Today's events in sports history

Aug 23

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

• 1906 Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Washington Senators, 4-1 at American League Park
• 1907 Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Howie Camnitz no-hits NY Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game at the Polo Grounds, NYC
• 1920 American swimmer Warren Kealoha wins first of 2 consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 100m backstroke, beating teammate Ray Kegeris at the Antwerp Games

World Record

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


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


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


Tennis PlayerBetty Nuthall

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

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


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


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

• 1946 13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380)
• 1947 1st Baseball Little League World Series, Williamsport, Pennsylvania: Maynard Midgets beat Lock Haven All Stars, 16-7
• 1953 Former Boston Braves pitcher Phil Paine becomes first major leaguer to play in Japan; on military service with U.S. Air Force plays first of 9 games for Nishitetsu Lions
• 1953 Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
• 1953 Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3")

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


Auto RacerAlberto Ascari

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

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


Baseball PlayerRoberto Clemente
Baseball Record
1972 Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, & Alex Johnson) to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers


Baseball PlayerHank Greenberg

• 1974 Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan v England at The Cricket Oval
• 1980 Charles O. Finley sells Oakland A's MLB franchise for $12.7m to Walter Haas Jr. (owner & CEO of Levi Strauss)
• 1982 Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter
• 1985 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games

Sports History
1988 Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

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

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


MLB OutfielderDavid Justice

• 2003 9th Athletics World Championships open at Saint-Denis, France
• 2004 Outstanding British athlete Kelly Holmes wins 1st leg of her 800/1,500m double at the Athens Olympics taking the gold medal in 1:56.38
• 2004 An American sweep in the 400m medals at the Athens Olympics; Jeremy Wariner gold in 44.00 ahead of Otis Harris and Derrick Brew
• 2004 Winning pitcher Lisa Fernadez (4-0) leads the US to the softball gold medal at the Athens Olympics, beating Australia 5-1

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


Basketball PlayerDiana Taurasi

• 2008 Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele wraps up the 5,000/10,000m double at the Beijing Olympics when he takes gold in the 5k in an Olympic record 12:57.82
• 2008 Australian diver Matthew Mitcham wins the men's 10m platform gold medal with final dive at the Beijing Olympics; prevents Chinese from winning every diving event; achieves highest score for an individual dive in Olympic history (112.10)
• 2008 Midfielder Ángel Di María scores a 58th minute winner as Argentina beats Nigeria 1-0 to take the men's football gold medal at the Beijing Olympics; 89,102 at the National Stadium
• 2009 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Rich Harvest Farms: US wins 3rd consecutive Cup 16-12; win 8 of 12 singles to dominate final day
• 2009 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Crosswater Club: Mike Reid wins his second Champions Tour major with birdie on first playoff hole against John Cook
• 2015 English Indycar driver Justin Wilson suffers a head injury during a race crash at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania

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


GolferLydia Ko

• 2020 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Troon GC: Sophia Popov of Germany claims her first Tour title by 2 strokes from Thailand's Jasmine Suwannapura; at #304, lowest ranked player to win a major

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


Football StarThomas Müller

• 2020 Indianapolis 500: 2017 champion Takuma Sato of Japan wins his 2nd title under yellow caution flag after a crash with 3 laps remaining

 

Aug 24

• 1877 American outlaw John Wesley Hardin, wanted for murder, is arrested by Texas Rangers on a train in Pensacola, Florida
• 1883 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Two-time defending champion Richard Sears wins 3rd straight title; beats James Dwight 6-2, 6-0, 9-7

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

Boxing Title Fight

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


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionTommy Burns

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

Sports History
1912 NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US Olympians


Versatile AthleteJim Thorpe

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

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


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


Tennis PlayerHelen Wills Moody

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

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


Baseball PlayerTed Williams
Sports History
1945 Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy & strike out 12


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherBob Feller
Sports History
1951 Bill Veeck's "Fans Managers' Night", Browns defeat A's 5-3; Browns coaches hold up placards for fans to vote on strategy options


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck

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

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


Baseball Player and ManagerLeo Durocher

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

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


Ice Hockey LegendGordie Howe

NHL LegendJean Béliveau

• 1973 Garry Sobers scores 26th & last Test Cricket ton 150 v Eng Lord's
• 1975 SF Giant Ed Halick no-hits NY Giants, 6-0

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


Golfer and Two-Time PGA ChampionDave Stockton

• 1979 NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new
• 1982 KCs' John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record

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


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


LPGA GolferPat Bradley

• 1989 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
• 1991 Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0
• 1992 1st structural steel beams are erected at Jacobs Field (now Progressive Field) baseball stadium in Cleveland, Ohio
• 1992 NFL Cleveland Browns suffer their worst pre-season loss, 56-3, to Minnesota Vikings
• 1993 Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
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• 1994 Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66)
• 1994 Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00)
• 1997 97th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Joel Kribel
• 2004 Kenyan runners sweep the medals in the 3000m steeplechase at the Athens Olympics; Ezekiel Kemboi wins gold ahead of Brimin Kipruto and Paul Kipsiele Koech
• 2004 Moroccan super star athlete Hicham El Guerrouj wins 1st leg of his 1,500/5,000m double at the Athens Olympics in 3:34.18

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


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt

• 2004 Roman Šebrle of the Czech Republic (8,893 points OR) edges American Bryan Clay (8,820) in the decathlon at the Athens Olympics
• 2004 Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia vaults 4.91m to break her own pole vault world record and win the gold medal from teammate Svetlana Feofanova at the Athens Olympics
• 2004 Americans Kerri Walsh and Misty May team up to win the women's beach volleyball gold at the Athens Olympics beating Brazilian pair Shelda Bede & Adriana Behar 21–17, 21–11

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


NFL LegendJerry Rice

• 2007 11th Athletics World Championships open at Osaka, Japan
• 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing becomes the most watched event on TV ever - nearly 5 billion, 70% of world's population

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


Basketball PlayerLeBron James

NBA GuardKobe Bryant

• 2008 Samuel Wansiru becomes first Kenyan to win the men's Olympic marathon in Beijing; wins in Olympic record time; silver medallist Joauad Gharib of Morocco also faster than OR, yet 44 seconds behind
• 2008 Dániel Varga & Péter Biros score 3 goals each as Hungary wins the men's water polo gold medal at the Beijing Olympics; third consecutive Olympic gold medal
• 2014 Canadian Open Women's Golf, London Hunt CC: Ryu So-yeon wins by 2 from fellow South Korean Na Yeon Choi

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


Tennis PlayerSerena Williams

 

Aug 25

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

Captain Webb Conquers the English Channel

1875 Captain Matthew Webb makes the 1st observed and unassisted swim across the English Channel in 21 hours and 45 minutes


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

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

Boxing Title Fight
1904 Champion James J. Jeffries scores a 2nd round TKO win over Jack Munroe in San Francisco; Jeffries retires after his 7th heavyweight boxing title defence


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJames J. Jeffries

• 1910 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats Tom Bundy 6-1, 5-7, 6-0, 6-8, 6-1 for his 4th consecutive US singles title
• 1917 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Robert Lindley Murray beats Nathaniel W. Niles 5-7, 8-6, 6-3, 6-3 for first of 2 straight US singles titles
• 1920 American swimmer Norman Ross wins his first of 3 gold medals at the Antwerp Olympics in dominating men's 1,500m freestyle; also wins 400m freestyle and 4 x 200m freestyle relay
• 1920 Ethelda Bleibtrey leads an American medal sweep of the Antwerp Olympics women's 100m freestyle with a world record 1:13.6; first US female Olympic champion
• 1920 Swedish divers sweep the medals in the men's plain high diving event at the Antwerp Olympics; Arvid Wallman wins gold ahead of teammates Nils Skoglund & John Jansson
• 1921 Yankee pitcher Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying record
• 1922 Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game

Sports History
1924 MLB Washington Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

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

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


GolferBen Hogan

Sports History
1948 Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord's


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


Middle/welterweight championship boxerSugar Ray Robinson

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

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


Sportscaster and MLB ShortstopPhil Rizzuto

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

Sports History
1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship


Tennis PlayerArthur Ashe

• 1968 NY Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches second 2/3 innings and beats Tigers 6-5; he played right field in second game and homered
• 1969 Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montreal (NFL expo)
• 1976 Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings

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


NHL Star and BusinessmanTim Horton

• 1978 MLB baseball umpires stage a 1 day strike
• 1979 California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2
• 1980 Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs
• 1983 Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark

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


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


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

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

Sports History
1991 Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

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

Golf Tournament
1996 96th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods


GolferTiger Woods

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

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


GolferLydia Ko

• 2019 Tour Championship, Men's Golf, East Lake GC: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland wins by 4 strokes from Xander Schauffele; biggest winner's prize in golf, US$15m
• 2019 Ben Stokes with an unbeaten 135 leads England to a record run chase of 362-9 and victory over Australia in the 3rd cricket Test at Headingley, Leeds; keeps Ashes Series alive at 1-1
• 2020 England's James Anderson becomes first fast bowler to reach 600 wickets in Test cricket; Pakistan batsman Azhar Ali caught at first slip on 5th day of 3rd Test at Southampton
• 2020 Chicago White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito no-hits the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-0 at Guaranteed Rate Field, Chicago

 

Aug 26

• 1896 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Robert Wrenn beats Fred Hovey 7-5, 3-6, 6-0, 1-6, 6-1 for his third US singles title
• 1903 Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game

• 1903 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Englishman Laurence Doherty beats American defending champion William Larned 6-0, 6-3, 10-8; first non-American champion
• 1909 Frank Tarrant scores cricket 145 & 13-67 for Middlesex v Gloucester
• 1909 Middlesex beat Gloucester (Bristol) at cricket by an innings & 31 runs in a single day

Baseball Record

1912 MLB pitcher Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

• 1912 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Maurice McLoughlin wins first of 2 straight US singles titles; beats Wallace F. Johnson 3-6, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2
• 1913 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Defending champion Maurice McLoughlin beats R. Norris Williams 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 6-1
• 1920 Surrey cricket all-rounder Percy Fender scores 100 in 35 minutes [113no] in a county match vs Northamptonshire at the County Ground, Northampton

Baseball Record
1930 Chicago Cub's Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record


Baseball Hall of Fame Right FielderChuck Klein

• 1933 Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km)
• 1938 Montreal Maroons dropped from NHL
• 1939 1st major league baseball telecast on W2XBS- Cincinnati Reds defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
• 1940 RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk
• 1947 Dodgers' Dan Bankhead, MLB's 1st African-American pitcher, homers in his 1st MLB at bat in 16-3 loss to Pittsburgh, at Ebbetts Field, Brooklyn, NYC
• 1950 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Tom Brown beats Ken McGregor in 5 sets but Australia breaks US stranglehold on trophy with a dominant 4-1 victory
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• 1955 1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)
• 1956 Yankees announce purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from KC
• 1962 Minnesota Twins Jack Kralick no-hits KC A's, 1-0
• 1963 West Indies beat England 2-1 in series, 1st holders of Wisden Cricket Trophy
• 1966 Baltimore Orioles Roznovsky & B.Powell are 4th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
• 1967 Dean Chance pitches a 2-1 no-hitter, & Twins sweep Cleveland
• 1971 MLB Baltimore Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game

Contract of Interest
1971 Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth one million dollars, the first million dollar contract in NHL history


Ice Hockey LegendBobby Orr

• 1972 XX Summer Olympic Games open in Munich, West Germany

Sports History
1972 Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Houston Astros


Baseball Player and ManagerLeo Durocher

• 1973 David Eisenhower writes his last sports column
• 1973 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, CA, beating a field of 1,500 runners
• 1984 Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record)

Sports History
1985 Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs California Angels


MLB 1st BasemanEddie Murray

• 1986 Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38)

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


Baseball Player and ManagerPaul Molitor
Baseball Record
1990 Bo Jackson hits 4th of 4 consecutive HRs


NFL Running Back and Baseball OutfielderBo Jackson

• 1991 Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0

Sports History
1995 Brian Lara completes his 7th Test Cricket century, scoring 179 at The Oval in London


CricketerBrian Lara

• 2000 Australia clinches first Tri Nations Rugby Series with a 19-18 win over South Africa in Durban; Wallabies centre Stirling Mortlock lands 4 penalties and a conversion
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• 2004 Félix Sánchez wins the men's 400m hurdles 47.63 in Athens; the Dominican Republic's first ever Olympic gold medal

Olympic Gold
2004 An American 1-2-3 in the 200m medals at the Athens Olympics; Shawn Crawford gold in 19.79 ahead of Bernard Williams & Justin Gatlin


SprinterJustin Gatlin

• 2004 Germany wins its first ever Olympic women's field hockey gold medal with a 2-1 win against the Netherlands in Athens

Olympic Gold
2004 Lindsay Tarpley and Abby Wambach score as the US beats Brazil 2-1, maintaining an undefeated record to win the women's football gold medal at the Athens Olympics


Soccer PlayerAbby Wambach

• 2004 Hamish Carter of New Zealand wins the men's gold medal ahead of teammate Bevan Docherty, whilst Kate Allen of Austria takes out the women's Triathlon at the Athens Olympics
• 2006 New Zealand retain Tri Nations Rugby Series with 45-26 win over South Africa in Pretoria; All Blacks flyhalf Dan Carter lands 4 penalties and 4 conversions

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


GolferLydia Ko
Agreement of Interest
2014 Burger King agrees to purchase Canadian donut chain Tim Hortons for $11.4 billion


NHL Star and BusinessmanTim Horton
Sports History
2016 San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick kneels in protest during the US national anthem at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium while playing against the San Diego Chargers, objecting to racial injustice and police brutality in the US


