Today's events in sports history

JULY 24

• 1860 Olympics beat St. George, 25-17 at St. Georges Cricket Grounds, Philadelphia in first baseball game played in enclosed field
• 1893 For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago

Cricket History

1902 Victor Trumper scores a century for Australia before lunch 4th Test Cricket v England


CricketerVictor Trumper

• 1904 2nd Tour de France won by Henri Cornet of France

Sports History
1905 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: Laurence Doherty & Reggie Doherty beat Holcombe Ward & Beals Wright 8-10, 6-2, 6-2, 4-6, 8-6 to give British Isles an unassailable 3-0 lead over US (ends 5-0)


Tennis PlayerLaurence Doherty

• 1908 American Johnny Hayes wins London Olympic marathon in Games record 2:55:18.4 after Dorando Pietri of Italy disqualified for receiving assistance before the finish line
• 1909 Brooklyn Superbas pitcher Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates in a 1-0 victory at Washington Park, Brooklyn
• 1921 15th Tour de France won by Leon Scieur of Belgium

World Record
1931 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6)


Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi

• 1946 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League) die in a bus crash
• 1949 36th Tour de France won by Fausto Coppi of Italy
• 1949 Indian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5
• 1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6)
• 1956 Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jersey City's Roosevelt Stadium
• 1956 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Blue Hill CC: Masters champion Jack Burke Jr. wins his second major championship of the season, 3 & 2 over Ted Kroll

Sports History
1958 Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again


Baseball PlayerTed Williams

• 1958 Test Cricket debuts against NZ for Dexter, Illingworth & Subba Row
• 1960 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Firestone CC: Jay Hebert wins his only major title by 1 stroke from Australian Jim Ferrier

Sports History
1965 Casey Stengel resigns as manager of NY Mets


Baseball Hall of Fame ManagerCasey Stengel

• 1966 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Firestone CC: American Al Geiberger wins his only major title by 4 shots from Dudley Wysong
• 1967 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Columbine CC: Don January wins his only major title in 18-hole playoff with Don Messengale (69-71)
• 1967 Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game

Sports History
1968 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game breaking Cy Young's record for pitching appearances


MLB PitcherCy Young

Baseball Player and Knuckleball PitcherHoyt Wilhelm

• 1970 International Lawn Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule
• 1973 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, Kansas City

Sports History
1973 All Star MVP: Bobby Bonds (SF Giants)


MLB Outfielder and CoachBobby Bonds

• 1977 64th Tour de France won by Bernard Thevenet of France

Sports History
1977 Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose
US Women's Golf Open
1977 US Open Women's Golf, Hazeltine National GC: Hollis Stacy wins wire-to-wire by 2 strokes from Nancy Lopez


LPGA GolferNancy Lopez
Sports History
1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson


Baseball Player and ManagerBilly Martin

• 1978 Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games

Sports History
1979 Boston Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR


MLB OutfielderCarl Yastrzemski

• 1983 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switzerland (2-1)
• 1983 70th Tour de France won by Laurent Fignon of France

Sports History
1983 Pine Tar Game: George Brett's HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned)


MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett

• 1988 75th Tour de France won by Pedro Delgado of Spain
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• 1988 US and Jamaica play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup

US Women's Golf Open
1988 US Open Women's Golf, Baltimore CC: Liselotte Neumann of Sweden wins her only major title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Patty Sheehan


LPGA GolferPatty Sheehan
Sports History
1992 Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (eff 3/1/93)


New York Yankees OwnerGeorge Steinbrenner

• 1993 Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans
• 1993 NY Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight
• 1994 32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)

Federation Cup
1994 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Frankfurt, Germany: Spain retains title with 3-0 win over US; Arantxa Sánchez Vicario clinches victory with 6-2, 6-1 win over Lindsay Davenport


Tennis PlayerLindsay Davenport

Tennis PlayerArantxa Sánchez Vicario
Sports History
1994 Tour de France: Miguel Induráin of Spain wins 4th consecutive Tour, 5' 39" ahead of Piotr Ugrumov; Djamolidine Abdoujaparov points winner


CyclistMiguel Induráin

• 1994 US Open Women's Golf, Indianwood G & CC: Patty Sheehan wins her second title in 3 years, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Tammie Green; 5th of her 6 major titles

Sports History
2005 92nd Tour de France: no winner; Lance Armstrong retires after winning a record seventh consecutive victory but disqualified in 2012 for doping


