Hall of Fame
1983 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to wins 300 game, beating Cardinals 6-2 in St. Louis


Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton
Baseball History
1983 MLB pitcher Gaylord Perry (45) announces his retirement, after 22 seasons; career record 314-265, 3.11 ERA, and 3,534 strikeouts


Baseball PitcherGaylord Perry
NFL History
1984 NFL San Francisco 49er quarterback Joe Montana misses his 1st start in 49 games


NFL QuarterbackJoe Montana
Team Manager
1984 Sparky Anderson is 1st manager to win 100 games in both leagues


MLB Player and ManagerSparky Anderson
Olympic World Record Set
1988 Americans Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter & Matt Biondi swim world record 3:16.53 to win 4 x 100m freestyle relay at the Seoul Olympics


SwimmerMatt Biondi

• 1988 East German swimmer Uwe Dassler sets world record 3:46.95 to win 400m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; edges Australian Duncan Armstrong by 0.2s

Baseball Record
1988 Jose Canseco is baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases & hit 40 HRs


MLB PlayerJosé Canseco
Mota Wins Marathon Gold
1988 Portuguese world champion Rosa Mota runs 2:25:40 to score a famous Olympic marathon win over Australian Lisa Martin at the Seoul Games


Marathon RunnerRosa Mota

• 1989 Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning
• 1992 Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions from CFL
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• 1992 Manon Rheaume becomes the first female to play in an NHL exhibition game when she plays goalie for the Tampa Bay Lightning, allowing 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period
• 1997 Seattle Mariners break record for most HRs in a year (258)

Sports History
2007 Anna Stöhr wins a gold medal in bouldering at the IFSC World Championship in Aviles, Spain


Rock ClimberAnna Stöhr
Trump Withdraws White House Invite
2017 US President Donald Trump withdraws invitation to the White House for NBA champions Golden State Warriors after Stephen Curry says he doesn't want to attend


45th US President, Businessman and TV PersonalityDonald Trump

Basketball SuperstarStephen Curry
NFL Record
2018 39-year-old New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees throws 17 yard pass to Michael Thomas to become NFL career pass leader, breaking Brett Favre's record of 6,300 completions; Saints beat Falcons 43-37


NFL QuarterbackDrew Brees

NFL QuarterbackBrett Favre
Tennis Tournament
2018 Laver Cup Men's Tennis, Chicago: Alexander Zverev beats Kevin Anderson 6-7, 7-5, 10-7 to complete a 13-8 win for Team Europe over Team World


Tennis PlayerAlexander Zverev
Golf Tournament
2018 Tour Championship Men's Golf, East Lake GC: Tiger Woods wins by 2 strokes from Billy Horschel; Woods' 80th PGA Tour win; first in 5 years; Justin Rose wins FedEx Cup crown, $10m bonus


GolferTiger Woods
Baseball Record
2022 St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols hits 2 home runs with 5 RBI in 11-0 win over Dodgers in LA; becomes fourth player in MLB history to hit 700 career HRs


MLB 1st BasemanAlbert Pujols
Tennis Tournament
2022 Tennis great Roger Federer plays his final professional match during Laver Cup in London; teams with friend and rival Rafael Nadal but loses 6–4, 6–7 [9–11] to Americans Jack Sock and Frances Tiafoe


Tennis ChampionRafael Nadal

Tennis ChampionRoger Federer

 

SRPT 24

Vanderbilt's Circumnavigation

1853 Cornelius Vanderbilt circumnavigates the world aboard his private yacht North Star


Business MagnateCornelius Vanderbilt

• 1903 Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle
• 1906 St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
• 1908 Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1

Baseball Record
1919 Boston Red Sox slugger Babe Ruth sets MLB season home run record at 28 off Yankee Bob Shawkey in a 2-1 loss at the Polo Grounds in NYC


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1920 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth becomes first to hit 50 home runs in a MLB season with a 1st inning blast off Jose Acosta in a 2-1 loss to the Washington Senators

Baseball Record
1922 St Louis Cardinals future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby sets National League HR mark at 42


MLB Hall of Fame 2nd Baseman and ManagerRogers Hornsby

• 1927 New York Yankees set a record of 106 victories
• 1927 NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs
• 1929 New York Yankee pitcher Tom Zachary ends season 12-0, record for most pitching wins without a loss in one season
• 1930 Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
• 1931 Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks
• 1934 2,500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell NY Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
• 1934 Idle Detroit wins pennant, as Red Sox beat Yankees 5-0
• 1938 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Don Budge beats fellow American Gene Mako 6-3, 6-8, 6-2, 6-1 to become first player to win a Grand Slam

US Open Women's Tennis
1938 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American Alice Marble wins her second US singles crown; beats Nancye Wynne Bolton of Australia 6-0, 6-3


Tennis ChampionAlice Marble

• 1946 Yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs
• 1948 MLB NY Yankees, Boston Red Sox & Cleveland Indians are all tied for 1st place in AL (91-56)

Marciano TKOs LaStarza
1953 Rocky Marciano TKOs home town favourite Roland LaStarza in 11 at NYC's Polo Grounds to retain his world heavyweight boxing title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionRocky Marciano

• 1954 Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning
• 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
• 1963 Idle Dodgers clinch their 2nd LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards
• 1967 NFL St. Loius Cardinals' Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals at Pittsburgh Steelers, setting NFL record at the time

Baseball History
1968 NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack


MLB First BasemanGil Hodges

• 1969 NY Mets clinch NL East pennant
• 1971 Houston Astros beat San Diego Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings
• 1972 Jack Tatum, Oakland, sets NFL record with 104-yard fumble return, in a 20-14 win over Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field, Green Bay Wisconsin; record tied by Aeneas Williams of the Arizona Cardinals in 2000

NFL History
1972 NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Baltimore Colts (44-34)


NFL QuarterbackJoe Namath
Baseball Record
1974 Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger, is 12th to get 3,000 hits


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderAl Kaline

• 1977 Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards

Baseball Record
1978 Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74


Baseball PitcherRon Guidry

Baseball History
1979 Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

• 1979 Russian Olympic and World Champion figure skaters Oleg Protopopov & Ludmila Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland
• 1980 Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season

Baseball Record
1983 Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in season


Baseball OutfielderDale Murphy
Shoaib Mohammad Debuts
1983 Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of champion Pakistan batsman Hanif Mohammad; scores 6 in drawn 2nd Test v India in Jullundur; goes on to play 45 Tests


CricketerHanif Mohammad

• 1984 Chicago Cubs clinch NL East title

Baseball Record
1985 Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th), and joins Willey McCovey to hit 2 HRs in an inn twice


MLB StarAndre Dawson
Joyner-Kersee's Record Gold
1988 American heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets new world record 7,291 points to win the gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; East Germans Sabine John & Anke Behmer take the minor medals


Track and Field AthleteJackie Joyner-Kersee
Biondi Swims Record Gold
1988 American swimmer Matt Biondi sets world record 22.14 to win the 50m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; his 4th of 5 gold medals for the Games


SwimmerMatt Biondi

• 1988 Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100m in 9.79 sec

Johnson Runs Gold Before Disqualification
1988 Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson breaks his own 100m world record with a time of 9.79 at the Seoul Olympics; disqualified 3 days later for use of drug stanozolol; Carl Lewis awarded gold and world record 9.92


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

• 1988 Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec)
• 1988 East German cyclist Christa Luding-Rothenburger wins silver medal in the women's track sprint at the Seoul Olympics; first athlete to win medals at Summer & Winter Games in same year; won speed skating gold in Calgary
• 1988 Soviet gymnast Vladimir Artemov shares horizontal bar gold medal with teammate Valeri Liukin at the Seoul Olympics; also wins the parallel bars event to take his gold medal haul to 4 for the Games
• 1988 Swimmer Silke Hörner wins her second gold medal of the Seoul Olympics as part of the victorious East German 4 x 100m medley relay team
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• 1988 West German swimmer Michael Gross wins 200m butterfly in Olympic record 1:56.94 at the Seoul Games; third career gold medal
• 1989 Ryder Cup: US & Europe draw, 14-14 at The Belfry, England

NFL History
1991 Deion Sanders, left Braves July 31 to report to NFL Falcons, returns


NFL LegendDeion Sanders

• 1992 John Jaha ties record of 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers)

Baseball History
1992 Pedro Martínez makes his MLB debut for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Cincinnati Reds


Baseball PitcherPedro Martínez

• 1992 Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in NJ Devils history

Baseball Record
1992 Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is oldest player to reach 100-RBI


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderDave Winfield
McCall TKOs Lewis
1994 Oliver McCall TKOs Lennox Lewis in 2nd round to win heavyweight boxing title at Wembley Arena in London, England


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionLennox Lewis

• 1995 Ryder Cup Golf, Oak Hill CC: Europe wins 14½-13½; unheralded Irish rookie Philip Walton secures victory for Europe beating Jay Haas 1 up
• 2006 Ryder Cup Golf, K Club, Ireland: Europe, captained by Ian Woosnam wins convincingly 18½-9½ for 3rd consecutive Cup victory
• 2007 ICC Men's Cricket T20 World Cup, Johannesburg: India wins inaugural tournament with a 5-run win over Pakistan; Man of the Series: Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi (91 runs • 12 wkts)

Tennis Tournament
2017 Laver Cup Men's Tennis, Prague: Roger Federer is unbeaten as Team Europe dominates Team World, 15-9 in the inaugural teams event