NFL Player and Civil Rights ActivistColin Kaepernick

• 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup: New Zealand Black Ferns defeat England 41-32 in the final in Belfast
• 2017 Manchester City scores a 2-1 win at Bournemouth to start EPL record 18 game winning streak; Raheem Sterling scores for City but is sent off with 2 yellow cards in injury time
• 2018 Gamer at a Madden NFL 19 gaming tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, loses then returns to shoot two dead and wound nine

Sports History
2018 Boxing match between YouTubers KSI and Logan Paul ends in a draw in Manchester, England


YouTube Star and ActorLogan Paul

 

Aug 27

• 1884 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears makes it 4 straight US singles titles; beats Howard Taylor 6-0, 1-6, 6-0, 6-2
• 1890 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Oliver Campbell beats 2-time defending champion Henry Slocum 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1

• 1894 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Robert Wrenn beats Irishman Manliff Goodbody 6-8, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4
• 1901 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats Beals Wright 6-2, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4 for the first of 7 US singles titles
• 1902 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Defending champion William Larned beats Englishman R.F. Doherty 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 8-6
• 1908 Calgary City Rugby Football Club re-organizes as the Tigers
• 1909 Future Baseball HOF pitcher Jack Chesbro's final game for NY Highlanders; 17-6 loss to the Tigers at Bennett Park, Detroit
• 1909 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats William Clothier 6-1, 6-2, 5-7, 1-6, 6-1 for his 3rd straight & 5th overall US singles title
• 1910 Using twenty 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park
• 1911 Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0 at White Sox Park
• 1918 Christy Mathewson resigns as Cincinnati Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of US Army

• 1920 American diver Louis Kuehn leads a US medal sweep in the men's 3m springboard event at the Antwerp Olympics; teammates Clarence Pinkston & Louis Balbach take the minor medals
• 1921 J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise

World Record

1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6)


Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi

• 1928 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Helen Wills defeats fellow American Helen Jacobs 6–2, 6–1 for her 5th of 7 US singles crowns
• 1937 Brooklyn Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game

Sports History
1938 New York Yankees pitcher Monte Pearson no-hits Cleveland Indians, 13-0; Joe DiMaggio hits 3 triples


Baseball PlayerJoe DiMaggio

• 1952 Having already won 5,000m and 10,000m gold medals, Czech star Emil Zátopek claims rare Olympic treble taking out Helsinki Games marathon in OR 2:23:03.2

Baseball Record
1955 Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts


Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax

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

Baseball Record
1978 Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases


MLB Hall of Fame Infielder and BroadcasterJoe Morgan

• 1978 Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978

Baseball Record
1982 Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark


MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson

• 1985 Mary Joe Fernández at 14 years 8 days old becomes youngest player to win at the US Tennis Open; beats England's Sara Gomer 6-1, 6-4 in a 1st round match

Sports History
1988 Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Philadelphia, 4-2


Baseball Pitcher and ManagerTommy Lasorda

• 1990 Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
• 1990 Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)
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• 1992 CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
• 1992 Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent & Ryan Thompson
• 1995 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Beaconsfield GC: Jenny Lidback wins by 1 stroke from Liselotte Neumann of Sweden

Golf Tournament
1995 95th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods


GolferTiger Woods
Sports History
1996 Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Detroit Red Wings to the Tampa Bay Lightning


NHL StarDino Ciccarelli

• 2004 China's first ever gold in Olympic Games men's track and field; Liu Xiang wins 110m hurdles in Athens, equalling Colin Jackson's 1993 world record time of 12.91 seconds
• 2004 German kayaker Birgit Fischer wins gold in K-4 500m & silver in K-2 500m in Athens; first woman in any sport to win gold medals at 6 different Olympics, gold 24 years apart, and 1st person to win 2 or more medals in 5 different Games
• 2004 Timothy Mack vaults an Olympic record 5.95m to win the pole vault gold medal from fellow American Toby Stevenson (5.90m) at the Athens Olympics
• 2004 Osleidys Menéndez of Cuba throws an Olympic record 71.53m to easily beat German Steffi Nerius for the women's javelin gold medal at the Athens Games
• 2004 In a huge upset in the men's basketball semi final at the Athens Olympics, Argentina beats a star-studded but unsettled US team 89-81; they go on to take gold and US bronze
• 2004 Australia wins its first ever Olympic men's field hockey gold medal with a 2-1 win a.e.t. against the Netherlands in Athens

Sports History
2006 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Reserve Vineyards & GC: Eduardo Romero of Argentina wins first of 2 Champions Tour majors with birdie on 1st playoff hole against Lonnie Nielsen


GolferEduardo Romero

• 2011 13th Athletics World Championships open at Daegu, South Korea
• 2011 Australia claims final Tri Nations Rugby Series with 25-20 win over New Zealand in Brisbane; Argentina's Pumas join competition the following year; series rebranded The Rugby Championship

Sports History
2015 15th Athletics World Championships: Usain Bolt of Jamaica adds the men's 200m gold to his 100m win


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt
Sports History
2017 Former five-weight world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats MMA fighter Conor McGregor in his debut match in the 10th round in Las Vegas


BoxerFloyd Mayweather, Jr.

Mixed Martial ArtistConor McGregor

• 2017 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Ottawa Hunt GC: Park Sung-hyun of South Korea wins by 2 from Mirim Lee
• 2018 Reigning French Open tennis champion Simona Halep becomes first top-seeded woman to lose in 1st round of the U.S. Open; loses to Kaia Kanepi 6-2, 6-4; first match at newly renovated Louis Armstrong Stadium
• 2019 Race car driver Jessi Combs dies while setting new fastest women's land speed record of 522.783 mph at Alvord Desert, Oregon (posthumously awarded 2020)

 

Aug 28

• 1884 MLB pitcher Mickey Welsh makes record for most consecutive batters struck out to begin a game, striking out the 1st 9 men he faces
• 1886 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears beats R. Livingston Beeckman 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4 for his 6th consecutive US singles title

• 1888 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Henry Slocum beats Howard Taylor 6-4, 6-1, 6-0
• 1893 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, R.I.: Robert Wrenn beats Fred Hovey 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4; first of his 4 US singles titles
• 1907 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats Robert LeRoy 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 for his third US singles title

Sports History

1918 Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on umpire Tom Connolly


Baseball PlayerTris Speaker

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

Baseball Record
1921 Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1922 1st Walker Cup: US beats England 8-4
• 1926 Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)
• 1929 English cricket all-rounder Frank Woolley scores 176 for Kent v Middlesex at Lord's; his 100th first-class hundred
• 1941 8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203)
• 1942 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)
• 1949 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: US takes trophy for third straight year with last day singles wins to Ted Schroeder and Pancho Gonzales; beat Australia, 4-1
• 1951 Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000
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• 1951 Pirates snap NY Giants 16 game winning streak
• 1956 Australia clings on for a draw in 5th Test at The Oval, London; England retain cricket Ashes with Jim Laker's 46 wickets a record series haul
• 1958 American baseball player Nellie Fox sets record for consecutive games without striking out (98)
• 1960 White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as umpire called time
• 1967 Boston signs 1st free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus
• 1970 Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970

World Record
1972 American 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of David Edgar, John Murphy, John Heidenreich & Mark Spitz swim a world record 3:26.42 to beat Soviet Union for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics


SwimmerMark Spitz

• 1972 Australian teenage swimmer Shane Gould sets a world record 2:23.07 to beat German Kornelia Ender in the 200m individual medley at the Munich Olympics; her first of 3 gold medals at the Games

Olympic Gold
1972 Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut becomes media darling at the Munich Olympics; wins gold in the teams all-round ; follows with 2 gold and a silver


GymnastOlga Korbut

• 1972 North Korean shooter Ri Ho-jun wins the 50m rifle prone event at the Munich Olympics; his nation's first ever Olympic gold medal
• 1976 Toronto Metros-Croatia beat the Minnesota Kicks to the win the 1976 North American Soccer League championship

Sports History
1977 NY Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men & beats Texas Rangers 1-0


Baseball pitcherRon Guidry
Baseball Record
1977 Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1977 NY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland Ore, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship

Sports History
1981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken)


1500m RunnerSebastian Coe
Baseball Record
1987 Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams & Willie McCovey with 522 HRs


MLB Third BasemanMike Schmidt

Baseball PlayerTed Williams

Baseball Hall of Fame 1st BasemanWillie McCovey

• 1987 2nd Athletics World Championships open at Rome, Italy
• 1988 88th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks

Sports History
1989 Frank Viola & Mets outduel Orel Hershiser & Dodgers 1-0


Baseball PitcherOrel Hershiser
Baseball Record
1990 Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively


Baseball InfielderRyne Sandberg

Sports History
1990 Stefan Edberg (#1 seeded player) loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov


Tennis PlayerStefan Edberg
Baseball Record
1991 Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martínez both perfect game pitcher


MLB PitcherDennis Martínez

• 1992 Brewers beat Blue Jays 22-2 with AL record 31 hits in 9 innings
• 1992 Test cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo
• 1994 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Ottawa Hunt GC: Martha Nause wins by 1 from Michelle Mcgann

Golf Tournament
1994 94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods


GolferTiger Woods

• 1995 Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson
• 2004 British athlete Kelly Holmes wraps up the 800/1,500m double at the Athens Olympics taking out the 1.5k in 3:57.90
• 2004 Moroccan super star athlete Hicham El Guerrouj wraps up the 1,500/5,000m double at the Athens Olympics taking the 5k gold in 13:14.39
• 2004 A huge upset at the Athens Olympic Stadium in the men's 4×100m relay; Great Britain 38.07 edges the United States 38.08 to take the gold medal
• 2004 Led by San Antonio Spurs shooting guard Manu Ginóbili Argentina beats Italy 84-69 for the Olympic basketball gold medal in Athens; star-studded US team takes bronze
• 2004 The diving competition at the Athens Olympics concludes with the Chinese contingent dominant, winning 6 of the 8 gold medals
• 2004 The US women's basketball team goes through the Athens Olympics undefeated to win its 5th Olympic gold medal, beating Australia 74-63 in the final
• 2004 Carlos Tevez scores the winner as Argentina beats Paraguay 1-0, maintaining an undefeated record to win the men's football gold medal at the Athens Olympics
• 2005 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Reserve Vineyards & GC: Loren Roberts wins first of 4 Champions Tour majors with bogey on 2nd playoff hole against Dana Quigley

Golf Tournament
2011 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Hillsdale CC: Brittany Lincicome wins by 1 stroke from Michelle Wie and Stacy Lewis


GolferBrittany Lincicome

GolferMichelle Wie

• 2016 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Priddis Green CC: Ariya Jutanugam of Thailand wins by 4 from Kim Sei-young of South Korea
• 2021 MLB Los Angeles Angels pitcher/designated hitter Shohei Ohtani becomes 1st player in team history to reach 20 stolen bases and hit 40 home runs in a season, in 10-2 win over San Diego Padres

 

Aug 29

• 1882 Australia beat England by 7 runs - "Death of English cricket"

Sports History

1882 Australian cricket fast bowler Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 (7-46 & 7-44) in one-off Test v England in London


CricketerFred Spofforth

• 1885 Phillies Charlie Ferguson no-hits Providence 1-0

Boxing Title Fight
1885 Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John L. Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJohn L. Sullivan

• 1889 1st American International professional lawn tennis contest (Newport, Rhode Island)
• 1895 The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England.
• 1906 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Clothier beats defending champion Beals Wright 6-3, 6-0, 6-4
• 1908 US Open Men's Golf, Myopia Hunt GC: Fred McLeod defeats fellow Scot Willie Smith by 6 strokes in an 18-hole playoff to win his only major title
• 1908 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Defending champion William Larned beats Beals Wright 6-1, 6-2, 8-6 for his 4th of 7 US singles titles
• 1920 An American sweep of the medals in the men's 100m freestyle at the Antwerp Olympics; Duke Kahanamoku sets world record 1:00.4 in defending his 1912 gold medal
• 1920 Swedish swimmer Håkan Malmrot completes the breaststroke double at the Antwerp Olympics beating teammate Thor Henning in the 200m; also beats Henning for gold in the 400m
• 1920 Ethelda Bleibtrey wins her 3rd gold medal of the Antwerp Olympics; teams with Irene Guest, Frances Schroth & Margaret Woodbridge in American 4 x 100m freestyle relay team; world record 5:11.6
• 1920 An American sweep of the medals in the women's 3m springboard diving event at the Antwerp Olympics; Aileen Riggin wins gold ahead of teammates Helen Wainwright & Thelma Payne

Sports History
1925 After a night on the town, Babe Ruth shows up late for batting practice Miller Huggins suspends Ruth & slaps a $5,000 fine on him


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1935 2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 5, All-Stars 0 (77,450)
• 1937 MLB Philadelphia A's Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
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• 1940 7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84,567)
• 1950 International Olympic Committee votes to admit West Germany & Japan in 1952
• 1960 Swedish canoeists Gert Fredriksson and Sven-Olov Sjödelius win the K2-1,000m in 3:34.73 at the Rome Olympics; Fredriksson's 6th gold medal in 4 Olympic Games
• 1960 Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser wins blue ribband 100m freestyle gold medal at the Rome Olympics; retains title won in Melbourne 1956; will win unprecedented 3rd consecutive 100m gold in Tokyo 1964
• 1960 Italy wins cycling team pursuit and Sante Gaiardoni takes the sprint gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Italy wins all 4 track events and road team time trial to thoroughly dominate sport

Baseball Record
1963 Harmon Killebrew (Twins) HRs off Pete Burnside (Senators) in DH


Baseball PlayerHarmon Killebrew
Baseball Record
1964 On Elston Howard Night, Mickey Mantle ties Babe Ruth's career strikeout record (1,330)


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle
Baseball Record
1965 Willie Mays sets NL record for HRs in a month with his 17th of August


MLB LegendWillie Mays

• 1967 Yanks longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yanks win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours & 19 minutes