Cyclist and Drug CheatLance Armstrong
Golf Tournament
2005 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Aberdeen: Tom Watson wins his second Open Senior title in a playoff with Ireland's Des Smyth


GolferTom Watson

• 2011 98th Tour de France won by Cadel Evans of Australia; first and only Australian to win the event
• 2011 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Walton Heath: Russ Cochran wins by 2 shots from fellow American Mark Calcavecchia
• 2011 Copa América Final, River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires: Diego Forlán scores twice as Uruguay beats Paraguay, 3–0 to earn their 15th title

Sports History
2016 103rd Tour de France won by Chris Froome of Great Britain


Road CyclistChris Froome

• 2016 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Carnoustie: Englishman Paul Broadhurst wins by 2 strokes from American Scott McCarron

World Record
2019 19-year-old Hungarian swimmer Kristóf Milák breaks Michael Phelps' 10 year old 200m butterfly world record at the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea; swims 1:50.73, 0.78s faster than Phelps


SwimmerMichael Phelps

• 2022 109th Tour de France: Jonas Vingegaard from Denmark wins overall & mountains sections; Team Jumbo–Visma claims treble with Belgian rider Wout van Aert taking the points section
• 2022 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Gleneagles: Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland finishes at -10 to beat Irishman Pádraig Harrington by 1 stroke
• 2022 David Ortiz, Gil Hodges, Bud Fowler, Jim Kaat, Minnie Miñoso and Buck O’Neil are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY
• 2022 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: Brooke Henderson of Canada edges American rookie Sophia Schubert by 1 stroke for her second major title

 

JULY 25

• 1900 Gloucestershire captain Gilbert Jessop hits his second century (139 in 95 minutes) before lunch in same County Cricket match (104 previous day); Yorkshire wins by 40 runs

Jeffries KOs Fitzsimmons
1902 3 years after winning the title from English boxer Bob Fitzsimmons, American champion James J. Jeffries repeats the dose with an 8th round KO in San Francisco for the heavyweight crown


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJames J. Jeffries

BoxerBob Fitzsimmons

• 1913 Pittsburgh Pirates future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Max Carey scores 5 runs without a hit, reaching first base on an error and 4 walks, as the Bucs beat Philadelphia Phillies, 12-2

W. G. Grace Retires
1914 Last day of club cricket for English legend W. G. Grace at age 66: makes unbeaten 69 runs for Eltham against Grove Park


CricketerW. G. Grace

• 1937 31st Tour de France won by Roger Lapebie of France
• 1939 New York Yankees starting pitcher Atley Donald sets American League rookie record for consecutive wins; beats St. Louis Browns 5-1 for his 12th straight victory
• 1940 American John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours, 46 minutes from St. Louis to Caruthersville, Missouri in the Mississippi River; 292 miles, longest solo swim of all time
• 1941 41-year-old Lefty Grove wins his 300th and final MLB career game as the Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 10-6 at Fenway Park
• 1948 35th Tour de France: Italian cyclist Gino Bartali wins both general and mountain classifications for the second time (1938)

Sports History
1949 St Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Bkln 14-1


MLB LegendStan Musial
Sports History
1956 Pittsburgh Pirates' Roberto Clemente hits MLB's 1st (and only) walk-off inside-the-park grand slam for 9-8 win over visiting Chicago Cubs at Forbes Field


Baseball PlayerRoberto Clemente

• 1957 Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick for England v WI at Headingley

Baseball Record
1961 Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader sweep of the Chicago White Sox at Yankee Stadium, NYC


Baseball PlayerRoger Maris

• 1961 Roger Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 off of 4 Chicago White Sox pitchers in a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium, NYC
• 1964 Australian cricket captain and opening batsman Bob Simpson hits 311 v England in the drawn 4th Test in Manchester

Hall of Fame
1966 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame


Baseball Hall of Fame ManagerCasey Stengel

Sports History
1972 43rd MLB All Star Game, Atlanta Stadium, Atlanta, GA: NL beats AL, 4-3; MVP: Joe Morgan, Cincinnati Reds, 2B


MLB Hall of Fame Infielder and BroadcasterJoe Morgan

• 1976 Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01)

Baseball Record
1978 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose
Sports History
1978 Robert Granville "Bob" Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager


Baseball Player and ManagerBilly Martin

• 1981 Anti-apartheid protesters in Hamilton, New Zealand, force the cancellation of a rugby match between the provincial team Waikato and South Africa’s Springboks by invading the pitch during the game [1]
• 1982 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)

Sports History
1982 69th Tour de France won by Bernard Hinault of France


Cyclist and 5-Time Tour De France WinnerBernard Hinault
US Women's Golf Open
1982 US Open Women's Golf, Del Paso CC: Janet Anderson shoots final round 68 (−4) to claim her only LPGA Tour win, 6 strokes ahead of Beth Daniel, Donna White, JoAnne Carner and Sandra Haynie


LPGA GolferBeth Daniel

GolferJoAnne Carner

GolferSandra Haynie
US Senior Golf Open
1983 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Hazeltine National GC: Billy Casper wins with birdie on first extra hole after an 18-hole playoff with Rod Funseth


GolferBilly Casper
Sports History
1990 KC Royal George Brett hits for the cycle


MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett
Sports History
1990 Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem at Cincinnati Reds-San Diego Padres MLB game


Comedienne and ActressRoseanne Barr

• 1991 Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use
• 1991 Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' HR in Yankee Stadium
• 1992 25th Olympic Games open in Barcelona, Spain
• 1993 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)

Federation Cup
1993 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Frankfurt, Germany: Spain wins 2nd title with 3-0 win over Australia; Arantxa Sánchez Vicario clinches victory with 6-2, 6-3 win against Nicole Provis


Tennis PlayerArantxa Sánchez Vicario
Sports History
1993 Tour de France: Spaniard Miguel Induráin makes it 3 straight Tour titles; Djamolidine Abdoujaparov points winner


CyclistMiguel Induráin

• 1993 US Open Women's Golf, Crooked Stick GC: Lauri Merten fires a final round 68 (−4) to win her lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Donna Andrews and Helen Alfredsson
• 1997 QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs

Sports History
1999 86th Tour de France: Lance Armstrong wins 1st of 7 consecutive Tour de France titles but is later disqualified for drug cheating


Cyclist and Drug CheatLance Armstrong

• 1999 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Portrush GC: Irishman Christy O'Connor Jr wins by 3 strokes from John Bland of South Africa
• 2004 91st Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)

Sports History
2004 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Portrush: Pete Oakley wins by 1 stroke from fellow American Tom Kite and Eduardo Romero of Argentina


GolferTom Kite

GolferEduardo Romero

• 2004 Copa América Final, Estadio Nacional, Lima: Brazil beats Argentina, 4-2 on penalties; 2-2 after extra time
• 2010 97th Tour de France won by Andy Schleck of Luxembourg

Golf Tournament
2010 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Carnoustie: Bernhard Langer of Germany wins by 1 stroke from American Corey Pavin


Golfer and Two-Time Masters ChampionBernhard Langer

• 2012 The 2012 Summer Olympics begin (Opening ceremony 27th)
• 2015 UCI BMX Supercross series: Niek Kimmann & Stefany Hernandez win the world title
• 2016 England fast bowler Jimmy Anderson becomes first quick to take 50 wickets against all other 7 major Test cricket-playing nations during 2nd Test against Pakistan in Manchester

Election of Interest
2018 Party of former cricketer Imran Khan, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), wins the most votes but not a majority in Pakistan's Pakistan general election, which are marred by violence and a bomb that kills 31 people


Cricketer and Prime Minister of PakistanImran Khan

• 2021 Australia wins women's 4 x 100m relay for third straight Olympics as Bronte Campbell, Meg Harris, Emma McKeon, Cate Campbell set new WR 3:29.69 in Tokyo
• 2021 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Sunningdale: Welshman Stephen Dodd wins his first major title with a 1 stroke victory over Miguel Ángel Jiménez of Spain
• 2021 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: Australian Minjee Lee recovers from 7 shots behind to beat South Korea’s Lee6 Jeongeun in a play-off for her first major title
• 2021 Japanese judokas Uta Abe (women's 52kg) and brother Hifumi (men's 66kg) make history as first siblings to win Olympic gold medals in different events on same day at the Tokyo Games
• 2021 Japanese skateboarder Yuto Horigome wins the sport's inaugural Olympic gold medal in the men's street section at the Tokyo Games
• 2021 USA's men's basketball team see their 25-game Olympic winning streak end; beaten 83-76 by France in first round match in Tokyo