Tennis ChampionRoger Federer

• 2017 Margo Hayes completes the third-ever female ascent of a 9a+ (5.15a) graded route by ascending Realization/Biographie in Céüse, France

NFL History
2017 NFL players kneal, lock arms or stay in their dressing room during the anthem in protests against comments made by President Donald Trump

Golf Tournament
2017 Tour Championship Men's Golf, East Lake GC: Xander Schauffele wins rich season-ending event by 1 stroke from Justin Thomas


GolferXander Schauffele

Golfer Justin Thomas
Football Awards
2018 Real Madrid midfielder & Croatian World Cup captain Luka Modrić is named world's best male player at the FIFA Awards in London; Brazil & Orlando Pride forward Marta best female player; France's Didier Deschamps best men's coach

Sports History
2023 Ai Mori wins a gold medal in lead climbing at the IFSC World Cup in Wujiang, China

• 2023 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Finca Cortesin, Casares, Andalusia, Spain: Europe wins 3rd straight title; retains trophy after 14-14 tie with Team USA; Carlota Ciganda undefeated for Europe (4-0)

 

SEPT 25

• 1844 Canada defeats the USA by 23 runs in the first international cricket match at the grounds of St. George's Cricket Club in Manhattan, NYC
• 1866 (Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing
• 1882 First baseball doubleheader (Providence and Worcester)

• 1920 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Marion Zinderstein 6-3, 6-1 for her 5th US singles crown

World Auto Speed Record

1924 Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 miles per hour


Motor RacerMalcolm Campbell

• 1926 NHL grants franchises to the Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings

PGA Championship
1926 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Salisbury GC: Walter Hagen defeats Leo Diegel, 5 & 3 in the final to win his 3rd consecutive PGA C'ship title


GolferWalter Hagen

Golfer and Two-Time PGA ChampionLeo Diegel

• 1926 Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant

Jimmie Foxx Hits #58
1932 Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th HR in last game of season


MLB Hall of Fame 1st BasemanJimmie Foxx
Lou Gehrig's 1,500th Game
1934 Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,500th consecutive game


Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig

• 1934 Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup
• 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years
• 1949 Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place

US Women's Golf Open
1949 US Open Women's Golf, Prince George's CC: Louise Suggs leads wire-to-wire to win by 14 strokes ahead of runner-up and defending champion Babe Zaharias


Golfer and Co-Founder of the LPGALouise Suggs
Baseball Record
1955 Detroit outfielder Al Kaline, 20, is youngest batting champ


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderAl Kaline

• 1956 Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0
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• 1960 NY Yankees clinch AL pennant
• 1960 Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses

Liston KOs Patterson
1962 Challenger Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson at 2:06 of round 1 at Comiskey Park, Chicago to win the world heavyweight boxing title


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionSonny Liston

Boxing ChampionFloyd Patterson

• 1962 Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of America's Cup
• 1962 Yankees clinch AL pennant

Baseball History
1965 60-year-old Satchel Paige of Kansas City Athletics pitches 3 scoreless innings


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherSatchel Paige
LPGA Championship
1966 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Stardust CC, LV: Gloria Ehret wins her only major title by 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Mickey Wright


LPGA GolferMickey Wright

• 1966 Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1

Baseball History
1973 New York Mets beat Montreal Expos, 2-1 on 'Willie Mays Night' at Shea Stadium, NYC


MLB LegendWillie Mays

• 1979 California Angels win their 1st NL West pennant

Baseball Record
1980 Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith and Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for Padres


Baseball PlayerOzzie Smith

• 1982 Keke Rosberg becomes the first Fin to win the Formula 1 World Drivers Championship when he finishes 5th in season ending Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas; wins by 5 points from Didier Pironi

Baseball Record
1984 NY Met Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb, who hit HRs as a teen & in 40s


MLB LegendTy Cobb
Baseball Record
1985 Rickey Henderson steals Yankee record 75th base of season


MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson

• 1986 Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0

Forence Griffith Joyner
1988 American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner wins women's 100m in Olympic record 10.54; beats teammate Evelyn Ashford by 0.29; 1st leg of sprint double at Seoul Games


SprinterFlorence Griffith Joyner
Lewis Wins Long Jump
1988 Americans sweep the medals in the long jump at the Seoul Olympics; Carl Lewis wins his second gold of the Games with leap of 8.72m ahead of teammates Mike Powell & Larry Myricks

• 1988 East German swimmer Kristin Otto swims Olympic record 25.49 to win the 50m freestyle gold at the Seoul Olympics; her 6th gold medal of the Games
• 1988 Hungarian swimmer Tamás Darnyi wins the 200m individual medley gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in world record 2:00.17; wraps up medley double at the Games
• 1988 Phoebe Mills finishes third in the balance beam at the Seoul Olympics to become the first American female gymnast to win a medal at a fully attended Games
• 1988 Romanian gymnast Daniela Silivaș wins 3 gold medals in one day at the Seoul Olympics; balance beam, floor exercise & uneven bars events; records record equalling 7 perfect scores of 10

Olympic Gold
1988 Super swimmer Matt Biondi wins his 5th gold medal of the Seoul Olympics anchoring the victorious American 4 x 100m medley relay team


Swimmer Matt Biondi
Baseball Record
1989 Boston Red Sox Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits & 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons


Baseball Player Wade Boggs

• 1990 1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Baltimore Orioles to tie record
• 1990 Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title
• 1991 3rd World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in 100m

Sparky Anderson
1992 Sparky Anderson ties Hughie Jennings as Detroit Tigers' winningest manager


MLB Player and Manager Sparky Anderson

• 1997 American sportcaster Marv Albert plea bargains in his sexual assault case
• 1997 WNBA announces it will add Detroit & Washington, D.C. franchises
• 2000 American basketball player Vince Carter jumps over 7 foot 2 Frédéric Weis in 2000 Summer Olympics, known in France as "le dunk de la mort" (the dunk of death)
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• 2004 ICC Men's Cricket Champions Trophy, The Oval, London: West Indies beat England by 2 wickets; Player of Series: Ramnaresh Sarwan, WI 166 runs

President's Cup
2005 Presidents Cup Golf, Robert Trent Jones GC: Chris DiMarco, Jim Furyk and Phil Mickelson unbeaten as US beat International team, 18½–15½

Golfer Jim Furyk

Golfer Chris DiMarco
F1 World Champion
2005 Spanish Renault driver Fernando Alonso takes 3rd place in the Brazilian Grand Prix at Autódromo José Carlos Pace to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship

• 2011 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Killeen Castle, Ireland: Europe regain Cup 15-13; Azahara Muñoz beats Angela Stanford 1-up to clinch the Cup for Europe

America's Cup
2013 Oracle Team USA defeats Team New Zealand 9-8 to win the America's Cup

Tour Championship
2016 Tour Championship Men's Golf, East Lake GC: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland wins in a playoff with Kevin Chappell & Ryan Moore; biggest winner's prize in golf, US$10m


GolferRory McIlroy
Boxing History
2021 Brian Ortega competes for the UFC Featherweight Championship against Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 266, loses but earns Fight of the Night

Laver Cup Men's Tennis
2022 Laver Cup Men's Tennis, London: Team World sweeps final day for 13-8 victory over Team Europe; tournament marks retirement of Roger Federer

• 2022 Presidents Cup Golf, Quail Hollow CC: United States win final day singles 6.5-5.5 for a convincing 17.5-12.5 win over the International Team; 9th straight American victory

 

SEPT 26

British Golf Open

1861 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Sr. beats Willie Park Sr. by 4 strokes


GolferWillie Park Sr.

• 1867 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Sr. wins 4th title; beats rival Willie Park Sr. by 2 strokes; at 46, Morris remains oldest Open champion
• 1906 Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6 inning game
• 1908 MLB Chicago Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw doubleheader shutout, winning 3-0 and 5-0 over the Superbas at Washington Park in Brooklyn, New York
• 1921 Yankee Ruth hits HRs 57 & 58 to beat Indians 8-7

PGA Championship
1925 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Olympia Fields CC: Defending champion Walter Hagen defeats Bill Mehlhorn, 6 & 5 in the final; 3rd PGA crown overall, and 7th of his 11 major titles


GolferWalter Hagen

• 1926 Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant
• 1947 Happy Chandler announces Ford & Gillette to sponsor World Series
• 1948 Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914
• 1950 Phils pitcher Jim Konstanty makes record 71st appearance of year
• 1952 Yanks clinch 4th straight & 19th AL pennant, beating A's 5-2
• 1953 Shortstop Billy Hunter smashes final home run in St Louis Browns history during a 6-3 loss to Chicago White Sox at Busch Stadium; franchise moves to Baltimore next season
• 1954 A's defeats Yanks 8-6 in last game franchise will play in Philadelphia

Yogi Berra Plays at 3rd
1954 Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3rd & Mickey Mantle plays shortstop


MLB Catcher and ManagerYogi Berra

Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

• 1958 Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (Britain) in 18th America's Cup

Baseball History
1959 Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherWarren Spahn

• 1959 SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0

Baseball Record
1961 New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record


Baseball PlayerRoger Maris

MLB PitcherJack Fisher
Sports History
1962 LA Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills becomes first player in MLB history to steal 100 bases (en route to 104)


Baseball Player and ManagerMaury Wills

• 1964 Braves (25) & Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn

LPGA Championship
1965 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Stardust CC: Sandra Haynie wins by 1 stroke from Clifford Ann Creed


GolferSandra Haynie
Baseball History
1971 Jim Palmer is 4th Oriole to win at least 20 games this season