Tennis Open
1968 First match in the US Open tennis era; on her way to the final, Billie Jean King beats fellow American Dr Vija Vuskains 6-1, 6-0


Tennis LegendBillie Jean King
Sports History
1969 Joe Pepitone quits Yanks after being fined $500 for leaving the bench


MLB First Baseman and OutfielderJoe Pepitone

• 1972 SF Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row
• 1972 Sandy Neilson wins the blue ribband women's 100m freestyle gold medal in 58.59 at the Munich Olympics beating fellow American Shirley Babashoff and Shane Gould of Australia

Baseball Record
1977 MLB St Louis Cardinals Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3


MLB LegendTy Cobb

• 1978 USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing NY
• 1981 28th Walker Cup: US wins 15-9
• 1981 Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))

Baseball Record
1982 George Brett gets his 1,500th hit


MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett

• 1985 NY Yank Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time

Baseball Record
1987 Nolan Ryan passes the 200-strikeout barrier for record 11th time


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1987 Portuguese athlete Rosa Mota wins Women's Marathon at World Chapionships in Rome in 2hr 25:17mins

Golf Major
1993 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), London Hunt GC: Brandie Burton wins in a playoff from Betsy King


LPGA GolferBetsy King

• 1993 93rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris
• 2004 28th Olympic Games closes at Athens, Greece
• 2004 Athens Olympic marathon is run on same route as 1896 Games, start at site of the Battle of Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens: Stefano Baldini of Italy wins men's gold in 2:10:55
• 2004 Future undisputed world light heavyweight boxing champion Andre Ward of the US wins the light heavyweight gold medal at the Athens Olympics beating Magomed Aripgadjiev of Belarus on points
• 2004 Brazil takes out the men's volleyball gold medal with a 3-1 victory over Italy at the Athens Olympics

Sports History
2004 German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher clinches his 5th straight F1 World Drivers Championship with a 2nd place in the Belgian F1 Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps


Formula 1 DriverMichael Schumacher

• 2004 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Reserve Vineyards & GC: Craig Stadler wins his final major event by 1 stroke from Allen Doyle and Jerry Pate

Sports History
2009 Cristiano Ronaldo makes his debut for Real Madrid, scoring a penalty in their 3-2 win over Deportivo La Coruña


Football StarCristiano Ronaldo

• 2010 Canadian Open Women's Golf, St. Charles CC: Michelle Wie wins by 3 from Suzann Pettersen, Jiyai Shin, Jee Young Lee & Kristy McPherson

Sports History
2012 The USADA claims to have stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles


Cyclist and Drug CheatLance Armstrong
Contract of Interest
2018 Star quarterback Aaron Rodgers signs NFL record contract extension with the Green Bay Packers; 4 years worth $134m rising to a possible $180m with a record $103m in guarantees


NFL QuarterbackAaron Rodgers

 

Aug 30

• 1887 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears wins 7th straight US singles title; beats Henry Slocum 6-1, 6-3, 6-2
• 1892 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, R.I.: Three straight US singles titles to Oliver Campbell; beats Fred Hovey 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5

• 1904 Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)

Sports History

1905 Detroit Tigers future Baseball HOF center fielder Ty Cobb makes his MLB debut, doubling off Jack Chesbro in a 5-3 win over the NY Highlanders at Bennett Park, Detroit


MLB LegendTy Cobb

• 1906 Hal Chase becomes 1st NY Yankee to hit three triples in a game
• 1910 Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleveland 5-0 in 11
• 1912 St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
• 1913 Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled

Sports History
1922 Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
Sports History
1926 Jack Hobbs scores 316 not out at Lord's (Surrey v Middlesex)


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


Tennis PlayerHelen Wills Moody

Tennis PlayerBetty Nuthall
Boxing Title Fight
1937 Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJoe Louis

• 1939 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
• 1939 NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
• 1941 St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 2-0
• 1944 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
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• 1945 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)
• 1954 BC Lions play franchise's first CFL game in Vancouver; lose to Saskatchewan Roughriders, 17-0
• 1960 Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
• 1960 US women's 4 x 100m medley relay team swims world record 4:41.1 to beat Australia and win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Lynn Burke, Patty Kempner, Carolyn Schuler & Chris von Saltza

Baseball Record
1961 Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game


MLB PitcherJack Fisher
Sports History
1965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball


Baseball Hall of Fame ManagerCasey Stengel

• 1969 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
• 1972 Japanese breaststroker Nobutaka Taguchi beats American pair Tom Bruce & John Hencken to win the 100m gold medal in world record 1:04.94 at the Munich Olympic Games
• 1972 Australian teenage swimmer Shane Gould with a world record 4:19.04 for the 400m, wins her second of 3 gold medals at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 American women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Shirley Babashoff, Jane Barkman, Jenny Kemp & Sandy Neilson beats East Germany by just 0.36 to win gold at the Munich Olympics; world record 3:55.19

Olympic Gold
1972 Amidst Olga Korbut mania at the Munich Olympics, Soviet teammate Ludmilla Tourischeva wins the gymnastics individual all-round competition, her 2nd gold medal of the Games


GymnastOlga Korbut

• 1972 Slalom canoeing is introduced at the Munich Olympics with East Germany winning all 4 events

Sports History
1979 Cricketer Ian Botham passes 1000 runs and 100 wickets in Tests in his 21st match for England


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


Tennis PlayerJohn McEnroe

Tennis ChampionIlie Năstase
Sports History
1981 Bill Shoemaker becomes the first jockey to win a $1 million thoroughbred horse race when John Henry takes the inaugural Arlington Million by a nose over The Bart


Racing Hall of Fame JockeyBill Shoemaker

• 1984 Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
• 1986 Yuriy Sedykh of the Soviet Union sets new world hammer throw record 86.74m (284 ft 6 in) in Stuttgart, Germany
• 1986 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
• 1987 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair

Baseball Record
1987 Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minn 10-6 win over Milwaukee


MLB Center FielderKirby Puckett

• 1987 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record 2.09m (6'10½"), one of the most long-standing records in athletics
• 1987 Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
• 1987 Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls

Sports History
1987 2nd World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in 100m after Ben Johnson is disqualified


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

• 1988 Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games
• 1991 Dan O'Brien sets US decathlon record with 8,812 points
• 1991 Mike Powell of US sets then long jump record at 29' 4½" (8.95m)
• 1992 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
• 1997 1st WNBA Championship: Houston Comets beat NY Liberty
• 1997 Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (US Open)

Baseball Record
2006 Greg Maddux wins his 330th career game


MLB Pitching LegendGreg Maddux
Sports History
2012 Andy Roddick announces he will retire following the U.S. Open


Tennis Player and U.S. Open ChampionAndy Roddick

 

Aug 31

• 1881 1st US men's single tennis championships (Newport, Rhode Island)
• 1891 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Oliver Campbell beats Clarence Hobart 2-6, 7-5, 7-9, 6-1, 6-2; second of 3 straight titles

• 1894 Phillies outfielder Billy Hamilton equals George Gore's MLB single game stolen bases record with 7 steals in 10-8 win vs Washington Senators in Philadelphia
• 1900 Brooklyn pitcher Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Philadelphia Phillies in 2nd inning of the Superbas' 9-4 loss at Washington Park; Kennedy still achieves his 4th 20-win season
• 1903 New York Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month, beating the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-1 and 9-2 at the Polo Grounds
• 1904 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier 10-8, 6-4, 9-7 for his lone major singles title
• 1905 25th US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Beals Wright beats defending champion Holcombe Ward 6-2, 6-1, 11-9 for his lone major singles title
• 1909 A. J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball
• 1909 Swedish runner Thure Johansson runs world record marathon (2:40:34.2) in Stockholm
• 1913 Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven, Netherlands
• 1915 Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0

• 1918 Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)

World Record
1924 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2)


Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi

• 1934 1st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 0, All-Stars 0 (79,432)
• 1935 Chicago White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleveland Indians, 5-0
• 1938 5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250)
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• 1947 NY Giants set season record for HRs by a club 183 (en route to 221)

Baseball Record
1950 Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs & a single in a game vs Braves


MLB First BasemanGil Hodges

• 1954 Indians beat Yanks 6-1 for record tying 26 wins in August (1931 A's)
• 1954 Cincinnati 1st baseman Ted Kluszewski hits 2 HRs in a 9-3 loss v Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium, Philadelphia; 1st Redleg to ever hit 40 MLB HRs, en route to season total 49
• 1959 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2)

Baseball Record
1959 Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean's NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game


Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax

• 1960 US sweeps the medals in the shot put at the Rome Olympics; Bill Nieder wins gold with 19.68m, ahead of countrymen Parry O'Brien and Dallas Long
• 1964 Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of MLB California Angels
• 1966 Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
• 1968 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
• 1968 Gary Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over
• 1970 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0)
• 1971 Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
• 1972 Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4)

Olympic Gold
1972 Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut wins balance beam & floor exercise gold medals at the Munich Olympics; follows gold in the teams all-round


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


SwimmerMark Spitz

• 1972 American 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of John Kinsella, Fred Tyler, Steve Genter & Mark Spitz swim a world record 7:35.78 to beat West Germany for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 Australian swimmer Gail Neall with a world record 5:02.97 wins the 400m individual medley gold medal at the Munich Olympics

Sports History
1979 In the battle of American teenage tennis prodigies, 16 year old Tracy Austin beats 14 year old Andrea Jaeger 6-2, 6-2 in the 2nd round at US Open


Tennis PlayerTracy Austin

• 1980 80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
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• 1981 Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, v England at Lord's
• 1981 MLB Kansas City Royals fire manager Jim Frey, replace him with Dick Howser
• 1984 Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

Sports History
1985 Ángel Cordero Jr. becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100m


JockeyÁngel Cordero Jr.

• 1987 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385)
• 1987 The Great Potato Incident: Minor league Williamsport Bills catcher Dave Bresnahan attempts to lure an opposing baserunner off third base using a potato carved to look like a baseball. Umpire calls runner safe, and the catcher is fined $50 and released by the team [1] [2]
• 1990 Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season

Sports History
1990 Baseball outfielders Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr. become the 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), the pair hit back-to-back singles in the first inning and both scored


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderKen Griffey Jr.

• 1991 Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3
• 1993 Minnesota Twins beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 22 innings

Sports History
1994 Pentium computer beats world chess champ Garry Kasparov


Chess Grandmaster and Political ActivistGarry Kasparov
Sports History
1997 Don Mattingly's #23 is retired by NY Yankees


Baseball 1st basemanDon Mattingly

• 1997 Eddie George runs for 216 yards on 35 carries and scores a touchdown as the Oilers, playing their first NFL game in Tennessee, beat Oakland 24-21 in overtime at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis

Sports History
1999 Dino Ciccarelli retires from the NHL


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


GolferTom Watson

GolferTom Kite

• 2019 Minnesota Twins smash 6 HRs in 10-7 loss to the Tigers in Detroit; break MLB record by hitting 268th home run of the season

Appointment of Interest
2021 36-year old Cristiano Ronaldo is confirmed as a Manchester United player for a second time when his transfer from Juventus is ratified; Ronaldo left United in 2009 to join Real Madrid


Football StarCristiano Ronaldo

 

Sept 1

• 1881 The Dwyer Brothers' 3-year-old Kentucky Derby winner Hindoo wins his 19th consecutive race, a purse event at Sheepshead Bay; winning streak snapped 6 days later in the September Handicap at Sheepshead
• 1890 Brooklyn Bridegrooms win 3 MLB games in one day‚ feasting on the Pittsburgh Alleghenys 10 - 9‚ 3 - 2‚ and 8 - 4

• 1893 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Scotland's William Auchterlonie wins by 2 shots from amateur Johnny Laidley
• 1906 Philadelphia beats the Red Sox 4-1 in 24 innings in Boston in the longest game in AL baseball history; both starters go the distance as A's hurler Jack Coombs overcomes Boston's Joe Harris
• 1906 New York Highlanders win their 6th consecutive MLB game in 3 days from Washington Senators; sweep AL record 3 straight double headers
• 1914 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, R.I.: R. Norris Williams wins his first major title beating defending champion Maurice McLoughlin 6-3, 8-6, 10-8; final event at Newport Casino, moves to Forest Hills, NY
• 1915 Jerome Travers establishes a US Amateur Golf Championship record by downing George Crump, 14 & 13, in a 1st-round match at the Country Club of Detroit in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
• 1922 NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"
• 1925 Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of International Olympic Committee; replaced by Henri de Baillet-Latour of Belgium

Sports History

1931 Future Baseball Hall of Fame 1st baseman Lou Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days & 6th homer in consecutive games in NY Yankees' 5-1 win v Boston Red Sox


Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig

• 1936 Belgian boxer Gustave Roth beats Heinz Lazek of Austria in a 15 round points decision to win the EBU and vacant IBU world light heavyweight title in Vienna
• 1939 Last day of 1st-class cricket in England before the declaration of war against Germany; great slow left-armer Hedley Verity finishes with amazing figures of 7 for 9 v Sussex to give Yorkshire the County Championship
• 1945 Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Vince DiMaggio smashes his 4th grand slam of season, tying NL record, in an 8-3 win v Boston Braves
• 1946 1st US Open Women's Golf, Spokane CC: Patty Berg wins inaugural Open and only one played in match play format; takes 36-hole final 5 & 4 over Betty Jameson
• 1947 Infielder Jack Lohrke hits NY Giants' 183rd homer of season in 2-1 win v Boston Braves; breaks NY Yankees MLB mark of 182 set in 1936
• 1947 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: USA retains title as Ted Schroeder outlasts Australian Dinny Pails 6-3, 8-6, 4-6, 9-11, 10-8 4-1 for a 3-1 lead; ends 4-1

Sports History
1948 Australian Test batsmen Don Bradman (143), Lindsay Hassett (151) & Neil Harvey (110) score centuries in Australia's 1st innings of drawn cricket tour match v South of England at Hastings