 

JULY 26

• 1914 12th Tour de France won by Philippe Thys of Belgium
• 1928 In only his second and final defense of his world heavyweight boxing title, Gene Tunney scores an 11-round TKO win over Tom Heeney at Yankee Stadium, NYC

• 1928 Yanks score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1
• 1931 25th Tour de France won by Antonin Magne of France

Sports History
1931 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: Henri Cochet beats Fred Perry 6-4, 1-6, 9-7, 6-3 to give France 3-2 win over Great Britain and 5th straight title


Tennis Player and BroadcasterFred Perry

Tennis PlayerHenri Cochet

• 1931 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Midlothian CC: June Beebe beats Mrs. Melvin Jones, 3 & 2 for golf's only major title

Baseball Record
1933 Joe DiMaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League


Baseball PlayerJoe DiMaggio

• 1939 Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRs
• 1947 46th Men's French Championships: Jozsef Asboth beats Eric Sturgess (8-6, 7-5, 6-4)

French Open Women's Tennis
1947 French Championships Women's Tennis: In an all-American final Patricia Todd wins her only major singles title beating Doris Hart 6-3, 3-6, 6-4


Tennis PlayerDoris Hart
Sports History
1948 "Babe Ruth Story" premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
Sports History
1948 Leo Durocher returns to Ebbets Field as manager of New York Giants


Baseball Player and ManagerLeo Durocher

• 1950 Dodgers' Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits HRs twice in a game

Sports History
1952 Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

• 1953 Tour de France: Louison Bobet of France wins first of 3 consecutive Tour general classification events
• 1955 Last day as Test Cricket umpire for Frank Chester

PGA Championship
1955 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Meadowbrook CC: Doug Ford scores a 4 & 3 win over Cary Middlecoff in the Tuesday final; first of 2 majors (Masters 1957)


GolferCary Middlecoff

• 1957 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200

Sports History
1959 Chicago White Sox Larry Doby plays final MLB game; retires in 1962 after playing for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderLarry Doby
Baseball Record
1962 Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherWarren Spahn

• 1967 Twins beat Yanks 3-2 in 18

Baseball Record
1970 Reds catcher Johnny Bench, playing for the day in the outfield, goes 4 for 5 with 7 RBIs including 3 consecutive HRs off St. Louis Cardinals Steve Carlton in 12-5 win at Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati


MLB CatcherJohnny Bench

Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton

• 1978 Johnny Bench hits his 300th career home run

US Women's Golf Open
1981 US Open Women's Golf, La Grange CC: Pat Bradley shoots final round 66 (−6) to finish 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Beth Daniel; second of Bradley's 6 major titles


LPGA GolferPat Bradley

LPGA GolferBeth Daniel
Sports History
1984 Bowie Kuhn announces pitcher Vida Blue is suspended for the rest of 1984 due to cocaine conviction


MLB CommissionerBowie Kuhn

Major League Baseball pitcherVida Blue
Sports History
1984 Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,502nd single


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

MLB LegendTy Cobb

• 1987 74th Tour de France won by Stephen Roche of Ireland
• 1987 Catfish Hunter Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York

Baseball Record
1988 Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies & NY Mets end that game at 2:13 AM


MLB Third BasemanMike Schmidt

• 1990 US beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games
• 1991 CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders
• 1991 Expo's Mark Gardner no hits Dodgers for 9 innings, but loses in 10th

Baseball Record
1992 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for the 23rd consecutive season


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan
Sports History
1992 Tour de France: Miguel Induráin of Spain defends his title by 4' 35" from Italian Claudio Chiappucci; Laurent Jalabert points winner


CyclistMiguel Induráin
US Women's Golf Open
1992 US Open Women's Golf, Oakmont CC: Patty Sheehan wins an 18-hole Monday playoff over runner-up Juli Inkster, 72 to 74


LPGA GolferPatty Sheehan
US Senior Golf Open
1998 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Riviera CC: Hale Irwin wins by 1 stroke ahead of Vicente Fernández of Argentina


GolferHale Irwin

• 2009 96th Tour de France won by Alberto Contador of Spain
• 2009 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Sunningdale: American Loren Roberts wins his second Open Senior title in a playoff with Mark McNulty and Fred Funk