Baseball PlayerJim Palmer
NBA History
1973 Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain

• 1975 Phillies & NY Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM
• 1976 Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title
• 1977 Cleveland Browns play their 1st overtime game, beat Patriots 30-27
• 1978 NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms
• 1979 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million

Baseball History
1981 MLB Houston Astros pitcher Nolan Ryan throw 5th career no-hitter in 5-0 win over Los Angeles Dodgers at the Astrodome


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1983 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks 56 yard field goal, a NY Giants record
• 1983 Australia II wins the America's Cup yacht race, the first non-US winner in 132 years

Sports History
1983 Cardinals' Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, beating Montreal Expos 3-0, in St. Louis


Baseball PitcherBob Forsch

• 1984 5,251 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
• 1987 Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games
• 1988 Soviet throwers sweep the medals in the hammer throw at the Seoul Olympics; Sergey Litvinov wins gold with an Olympic record 84.80m ahead of teammates Yuriy Sedykh & Jüri Tamm
• 1992 1st time a positional player pitches for NY Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates

Tennis Tournament
1992 Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova, 7-5, 6-3


Tennis LegendJimmy Connors

Tennis PlayerMartina Navratilova

• 1993 Cubs bat out of order against Pirates in 2nd inning

F1 World Champion
1993 French Williams driver Alain Prost finishes 2nd in Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril to clinch his 4th F1 World Drivers Championship; after race Prost announces his retirement at the end of the season


Formula 1 DriverAlain Prost

• 1993 Indians win their last game at Cleveland Stadium, beating Brewers 6-4

Ryder Cup
1993 Ryder Cup Golf, The Belfry: US beats Europe, 15-13; Davis Love III secures victory for the US beating Costantino Rocca at the 18th, 1 up


GolferDavis Love III

• 1995 Sri Lanka complete 2-1 Test Cricket series win in Pakistan from 0-1

Baseball Record
1996 San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds is 2nd MLB player to hit 40 HRs & steal 40 bases in a season


MLB LegendBarry Bonds
Baseball Record
1997 Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey Jr. hits his 56th HR of 1997


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderKen Griffey Jr.

• 1999 Ryder Cup Golf, The Country Club, Brookline: US wins 14½-13½ after trailing 10-6 going into the singles; win first 6 matches to set up victory; poor American crowd & team behaviour heavily criticised
• 2004 Canadian runner Ed Whitlock (73) becomes 1st person over 70 to complete a marathon in under 3 hours (2:54:48) at Toronto Marathon (Toronto, Ontario)
• 2006 Chris Sharma free solos Es Pontàs in Mallorca, Spain, the world's first-ever 9a+ (5.15a) deep-water solo route
• 2021 Laver Cup Men's Tennis, Boston: Team Europe whitewash Team World, 14-1; Team Europe wins title for a 4th consecutive edition; Andrey Rublev 3-0 for event high 6 points
• 2021 Ryder Cup Golf, Whistling Straits, Haven, Wisconsin: United States regain title beating Team Europe by a record, 19-9; Dustin Johnson 5-0-0

 

SEPT 27

British Golf Open

1879 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Scotsman Jamie Anderson wins by 3 shots from countrymen Jamie Allen & Andrew Kirkaldy; 3rd consecutive title


GolferJamie Anderson

• 1881 Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small "crowd" of 12
• 1905 Boston's Bill Dinneen no-hits Chicago White Sox, 2-0
• 1914 Cleveland 2nd baseman Nap Lajoie collects his 3,000th hit

Ruth's Home Run Record
1919 Boston Red Sox slugger Babe Ruth takes his MLB home run record to 29 with a 3rd inning blast in a 7-5 defeat at the Washington Senators' Griffith Stadium


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1919 Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike-outs
• 1921 American swimmer Johnny Weismuller sets his first 2 world records in the 100m and 150yd freestyle events the A.A.U. Nationals meet in Brighton Beach, NY
• 1921 MLB NY Yankees beat Cleveland Indians 21-7 at Polo Grounds, NYC

Lou Gehrig's 1st HR
1923 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 HRs


Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig
Baseball Record
1930 Chicago Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderHack Wilson
US Amateur Championship
1930 US Amateur Championship Men's Golf, Merion GC: Bobby Jones scores an 8 & 7 win over Eugene V. Homans to win his 5th National Amateur title and clinch golf's Grand Slam


GolferBobby Jones
Baseball History
1931 Closest NL batting race ends; St. Louis Cardinals Chick Hafey's .34889 beats NY Giants Bill Terry .34861 [1]


Baseball PlayerBill Terry

• 1931 MLB's Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley (.3481)
• 1935 Chicago Cubs win 21st consecutive game & clinch NL pennant
• 1936 Boston Redskins and Brooklyn Dodgers play one of only 4 penalty free games in NFL history; Boston wins 14-3 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn

Walter Alston
1936 First baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game for the St. Louis Cardinals; later manages Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers for 23 years


Baseball ManagerWalter Alston

• 1939 White Sox host 1st "day-night" doubleheader, lose twice to Cleveland, 5-2 & 7-5

Floyd Giebell's 1st Game
1940 MLB Detroit Tigers rookie pitcher Floyd Giebells throws 2-0 shut-out over Cleveland Indians Bob Feller to clinch the AL pennant at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherBob Feller

• 1940 Yankees, lose to A's & eliminated from pennant for 1st time since 1935
• 1942 NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down

Charles KOs Louis
1950 Heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis in 15 in Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionEzzard Charles

Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJoe Louis

• 1953 St Louis Browns play last game in Sportsman's Park, losing 100th game
• 1957 American MLB San Francisco Giants rent Pacific Coast League San Francisco Seals Stadium until Candlestick Park is built in 1960
• 1959 Braves & Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68)

Baseball Record
1961 Sandy Koufax sets NL strikeout season record at 269


Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax

• 1964 Despite 3 HRs by Johnny Callison, Phils are 14-8 losers to Braves
• 1964 Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place

Baseball Record
1967 Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jim Bunning ties NL record of 5, 1-0 losses in a year


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and SenatorJim Bunning

• 1968 Cardinals' super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of year
• 1970 Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error
• 1972 1st NHL exhibition game at Nassau Coliseum; NY Rangers beat NY Islanders, 6-4

Baseball Record
1973 Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 in 11 innings, for record 383 of season


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1977 Phillies clinch 2nd straight NL East Division title
• 1980 Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxing's world Middleweight championship in London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms.

Baseball Record
1983 Tim Raines is 1st since Ty Cobb to steal 70 & drive in 70 runs


MLB OutfielderTim Raines

MLB LegendTy Cobb
Baseball History
1987 Atlanta Braves Phil Niekro's final MLB appearance, he surrenders for 5 runs in 3 innings against the San Francisco Giants


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherPhil Niekro

• 1987 NFL players' strike begins in the US
• 1987 Ryder Cup Golf, Muirfield Village GC: Europe beats US, 15-13; after 13-0 unbeaten record spanning 60 years, US loses for first time on home soil

Louganis Double Gold
1988 American diver Greg Louganis wins the 10m platform gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; wraps up diving double after also taking out the 3m springboard gold


DiverGreg Louganis
Ben Johnson Disqualified
1988 Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is disqualified from the Seoul Olympics 100m after his urine sample found to contain steroid stanozolol; American Carl Lewis awarded gold medal and world record 9.92


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

• 1988 East German cyclist Olaf Ludwig wins the men's road race in 4:32:22 at the Seoul Olympics; beats West German pair Bernd Gröne & Christian Henn

Greg LeMond Honored
1990 Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White House


CyclistGreg LeMond

• 1991 1st scheduled NHL exhibition game in St Petersburg Fla, is cancelled due to poor ice conditions (NY Islanders vs Boston Bruins)
• 1992 LA Dodgers for 1st time in history clinch last place
• 1992 Pittsburgh Pirates win their 3rd straight NL East title
• 1996 Baltimore Oriole Roberto Alomar spits in face of umpire John Hirschbeck

US Win Basketball Gold
2000 United States baseball team, managed by Tommy Lasorda, wins Olympic Gold Medal in Sydney, Australia


Baseball Pitcher and ManagerTommy Lasorda

• 2005 Atlanta Braves clinch their 14th straight division title thanks to Philadelphia's loss to the New York Mets
• 2006 MLB Boston Red Sox honor former player Johnny Pesky by officially naming Fenway Park's right-field foul pole "Pesky's Pole"

Baseball History
2008 Greg Maddux wins his final start of his career (#355)


MLB Pitching LegendGreg Maddux

• 2014 New Zealand's All Blacks scores 4 tries to beat Argentina, 34-13 in La Plata and claim their 3rd straight Rugby Championship; All Blacks first five eighth Beauden Barrett kicks 6 from 6

 

SEPT 28

• 1911 NY Highlanders get 13 walk & steal 15 bases (including then record 6 in one inning), beating Browns 18-12; each team committed 6 errors
• 1919 Fastest major league game (51 mins), Giants beat Phillies 6-1
• 1920 8 Chicago White Sox baseball players are indicted by a grand jury, charged with fixing 1919 World Series; infamous "Black Sox scandal"

PGA Championship

1921 4th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Inwood CC Far Rockaway NY


GolferWalter Hagen

• 1923 New York Yankees overwhelm Boston Red Sox 24-4
• 1928 NY Yanks clinch pennant #6

Lou Gehrig's Streak Ends
1930 Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games


Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig

• 1938 Homer in the Gloamin' - famous walk-off home run hit by Gabby Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs against the Pittsburgh Pirates