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

• 1949 Finnish long distance runner Viljo Heino runs 10,000m world record 29:27.2 in Kouvola, Finland
• 1953 Buck Baker takes lead with 10 laps remaining to win the Southern 500 at Darlington in the most competitive event in NASCAR Grand National history; four drivers swap lead a record 35 times
• 1958 St Louis Cardinals pitcher Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a NL record 9 batters in a 1-0 shutout of Cincinnati Reds
• 1960 German sprinter Armin Hary wins the coveted 100m gold medal in 10.2 at the Rome Olympics; first non-American to win the event since 1928
• 1960 US 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of George Harrison, Dick Blick, Mike Troy & Jeff Farrell swim world record 8:10.2 to beat Japan by 3.3 seconds and win gold medal at the Rome Olympics
• 1960 US 4 x 100m medley relay team swims world record 4:05.4 to beat Australia and win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Frank McKinney, Paul Hait, Lance Larson & Jeff Farrell
• 1963 Walter Kennedy begins his tenure as the commissioner of the NBA, succeeding Maurice Podoloff
• 1964 SF Giants reliever Masanori Murakami becomes the first Japanese-born player to appear in US MLB; on debut, the Osuki native throws a scoreless inning in a 4-1 loss v New York Mets
• 1967 Cincinnati Reds reliever Bob Lee walks Dick Groat with bases loaded in 21st inning to give SF Giants a 1-0 win at Crosley Field; 20 scoreless innings ties MLB mark, Pirates v Braves 1918
• 1971 Australian John Newcombe becomes 1st male top-seed to lose in US Open 1st round when beaten by eventual finalist Jan Kodeš 6-2, 6-7, 6-7, 3,-6

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


Baseball PlayerRoberto Clemente

Baseball Left fielder / First basemanWillie Stargell
Sports History
1972 American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer beats Russian champion Boris Spassky 12.5-8.5 in Reykjavik, Iceland; most publicised world title match ever played; Fischer 1st American to win title


Chess ChampionBobby Fischer

• 1972 Australian swimmer Shane Gould wins the 200m freestyle in world record 2:03.56 at the Munich Olympics; her 3rd gold medal & 3rd world record of the Games
• 1972 An American sweep of the medals in the women's 200m butterfly at the Munich Olympics; Karen Moe takes gold in world record 2:15.57 ahead of teammates Lynn Colella and Ellie Daniel
• 1972 Valeriy Borzov of the Soviet Union runs 10.14 to beat American Robert Miller and Lennox Miller of Jamaica in the coveted men's 100m final at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 Japanese gymnast Sawao Kato wins the parallel bars gold medal at the Munich Olympics, his 3rd gold of the Games including team & individual all-round victories
• 1972 Welshman Richard Meade representing Great Britain and riding Laurieston grabs the equestrian individual and team 3-day event gold medals at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 Polish shooter Józef Zapędzki successfully defends his Olympic 25m rapid fire pistol title at the Munich Games with an Olympic record 595 points

Boxing Title Fight
1973 In his first title defence George Foreman retains his WBC & WBA heavyweight crowns when he KOs Jose "King" Roman of Puerto Rico in round 1 in Tokyo, Japan


Boxing ChampionGeorge Foreman

• 1973 Gloucestershire beats Sussex by 40 runs in the Gillette Cup cricket final at Lord's to win their first major trophy since the Championship in 1877; South African all-rounder Mike Proctor stars with 94 and 2 for 37

Baseball Record
1975 NY Mets pitcher Tom Seaver shuts out Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-0; first to reach 200 strikeouts for a MLB-record 8th straight season


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


Tennis PlayerTracy Austin

• 1978 Baltimore Orioles pitcher Sammy Stewart fans 7 consecutive batters in his MLB debut, en route to 9-3 win v Chicago White Sox
• 1980 Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario with Fox unable to continue because of illness
• 1981 Fast bowler Terry Alderman takes his 42nd wicket of the series on the last day of the 5th cricket Test vs England at The Oval; haul remains record by an Australian bowler in England; England wins series 3-1
• 1981 Mike Brearley's last day as England cricket captain in 6th Test draw v Australia at The Oval; maintains his unbeaten record at home as England's 3-1 series win confirmed

Sports History
1984 Willie Totten (Mississippi Valley State) passes for Division I-AA record 536 yards & 9 TDs in 86-0 win v Kentucky State; Jerry Rice catches 17 passes for 294 yards & 5 TDs; breaks own Division I-AA record for total yardage in pass receptions


NFL LegendJerry Rice

• 1984 Middlesex beats Kent off the last ball of the Nat West Trophy cricket final in London; John Emburey hits Kent seamer Richard Ellison to square leg for 4 for the winning runs

Sports History
1985 Bill Elliott claims a $1 million bonus for winning 3 of the 4 crown jewel races on the NASCAR schedule: the Daytona 500, Winston 500 and Southern 500


Auto RacerBill Elliott

• 1985 Dutch cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes the oldest road race elite world champion at 38 years, 8 months, 29 days; beats Greg Lamonde & Marino Argentin in Giavera del Montello

US Men's Tennis Open
1987 15 year old American tennis player Michael Chang becomes youngest man to win a match at the US Open when he beats Australian Paul McNamee in 4 sets in the opening round


Tennis Player and French Open ChampionMichael Chang
Tennis Open
1989 Chris Evert becomes the first player ever to win 100 matches in the US National/Open Tennis Championship by beating Patricia Tarabinia 6-2, 6-4


Tennis LegendChris Evert

• 1990 Toronto Argonauts beat BC Lions 68-43 at the Skydome in Toronto for the highest combined score (111) in Canadian Football League history
• 1991 Japanese runner Hiromi Taniguchi wins the marathon in 2:14:57 at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan

US Men's Tennis Open
1993 Goran Ivanišević and Daniel Nestor play a 20–18 tiebreaker in their US Open first round match, eventually won by Ivanišević 6–4, 7–6, 7–6(20–18); longest tiebreak in US Open history


Tennis PlayerGoran Ivanišević
US Men's Tennis Open
1994 8-time major winner Ivan Lendl (34) plays his final professional tennis match; forced to retire with back pain trailing Bernd Karbacher of Germany 6-4, 7-6, 1-0 in the 2nd round of the US Open


Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionIvan Lendl

• 1996 Vinny Testaverde completes 19 from 33 for 254 yards as the Baltimore Ravens beat Oakland Raiders, 17-14 in their NFL debut at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore
• 1996 The Carolina Panthers outgun the Atlanta Falcons 29-6 in their first regular season NFL game at Ericsson Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina

US Men's Tennis Open
1997 Two-time defending US Open champion Pete Sampras has his 17-match winning streak, the 4th-longest of the Open Era in men’s singles, snapped in a 6-7, 7-5, 7-6, 3-6, 7-6 loss to Petr Korda of Czech Republic


Tennis PlayerPete Sampras

• 1998 American harness trainer/driver Dave Palone wins his 6,000th race, driving Oompa’s Terminator to victory at The Meadows Racetrack in Pennsylvania

Sports History
1999 Ex-Pittsburgh Penguins star Mario Lemieux is approved as new owner of the struggling franchise; Penguins become first club in pro sports history to be owned by a former member of the team


NHL Legend and OwnerMario Lemieux

• 2001 Australian Rugby Union team gives all-conquering captain John Eales perfect send off in his final international with a famous last minute, 29-26 win over New Zealand in Sydney; Wallabies retain Tri Nations Series
• 2001 Jockey Tim Moccasin caps a streak of 14 consecutive victories, a North American record, at Marquis Downs in Saskatoon, Canada aboard Intricate Stitch in the 5th race

Baseball Record
2001 Facing 4-time Cy Young Award winner Greg Maddux, Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa hits the longest home run in Turner Field history as his 53rd of the season travels 471 feet to straight away center


MLB Pitching LegendGreg Maddux

MLB OutfielderSammy Sosa
Sports History
2004 Sexual assault charge against LA Lakers star Kobe Bryant is dropped by the Eagle County District Attorney's offices in Colorado after the victim decides not to participate


NBA GuardKobe Bryant

• 2006 The United States men's basketball team is upset at the World Basketball Championships in Saitama, Japan, as the hot-shooting Greece pulls off a 101-95 semi final victory

Sports History
2006 Roger Goodell begins his tenure as NFL Commissioner


Commissioner of the National Football League (NFL)Roger Goodell

• 2007 Clay Buchholz becomes first Boston Red Sox rookie to pitch a no-hitter. In just his second MLB appearance; beats Baltimore Orioles 10-0 at Fenway Park
• 2007 Tyson Gay helps US win the men's 4 x 100m relay at the world track & field championships in Osaka, Japan to join Carl Lewis and Maurice Greene as the only men to win 3 gold medals at one world meet
• 2007 In one of the biggest upsets in college football history, 109,218 fans see Appalachian State's Corey Lynch block a Jason Gingell 37-yard field goal attempt with 6 seconds remaining to inspire an epic 34-32 win v Michigan at Ann Arbor
• 2013 Gareth Bale transfers from Tottenham Hotspur FC to Real Madrid for an estimated world record fee of £85.3 million (€100 million)
• 2015 India scores their first Test cricket series victory in Sri Lanka since 1993 winning 3rd Test in Colombo by 117 runs; Ravichandran Ashwin (4) & Ishant Sharma (3) combine for 7 Sri Lankan 2nd innings wickets

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


Formula 1 DriverKimi Räikkönen

• 2019 Houston Astros starter Justin Verlander strikes out 14 as he throws his third career no-hitter in a 2-0 decision against the Toronto Blue Jays

World Record
2021 Cristiano Ronaldo breaks world record for goals scored in men's international football; hits his 110th and 111th goals for Portugal in 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over Republic of Ireland in Faro


Football StarCristiano Ronaldo

 

Sept 2

• 1878 Surrey left-arm slow round-arm bowler Ted Barratt takes 10-43 for the Players in Australia's 1st innings in a cricket tour match on his home ground at The Oval; all ten are caught or stumped; Australia wins by 8 runs
• 1882 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Richard Sears beats Clarence M. Clark 6-1, 6-4, 6-0

• 1905 New Zealand beats Australia 14-3 in cold, wet conditions in the first international Rugby Union match between the countries on New Zealand soil at Tahuna Park in Dunedin
• 1923 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, NYC, NY: Bill Johnson beats John Hawkes 6-0, 6-2, 6-1 for unassailable 3-1 lead for US over Australia; ends 4-1; US 4th straight win
• 1924 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Bill Tilden wins 5th straight US singles title; beats Bill Johnston for 3rd consecutive year 6-1, 9-7, 6-2
• 1936 NFL Chicago College All-Star Game: All-Stars 7, Detroit Lions 7; 76,000 at Soldier Field

PGA Championship

1940 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Hershey CC: Byron Nelson wins his first PGA C'ship, beating Sam Snead 1 up in the Monday 36-hole final


GolferByron Nelson

GolferSam Snead
Golf Tournament
1946 American golfer Ben Hogan wins the Golden State Open at California CC in Los Angeles; his 3rd consecutive PGA event and 11th title of the season; 2nd time that year he wins 3 straight tournaments


GolferBen Hogan

• 1956 Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina finishes 2nd in Italian GP at Monza to win his 3rd straight F1 World Drivers Championship by 3 points from Englishman Stirling Moss
• 1956 British Ferrari driver Peter Collins sportingly hands over his car to retired teammate Juan Manuel Fangio during season ending Italian Grand Prix at Monza; Fangio finishes 2nd to win F1 World Drivers Championship
• 1957 Milwaukee 1st baseman Frank Torre scores 6 runs to tie the MLB record; Braves rout Chicago Cubs 23-10
• 1960 New Zealand middle distance runner Peter Snell claims first of 3 career Olympic gold medals when he wins the 800m in Rome
• 1960 Tamara & Irina Press (Soviet Union) become first sisters to win Olympic gold medals; Tamara wins Rome Olympics shot put one day after Irina takes out 80m hurdles
• 1960 American sprinter Wilma Rudolph wins the coveted 100m gold medal at the Rome Olympics in 11.0; beats Britain's Dorothy Hyman by 0.3; 1st of 3 gold medals for Rudolph
• 1960 American Mike Troy swims 200m butterfly world record 2:12.8 to win the gold medal from Australian Neville Hayes at the Rome Olympics

Baseball Record
1962 St. Louis 1st baseman Stan Musial's records his 3,516th hit in Cards' 4-3 loss v NY Mets; overtakes Tris Speaker into 2nd place behind Ty Cobb on the MLB all-time list


MLB LegendStan Musial

Baseball PlayerTris Speaker

Sports History
1965 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his MLB 400th career HR (off Curt Simmons) in Chicago's 5-3 win v St. Louis at Wrigley Field; Simmons also gave up Willie Mays' 400th HR in 1963


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


NFL Coach and SportscasterJohn Madden

• 1969 Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage New York Yankees at $65,000 a season, then the biggest salary in MLB
• 1970 US Open first Grand Slam tournament tiebreak is used to decide a set at 6-6; first player to reach 5 points with sudden death at 4-4

US Men's Tennis Open
1971 Teenage debutants Chris Evert & Jimmy Connors win their first matches at the US Open Tennis Championships at Forest Hills