Sports History
2015 102nd Tour de France won by Chris Froome of Great Britain


Road CyclistChris Froome
Golf Tournament
2015 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Sunningdale: American Marco Dawson wins by 1 shot from Bernhard Langer of Germany


Golfer and Two-Time Masters ChampionBernhard Langer

• 2019 Australian cricket captain Meg Lanning records T20 International world record individual score of 133 off 63 balls in 93-run win against England at Chelmsford; Southern Stars clinch Women's Ashes

Sports History
2020 Italian football giants Juventus wins its 9th straight Serie A title with goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and Federico Bernardeschiin in a 2-0 win over Sampdoria


Football StarCristiano Ronaldo
Olympic Games
2021 Dominant British breaststroke swimmer Adam Peaty successfully defends his 100m title at the Tokyo Olympics beating Arno Kamminga of the Netherlands and Italian Nicolò Martinenghi


SwimmerAdam Peaty

• 2021 Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz makes history becoming the first athlete from the Philippines to win gold at the Olympics in the 55kg class at the Tokyo Games

 

JULY 27

• 1913 11th Tour de France won by Philippe Thys of Belgium

International Lawn Tennis Challenge

1913 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon, England: Maurice McLoughlin beats Charles Dixon 8-6, 6-3, 6-2 to give US an unassailable 3-1 lead over the British Isles; US wins, 3-2


Tennis PlayerMaurice McLoughlin

• 1914 Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade
• 1919 13th Tour de France won by Firmin Lambot of Belgium
• 1920 14th Tour de France: Belgian rider Philippe Thys becomes first to win the race 3 times
• 1920 Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup
• 1924 VIII Summer Olympic Games close in Paris, France

Mel Ott Hits 1st HR
1927 Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park)


Baseball Player and ManagerMel Ott

• 1928 Kent cricket leg-spinner Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July
• 1930 24th Tour de France: French cyclist André Leducq scores first of 2 Tour victories (1932)

International Lawn Tennis Challenge
1930 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: Home team wins 4th straight title as Jean Borotra beats American George Lott 5-7, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2, 8-6 for unassailable 3-1 lead; ends 4-1


Tennis PlayerJean Borotra

• 1937 32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1)
• 1945 Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from NY Yankees
• 1946 45th Women's French Championships: Margaret Osborne beats Pauline Betz (1-6, 8-6, 7-5)
• 1946 Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs

French Open Men's Tennis
1946 French Championships Men's Tennis: Marcel Bernard beats Jaroslav Drobný 3-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-3


Ice Hockey and Tennis StarJaroslav Drobný

Yogi Berra Starts a record
1947 New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra starts a record 148 game errorless streak


MLB Catcher and ManagerYogi Berra
Bradman's Last Test Century
1948 Bradman's 29th and last Test Cricket century, part of winning 3-404


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

• 1952 Swedish race walker John Mikaelsson makes it back-to-back gold medals in the 10k event at the Helsinki Olympics, having won the corresponding race in London in 1948
• 1953 Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons "Chief" Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, Bill Klem and Tom Connolly inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1954 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Keller GC: Chick Herbert scores a 4 & 3 win over defending champion Walter Burkemo in the Tuesday final
• 1956 England cricket spin bowler Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's 1st innings in 4th Test at Manchester; best return ever in Test cricket; bettered in 2nd innings 10-53
• 1959 William Shea announces plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961
• 1967 Helmond Sport soccer team forms

LPGA Championship
1969 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Concord GC: Betsy Rawls wins her second LPGA C'ship, 4 strokes ahead of runners-up Carol Mann and Susie Maxwell Berning


LPGA GolferBetsy Rawls

• 1970 Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game
• 1970 Lou Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, and Jesse Haines are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
• 1973 40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103)
• 1973 Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners
• 1978 Cleveland Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd in MLB history to hit 2 bases-loaded triples in a game, at Yankee Stadium

Baseball Record
1983 Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts, also winning his 1st game as a Kansas City Royal


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton

Baseball PitcherGaylord Perry
Sports History
1984 Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,503rd career single (vs Philadelphia)


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

• 1984 West Indies cricket opening batsman Gordon Greenidge smashes 223 in innings & 64 run win over England in 4th Test at Manchester; Windies lead series, 4-0

World Record
1985 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway becomes first woman to run 10,000m in under 31 minutes; takes world record down to 30:59.42 in Oslo, Norway


Long Distance RunnerIngrid Kristiansen

• 1986 24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague Czech (3-0)