Fan Tackles Tom Harmon
1940 Bud Brennan, a fan at Memorial Stadium, races out of stands and attempts to tackle Tom Harmon at 3-yard line, Harmon easily evades


American Football Player and BroadcasterTom Harmon

• 1940 Michigan's Tom Harmon runs 72, 86 & 94 yard touchdowns
• 1941 Phillies lose club record 111th game

Ted Williams Best Year
1941 Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting avg


Baseball PlayerTed Williams

• 1942 NY Americans NHL team folded

Yankees Clinch Pennant
1951 New York's Allie Reynolds' 2nd no-hitter of 1951, an 8-0 home victory over Boston Red Sox; Yankees clinch pennant #18


Baseball PitcherAllie Reynolds

• 1951 Norm Van Brocklin of Rams passes for NFL record 554 yards

Baseball History
1952 St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance, throwing one pitch to Chicago Cubs Frank Baumholtz


MLB LegendStan Musial

• 1955 1st World Series color TV broadcast on NBC-TV (Yanks beat Dodgers)
• 1960 Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 (off Jack Fisher)
• 1964 53rd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (3-2)
• 1969 NFL Minnesota Vikings QB Joe Kapp passes for 7 touchdowns vs Baltimore Colts in 52-14 home win
• 1970 Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Australia) in 22nd America's Cup
• 1972 Canada defeats the USSR in the eighth and final game of the ice hockey Summit Series

Sports History
1974 California Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minnesota Twins, 4-0


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1975 New York City Marathon: Tom Fleming claims men's title in 2:19:27; Kim Merritt wins women's event in 2:46:14

Sports History
1975 Oakland A's Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Linblad & Rollie Fingers, no-hit California Angels, 5-0


Major League Baseball pitcherVida Blue
Ali vs Norton
1976 Muhammad Ali beats Ken Norton in a 15 round unanimous points decision for the WBA, WBC and The Ring heavyweight boxing titles


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali

Heavyweight BoxerKen Norton
Holmes vs Shavers
1979 Larry Holmes beats Earnie Shavers by TKO in 11th round in Las Vegas for WBC heavyweight boxing title


WBC Heavyweight ChampionLarry Holmes

• 1980 Australian Williams driver Alan Jones clinches his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by winning the Canadian Grand Prix at Île Notre-Dame Circuit
• 1984 Cleveland Indians down 0-10 to Minnesota Twins, win 11-10
• 1986 Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21
• 1986 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)
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• 1988 American athletes go 1-2-3 in the 400m at the Seoul Olympics with Steve Lewis taking the gold medal in 43.87 ahead of teammates Butch Reynolds & Danny Everett
• 1988 Australian Debbie Flintoff-King wins the 400m hurdles gold at the Seoul Olympics in 53.17, just 0.01 ahead of Tatyana Ledovskaya of the Soviet Union
• 1988 Despite totally dominating his sport for 14 years, Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka wins his only Olympic gold medal with a vault of 5.90m at the Seoul Games
• 1988 Javed Miandad scores his 19th Test Cricket century (v Aus, Faisalabad)

Baseball Record
1988 LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale's record by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings


MLB PlayerDon Drysdale

• 1991 NY Yankees set record of 75 games without a complete pitched game
• 1992 Oakland A's win AL West title

Baseball History
1993 Dennis Martínez is 7th to win 100 games in AL & NL


MLB PitcherDennis Martínez
Baseball
1994 Ken Burn's documentary miniseries "Baseball" TV Miniseries last airs on PBS


Baseball Player and CoachBuck O'Neil

• 1995 Dennis Martínez' fastball breaks Minnesota Twins Kirby Puckett's jaw, in what becomes his final career plate appearance, in Cleveland Indians 12-4 win
• 1995 Troy Dixon scores cricket century on 1st-class debut for Qld v W Prov
• 1996 NY Yankee Jim Leyitz is 2nd catcher to wear a hockey mask
• 1996 Orioles' Roberto Alomar suspended 5 games for spitting at ump
• 1996 Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas & Alabama)
• 1997 Ryder Cup Golf, Valderrama GC, Spain: Europe wins 14½-13½ to retain the Cup; first time event contested in continental Europe; first of 6 consecutive victories at home by Europe

Baseball Record
1997 St Louis Cardinals Mark McGwire hits his 58th HR of 1997 (34 with Oak A's)


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

• 2003 Final game played at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, Atlanta Braves defeat Phillies, 5-2
• 2008 MLB Boston Red Sox retire Johnny Pesky's jersey (number 6)
• 2008 The last game played at Shea Stadium before its demolition happens between baseball teams The New York Mets and the Florida Marlins, the Marlins win 4-2
• 2014 Ryder Cup Golf, Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland: Europe wins 16½-11½ to win Cup for 3rd consecutive time

Ronaldo Case Dismissed
2018 Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo accused of rape in 2009 in US lawsuit filed in Nevada; case dismissed based on improper breach of attorney-client privileged communications


Football StarCristiano Ronaldo

• 2020 Stanley Cup Final, Rogers Place, Edmonton, Alberta: Tampa Bay Lightning claim second championship in franchise history with a 2-0 Game 6 win over Dallas Stars; win series 4-2

Aaron Judge Ties HR Record
2022 New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hits his 61st home run of the season, tying Roger Maris's AL record from 1961 in an 8-3 win over Blue Jays in Toronto


Baseball PlayerRoger Maris

 

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SEPT 29

• 1793 Tennis is first mentioned in an English sporting magazine
• 1880 1st pro baseball game at Polo Grounds, NY Metropolitans beat Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings
• 1908 Calgary Rugby Football Union forms

Walter Johnson

1913 MLB Washington Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

• 1914 Boston Braves, who were in last place in mid-July, clinch NL pennant
• 1915 Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant

Babe Ruth's HR Season Record
1920 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth sets then-MLB home run season record at 54 with a 9th inning shot off Dave Keefe in New York's 7-3 win at the Philadelphia A's


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
PGA Championship
1923 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Pelham CC: Defending champion Gene Sarazen beats Walter Hagan in 38 holes for 3rd of his 7 major titles


GolferGene Sarazen

• 1924 Senators clinch pennant, finishing 2 games in front of Yankees
• 1927 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games; New York's 7-4 win v Philadelphia A's and 15-4 rout of Washington Senators
• 1928 Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10
• 1935 Ryder Cup Golf, Ridgewood CC: US wins, 9-3; first of 7 consecutive wins by the Americans
• 1937 Frans Slaats cycles a world hour record time (45,563 km)

Louis TKOs Nova
1941 Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJoe Louis

• 1941 Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champ Dodgers in a parade
• 1944 Browns last in AL attendance, only 6,172 watch them sweep Yanks in DH
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• 1945 Chicago Cubs clinch NL pennant with record of 98–56
• 1946 1st time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cards & Dodgers)
• 1946 Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL game in LA

Joe McCarthy Joins Red Sox
1947 Former New York Yankees manager Joe McCarthy signs to manage Boston Red Sox


Baseball ManagerJoe McCarthy
Baseball History
1950 Yanks clinch 2nd consecutive pennant under Casey Stengel


Baseball Hall of Fame ManagerCasey Stengel

• 1954 Bennekom (Netherlands) soccer team forms

The Catch
1954 NY Giants' Willie Mays makes a famous over-the-shoulder catch of Cleveland Indians' Vic Wertz's 460' drive during Game One of the World Series at the Polo Grounds in NYC


MLB LegendWillie Mays
I Love Mickey
1956 Music single "I Love Mickey" by Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer peaks at #87


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

• 1956 Yanks Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd HR of season
• 1957 NFL NY Giants play their last game at Polo Grounds, 9-1 loss to Pittsburgh
• 1959 Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, & take NL pennant

Stan Musial Day
1963 Cardinal's celebrate Stan Musial Day in St Louis, for Stan Musial's final game, where he hits his 3,629th & 3,630th total hits (475 HRs)


MLB LegendStan Musial

• 1965 Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game & 6 times in one season

Baseball Record
1966 Sandy Koufax pitches 3rd 300-strikeout season


Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax
Griffith vs. Benvenuti
1967 American boxer Emile Griffith regains his world middleweight crown on points in a brawling re-match with Italian Nino Benvenuti at Shea Stadium, NY; second of famous trilogy of fights


BoxerNino Benvenuti

BoxerEmile Griffith

Baseball History
1968 Boston Red Sox arl Yastrzemski .3005 avg wins his 2nd straight batting crown


MLB OutfielderCarl Yastrzemski

• 1968 Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return avg (3 punts)
• 1969 Red Sox Rico Petrocelli hits shortstop record 40th HR of season
• 1969 Steve O'Neal of NY Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver
• 1973 Insurance ind announces auto racers get into more highway accidents
• 1974 New York City Marathon: Norbert Sander wins men's race in 2:26:30; Katherine Switzer takes out women's event in 3:07:29
• 1976 San Francisco Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0

Lasorda Replaces Alston
1976 Tommy Lasorda replaces Walter Alston as Los Angeles Dodgers manager


Baseball Pitcher and ManagerTommy Lasorda

Baseball ManagerWalter Alston

• 1977 Eva Shain is 1st woman to referee a heavyweight championship

Ali vs Shavers
1977 Muhammad Ali beats Earnie Shavers by unanimous decision over 15 rounds in NYC for WBA, WBC and The Ring heavyweight boxing titles