Tennis LegendChris Evert

Tennis LegendJimmy Connors

• 1972 Chicago Cubs pitcher Milt Pappas no-hits San Diego Padres, 8-0
• 1972 East German swimmer Roland Matthes wraps up the Olympic backstroke double with a world record 2:02.82 in the 200m in Munich, having already won the 100m in Olympic record time
• 1972 American breaststroker John Hencken beats David Wilkie of Great Britain to win the 200m gold medal in world record 2:21.55 at the Munich Olympic Games
• 1972 American breaststroker Cathy Carr swims a world record 1:13.58 to win the 100m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 John Akii-Bua of Uganda with a world record 47.82 wins the 400m hurdles gold medal at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 East German sprinter Renate Stecher sets world record 11.07 to beat Raelene Boyle of Australia for the women's 100m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 French track cyclist Daniel Morelon successfully defends his Olympic sprint title beating Australian John Nicholson for the gold medal in Munich
• 1972 For the first time since the advent of the Modern Olympics in 1896, a non-American wins the pole vault gold medal; East German Wolfgang Nordwig clears 5.5m at the Munich Games

Sports History
1973 Billy Martin is fired as Detroit Tigers manager due to continual differences with the front office; goes on to manage Texas, Oakland and NY Yankees (in 5 separate stints)


Baseball Player and ManagerBilly Martin

• 1973 Netherlands win their first men’s hockey World Cup, 4-2 on penalties over India in Amstelveen, Netherlands

PGA Players Championship
1974 PGA Tournament Players Championship, Atlanta CC: Jack Nicklaus wins inaugural event; first of his 3 TPC titles, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up J. C. Snead


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


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


MLB Right FielderReggie Jackson

• 1979 US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, Canterbury GC: Mark O'Meara wins 8 & 7 over John Cook

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


CricketerKim Hughes

• 1987 Houston outfielder Kevin Bass becomes 1st NL player to switch hit HRs in a game twice in one season in Astros 10-1 win v Cubs
• 1990 Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dave Stieb throws MLB record 9th no-hitter of the season; beats Cleveland, 3-0

World Record
1994 Spanish road cyclist Miguel Induráin sets UCI hour world record distance 53.04 kilometers in Bordeaux, France


CyclistMiguel Induráin
Boxing Title Fight
1995 British boxer Frank Bruno beats American champion Oliver McCall in a unanimous 12 round points decision in London for the WBC heavyweight title


BoxerFrank Bruno
Sports History
2001 German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins the Belgian Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps for his record 52nd F1 Grand Prix victory


Formula 1 DriverMichael Schumacher

 

Sept 3

• 1881 1st US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears wins inaugural event beating William E. Glyn 6-0, 6-3, 6-2
• 1889 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Henry Slocum defeats Quincy Shaw 6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2

• 1903 American yacht Reliance (largest gaff-rigged cutter ever built) defends America's Cup for the NYYC beating UK challenger Shamrock III off the New Jersey shore for a 3-0 series win
• 1904 For the only time in Olympic Games history, there is a throw-off in the discus final after Americans Martin Sheridan & Ralph Rose tie with a best throw of 128' 10½" in St. Louis; Sheridan wins with 127' 10¼"
• 1906 Philadelphia Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Philadelphia before 10,000 fans; black baseball's largest crowd ever
• 1906 After an 8 minute argument over an umpire call the NY Highlanders win on forfeit over Philadelphia A's; Highlanders' MLB record 5th doubleheader sweep on consecutive days

Boxing Title Fight

1908 Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs Australian Bill Lang in 6 rounds in Melbourne in a warmup fight for his famous title bout with Jack Johnson


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionTommy Burns

• 1911 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: William Larned wins his 5th consecutive & 7th overall US singles title; beats Maurice McLoughlin 6-4, 6-4, 6-2
• 1918 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Robert Lindley Murray successfully defends title; beats Bill Tilden 6-3, 6-1, 7-5
• 1921 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, NYC, NY: Americans Watson Washburn & William Norris beat Japanese pair Ichiya Kumagae & Zenzo Shimizuto 6-2, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5 for 3-0 lead; ends 5-0

Sports History
1928 Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Ty Cobb records his 4,189th and final career hit, as a pinch hitter for Philadelphia A's in 6-1 loss v Washington Senators


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


MLB Hall of Fame 1st BasemanJimmie Foxx

• 1935 First automobile to exceed 300mph, Malcolm Campbell powers Bluebird to 301.129mph at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
• 1936 For the first and only time in the history of the Walker Cup golf event, there is a shutout; the United States routs Great Britain, 9-0 at Pine Valley GC in New Jersey
• 1938 1940 Olympic site is changed from Tokyo, Japan to Helsinki, Finland because of the Second Sino-Japanese War; WWII causes eventual cancellation
• 1945 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills: American Frank Parker successfully defends title; beats William Talbert 14-12, 6-1, 6-2
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• 1945 US Women's National Tennis Championship, Forest Hills: Sarah Palfrey Cooke wins second US title; beats Pauline Betz Addie 3-6, 8-6, 6-4
• 1947 Philadelphia A's rookie pitcher Bill McCahan no-hits Washington Senators, 3-0
• 1947 New York Yankees total 18 hits, all singles to rout Boston Red Sox, 11-2 at Fenway Park
• 1950 Giuseppe "Nino" Farina wins inaugural Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by taking out the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in an Alfa Romeo; wins by 3 points from Juan Manuel Fangio
• 1956 American Johnny Longden becomes thoroughbred racing's winningest rider, breaking the record of 4,870 wins by British jockey Sir Gordon Richards; rides Arrogate to victory in the Del Mar Handicap
• 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers play their final game in Jersey City, a 3-2 loss v Philadelphia Phillies; 11-4 record in New Jersey

Baseball Record
1957 Milwaukee Braves pitcher Warren Spahn sets an NL record for a left-hander with 41st shut-out; beats Cubs, 8-0


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherWarren Spahn

• 1960 Livio Berruti of Italy runs a world record 20.5 to win the gold medal in the 200m at the Rome Olympics
• 1960 US women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Joan Spillane, Shirley Stobs, Carolyn Wood & Chris von Saltza swim world record 4:08.9 to beat Australia by 2.4 seconds and win gold medal at Rome Olympics
• 1965 Preparing a move to Anaheim, the Los Angeles Angels change their name to the California Angels
• 1966 Houston Oilers hold Denver Broncos to no 1st downs in their NFL season opening 45-7 win at Rice Stadium

Contract of Interest
1966 Future Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Orr signs his first NHL contract with the Boston Bruins; 2 year deal paying a then record $70,000 plus signing bonus


Ice Hockey LegendBobby Orr

• 1970 After playing a NL record 1,117 consecutive MLB games, Chicago Cubs outfielder Billy Williams asks to sit out
• 1972 Jerry Grant runs the first official 200mph qualifying lap in Champ Car history, posting a lap of 201.414mph around Ontario Motor Speedway

Baseball Record
1972 Atlanta Braves slugger Hank Aaron earns his 6,135th total base to break Stan Musial’s MLB record in an 8-0 home defeat to the Philadelphia Phillies


Baseball PlayerHank Aaron

MLB LegendStan Musial

• 1972 Swedish swimmer Gunnar Larsson wraps up the Olympic medley double when he sets world record 2:07.17 in the 200m I/M in Munich, having already won the 400m I/M

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


SwimmerMark Spitz

• 1972 American swimmer Keena Rothhammer has to swim world record 8:53.68 to beat Australian wonder-kid Shane Gould in the 800m at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 American women's 4 x 100m medley relay team of Melissa Belote, Cathy Carr, Deena Deardurff & Sandy Neilson swim world record 4:20.75 to beat East Germany for gold at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 Finnish runner Lasse Virén scores a famous victory in the 10,000m at the Munich Olympics in world record 27:38.35
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• 1972 Great Britain's Mary Peters sets a new world record of 4801 points to win the Munich Olympics pentathlon gold by just 10 points from Heide Rosendahl of West Germany
• 1973 American golfer Billy Casper finishes at 20-under-par 264 to beat Australian Bruce Devlin by 1 stroke to win the Sammy Davis, Jr. Greater Hartford Open; his 50th PGA Tour title
• 1974 SF Giants' pitcher John Montefusco in his MLB debut, homers in his first at bat and pitches 9 innings in relief to earn a 9 - 5 victory over the Dodgers

Sports History
1974 Future Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame guard Oscar Robertson retires; leaves NBA with 26,710 points, 9,887 assists & 7,804 rebounds in 1,040 games


NBA PlayerOscar Robertson

• 1975 England cricket batsman Bob Woolmer scores 149 on the final day to save the 4th Test v Australia at The Oval; longest first-class match ever played in England; 32 hours 17 minutes

Baseball Record
1975 Dodgers 1st baseman Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak in a 13-2 loss v Cincinnati Reds


Baseball PlayerSteve Garvey

• 1977 Japanese baseball superstar Sadaharu Oh hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron as all-time career leader in professional baseball
• 1981 Longest MLB game in Fenway Park history is suspended after 19 innings at Seattle Mariners 7, Boston Red Sox 7; Mariners win 8-7 in 20 the following morning
• 1984 St. Louis Cardinals closer Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th in 7-3 win v NY Mets
• 1985 England cricket swing bowler Richard Ellison with 5 for 76 helps dismiss Australia for 129 in 6th Test win at the Oval; England regains Ashes 3-1
• 1985 NY Mets catcher Gary Carter smashes 3 consecutive HRs in an 8-3 win v San Diego Padres at Jack Murphy Stadium
• 1986 Houston Astros & Chicago Cubs use MLB record 53 players, including 17 pitchers in a 2-day 18 inning marathon; Astros win 8-7

Sports History
1989 American tennis star Chris Evert beats 15-year-old Monica Seles 6-0, 6-2 in a 4th round match for her 101st and last US Open singles victory


Tennis LegendChris Evert

Tennis Player and Nine-Time Major ChampionMonica Seles
Baseball Record
1990 White Sox closer Bobby Thigpen tops Dave Righetti's MLB record with 47th save in Chicago's 4-2 win v Royals; Thigpen finishes season with 57 saves


MLB Pitcher and CoachDave Righetti

• 1994 Florida's Terry Dean tosses an NCAA football record 7 touchdown passes in the first half as the Gators roll to a 70-21 drubbing of New Mexico State
• 1994 Miami rout Georgia Southern 56-0, breaking NCAA football record with its 58th consecutive home win; Alabama won 57 straight at home between 1962-82
• 1995 Carolina Panthers lose their debut NFL game in overtime 23-20 to the Atlanta Falcons in front of 58,808 fans at the Georgia Dome
• 1995 In their NFL debut game the Jacksonville Jaguars fall to the Houston Oilers 10-3; 72,363 fans attend the Jacksonville Municipal Stadium

Sports History
1999 Mario Lemieux's ownership group officially takes over the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins; Lemieux is first player in the modern era of sports to buy the team he once played for


NHL Legend and OwnerMario Lemieux

• 2001 In just his 11th start, St. Louis Cardinals' rookie pitcher Bud Smith no-hits the San Diego Padres, 4-0
• 2005 After beating South Africa the previous weekend, New Zealand clinch their 6th Tri Nations Rugby Series with a 34-24 win over Australia in Auckland; All Blacks winger Doug Howlett crosses for 3 tries
• 2006 Los Angeles Sparks center Lisa Leslie wins the WNBA's Most Valuable Player award, joining Sheryl Swoopes as the league's only three-time winners

US Men's Tennis Open
2006 Andre Agassi loses to 112th-ranked Benjamin Becker of Germany 7-5, 6-7, 6-4, 7-5 in the 3rd round at the US Open in his final career match; 8-time Grand Slam winner finishes with record of 870-274


Tennis LegendAndre Agassi

• 2008 The new Oklahoma City NBA franchise announces the team will be named the 'Thunder'; reference to powerful storms in the area

Sports History
2011 Following his disqualification in the 100m, Jamaica's Usain Bolt runs a season best 19.40 to win the 200m at the World Athletics Championships in South Korea


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt

• 2020 Philadelphia Phillies retire infielder Dick Allen's number 15 on the 57th anniversary of his MLB debut.

 

Sept 4

• 1906 New York Highlanders beat Boston Pilgrims, 7 - 0 and 1 - 0 for their MLB record 5th straight doubleheader sweep
• 1916 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitchers Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown face each other for a final time; after 25 contests Mathewson takes a 13-12 advantage with Reds 10-8 winners over Cubs

• 1919 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Bill Johnston wins his second US title; beats Bill Tilden 6-4, 6-4, 6-3
• 1920 Man o' War wins the 1 5/8-mile Lawrence Realization Stakes at Belmont Park by 100 lengths, the largest winning margin in modern thoroughbred racing history; world record time 2.40.8

World Record
1922 Finnish super athlete Paavo Nurmi runs a 2000m world record 5:26.3 in Tampere, Finland


Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi

• 1922 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, NYC, NY: Bill Tilden beats James Anderson 6-4, 5-7, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 for unassailable 3-1 lead for US over Australasia; US retains title, ends 4-1
• 1923 New York Yankees pitcher "Sad" Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia A's, 2-0

Sports History
1927 Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour


AviatorCharles Lindbergh

• 1932 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Keller GC: Olin Dutra wins the first of 2 major titles, beating Frank Walsh, 4 & 3

Sports History
1934 Australian cricket super-batsman Don Bradman scores 149 not out in just 104 minutes (17 fours, 4 sixes) in drawn tour match v England XI at Folkestone


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

• 1937 15 year old cyclist Doris Kopsky becomes 1st Amateur Bicycle League of America woman's national champion in 4:22.4 in Buffalo, NY
• 1941 New York Yankees clinch their 3rd straight AL pennant; beat the Red Sox, 6-3; earliest date in baseball history a team has captured a flag
• 1944 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American Frank Parker wins 1st of 4 Grand Slam titles; beats William Talbert 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• 1944 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Pauline Betz Addie wins her third straight US title; beats Margaret Osborne 6-3, 8-6
• 1945 American chess grandmaster Reuben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid (10 seconds per move) games blindfolded in New York City
• 1947 Champion Middlesex cricket batsman Denis Compton scores 101 for South of England in tour match defeat to South Africa at Lord's; his record 17th century of the English season
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• 1950 NASCAR’s first paved super speedway, Darlington Raceway hosts Southern 500, first 500-mile event in NASCAR history; winner Johnny Mantz in a Plymouth
• 1966 Australian Jack Brabham clinches his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship with a 6th place in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza

World Record
1972 US 4 x 100m medley relay team of Mike Stamm, Tom Bruce, Mark Spitz & Jerry Heidenreich sets world record 3:48.16 to win gold at the Munich Olympics; Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 Olympic gold medals at a single Games


SwimmerMark Spitz

• 1972 American swimmer Mike Burton sets a world record 15:52.58 to win the 1,500m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 American swimmer Melissa Belote with a world record 2:19.19 takes the 200m backstroke gold medal at the Munich Olympics; wraps up backstroke double having won the 100m in Olympic record time
• 1972 Soviet sprinter Valeriy Borzov runs 20.00 to win the men's 200m gold medal at the Munich Olympics; wraps up the 100/200m double at the Games
• 1972 Kenyan legend Kipchoge Keino follows his 1,500m gold in Mexico City with an Olympic record 8:23.64 to win the 3,000m steeplechase at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 16 year old Ulrike Meyfarth of West Germany with a world record equalling 1.92m, wins the women's high jump gold medal at the Munich Olympics; youngest winner of individual athletics event in Olympic history
• 1972 Willem Ruska of the Netherlands wins gold medals in both the heavyweight & open class Olympic judo competitions in Munich; first judoka to win 2 Olympic gold medals at one Games
• 1972 Italian diver Klaus Dibiasi wins his 2nd of 3 consecutive 10m platform gold medals the Munich Olympics

Sports History
1979 Sunil Gavaskar scores his third double century in Test cricket (221) to guide India to a famous draw against England in the 4th Test at The Oval


CricketerSunil Gavaskar

• 1981 Longest MLB game at Fenway Park ends in 20 innings; Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox, 8-7
• 1983 US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, North Shore CC: Jay Sigel successfully defends title 8 & 7 over Chris Perry
• 1983 Greg LeMond wins UCI World Road Race Championship in 7h 01' 21" in Altenrhein, Switzerland; first American cyclist to take the title
• 1985 Russian Igor Paklin sets new high jump world record at 2.41m in Kobe, Japan
• 1985 NY Mets catcher Gary Carter's 2 HRs in a 9-2 win in San Diego ties MLB record of 5 HRs in 2 games

Sports History
1988 Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills NY


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

• 1988 The relocated Phoenix Cardinals play first regular-season NFL game; lose 21-14 v Bengals at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati

Baseball Record
1991 MLB Statistical Accuracy Committee votes to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris' 1961 home run record of 61 (passing Babe Ruth's 60) & determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings


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


Tennis LegendJimmy Connors

Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionIvan Lendl

• 1993 Penn State University plays its first football game in the Big 10, beating Minnesota 38-20; quarterback John Sacca throws 4 touchdown passes to Bobby Engram
• 1993 New York Yankees pitcher Jim Abbott no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0 at Yankee Stadium

US Men's Tennis Open
1993 Mats Wilander beats fellow Swede Mikael Pernfors in a US Open marathon 7-6, 3-6, 1-6, 7-6, 6-4 in 4 hours, 1 minute; match ends at 2:26am


Tennis Player and Seven-Time Major ChampionMats Wilander

Tennis PlayerMikael Pernfors

• 1994 Tom Tupa scores the first 2-point conversion in NFL history, running in a fake extra point attempt for the Cleveland Browns in a 28-20 win at Cincinnati

NFL Record
1994 Miami quarterback Dan Marino throws 5 touchdown passes in Dolphins' 39-35 win over New England; sets NFL record with his 18th game of 4-or-more touchdown passes


Hall of Fame NFL QuarterbackDan Marino

• 1994 Chinese diver Fu Mingxia wins 10m platform gold medal at World Swimming Championships in Rome, Italy; becomes first female to win back-to-back world titles in the event
• 1995 Chicago White Sox third baseman Robin Ventura hits grand slams in consecutive innings, the 4th and 5th, of a 14-3 rout of the Texas Rangers
• 1998 NY Yankees beat Chicago White Sox, 11-6, to win their 100th game on the earliest date in MLB history besting the 1906 Chicago Cubs & 1954 Cleveland Indians by 5 days
• 1999 MLB's Cincinnati Reds set a National League record with 9 home runs as they rout the Philadelphia Phillies, 22-3
• 2000 England claim first series (3-1) over West Indies since 1969; win 5th Test by 158 runs at The Oval, London; Windies captain Courtney Walsh's 132nd and final Test
• 2002 Argentina pulls off one of the biggest upsets in basketball history, beating the US, 87-80 in 2nd round of the World Championships; 1st US loss in 59 games since sending NBA players to international competition in 1992
• 2002 After blowing an 11-run lead to Kansas City, Scott Hatteberg's bottom of the 9th walk off HR gives Oakland a historic MLB victory, 12-11; A's set AL record 20 game winning streak

Sports History
2005 20 year old Kyle Busch becomes youngest driver to win a NASCAR Cup Series race when he out duels Greg Biffle in the Sony HD 500 at California Speedway


Auto RacerKyle Busch
Golf Tournament
2006 Tiger Woods matches the lowest final round of his career (8-under 63) in the Deutsche Bank C'ship at Norton, MA to win for the 5th straight time and 7th time this PGA Tour season


GolferTiger Woods

• 2006 Damon Allen moves past ex-CFL & NFL star Warren Moon as pro football's all-time leading passer; throws for 207 yards & 2 scores as Toronto routs Hamilton, 40-6; Allen 70,595 career passing yards

 

Sept 5

• 1901 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, better known as Minor League Baseball is formed at the Leland Hotel in Chicago
• 1906 St. Louis University quarterback Bradbury Robinson throws first legal forward pass in the history of American football for a TD to Jack Schneider at Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin; St. Louis wins, 22-0

• 1908 Brooklyn Superbas pitcher Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0 at Washington Park, Brooklyn
• 1913 Phillies & Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th

US Men's Tennis Open

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


Tennis PlayerR. Norris Williams

• 1918 Due to WWI, 15th Baseball World Series begins a month early; Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago Cubs, 1-0 at Comiskey Park

Baseball Record
1921 Walter Johnson sets MLB strikeout mark at 2,287


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

• 1922 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1)
• 1923 Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously

Golf Tournament
1925 29th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones


GolferBobby Jones

• 1938 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Philadelphia, PA: US retain title as Don Budge beats Australian Adrian Quist 8-6, 6-1, 6-2 for unbeatable 3-1 lead; ends 3-2
• 1939 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Haverford, PA: John Bromwich beats American Frank Parker 6-0, 6-3, 6-1 to give Australia the title, 3-2
• 1946 Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game, in his hometown of St. Louis; 2 RBI's in Cardinals' win over Chicago Cubs
• 1948 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: 3 straight titles for US as Gardnar Mulloy & Bill Talbert beat Australians Colin Long & Bill Sidwell 8-6, 9-7, 2-6, 7-5 for unassailable 3-0 lead; ends 5-0
• 1949 US National Championship Men's Tennis: Pancho Gonzales beats fellow American Ted Schroeder 16-18, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4; longest singles final match by games (67), before tiebreaker introduction
• 1949 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Margaret Osborne duPont beats fellow American Doris Hart 6-4, 6-1
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• 1950 98.3 cm rainfall at Yankeetown, Florida (state record)
• 1950 US National Championship Men's Tennis: American Art Larsen beats countryman Herb Flam 6-3, 4-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 for his only Grand Slam title
• 1950 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-American final Margaret Osborne duPont beats Doris Hart 6-3, 6-3 for her third consecutive US singles crown

US Men's Tennis Open
1951 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Frank Sedgman of Australia beats American Vic Seixas 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 for his first of 2 straight US singles crowns


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


Tennis playerMaureen Connolly

• 1955 Dodger Don Newcombe hits NL pitcher record 7th HR of season

Olympic Gold
1960 Cassius Clay [Muhammad Ali] beats 3-time European champion Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland by unanimous points decision to win Olympic light heavyweight boxing gold medal at the Rome Games


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali
Sports History
1960 A. J. Foyt wins the first of 67 Indy car victories at Du Quoin, Illinois. State Fairgrounds


Racing Car DriverA. J. Foyt
Olympic Gold
1960 Future world middleweight boxing champion Nino Benvenuti of Italy beats Yuri Radonyak of the Soviet Union to win welterweight gold medal at the Rome Olympics


BoxerNino Benvenuti

• 1962 Atletico Madrid of Spain win 2nd European Cup Winner's Cup against ACF Fiorentina of Italy 3-0 in Stuttgart (replay)
• 1962 Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games at 78 & consecutive errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th
• 1971 Astros pitcher J R Richard debut, strikes out 15 Giants in a 5-3 win
• 1971 NY Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet
• 1972 11 Israeli athletes taken hostage and later killed by Palestinian Black September group at the Munich Olympics
• 1973 1st one-day Cricket international for WI (v Eng) - lose by 1 wicket
• 1977 Cleveland Indians stage 1st "I hate the Yankee Hanky Night"
• 1979 Oakland A's pitcher Matt Keough beats Milwaukee Brewers, 6-1 for first win after 14 straight losses, ended 1978 with 18 defeats (1 shy of the MLB record 19)

US Men's Tennis Open
1979 American Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his bullet serve and upsets top-seed Björn Borg 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 in the US Open Tennis quarterfinals


Tennis Player and Australian OpenRoscoe Tanner

Tennis PlayerBjörn Borg

• 1982 US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, The Country Club: Jay Sigel wins 8 & 7 over David Tolley

Tennis Open
1987 John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at US Tennis Open


Tennis PlayerJohn McEnroe
Sports History
1987 2nd World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in Men's Long Jump


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

• 1988 CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return & 58-yd pass reception

Tennis Open
1989 Chris Evert's final US Open tennis match; defeated by Zina Garrison 7-6, 6-2 in the quarter finals


Tennis LegendChris Evert

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


Tennis PlayerPete Sampras

Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionIvan Lendl

• 1992 Dan O'Brien sets world record decathlon (8891 pts)
• 1994 Jingyi Le swims world record 100m women's freestyle (54.01 sec)

NFL Record
1994 SF wide receiver Jerry Rice catches 2 touchdown passes and runs for another score in 49ers' 44-14 rout of the Raiders; surpasses Jim Brown as NFL's career TD leader with 127


NFL LegendJerry Rice

NFL LegendJim Brown
Baseball Record
1995 Cal Ripken Jr ties Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 straight games


MLB LegendCal Ripken Jr

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

 

Sept 6

• 1880 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, v Australia at The Oval

Sports History
1880 W. G. Grace scores 152 in debut Test Cricket innings, v Aust The Oval


CricketerW. G. Grace

• 1883 Chicago White Stockings beat Detroit Wolverines, 26-6 at Lake Front Park, Chicago; smash MLB record 18 runs in 7th inning
• 1904 Soccer team Rheden forms
• 1905 Chicago White Sox pitcher Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0
• 1913 19th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers

Boxing Title Fight
1920 Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJack Dempsey

• 1920 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Bill Tilden wins first of 6 straight US singles titles; beats Bill Johnston 6-1, 1-6, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3
• 1930 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
• 1942 Czech marathon runner Oskar Hêks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
• 1943 Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in American League history at 16years, 8 months

US Men's Tennis Open
1943 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Joe Hunt beats fellow American Jack Kramer 6-3, 6-8, 10-8, 6-0 for his lone major title


Tennis PlayerJack Kramer

• 1943 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American Pauline Betz successfully defends title; beats Louise Brough Clapp 6-3, 5-7, 6-3
• 1945 A's catcher Greek George punches umpire Joe Rue gets suspended
• 1946 All-America Football Conference begins regular season play as the Cleveland Browns beat the Miami Seahawks 44-0 before 60,135 at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium

Baseball Record
1953 Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38


MLB CatcherRoy Campanella

• 1954 Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters

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


Tennis PlayerVic Seixas

• 1954 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Doris Hart beats Louise Brough Clapp 6-8, 6-1, 8-6 for the first of her 2 US singles titles
• 1960 Australian middle distance runner Herb Elliott breaks his own world record in winning the 1,500m at the Rome Olympics in 3:35.6
• 1960 American Otis Davis runs a world record 44.9 to win the gold medal in the 400m at the Rome Olympics; German Carl Kaufmann records same time but ruled second via photo finish
• 1960 In a famous victory American decathlete Rafer Johnson scores Olympic record 8,392 points to win the gold medal in Rome; beats rival & friend C.K. Yang of China by 58 points
• 1963 Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in Major League baseball history
• 1972 Summer Olympics resume in Munich, Germany after massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by Black September Palestinian terrorist organization

Sports History
1975 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for US political asylum in New York City during the US Open


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


Tennis LegendChris Evert

Tennis PlayerEvonne Goolagong Cawley

• 1977 Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash, 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977
• 1980 French runner Chantal Langlacé sets women's 100k world record (7h 27m 22s) in Amiens, France
• 1980 US College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for Macalester College (St. Paul)
• 1980 US Open Women's Tennis: In the centenary women's singles final, Chris Evert-Lloyd wins her 5th US title; beats Hana Mandlíková 5-7, 6-1, 6-1
• 1981 Robert Granville "Bob" Lemon named NY Yankee manager for 2nd time

Sports History
1982 Pittsburgh Pirates retire Willie Stargell's #8


Baseball Left fielder / First basemanWillie Stargell
Sports History
1985 Mark Messier loses control of his Porsche and totals three cars, and would later be charged with hit and run and careless driving (he would pay a fine)


NHL LegendMark Messier

• 1986 Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1986 US Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins her 3rd US singles title; beats Czech star Helena Suková 6-3, 6-2
• 1987 Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48)
• 1987 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
• 1991 33rd Walker Cup: US, 14-10
• 1994 Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30)