Tour de France
1986 73rd Tour de France won by Greg LeMond of USA


CyclistGreg LeMond

Canadian Women's Open
1986 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Board of Trade CC: Pat Bradley wins in a playoff with Ayako Okamoto of Japan


LPGA GolferPat Bradley
Sports History
1988 Baseball star Tommy John commits record 3 errors on 1 play as Yanks rout Brewers 16-3


Baseball PitcherTommy John
Sports History
1990 Graham Gooch scores 333 v India at Lord's


CricketerGraham Gooch

• 1990 Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 mins in county cricket, world record
• 1992 Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Republican National Convention
• 1992 Japanese swimmer Kyoko Iwasaki wins the 200m breaststroke in Barcelona to become the youngest to win an Olympic gold medal at 14 years-6 days
• 1993 Detroit infielder Travis Fryman hits for cycle but Tigers lose, 12-7 to NY Yankees
• 1993 NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million
• 1993 NY Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games
• 1996 Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured
• 1996 Brazilian pair Jackie Silva and Sandra Pires win inaugural women's beach volleyball gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics
• 1996 David Sales makes 210 on 1st class cricket debut for Northants v Worcs
• 1997 84th Tour de France won by Jan Ullrich of Germany

Senior Open Championship
1997 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Portrush GC: Gary Player of South Africa wins with birdie on 2nd playoff hole against countryman John Bland


GolferGary Player

• 1997 Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser's #16

Sports History
1999 Tony Hawk is the first skateboarder to land a "900"


SkateboarderTony Hawk
Tour de France
2003 90th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)


Cyclist and Drug CheatLance Armstrong
Senior Open Championship
2003 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Turnberry: American Tom Watson wins in a playoff with Carl Mason of England


GolferTom Watson

• 2008 95th Tour de France won by Carlos Sastre of Spain

London Olympics Opening Ceremony
2012 Queen Elizabeth II opens the 30th Olympics in London, United Kingdom (with some help from 007)


Queen of the United KingdomElizabeth II

• 2014 101st Tour de France won by Vincenzo Nibali of Italy

Senior Open Championship
2014 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Porthcawl: Bernhard Langer of Germany wins his second Open Senior title by 13 strokes from Colin Montgomerie of Scotland


Golfer and Two-Time Masters ChampionBernhard Langer

GolferColin Montgomerie

• 2019 American swimmer Caeleb Dressel wins 3 gold medals in one day at the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea; 50m freestyle, 100m butterfly and mixed 4×100m freestyle relay (WR 3:19.40)
• 2019 MLB Phillies revive reviled 1979 all-burgundy alternate uniforms as part of a "retro night" promotion in 15-7 loss to Atlanta Braves at Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia [1]

Simone Biles Withdraws
2021 American gymnast and four-time Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles withdraws from the women's team final at the Tokyo Games citing need to focus on her mental health; also misses individual finals


GymnastSimone Biles

• 2021 Fiji retains Olympic Rugby Sevens title with 27-12 win over New Zealand in Tokyo; only second gold in the country's Olympic history
• 2021 Ítalo Ferreira of Brazil and American Carissa Moore claim inaugural men's and women's surfing gold medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games
• 2021 Triathlete Flora Duffy claims historic first ever Olympic gold medal for Bermuda in the women's event at the Tokyo Games

 

JULY 28

• 1906 Yankees turn triple-play, beat Cleveland 6-4
• 1912 10th Tour de France won by Odile Defraye of Belgium

• 1928 IX Summer Olympic Games open in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1929 23rd Tour de France won by Maurice De Waele of Belgium
• 1929 24th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (3-2)
• 1929 Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Michigan)

International Lawn Tennis Challenge

1929 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: Home team wins 3 straight titles as Henri Cochet beats American George Lott 6-1, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 for a 3-2 victory


Tennis PlayerHenri Cochet

• 1931 White Sox score 11 in 8th to beat Yankees 14-12
• 1933 NFL divides into (2) 5 team divisions
• 1935 29th Tour de France won by Romain Maes of Belgium

International Lawn Tennis Challenge
1936 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: 4 straight titles for GB as Fred Perry beats Australian Jack Crawford 6-2, 6-3, 6-3 for a 3-2 victory


Tennis Player and BroadcasterFred Perry
Sports History
1938 Don Bradman scores 202 Australia v Somerset, 225 mins, 32 fours