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali

• 1979 Astros' J R Richard strikes out NL season righty record of 313
• 1979 LA Dodger Manny Mota hits record 146th pinch hit
• 1983 Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0
• 1985 Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys)
• 1985 MLB Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver is ejected from both games of a doubleheader, at Yankee Stadium, NYC; Weaver is the only manager be tossed twice in a day two times

Sports History
1986 Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers)


MLB Pitching LegendGreg Maddux

• 1986 Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees
• 1986 Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast

Baseball Record
1987 New York Yankees Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of year


Baseball Player and ManagerDon Mattingly
Olympic Gold
1988 American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee wins her second gold medal of the Seoul Olympics by taking the long jump with an Olympic record leap of 7.40m; previously won the heptathlon


Track and Field AthleteJackie Joyner-Kersee
World Record
1988 American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner sets women's 200m world record 21.34; completes sprint double at the Seoul Olympics


SprinterFlorence Griffith Joyner

• 1988 East German athlete Christian Schenk beats countryman Torsten Voss by 89 points to win the decathlon gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; Canadian Dave Steen is another 71 points back in third place
• 1988 US men's basketball team beats Australia 78-49 to take the bronze medal at the Seoul Olympics; last time US represented by a team that doesn't feature NBA players
• 1988 US retain women's basketball title at he Seoul Olympics with a 77-70 win over Yugoslavia; star guard Teresa Edwards top scores for the Americans with 18 points

Golf Tournament
1991 Pat Bradley wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic at the Los Coyotes CC; her third LPGA title of the month


LPGA GolferPat Bradley
Ryder Cup
1991 Ryder Cup Golf, Kiahwa Island GR: US beats Europe, 14½-13½; Bernhard Langer misses 6-foot par putt which would have clinched 14-all tie and retained Cup for Europe


Golfer and Two-Time Masters ChampionBernhard Langer

• 1992 Atlanta Braves wins 2nd straight NL West title

NBA History
1992 Magic Johnson announces return to play basketball (he doesn't)


NBA LegendMagic Johnson
O.J. Simpson Trial
1994 1st phase of O.J. Simpson murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen)


NFL Running Back and Convicted CriminalO.J. Simpson

• 1995 Trial for former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson sent to the jury
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• 1996 34th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Atlantic City USA (5-0)
• 1996 Baltimore Orioles end season with record 257 HRs

Federation Cup
1996 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Atlantic City, NJ: Monica Seles beats Arantxa Sánchez Vicario of Spain 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 to give US an unassailable 3-0 lead (ends, 5-0) and 15th title

Baseball History
1996 Houston Astro's retire Nolan Ryan's #34


MLB Pitching Legend Nolan Ryan

• 1996 Orioles Brady Anderson is 14th to hit 50 HRs
• 1996 San Diego Padres sweep LA Dodgers in race for NL West title
• 2002 Ryder Cup Golf, The Belfry: Europe wins 15½-12½ after teams tied at 8 points going into Sunday singles matches
• 2002 Seattle running back Shaun Alexander sets NFL record for most touchdowns in a half with 5 in 1st half of 48-23 win v Minnesota Vikings at Seahawks Stadium; runs for 4 plus 80-yard reception
• 2005 Chicago White Sox clinch their first division title since 2000 and become just the 10th team in the history of baseball to be in first place on every day of the season
• 2018 NY Yankees Venezuelan 2nd baseman Gleyber Torres smashes a 2-run homer in 8-5 win v Boston at Fenway Park; Yankees MLB record 265th homer of the season; Giancarlo Stanton adds #266 in 7th

Ben Ainslie Sails to Gold
2020 Ben Ainslie wins the Olympic gold medal in the Laser class, beating previous Laser Olympic champion Robert Scheidt

 

SEPT 30

• 1659 Peter Stuyvesant forbids tennis playing during religious services in New Netherland, the first mention of tennis in the US
• 1882 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Bob Ferguson wins third consecutive Open title; beats fellow Scot Willie Fernie by 3 strokes
• 1887 8th America's Cup: New York Yacht Club’s cutter Volunteer beats Scottish challenger Thistle by 11:48.75 seconds on corrected time to win series, 2-0 off Newport, RI

• 1904 White Sox lefty Doc White, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days
• 1915 Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit
• 1916 Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak
• 1922 Yanks clinch pennant #2, beating Boston 3-1

Babe Ruth Hits a Record

1927 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth smacks his MLB record 60th home run off Tom Zachary in 8th inning of New York's 4-2 win over Washington Senators at Yankee Stadium


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1934 Babe Ruth's final game as a NY Yankee, he goes 0 for 3
• 1937 Ryder Cup Golf, Southport & Ainsdale GC: US wins 8-4; first time the host team loses the competition
• 1939 Chicago pitcher Clint Brown sets MLB record with his 61st relief appearance as White Sox beat St. Louis Browns, 7-5
• 1939 In the first televised college football game, Fordham beats Waynesburg, 34-7 at Randalls Island, NY

Greenberg's Winning Grand Slam
1945 Detroit's future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Hank Greenberg smacks an AL pennant-winning grand slam on the final day of the season as the Tigers beat St. Louis Browns, 6-3


Baseball PlayerHank Greenberg

• 1947 In first televised World Series Baseball game, NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 5-3 in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium; also largest WS crowd to date, 73,365

Ralph Kiner Record
1949 Pirates Ralph Kiner hits his 54th HR & NL record 16th in September


Baseball Hall of Fame Left FielderRalph Kiner

• 1956 Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR
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• 1956 White Sox Jim Derrington, 16, is youngest to start a game (he loses)
• 1962 NY Mets lose record 120th game as Cubs turn triple play & beat NY 5-1

Baseball History
1965 LA Dodger Don Drysdale (23-12) wins 13th straight game, 7 by shutouts


MLB PlayerDon Drysdale

• 1968 AL & NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires
• 1971 Last Washington Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit game Yanks trailing 4-2 in 9th with 2 outs, fans rush field

Baseball Record
1972 Pittsburgh right fielder Roberto Clemente doubles off Mets' Jon Matlack to become the 11th MLB player to record 3000 hits as Pirates beat NY, 5-0


Baseball PlayerRoberto Clemente

• 1973 Mel Gray begins NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions
• 1973 New York City Marathon: American Nina Kuscsik retains her crown in 2:57:07; Tom Fleming wins men's race in 2:21:54
• 1973 New York Yankees close 50th year at Yankee Stadium with an 8-5 loss to Detroit Tigers for an 80-82 season record; manager Ralph Houk resigns
• 1978 Cleveland, Houston, NY, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title
• 1978 Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati
• 1978 Phillies clinch NL East title
• 1979 Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-0 ending 213 straight games without a shutout
• 1980 1,754 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium

Baseball Record
1980 Oakland outfielder Rickey Henderson sets AL stolen base record with his 97th in A's 5-1 win over Chicago White Sox; breaks Ty Cobb's mark of 96 set in 1915


MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson

• 1981 International Olympic Committee votes to award Seoul, South Korea as host of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games

Bowie Kuhn Retires
1984 Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner


MLB CommissionerBowie Kuhn

• 1984 California Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0
• 1984 California Angels Michael Witt is 11th to pitch a perfect baseball game

Baseball History
1984 New York Yankees Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg


Baseball Player and ManagerDon Mattingly

• 1988 Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win Olympic gold medal

Givens, Tyson and Barbara Walter
1988 Robin Givens and Mike Tyson appear on Barbara Walter's Show


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

Model and ActressRobin Givens

• 1988 Soviet Union beats Yugoslavia 76-63 to win the men's basketball gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; US finishes 3rd; final time US field non-NBA team

Nolan Ryan's 300th Strikeout
1989 Nolan Ryan's perfect game broken in 8th, but gets his 300th strikeout


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1989 Toronto Blue Jays wins AL East title
• 1990 MLB Chicago White Sox beat Seattle Mariners 2-1 in last game at Comiskey Park, Chicago
• 1990 MLB Pittsburgh Pirates win NL East title

George Brett's 3,000th Hit
1992 KC Royal George Brett gets 4 hits to become 18th to get 3,000 hits


MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett

• 1995 Cleveland Indian Albert Belle hits his 50th home run of season

Baseball Record
1997 New York Yankees Tim Raines, Derek Jeter & Paul O'Neill are 1st to hit 3 consecutively homers in post season (Yanks beat Cleveland Indians 8-6)


MLB OutfielderTim Raines

Baseball PlayerDerek Jeter

MLB Right FielderPaul O'Neill

• 2002 ICC Men's Cricket Champions Trophy, R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo: no result because of rain, India and Sri Lanka declared joint winners
• 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, Hongkou Football Stadium, Shanghai, China: Birgit Prinz and Simone Laudehr score as Germany beats Brazil, 2-0

President's Cup
2007 Presidents Cup Golf, Royal Montreal GC: David Toms and Scott Verplank remain undefeated as US beats International team, 19½–14½


GolferDavid Toms

• 2012 Ryder Cup Golf, Medinah CC: Europe retains Cup 14½-13½; win 8 and tie 1 of the 12 singles matches after trailing 10-6
• 2018 New York Yankees suffer a 10-2 drubbing at the Boston Red Sox but accumulate a MLB record 267 home runs for the season; surpass Seattle Mariners previous mark of 264 in 1997

Ryder Cup
2018 Ryder Cup Golf, Le Golf National: Europe regains Cup with 17½–10½ win over the US; Italian Francesco Molinari wins all 5 matches; Sergio Garcia becomes biggest point scorer in event history with 25½