Sports History
1995 Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games


MLB LegendCal Ripken Jr
Sports History
1996 Baltimore Orioles' Eddie Murray's 500th career HR


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


Tennis PlayerMartina Hingis

Tennis PlayerVenus Williams

• 2003 US Open Women's Tennis: In an all-Belgian final Justine Henin-Hardenne wins her first US title; beats Kim Clijsters 7-5, 6-1

US Open Women's Tennis
2008 US Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams wins her third US title; beats Jelena Janković of Serbia 6-4, 7-5


Tennis PlayerSerena Williams

• 2009 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Priddis Greens GC: Suzann Pettersen of Norway wins by 5 strokes from a group of 5 players
• 2018 World Surf League announces from 2019 there would be equal prize money for men and women across elite tour events; first US-based global sports league with gender pay parity
• 2019 Sri Lankan cricket fast bowler Lasith Malinga takes 4 wickets in 4 balls and finishes with 5 for 6 as New Zealand all out for 88 in 37-run defeat in 3rd T-20 International in Pellekele

US Men's Tennis Open
2020 World #1 tennis player Novak Đoković is sensationally disqualified in 4th round of US Open after hitting a ball in frustration, striking a line judge; trailed Pablo Carreño Busta 5-6 in 1st set


Tennis ChampionNovak Đoković

• 2021 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Inverness GC, OH: Europe retains title 15-13; Emily Kristine Pedersen of Denmark edges Danielle Kang 1-up to clinch Cup for Europe

 

Sept 7

• 1880 Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters

Boxing Title Fight

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


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJohn L. Sullivan

• 1896 A. H. Whiting wins the 1st automobile race held on a closed-circuit track in Cranston, Rhode Island
• 1897 George Davis (Giants) HR off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH
• 1903 Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY
• 1923 Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Philadelphia A's, 4-0
• 1932 Earl Grace, ends NL catcher record streak of 110 cons errorless games

US Men's Tennis Open
1941 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: 1939 champion Bobby Riggs beats Frank Kovacs 5-7, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3


Tennis Player and Three-Time Major ChampionBobby Riggs

• 1941 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Sarah Palfrey Cooke beats fellow American Pauline Betz Addie 7-5, 6-2; sweeps all 3 women's titles
• 1942 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American Ted Schroeder wins his first of 2 Grand Slam events; beats countryman Frank Parker 8-6, 7-5, 3-6, 4-6, 6-2
• 1942 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Pauline Betz beats fellow American Louise Brough Clapp 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 for her first of 3 straight US singles titles
• 1952 Outfielder Don Grate throws a baseball a record 434'1" (Tenn)
• 1952 NY Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yanks a 5-1 win at Washington, giving him a HR in all 15 major league parks

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


Auto RacerAlberto Ascari
Baseball Record
1953 Roy Campanella sets catcher record of 125 (en route to 142) RBIs


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


Tennis Player and Five-Time Major ChampionTony Trabert

Tennis PlayerVic Seixas

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


Tennis playerMaureen Connolly
Sports History
1955 New York Yankee Whitey Ford becomes 5th MLB pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters


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


Tennis Player and Four-Time Major ChampionAshley Cooper
US Open Women's Tennis
1958 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard 3-6, 6-1, 6-2


Tennis PlayerDarlene Hard

Tennis PlayerAlthea Gibson

• 1960 Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3)
• 1960 Japan wins the men's gymnastics teams combined exercises gold for the first of 5 consecutive Olympics at the Rome Games; beats Soviet Union by just 2.5 points
• 1960 Danish yachtsman Paul Elvstrøm wins the Finn class at the Rome Olympics; his 4th straight Olympic gold medal in the category
• 1960 US sweeps the medals in the men's discus at the Rome Olympics; Al Oerter wins his 2nd of 4 career discus gold ahead of fellow Americans Rink Babka and Dick Cochran
• 1960 Future Constantine II, last King of Greece, wins Dragon class sailing gold medal at the Rome Olympics
• 1960 American weightlifter Charles Vinci wins 2nd consecutive bantamweight gold medal at the Rome Olympics with world-record equalling 3-lift (snatch, clean & jerk, overhead press) total of 345.0 kilograms

US Open Women's Tennis
1968 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: England's Virginia Wade wins first Open era US singles title; beats Billie Jean King 6-4, 6-2


Tennis Player and Three-Time Major ChampionVirginia Wade

Tennis LegendBillie Jean King
Sports History
1969 Scottish Matra-Ford driver Jackie Stewart wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; his 6th F1 win of the season


Auto RacerJackie Stewart

• 1970 White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader & lose both games
• 1972 American Rod Milburn with a world record 13.24 wins the 110m hurdles gold medal at the Munich Olympics; just 0.10 seconds ahead of Frenchman Guy Drut
• 1972 East German sprinter Renate Stecher runs a world record equalling 22.40 in the 200m final to repeat her 100m win over Australia's Raelene Boyle at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 Nadezhda Chizhova of the Soviet Union throws a world record 21.03m to win the women's shot put at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 American athletes Vincent Matthews & Wayne Collett finish 1-2 in 400m at the Munich Olympics; acted casually on the medal stand, did not face the flag during anthem; banned from the Olympics for life
• 1972 Future world professional cycling road race champion Hennie Kuiper of the Netherlands wins the road race gold medal at the Munich Olympics in 4:14:37
• 1973 Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Association's 4th commissioner

US Open Women's Tennis
1974 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Billie Jean King wins her 4th and final US singles title; beats Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia 3-6, 6-3, 7-5


Tennis LegendBillie Jean King

Tennis PlayerEvonne Goolagong Cawley

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

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


Tennis LegendJimmy Connors

• 1978 1st game of Boston Massacre, NY Yankees beat Red Sox, 15-3
• 1979 The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.
• 1980 Oakland A's pitch record 78th complete game of season

US Men's Tennis Open
1980 US Open Men's Tennis: In centenary men's singles final John McEnroe retains title; beats Björn Borg 7-6, 6-1, 6-7, 5-7, 6-4


Tennis PlayerJohn McEnroe

Tennis PlayerBjörn Borg

• 1981 Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 57 pass attempts
• 1981 West Tampa Fl defeats Rich Va, 6-4 to win American Legion World Series

Baseball Record
1984 Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236


Baseball PitcherDwight Gooden
US Open Women's Tennis
1985 US Open Women's Tennis: Hana Mandlíková beats Martina Navratilova 7-6, 1-6, 7-6 for her first US title


Tennis Player and Four-Time Major ChampionHana Mandlikova

Tennis PlayerMartina Navratilova

• 1986 Cleveland Browns become 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31

Sports History
1986 Dan Marino throws his 100th career touchdown pass, the fastest QB in NFL history to do so


Hall of Fame NFL QuarterbackDan Marino
US Men's Tennis Open
1986 US Open Men's Tennis: In an all-Czech final Ivan Lendl retains his title; beats Miloslav Mečíř 6-4, 6-2, 6-0



Hall of Fame
1988 Guy Lafleur, Tony Esposito & Brad Park inducted in NHL Hall of Fame

Sports History
1988 NY Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist

• 1991 1st South African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics
• 1991 Brigham Young University quarterback Ty Detmer passes NCAA record 11,606 yards

US Open Women's Tennis
1991 US Open Women's Tennis: Monica Seles of Yugoslavia wins her first US title; beats Martina Navratilova 7-6, 6-1

• 1992 Baseball commissioner Faye Vincent resigns
• 1992 Former owner and team president of the Milwaukee Brewers Bud Selig is appointed interim Commissioner of Major League Baseball; holds office until becoming official Commissioner in 1998
• 1993 St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Mark Whiten hits 4 HRs & 12 RBIs in 15-2 win at Cincinnati Reds
• 1994 Jingyi Le, Ying Shan, Ying Le and Bin Lu swimming 4x100 freestyle (3:37.91)

US Open Women's Tennis
1996 US Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf retains her title; beats Monica Seles 7-5 6-4 for her 5th and final US singles crown

• 1997 US Open Men's Tennis: Patrick Rafter of Australia wins his first Grand Slam title; beats Canadian Greg Rusedski 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5

US Open Women's Tennis
2002 US Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams wins second US title; beats older sister Venus Williams 6-4, 6-3



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


Sports History
2004 Indian cricketer Rahul Dravid is named Player of the Year by the International Cricket Council

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

 

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

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


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

• 1955 Earliest clinching of an NL pennant (Brooklyn Dodgers)
• 1957 Juan Manuel Fangio confirms his F1 World Drivers Championship, finishing 2nd in the season ending Italian GP at Monza; takes record 5th title by 15 points from Stirling Moss

US Men's Tennis Open
1957 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-Australian final Mal Anderson wins his only Grand Slam event; beats Ashley Cooper 10-8, 7-5, 6-4

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

Baseball Record
1958 Pirate Roberto Clemente ties modern record of 3 triples in a game


Baseball PlayerRoberto Clemente

• 1960 American sprinter Wilma Rudolph wins her third gold medal of the Rome Olympics anchoring the US 4 x 100m relay team; earlier won 100/200m double
• 1960 US 4 x 400m relay team of Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis & Otis Davis run a world record 3:02.2 to win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics
• 1960 German 4 x 100m relay team equal world record 39.5 to win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf & Martin Lauer

Sports History
1963 Milwaukee Braves future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn ties Christy Mathewson with 13 x 20-win seasons

• 1963 Scottish Lotus driver Jim Clark wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch his first F1 World Drivers Championship; Clark's 5th GP win of the season
• 1963 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Rafael Osuna of Mexico beats Frank Froehling 7-5, 6-4, 6-2 for his lone major singles title

US Open Women's Tennis
1963 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Maria Bueno of Brazil wins second of 4 US singles crowns; beats defending champion Margaret Smith of Australia 7-5, 6-4


Sports History
1965 Kansas City A's Bert Campaneris plays all 9 positions in a game


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

• 1969 US amateur Men's Tennis: Stan Smith beats Bob Lutz (97 63 61)

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

• 1972 Chic Cub Ferguson Jenkins wins his 20th game for 6th straight year
• 1972 Mykola Avilov representing the Soviet Union scores a world record 8454 points to win the decathlon gold medal at the Munich Olympics; beats teammate Leonid Lytvynenko by 419 points
• 1972 East German Annelie Ehrhardt with a world record 12.59 takes the 100m hurdles gold medal at the Munich Olympics; beats Romanian Valeria Bufanu by just 0.25

Sports History
1973 Billy Martin named manager of the Texas Rangers


Baseball Record
1973 Hank Aaron sets record of most HRs in 1 league (709)


US Open Women's Tennis
1973 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Margaret Court wins her 24th and final Grand Slam singles title; beats fellow Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley 7-6, 5-7, 6-2

• 1974 England's Ian Thompson wins European Championship marathon in 2:13:18.8 in Rome, Italy

US Men's Tennis Open
1974 US Open Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Jimmy Connors wins his first of 5 US singles titles; outclasses veteran Australian Ken Rosewall 6-1, 6-0, 6-1 in last event played on grass

• 1978 2nd game of Boston Massacre; NY Yankees beat Red Sox, 13-2

US Open Women's Tennis
1979 US Open Women's Tennis: Tracy Austin becomes youngest US champion (16 years, 9 months); beats Chris Evert 6-4, 6-3



Sports History
1980 Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely due to drug arrest


US Open Women's Tennis
1984 US Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova retains her title; beats Chris Evert-Lloyd 4-6, 6-4, 6-4


Sports History
1985 Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with 4,191 hits



US Men's Tennis Open
1985 US Open Men's Tennis: Czech star Ivan Lendl wins his first US title; beats NYC home town favourite John McEnroe 7-6, 6-3, 6-4

• 1988 Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43m
• 1988 NL president A. Bartlett Giamatti is unanimously elected Major League Baseball's 7th Commissioner

Baseball Record
1989 George Brett gets his 2,500th hit


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

• 1991 NFL Buffalo Bill QB Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns vs Pittsburgh Steelers (52-34)

US Men's Tennis Open
1991 US Open Men's Tennis: Stefan Edberg of Sweden wins his first US title; beats American Jim Courier 6-2, 6-4, 6-0

• 1992 Danny Tartabull has 9 RBIs as Yanks beat Orioles 16-4
• 1993 Baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format OKed in AL
• 1993 Houston's Darryl Kile throws 3rd no-hitter of season in Astros' 7-1 win over NY Mets
• 1994 Sri Lanka defeat Australia to win Singer World Series at Colombo
• 1995 Cleveland Indians clinch 1st AL Central Division title

US Men's Tennis Open
1996 US Open Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras retains his title; beats fellow American Michael Chang 6-1, 6-4, 7-6


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

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

US Men's Tennis Open
2008 US Open Men's Tennis: Roger Federer beats Scotsman Andy Murray 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 for his 5th consecutive US title


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

• 2014 US Open Men's Tennis: Marin Čilić of Croatia wins his maiden grand slam title; beats Kei Nishikori of Japan 6-3, 6-3, 6-3

US Open Women's Tennis
2018 US Open Women's Tennis: Naomi Osaka first Japanese female to win a Grand Slam singles final; beats Serena Williams in controversial match 6-2, 6-4


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

 

Sept. 9

• 1841 Tom Hyer beats George McChester in 101 rounds at Caldwell's Landing, NY to become first American heavyweight boxing champion
• 1904 Boston Herald again refers to NY baseball club as Yankees, when it reports "Yankees take 2," Yankee name not official till 1913

Boxing Title Fight

1909 Jack Johnson retains his heavyweight boxing title when he fights Al Kaufman to a no decision in 10 rounds at Coffroth's Arena, San Francisco, California


World Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJack Johnson

• 1914 Boston Brave George Davis no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0
• 1927 Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium
• 1928 Silvio Cator of Haiti, sets then long jump record at 26' ½"
• 1934 Armas Toivonen becomes 1st European marathoner (2:52:29.0)
• 1936 New York Yankees beat Cleveland Indians, 12-9 at League Park to clinch AL pennant on the earliest date in history

US Men's Tennis Open
1940 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Donald McNeill beats fellow American Bobby Riggs 4-6, 6-8, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 for his second major singles title


Tennis Player and Three-Time Major ChampionBobby Riggs
US Open Women's Tennis
1940 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Alice Marble beats Helen Jacobs 6-2, 6-3 for her third US singles title


Tennis ChampionAlice Marble
Sports History
1945 Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th & final HR


MLB Hall of Fame 1st BasemanJimmie Foxx

• 1948 Brooklyn Dodger Rex Barney no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
• 1955 Don Zimmer, hits 4,000th Dodger home run

US Men's Tennis Open
1956 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-Australian final Ken Rosewall wins his first US singles title, beating Lew Hoad 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3


Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionKen Rosewall

Tennis Player and Four-Time Major ChampionLew Hoad
US Open Women's Tennis
1956 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-American final Shirley Fry Irvin beats Althea Gibson 6-3, 6-4 for her only US singles crown


Tennis PlayerAlthea Gibson

• 1960 Denver Broncos beat Boston Patriots, 13-10 in the American Football League's first game before 21,597 fans at Nickerson Field in Boston
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• 1960 Pakistan ends India's run of 6 consecutive Olympic field hockey gold medals with a 1-0 win over their sub-continent rivals at the Rome Games

Baseball Record
1965 LA Dodgers future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax throws his 4th career no-hitter and first perfect game in a 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs at Dodger Stadium


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


Tennis PlayerRod Laver

Tennis Player and CoachTony Roche
Sports History
1970 Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun


MLB CommissionerBowie Kuhn

Baseball PitcherDenny McLain

• 1970 Feyenoord wins soccer's Club World Cup
• 1971 NHL great Gordie Howe retires (for the first time), after 25 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings

US Open Women's Tennis
1972 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Billie Jean King retains her title; beats Kerry Melville Reid of Australia 6-3, 7-5


Tennis LegendBillie Jean King

• 1972 Soviet runner Lyudmila Bragina with a world record 4:01.38 wins the women's 1,500m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 Soviet Union beats the United States 51-50 in the most controversial game in international basketball history; with US leading 50-49 the final 3 seconds is replayed 3 times until the Soviets finally win
• 1972 West German equestrian rider Liselott Linsenhoff follows her dressage teams gold in Mexico City with the individual dressage title at her home Olympics in Munich

Sports History
1973 4th place finish in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza is enough to clinch Jackie Stewart his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship


Auto RacerJackie Stewart

• 1973 US Open Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Australian John Newcombe wins his second US singles title; beats Jan Kodeš 6-4, 1-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
• 1978 3rd game of Boston Massacre; NY Yankees beat Red Sox, 7-0
• 1978 Baltimore Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto)

US Open Women's Tennis
1978 US Open Women's Tennis, Flushing Meadows, NY: Chris Evert wins her 4th straight US singles title; beats fellow American Pam Shriver 7-5, 6-4; first time event played on hard courts


Tennis LegendChris Evert
US Men's Tennis Open
1979 US Open Men's Tennis: John McEnroe wins first Grand Slam title; beats fellow American Vitas Gerulaitis 7-5, 6-3, 6-3

• 1979 South African Ferrari driver Jody Scheckter wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; first RSA champion

Sports History
1983 Vitas Gerulaitis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat 100th ranked male tennis player

• 1984 US Open Men's Tennis: John McEnroe wins his 4th US title and final Grand Slam singles event; beats Ivan Lendl 6-3, 6-4, 6-1
• 1987 Largest US Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016

Sports History
1987 Larry Bird (Celtics), begins NBA free throw streak of 59


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


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1988 Braves Bruce Sutter joins Fingers & Gossage to save 300 MLB games
• 1988 US Stars & Stripes H3 defeats NZ's KZ-1 at the 27th America's Cup: NZ appeal in court but eventually lose

US Open Women's Tennis
1989 US Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf retains her title; beats Martina Navratilova 3-6, 7-5, 6-1

• 1990 Oakland beats NY 7-3 to complete a 12-game sweep of Yankees this year

US Men's Tennis Open
1990 US Open Men's Tennis: 19 year old Pete Sampras wins his first Grand Slam title; beats fellow American Andre Agassi 6-4, 6-3, 6-2; Sampras youngest male US Open winner


Sports History
1991 Mike Tyson indicted for rape of Desiree Washington

• 1991 Only 1,695 fans watch Boston Red Sox play Cleveland
• 1992 1st time Baltimore Orioles draw 3 million fans at home
• 1992 MLB player Robin Yount, is 17th to reach 3,000 hits
• 1995 US Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf wins her 4th US title; beats Monica Seles 7-6, 0-6, 6-3

US Open Women's Tennis
2000 US Open Women's Tennis: Venus Williams wins her first US title; beats fellow American Lindsay Davenport 6-4, 7-5

• 2001 US Open Men's Tennis: Lleyton Hewitt of Australia becomes youngest (20) world #1 player; beats Pete Sampras 7-6, 6-1, 6-1
• 2002 Pitcher Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his major league record

US Open Women's Tennis
2006 US Open Women's Tennis: Maria Sharapova of Russia wins her first US title; overpowers Belgian Justine Henin-Hardenne 6-4, 6-4


US Men's Tennis Open
2007 US Open Men's Tennis: Switzerland's Roger Federer wins 4th consecutive US title; beats Novak Đoković of Serbia 7-6, 7-6, 6-4

• 2012 Armenia wins the 40th FIDE Chess Olympiad

US Open Women's Tennis
2012 US Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams wins her 4th US title; beats Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6-2, 2-6, 7-5


US Men's Tennis Open
2013 US Open Men's Tennis: Spaniard Rafael Nadal wins his second US title; beats Novak Đoković 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1

• 2017 US Open Women's Tennis: In the first all-American final since 2002 unseeded Sloane Stephens defeats Madison Keys 6-3, 6-0

US Men's Tennis Open
2018 US Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković wins his third US title; beats '09 champion Juan Martín del Potro 6-4, 7-6, 6-3; equals Pete Sampras' 14 Grand Slams

• 2018 Green Bay Packers start 100th season with historic 24-23 comeback win over Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field; first ever Packer recovery from 17+ points deficit at 3/4 time (20-3)

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


NFL QuarterbackTom Brady

 

Sept 10

• 1875 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park Sr. wins his 4th title; beats fellow Scot Bob Martin by 2 strokes
• 1918 Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs players threaten to boycott the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers

• 1919 Cleveland Indians pitcher Ray Caldwell no-hits New York Yankees, 3-0 at the Polo Grounds, NYC
• 1922 New York Yankees play their farewell home games in Polo Grounds, win both games of doubleheader against Philadelphia Athletics; move to Yankee Stadium the following season
• 1924 New York Giants rip Boston Braves, 22-1 at the Polo Grounds; future Baseball HOF infielder Frankie Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out
• 1926 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Philadelphia, PA: Vincent Richards & R. Norris Williams clinch US 7th straight title; beat Jacques Brugnon & Henri Cochet of France 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 for 3-0 lead; ends 4-1
• 1927 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Philadelphia, PA: Henri Cochet beats Bill Johnson 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 to clinch a 3-2 win for France and break 7 title US win streak
• 1931 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Ellsworth Vines beats George Lott 7-9, 6-3, 9-7, 7-5 for his first of 2 straight US singles titles
• 1932 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills: American Ellsworth Vines successfully defends his title; beats Frenchman Henri Cochet 6–4, 6–4, 6–4
• 1932 Dodgers' Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season
• 1933 US National Championship Men's Tennis: Englishman Fred Perry robs Australian Jack Crawford of his Grand Slam chance; wins final 6-3, 11-13, 4-6, 6-0, 6-1

• 1937 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0)
• 1937 Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0

Sports History
1948 Australian cricketer Don Bradman scores 153 in his last 1st-class cricket innings in England


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
Sports History
1950 Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium


Baseball PlayerJoe DiMaggio

• 1954 Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher, Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls

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


Marathon RunnerAbebe Bikila
Sports History
1960 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

• 1960 Fencer Aladár Gerevich is part of the gold medal winning Hungarian sabre team at the Rome Olympics; Gerevich's 6th consecutive gold medal in the event

Olympic Gold
1960 Future Hall of Famer Jerry Lucas scores 23 points as the US wins its 5th straight men's basketball Olympic gold medal with a 90-63 drubbing of Brazil at the Rome Games


NBA ForwardJerry Lucas

• 1960 Yugoslavia dominates Denmark 3-1 to win the men's football gold medal at the Rome Olympics

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


GymnastLarisa Latynina

• 1961 Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400
• 1961 Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari

US Men's Tennis Open
1961 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-Australian final Roy Emerson beats Rod Laver 7-5, 6-3, 6-2; Emerson's second Grand Slam title


Tennis PlayerRoy Emerson

Tennis PlayerRod Laver
US Open Women's Tennis
1961 75th US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Darlene Hard beats England's Ann Jones 6-3, 6-4


Tennis PlayerDarlene Hard

• 1961 American Ferrari driver Phil Hill wins Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch F1 World Drivers Championship; first American F1 world champion

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


Tennis PlayerRod Laver

Tennis PlayerRoy Emerson

• 1962 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Australian Margaret Smith beats defending champion Darlene Hard 9-7, 6-4 for her first US singles crown
• 1963 Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0

Sports History
1963 Stan Musial hits a HR in his 1st at bat as a grandfather


MLB LegendStan Musial

• 1965 Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards

Boxing Title Fight
1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali

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

US Open Women's Tennis
1967 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Billie Jean King defeats England's Ann Haydon-Jones 11–9, 6–4 for first of 4 US singles crowns


Tennis LegendBillie Jean King

• 1969 NY Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time

US Men's Tennis Open
1972 US Open Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Ilie Năstase of Romania beats Arthur Ashe 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, 6-3 for his first Grand Slam title


Tennis ChampionIlie Năstase

Tennis PlayerArthur Ashe

• 1972 American men's 4 x 100m relay team of Larry Black, Robert Taylor, Gerald Tinker & Eddie Hart combine for a world record 38.19 to beat the Soviet Union for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 American long distance runner Frank Shorter scores a famous win in the men's marathon in 2:12:19.8 at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 East v West in a women's 4 x 100m relay at the Munich Olympics; West Germany beats East Germany by 0.13 seconds for the gold medal
• 1972 American freestyle wrestler Dan Gable wins the 68kg division gold medal at the Munich Olympics; only Olympic wrestler not to have a single point scored against him in the competition
• 1972 Yugoslavia beats Czechoslovakia, 21-16 in the inaugural Olympic handball final in Munich
• 1972 An American double in the inaugural Olympic archery competition in Munich; John Williams wins the men's individual gold medal; Doreen Wilber takes the women's gold
• 1972 Cuban boxer Teófilo Stevenson wins first of 3 consecutive Olympic heavyweight gold medals when Munich Games opponent Ion Alexe of Romania withdraws from the final because of a broken thumb
• 1972 Kazimierz Deyna scores twice as Poland beats Hungary 2-1 in the Olympic football gold medal match; 80,000 at the Munich Olympic Stadium
• 1972 West Germany beats Pakistan 1-0 to become first European nation since 1920 to win the field hockey Olympic title; marred by disgraceful behaviour of Pakistani players, fans & officials after losing the Munich final
• 1973 Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton
• 1973 NY Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St Louis
• 1974 MLB St Louis Cardinals Lou Brock ties (104) & then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark
• 1974 Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs

Sports History
1975 Darryl Sittler is named captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs

• 1977 Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits
• 1977 Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5)

US Open Women's Tennis
1977 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Chris Evert wins her 3rd straight US singles title; beats Wendy Turnbull of Australia 7-6, 6-2; final time event played at West Side Tennis Club

• 1978 4th game of Boston Massacre; NY Yankees beat Red Sox, 7-4 to tie for AL East 1st place; Yanks out hit arch rivals, 67-21; score 42-9

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


Sports History
1978 The single point American Lotus driver Mario Andretti earns for finishing 6th at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza is enough to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship


Boxing Title Fight
1983 Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title


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


US Open Women's Tennis
1988 US Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf of Germany wins her first US title and completes the Grand Slam; beats Gabriela Sabatini 6-3, 3-6, 6-1
Sports History
1989 Five days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners, MLB and NFL player Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown, his first

• 1989 Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record

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

• 1989 Indianapolis running back Eric Dickerson rushes for 106 yards against San Francisco to become the fastest player to top the 10,000 yard plateau; 91st career game
• 1990 1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different
• 1990 1st time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0
• 1991 Gail Devers runs US female record 100m hurdles (12.48 secs)
• 1994 US Open Women's Tennis: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario of Spain wins her only US singles title; beats Steffi Graf 1-6, 7-6, 6-4
• 1995 35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats US, 14-10
• 1995 Cleveland's major league sports franchises, NFL Browns & MLB Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleveland for only time, both win; Browns 22-6 v Tampa, Indians 5-3 v Orioles

US Men's Tennis Open
1995 US Open Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras wins his 3rd US title; beats fellow American Andre Agassi 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5


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

• 2000 US Open Men's Tennis: Marat Safin of Russia wins his first Grand Slam title; beats home favourite Pete Sampras 6-4, 6-3, 6-3

US Open Women's Tennis
2005 125th US Open Women's Tennis: Belgian Kim Clijsters wins her first of 4 Grand Slam titles; beats Mary Pierce of France 6-3, 6-1

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

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


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

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


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

• 2018 Australian newspaper the "Herald Sun" criticised for "racist" cartoon of American tennis star Serena Williams