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

• 1940 Yankee Charlie Keller hits 3 HRs to beat White Sox 10-9
• 1956 43rd Tour de France won by Roger Walkowiak of France
• 1957 MLB Chicago White Sox outfielder Jim Landis strikes out 5 times in a loss to the Orioles in Baltimore
• 1972 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162)
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• 1976 White Sox John Odom (5 inn) & Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's

Cricket Debut
1977 Legendary England cricket all-rounder Ian Botham on debut takes 5 for 74 in the Australian 1st innings in a 7 wicket 3rd Test win at Trent Bridge


CricketerIan Botham

• 1978 At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees

Sports History
1979 Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 HR game


Baseball PlayerDave Kingman

• 1984 23rd modern Olympic Games open in Los Angeles

Canadian Women's Open
1985 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Beaconsfield GC: Pat Bradley wins by 1 from Jane Geddes


LPGA GolferPat Bradley

LPGA GolferJane Geddes
Hall of Fame
1985 Lou Brock, Enos Slaughter, A Vaughan, & Hoyt Wilhelm are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York


Baseball PlayerEnos Slaughter

Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderLou Brock

Baseball Player and Knuckleball PitcherHoyt Wilhelm
Sports History
1987 Ángel Cordero Jr.becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races


JockeyÁngel Cordero Jr.
US Women's Golf Open
1987 US Open Women's Golf, Plainfield CC: England's Laura Davies won the first of her 4 major titles in an 18-hole Tuesday playoff over runners-up Ayako Okamoto and JoAnne Carner


LPGA GolferLaura Davies

GolferJoAnne Carner
Baseball Record
1989 Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run HRs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 HRs in an inning. Also ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning


Baseball OutfielderDale Murphy

• 1989 Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50
• 1991 29th Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Nottingham England (2-1)
• 1991 Buffalo Bills beat Philadelphia Eagles, 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley

Baseball Record
1991 Dennis Martínez pitches the 13th perfect game in baseball history


MLB PitcherDennis Martínez
Federation Cup
1991 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Nottingham, England: Spain wins first title with 2-1 victory over US; Conchita Martínez & Arantxa Sánchez Vicario clinch final 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 against Gigi Fernández & Zina Garrison-Jackson


Tennis PlayerZina Garrison

Tennis PlayerArantxa Sánchez Vicario

Tennis PlayerConchita Martínez
Tour de France
1991 Tour de France: Spanish rider Miguel Induráin beats Gianni Bugno of Italy by 3' 36" for 1st of 5 consecutive Tour wins; Djamolidine Abdoujaparov points winner


CyclistMiguel Induráin
US Senior Golf Open
1991 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Jack Nicklaus matches course record of 65 to beat Chi Chi Rodriguez by 4 strokes in an 18-hole Monday playoff


GolferJack Nicklaus

• 1992 Groundbreaking of Fla Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium

Baseball Record
1993 Mariner Ken Griffey Jr. is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderKen Griffey Jr.

• 1994 Baseball players decide to strike on Aug 12, 1994
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• 1994 Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers throws the only perfect game in franchise history, against the California Angels
• 1996 Americans Karch Kiraly & Kent Steffes win inaugural beach volleyball gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics; Kiraly first to win gold in both indoor and beach events

Senior Open Championship
1996 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Portrush GC: Defending champion Brian Barnes of Scotland wins by 3 strokes from Bob Charles and David Oakley


GolferBob Charles
Sports History
1996 NY Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th HR


Baseball PlayerDarryl Strawberry
Sports History
1997 NY Ranger center Mark Messier signs with Vancouver for $20M for 3 yrs


NHL LegendMark Messier
Tour de France
2002 89th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)


Cyclist and Drug CheatLance Armstrong

• 2012 Ye Shiwen of China sets world record in the women's 400m individual medley (4:28.43) to take the gold medal at the London Olympics

Tour de France
2019 106th Tour de France: 22 year old Egan Bernal becomes first ever Colombian and Latin American winner; Points champion: Peter Sagan of Slovakia


CyclistPeter Sagan
Senior Open Championship
2019 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes GC: Germany's Bernhard Langer wins his 4th Senior Open by 2 strokes from Paul Broadhurst