GolferSergio García

 

OCT 1

Early Yacht Race

1661 Yachting begins in England as King Charles II beats his brother James, Duke of York in a yacht race from Greenwich to Gravesend


King of EnglandCharles II

• 1879 Cincinnati Enquirer publishes first report on Baseball's reserve clause; rights to players retained by team upon the contract's expiration; replaced by free agency
• 1889 Dutch soccer club HFC Haarlem is founded; National champions 1946; bankrupt in 2010; merge with HFC Kennemerland, new club Haarlem Kennemerland

1st Baseball World Series Game
1903 First Baseball World Series game ever played; Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Americans 7-3 at Huntington Avenue; Jimmy Sebring hits first home run; Deacon Phillippe is winning pitcher and Cy Young the loser


MLB PitcherCy Young
Jack Chesbro Victory
1908 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Jack Chesbro records final victory for the NY Highlanders before waived and claimed by Red Sox; beats Walter Johnson and Washington Senators, 2-1


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

Baseball PitcherJack Chesbro

• 1910 Regina Rugby Club (to become CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders) plays first game, losing to Moose Jaw Tigers, 16-6
• 1919 Infamous 'Black Sox' Baseball World Series begins with Cincinnati Reds' Dutch Ruether pitching a 6-hitter and hitting 3 RBI on 2 triples and a single for a 9-1 rout of White Sox

PGA Championship
1921 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Inwood CC: Walter Hagen beats former champion Jim Barnes of England 3 & 2; Hagan's third major title


GolferWalter Hagen

• 1922 Former Chicago Staleys play first NFL game as Chicago Bears; beat Racine Legion, 6-0 at Horlick Field, Racine, Wisconsin

Baseball Record
1922 St. Louis Cardinals 2nd baseman Rogers Hornsby hits 3-for-5 in 7-1 regular season ending win v Chicago Cubs; improves batting average to .401; only MLB player to bat .400 and hit 40 HRs in same season


MLB Hall of Fame 2nd Baseman and ManagerRogers Hornsby
Paavo Nurmi World Records
1924 Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi runs world record 4 mile (19:15.4) & 5 mile (24:06.2) at Vilpuri, Russia


Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi

• 1924 MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Landis bans NY Giants outfielder Jimmy O'Connell & coach Cozy Dolan from World Series after they attempt to bribe Phillies shortstop Heinie Sand
• 1927 Pittsburgh Pirates with a team including 5 future Baseball Hall of Famers clinch NL pennant with 9-6 win v Cincinnati Reds; Pirates' last NL pennant until 1960
• 1928 Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi runs 15k world record 46:49.6 and 10 miles 50:15.0 in Berlin, Germany
• 1931 Philadelphia Athletics seek 3rd straight World Series baseball title; beat St. Louis Cardinals, 6-2 in opener at Sportsman's Park; lose series, 4-3

Babe Ruth's Called Shot
1932 Babe Ruth’s legendary call; sledged by Cubs dugout, points to center-field before homering into the Wrigley Field bleachers in 5th inning, Game 3 of the World Series; NY Yankees win, 7-5


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1933 Babe Ruth makes his final pitching appearance in MLB; pitches all 9 innings in a season ending 6-5 win v Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium; hits his 34th home run of the season in 5th inning

Giants Defeat Packers
1933 New York Giants make no 1st downs, but still beat the Green Bay Packers, 10-7 in a week 3 NFL matchup at Borchert Field, Milwaukee, Wisconsin


American Football PlayerMel Hein

• 1933 Washington Senators coach Nick Altrock plays in a MLB game at age 57 as a pinch-hitter; faces Rube Walberg of the Philadelphia A's; goes hitless in 3-0 loss
• 1944 St Louis Browns beat New York Yankees 5-2 at Sportsman's Park III to win their only AL pennant; lose World Series 4-2 to neighbour Cardinals

Joe Louis Discharged
1945 World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis is discharged from US army after being awarded the Legion of Merit


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJoe Louis
Baseball Record
1946 Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller claims his MLB record 348th strikeout of season in a 4-1 win over Detroit; record stands for 19 years


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherBob Feller

• 1946 St. Louis Cardinals beats Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-2 in first MLB play-off game for a league championship (NL); St Louis wins series, 2-0

Connie Mack's Last Game
1950 Connie Mack's last game as Philadelphia Athletics manager (1901-50); longest serving manager in MLB history; beat Washington Senators, 5-3 at Shribe Park


Baseball LegendConnie Mack

• 1950 New York Giants beat Cleveland Browns, 6-0 at Cleveland Stadium; sets Browns club record for fewest points scored by both teams; Browns go on to win NFL Championship
• 1950 Philadelphia Phillies clinch NL pennant on Dick Sisler's 3-run home run in a season ending 4-1 win v Brooklyn Dodgers; Phillies first pennant since 1913

US Women's Golf Open
1950 US Open Women's Golf, Rolling Hills CC: Babe Zaharias ties Open scoring record, -9 291 to beat amateur Betsy Rawls by 9 strokes


LPGA GolferBetsy Rawls

• 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine sets a Baseball World Series record with 14 strikeouts in a 3-2 Game 3 win against NY Yankees at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn
• 1955 Baltimore Colts fullback Alan Ameche becomes the first rookie in NFL history to top 100 yards rushing in his first 2 games; totals 153 against Detroit Lions after 194 yards in debut v Chicago Bears
• 1956 American jockey Johnny Heckmann becomes first to ride 7 winners at Hawthorne Race Course at Stickney/Cicero near Chicago, Illinois
• 1959 Chicago White Sox beat LA Dodgers, 11-0 in Game 1 of the Baseball World Series at Comiskey Park; White Sox first WS appearance since 1919 'Black Sox Scandal'; LA wins series 4-2
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• 1960 14th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: All-Stars beat Montreal Canadiens, 2-1

Baseball Record
1961 New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris becomes MLB’s all-time season home run leader when he passes Babe Ruth's mark with No. 61 off Boston rookie Tracy Stallard in 1-0 win at Yankee Stadium


Baseball PlayerRoger Maris
Petty's Winning Streak
1967 Richard Petty continues phenomenal NASCAR winning streak by taking the Wilkes 400 at North Wilkesboro Speedway; unprecedented 10th consecutive victory


Auto RacerRichard Petty

• 1970 Phillies beat Montreal Expos, 2-1 in final game played at Connie Mack Stadium, Philadelphia; fans swarm onto field and destroy it after the game
• 1972 New York City Marathon: men's event won by Sheldon Karlin in 2:27:52; Nina Kuscsik wins women's race in 3:08:41

Baseball History
1973 Future Baseball Hall of Fame player and manager Leo Durocher ends his 45 year career in the sport when he resigns as Houston Astros manager

The Thrilla in Manila
1975 The Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali stops Joe Frazier in 14 rounds in Quezon City, the Philippines to retain his WBC/WBA heavyweight title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali

Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Frazier

• 1976 Muhammad Ali visits Istanbul, Turkey, praying alongside Deputy Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan at Sultan Ahmet mosque [1]

Pelé's Final Game
1977 Brazilian soccer great Pelé plays his final game for the New York Cosmos in an exhibition against Santos in front of 75,000 at Giants Stadium; 1,281 goals in 1,363 games

• 1977 New York Yankees end MLB season with 100-62 record; win 2nd consecutive AL East title; go on the win World Series 4-2 v LA Dodgers

Baseball History
1984 Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of Major League Baseball; he has a 4 year tenure

• 1988 Bradley Center in Milwaukee opens with an exhibition hockey game between Chicago Blackhawks and Edmonton Oilers; construction cost $90 million; closed 2018
• 1988 Canadian synchronised swimmer Carolyn Waldo teams with Michelle Cameron to win the duet gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; wraps up double having won individual title

Olympic Gold
1988 Flamboyant American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner wins her third gold medal of the Seoul Olympics anchoring the victorious US 4 x 100m relay team


Sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner
Sports History
1988 Lowest batting avg for NL champion (Tony Gwynn .313)

Graf's Golden Slam
1988 Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini 6-3, 6-3 to win the women's singles tennis gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; clinches first and only Golden Slam in history (Grand Slam & Olympics)

• 1988 The inaugural Olympic table tennis program concludes in Seoul with China and South Korea each winning 2 titles
• 1988 The Soviet women's 4 x 400m relay team runs world record 3:15.17 to beat a star-studded US team and win the Olympic gold medal in Seoul; Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina & Olga Bryzgina
• 1988 Yuri Savichev scores in extra time as the Soviet Union beats Brazil 2-1 to win the men's football gold medal at the Seoul Olympics
• 1989 Dallas Cowboy defensive end, Ed "Too Tall" Jones records his 1,000th NFL tackle in a 30-13 defeat to the New York Giants at Texas Stadium

Sports History
1989 MLB batting titles are decided on final day of regular season: AL, Kirby Puckett goes 2-for-5 edges Carney Lansford .339 to .336; NL, Tony Gwynn's 3-for-4 beats Will Clark .336 to .333


MLB Center Fielder Kirby Puckett

Baseball Hall of Fame Outfielder Tony Gwynn

• 1992 Gil Stein officially becomes only the 5th president in the NHL's 75 year history; serves for just one year before the title changed to “commissioner”

Lewis TKO's Bruno
1993 In his first World Boxing Council heavyweight title defense Lennox Lewis beats fellow Londoner Frank Bruno by TKO in 7 at the National Stadium in Cardiff, Wales

Cricket History
1994 Australian cricket batsman David Boon scores 114 during 1 wicket, 1st Test defeat v Pakistan in Karachi; his 19th Test century

• 1994 NHL owners begin lockout of players lasting 103 days; season shortened to 48 games instead of 84; players seek collective bargaining and owners a salary cap
• 1995 Cleveland Indians end MLB season at 100-44 to set record 30 game margin over 2nd place Kansas City Royals in AL Central final standings
• 1995 Future Baseball HOF pitcher Mike Mussina tosses Baltimore Orioles' 5th consecutive MLB shutout in season ending, 4-0 victory over Detroit Tigers

F1 World Champion
1995 German Benetton driver Michael Schumacher wins the Pacific Grand Prix at the TI Circuit in Aida, Japan to clinch his 2nd straight Formula 1 World Drivers Championship

• 1995 In the 5th game of the season, Jacksonville Jaguars celebrate first-ever NFL regular season win with a 17-16 victory over the Houston Oilers at the Astrodome
• 1995 NY Yankees (AL) and Colorado Rockies (NL) become first wild-card teams in new MLB playoff system; Rox are first team to reach postseason before 7th year; post best ever record for a 3rd-year team, 10 games over .500 (77-67)
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• 1997 Carolina Hurricanes lose franchise's debut NHL game, 4-2 to Tampa Bay Lightning at the Ice Palace, Tampa, Florida
• 1997 Minnesota Timberwolves NBA forward Kevin Garnett, just 2 years out of high school, signs a record 6-year, $123 million contract extension
• 1997 Zimbabwe and New Zealand tie their One Day International cricket match in Bulawayo; Black Cap tail-ender Gavin Larson is run out on last ball at 9/233 amidst crowd surging onto field; 13th ODI tie

NHL History
1999 Edmonton Oilers retire Wayne Gretzky's #99 in a pre-game ceremony before a 1-1 tie v NY Rangers, the last team for which 'The Great One' suited up in an NHL game


Ice Hockey Great Wayne Gretzky
NBA Trade
1999 In a blockbuster NBA trade, the Houston Rockets move All Star forward Scottie Pippen to Portland Trail Blazers for Kelvin Cato, Stacey Augmon, Walt Williams, Carlos Rogers, Ed Gray and Brian Shaw

• 1999 Sourav Ganguly smashes 11 fours and 5 sixes for a blistering 139 as India (277/6) dominates Zimbabwe (170) in the 6th cricket LG Cup ODI in Nairobi
• 2000 An all-African podium for the men's marathon at the Sydney Olympics as Gezahegne Abera of Ethiopia runs 2:10:11 for the gold medal, 0.20s ahead of Kenyan Erick Wainaina with bronze to Ethiopian Tesfaye Tola
• 2000 Cuban boxer Félix Savon wins his 3rd consecutive Olympic heavyweight gold medal at the Sydney Games; easily beats Russian Sultan Ibragimov on points 21-13; retires after victory ceremony
• 2000 German canoeist Birgit Fischer teams with Katrin Wagner to win the K2 500m gold medal at the Sydney Olympics; becomes first woman to win 2 or more medals at 4 Summer Olympics; only 4th woman to win 7 career gold
• 2000 Juan Antonio Samaranch, President of the IOC declares the XXVII Olympics in Sydney, Australia the "best Olympic Games ever" at the closing ceremony
• 2000 NBA stars Ray Allen and Vince Carter each score 13 points as the US beats France 85-75 to win the men's basketball gold medal at the Sydney Olympics
• 2000 Norwegian canoeist Knut Holmann beats Petar Merkov of Bulgaria for the second consecutive day to win the K-1 500m gold medal at the Sydney Olympics; beat Markov in K-1 1000m the previous day
• 2000 Stephanie Cook of Great Britain scores 5,318 points to beat American Emily de Riel by just 8 points to win the inaugural Olympic women's modern pentathlon at the Sydney Games
• 2000 United States wins the most medals (97), and the most gold medals (40) in Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia
• 2000 XXVII Summer Olympic Games close at Stadium Australia, Sydney, Australia
• 2002 Free agent center Wang Zhizhi, the first ever Chinese-born player in the NBA, signs a 3-year offer sheet with the Los Angeles Clippers; waived in 2003 and moves to Miami Heat

Baseball Record
2004 Seattle Mariners Japanese outfielder Ichiro Suzuki gets his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old MLB single-season record; Ichiro ends season on 262

• 2015 NY Yankees record the 10,000th win in their illustrious history, and also clinch wild card slot; beat the Red Sox, 4-1, at a rainy New Yankee Stadium; NY bullpen ties MLB record with their 589th victim of the season

O.J. Simpson Released
2017 Former NFL star O.J. Simpson is released from Nevada's Lovelock Prison after less than 9 years of detention of his 33 year sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping

• 2017 Presidents Cup Golf, Liberty National GC: Dustin Johnson stars with 4.5 points as US routs International team, 19-11; 7th straight American victory
• 2022 Stampede at Indonesian soccer stadium kills 131 people in Malang city, East Java, started after police fire teargas at rioters in the crowd [1]
• 2023 Brock Purdy sets a 49ers franchise record for highest single-game completion rate of 95.2%
• 2023 Ryder Cup Golf, Marco Simone G&CC, Rome, Italy: Europe dominates the United States 16½-11½ to regain the title; Tyrrell Hatton, Jon Rahm and Robert MacIntyre unbeaten for Europe

 

OCT 2

• Events
• Birthdays
• Deaths

• 1876 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Bob Martin wins when fellow Scot Davie Strath refuses to take part in a playoff after pair finish on 176
• 1904 White Sox left-hander Doc White's streak of 45 consecutive MLB scoreless innings is snapped by the New York Highlanders in Chicago; White Sox win, 7-1 at South Side Park III

Burns KOs Flynn
1906 Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs American challenger 'Fireman' Jim Flynn in 15 rounds to retain his title in Los Angeles, California


Addie Joss
1908 Cleveland Naps and future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Addie Joss hurls a classic perfect game, beating Ed Walsh and the Chicago White Sox, 1-0


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and Manager Ed Walsh

• 1909 First Rugby Union match is played at the English RFU owned Twickenham ground; Harlequins beat Richmond, 14-10
• 1916 Pitching in his 3rd start in 5 days, Philadelphia Phillies right hander Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 20th century MLB record 16th shutout of year, a 2-0 win v Boston Braves
• 1920 Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates play first and only MLB triple header in the 20th century; Reds win the first two games, 13-4 and 7-3; Pirates avoid the sweep in the finale, 6-0
• 1921 Chicago White Sox backstop Ray Schalk becomes the first and only MLB catcher to make a putout at all bases; White Sox beat Indians 7-4

Baseball Record
1921 New York Yankees outfielder Babe Ruth hits then record 59th HR in 7-6 win over former club Boston Red Sox at Polo Grounds, NYC


Baseball Legend Babe Ruth

• 1926 Bert Gibb kicks 9 singles as Hamilton Tigers beat Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers 12-10 in Montreal in Canadian Inter-provincial Rugby Football Union opening round
• 1932 New York Yankees win their 12th consecutive World Series game and sweep the Fall Classic for the third time; Bronx Bombers bang out 19 hits as they rout Chicago Cubs, 13-6 at Wrigley Field
• 1932 Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play franchise's debut NFL game; lose 14-0 to Brooklyn Dodgers at Braves Field
• 1936 New York Yankees score Baseball World Series record 18 runs in an 18-4 rout of rival NY Giants in Game 2 at the Polo Grounds; Yankees win series 4-2

Bob Feller
1938 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Detroit Tigers; his Cleveland Indians still lose 4-1 at Cleveland Stadium


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherBob Feller

• 1938 New York Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez beats Chicago Cubs, 6-3 in Game 2 at Wrigley Field; sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss
• 1943 New York Yankees sweep 14th MLB doubleheader of year, beating St. Louis Browns, 5-1 & 7-6 at Yankee Stadium

World Series
1947 NY Yankees catcher Yogi Berra hits the first pinch-hit home run in Baseball World Series history off Ralph Branca in the 7th inning of a 9-8 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 3


MLB Catcher and ManagerYogi Berra

• 1949 For first time in 41 years pennant races in both MLB leagues are decided on the final day of the season; (AL) Yankees upend rival Boston Red Sox, 5-3; (NL) Dodgers beat the Phillies, 9-7 for 97-57 record; Cardinals 96-58
• 1950 Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions in 55-13 win against Baltimore Colts; Cardinals quarterback Jim Hardy tosses 6 touchdown passes
• 1954 8th NHL All-Star Game, Detroit Olympia, Detroit, MI: All-Stars tie Detroit Red Wings, 2-2
• 1954 Baseball World Series: New York Giants beat Cleveland, 7-4 at Cleveland Stadium to sweep Indians, 4-0; MVP: Giants outfielder Dusty Rhodes
• 1954 Don Liddle beats Bob Lemon 7-4 as the New York Giants complete an unlikely World Series sweep of the powerful Cleveland Indians; Cleveland season record of 111-43 sets American League mark for regular season wins
• 1955 9th NHL All-Star Game, Detroit Olympia, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings beat All-Stars, 3-1
• 1957 New York Yankees appear in their 25th Baseball World Series; beat Milwaukee Braves, 3-1 in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium; lose series, 4-3

Golf Tournament
1960 Mickey Wright becomes first player in LPGA Tour history to average fewer than 74 strokes per round to win the Vare Trophy after a season average of 73.25; first of 5 consecutive Vare Trophies for Wright

• 1962 San Francisco Giants beat rival LA Dodgers, 8-7 in 4 hours 18 minutes in Game 2 NL tie-break series; longest 9-inning game in MLB history; Giants win series, 2-1

World Series
1963 LA Dodgers' Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 NY Yankees in Game 1 of the Baseball World Series at Yankee Stadium; Dodgers win, 5-2 and sweep series, 4-0


Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax
Baseball Record
1964 Philadelphia's Alex Johnson-Bobby Wine-Tony Taylor-Vic Power combine for Phillies' 3rd triple play of the season (tying MLB record) in 4-3 win v Cincinnati Reds

Baseball History
1965 NY Yankees pitcher Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20


Baseball Pitcher and CoachMel Stottlemyre

• 1966 Australian Robert 'Nat' Young puts on a dominating performance to win the World Surfing Championship at Ocean Beach, San Diego; Joyce Hoffman of Capistrano Beach, California takes women's title
• 1966 Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax wins his 27th game of the season, 6-3 v Philadelphia Phillies; clinches Dodgers 3rd National League pennant in 4 years

Baseball History
1968 First time, two soon-to-be-named MVPs oppose each other - St. Louis Cardinals Bob Gibson beats Detroit Tigers Denny McLain 4-0 in Game 1 of World Series at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis


Baseball PitcherDenny McLain

• 1968 St. Louis pitcher Bob Gibson establishes a new Baseball World Series mark by striking out 17 batters as the Cardinals beat Detroit, 4-0 in Game 1 of the Fall Classic
• 1969 Seattle Pilots' last game in Seattle; crash to 98th season loss, 3-1 to Oakland in front of just 5,473; move to Milwaukee as the Brewers next season

Contract of Interest
1970 Detroit general manager Jim Campbell gives controversial Billy Martin a 2-year deal (1971-72) to manage the Tigers at a well above MLB average annual salary of $65,000

• 1972 Montreal Expos' pitcher Bill Stoneman no-hits the New York Mets, 7 - 0 at Parc Jarry; first MLB no-hitter ever pitched in Canada

Baseball Record
1974 Future Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder Hank Aaron hits his final home run as a member of the Atlanta Braves, in a 13-0 drubbing of the Cincinnati Reds; Aaron's 733rd career HR on his last NL at bat


Baseball PlayerHank Aaron
F1 World Champion
1977 Austrian Ferrari driver Niki Lauda finishes 4th in the US Grand Prix East at Watkins Glen to clinch his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; Englishman James Hunt wins the race

Baseball Record
1977 Dusty Baker hits his 30th homer of the season against Astros' J.R. Richard; Dodgers become the first team in MLB history to have 4 players hit 30 or more HRs; joins Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32) and Ron Cey (30)


Baseball PlayerSteve Garvey
Baseball Record
1978 NY Yankees win 3rd straight AL East title beating Boston Red Sox, 5-4 in a dramatic single playoff game; Ron Guidry wins #25 aided by Bucky Dent's 3-run homer


Baseball PitcherRon Guidry
Holmes vs. Ali
1980 38-year-old Muhammad Ali comes out of a two-year retirement to challenge undefeated world heavyweight champion Larry Holmes at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. Ali is pounded unmercifully for ten rounds before his corner throws in the towel.

• 1981 17-year-old gelding Behavin Jerry, the oldest winning racehorse in modern times, sets record for most career starts by a thoroughbred, 307
• 1983 Green Bay Packers erupt for NFL record 49 points in the first half (35 in the second quarter) to clobber the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 55-14 at Tampa Stadium
• 1983 Wide receiver Art Monk begins NFL streak of 183 consecutive games with a reception in the Washington Redskins' 37-35 win over the LA Raiders
• 1984 Due to a strike by MLB umpires, first 4 NLCS games played with replacement umpires; Game 1: Chicago Cubs beat SD Padres, 13-0
• 1985 A Mayor Richard Caliguiri led coalition of public and private groups committed to keeping the struggling Pittsburgh Pirates in town for at least 5 years reach agreement to buy the baseball team for $22 million
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• 1985 Detroit 1st baseman Darrell Evans hits home run #40 in Tigers' 4-2 win over Toronto Blue Jays; first to record 40 x HRs in a MLB season in both Leagues
• 1986 Astros starter Mike Scott finishes MLB regular season with 306 strikeouts with 8 in a 2-1 win in San Francisco; 3rd NL pitcher to reach 300 in a season

Baseball Record
1986 New York Mets' Dwight Gooden becomes first pitcher to collect 200 strikeouts in each of his first 3 seasons when he records 7 in 8-2 win v Pittsburgh Pirates


Baseball PitcherDwight Gooden
Lennox Wins Heavyweight Gold
1988 Future world heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis, representing Canada, wins super-heavyweight gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; beats American Riddick Bowe by 2nd round TKO

• 1988 Gelindo Bordin of Italy wins the men's marathon in 2:10:32 at the Seoul Olympics; beats world champion Douglas Wakiihuri of Kenya by 15 seconds
• 1988 In a season ending 7-5 win in St. Louis, NY Mets' outfielder Kevin McReynolds establishes a MLB record swiping 21 bases without being caught stealing during the season

Sports History
1988 Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his mansion in Bernardsville, NJ, during a domestic dispute


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

• 1988 Minnesota Twins total 3,030,672 in attendance at Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome; first AL club ever to break 3 million in a MLB season
• 1988 New Zealand horseman Mark Todd wins individual eventing gold medal aboard Charisma at the Seoul Olympics; his 2nd consecutive gold after winning in 1984
• 1988 South Korean light middleweight boxer Park Si-hun is controversially awarded the Seoul Olympic gold medal after appearing well beaten by future 4 weight class world champion Roy Jones Jr
• 1988 XXIV Summer Olympic Games close at the Seoul Olympic Stadium

NHL History
1991 NHL #1 draft pick Eric Lindros rejects Quebec Nordiques' offer of a 10 year, $50m contract


NHL StarEric Lindros
Steffi Graf Wins #500
1991 Steffi Graf beats Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria 6-2, 6-2 in the Volkswagen Cup in Leipzig to become the youngest woman to win 500 professional tennis matches


Tennis PlayerSteffi Graf

• 1991 Toronto Blue Jays clinch AL East title with a 6-5 win v California Angels; become first sport franchise in history to draw 4 million fans in one season

Don Shula
1994 Legendary Miami head coach Don Shula beats Cincinnati head coach and his son David in the first-ever NFL meeting between father and son; Dolphins defeat the Bengals, 23-7


NFL Head CoachDon Shula

• 1994 Pakistan cricket batsmen Inzamam-ul-Haq & Mushtaq Ahmed put on 57 runs in 8 overs for highest last-wicket partnership ever to win a Test, as the home team beats Australia by 1 wicket in the 1st Test in Karachi
• 1997 The Bruins beat the LA Kings, 6-5 in Boston to extend their NHL opening game unbeaten streak to 11-straight years (9-0-2)
• 1998 With his team struggling at 28 for 3, Australian cricket batsman Steve Waugh smashes a brilliant 157 to guide the tourists to an innings & 99 run win over Pakistan in the 1st Test in Rawalpindi
• 1999 #21 University of Alabama football team beats #3 Florida, 40-39 in overtime to snap the Gators' 30-game home win streak; future Seattle Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander crosses for 4 touchdowns for the Crimson Tide
• 1999 Atlanta Thrashers play first regular-season game in franchise history, a 4-1 loss to the visiting NJ Devils, before a crowd of 18,545 at Philips Arena; Kelly Buchberger scores first goal in Thrashers history

NHL Record
1999 Boston's Ray Bourque becomes highest goal-scoring defenseman in NHL history; 386th career goal in Bruins' 3-1 win v Carolina Hurricanes moves him 1 ahead of Paul Coffey


NHL LegendRay Bourque

NHL StarPaul Coffey
Baseball Record
2001 Cubs right fielder Sammy Sosa becomes first player in MLB history to total 60 home runs in three seasons; Chicago slugger connects off Reds starter Lance Davis to reach milestone in 5-4 loss


MLB OutfielderSammy Sosa
Baseball Record
2004 Jeff Kent becomes all-time home run leader for MLB 2nd basemen when he hits 2 in Astros' 9-3 win v Rockies; 302 overall HR to break Ryne Sandberg's major league record established in 1997


Baseball InfielderRyne Sandberg

• 2004 Montreal Expos earn the last win in the franchise's MLB history, beating New York Mets, 6 - 3 at Shea Stadium; Brad Wilkerson hits the Expos' final home run in 9th inning, his 32nd of the year
• 2005 NFL plays first regular season game outside the United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers, 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico
• 2009 The International Olympic Committee votes to award Rio de Janeiro, Brazil rights to host the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics
• 2010 20th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 31-13 in Chestnut Hill

Ryder Cup
2016 Ryder Cup Golf, Hazeltine National GC: US regains Cup; beats Europe, 17-11; Americans Brooks Koepka, Brandt Snedeker & Patrick Reed each win 3 matches


GolferBrooks Koepka
Baseball History
2016 Veteran broadcaster Vin Scully calls his final LA Dodgers game (7-1 loss in San Francisco) after a record 67 MLB seasons


SportscasterVin Scully

• 2019 Australian women's cricket wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy smashes T20I world record 148 not out off 61 balls against Sri Lanka in Sydney; her century from Australian record 46 balls