Golfer and Two-Time Masters ChampionBernhard Langer

• 2019 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: South Korean Ko Jin-young wins her second major title of the season by 2 strokes from Shanshan Feng, Jennifer Kupcho and Kim Hyo-joo
• 2021 19 year old gymnast Daiki Hashimoto of Japan becomes youngest Olympic men's artistic individual all-around champion in history at the Tokyo Games
• 2021 Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus claims Olympic double by winning women's 200m freestyle in OR 1:53.50 in Tokyo; she had beaten American superstar Katie Ledecki in 400m 2 days earlier
• 2021 Japanese swimmer Yui Ohashi wins women's individual medley double with victory in 200m at the Tokyo Olympics; 3 days earlier she won the 400m IM gold medal

 

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• 1751 1st international world title prize fight: Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M. Petit of France in 29 mins in England
• 1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court

• 1899 Southern California Golf Association forms
• 1906 4th Tour de France won by René Pottier of France
• 1908 St Louis Browns' future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Philadelphia A's in 5-4 win against his previous team at Sportsman's Park II, St. Louis
• 1911 Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0

Sports History

1915 Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR


MLB ShortshopHonus Wagner
Sports History
1921 Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 inn


MLB PitcherCy Young

• 1924 Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship
• 1928 23rd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (4-1)
• 1928 Cleveland Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yanks 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game

International Lawn Tennis Challenge
1928 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: Home team retains title as Henri Cochet beats American Bill Tilden 9-7, 8-6, 6-4 for 3-1 lead; ends 4-1


Tennis PlayerBill Tilden

Tennis PlayerHenri Cochet

• 1934 28th Tour de France won by Antonin Magne of France

PGA Championship
1934 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Park CC: Paul Runyan wins first of his 2 PGA crowns, defeating Craig Wood in 38 holes


GolferCraig Wood

• 1935 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: 3rd straight GB title as Pat Hughes & Raymond Tuckey beat Americans Wilmer Allison & John Van Ryn 6-2, 1-6, 6-8, 6-3, 6-3 for unassailable 3-0 lead; ends 5-0
• 1938 Olympic National Park established in Washington state, longest undeveloped coastline in America
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• 1940 SV. Urk Dutch soccer team forms

Olympic Games
1948 King George VI opens the XIV Summer Olympic Games at Wembley Stadium in London


King of the United KingdomGeorge VI

• 1950 Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run
• 1951 38th Tour de France won by Hugo Koblet of Switzerland
• 1956 US Open Women's Golf, Northland CC: Kathy Cornelius wins her only major title in an 18-hole playoff by 7 strokes over amateur Barbara McIntire

Boxing Title Fight
1957 Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title


Boxing ChampionFloyd Patterson

• 1961 Philadelphia Phillies lose, 4-3 to SF Giants at Connie Mack Stadium; 1st of MLB record 23 straight defeats
• 1965 Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
• 1968 Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1

Baseball Record
1974 MLB St Louis Cardinals Lou Brock steals his 700th base


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderLou Brock
Sports History
1978 On Old Timer's Day, NY Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as NY Yankee manager in 1980 and Bob Lemon will become GM


Baseball Player and ManagerBilly Martin
Canadian Women's Open
1979 Canadian Open Women's Golf (Peter Jackson Classic), St. George's CC: Amy Alcott wins by 3 from Nancy Lopez for her first major title


LPGA GolferNancy Lopez

GolferAmy Alcott

• 1981 Anti-apartheid protesters against the Springbok rugby tour are confronted by police who use batons to stop them marching to South Africa’s Consul in New Zealand

Baseball Record
1983 Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak


Baseball PlayerSteve Garvey

• 1984 American cyclists Alexi Grewal and Connie Carpenter take out the road race double around the streets of Mission Viejo at the LA Olympics
• 1984 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), St. George's CC: Juli Inkster wins by 1 from Ayako Okamoto of Japan
• 1986 NY jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
• 1988 Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling
• 1988 Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home
• 1989 Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan

Sports History
1989 MLB Philadelphia Phillies retire Steve Carlton's # 32


Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton

• 1989 Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases
• 1989 White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher & Sam Sosa
• 1990 26th Curtis Cup: US wins 14-4
• 1990 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats USSR in Atlanta Georgia (2-1)
• 1990 Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game

Federation Cup
1990 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Norcross, Georgia: US retains title with 2-1 victory over Soviet Union; Gigi Fernández & Zina Garrison-Jackson clinch final with 6-4, 6-3 win against Larisa Neiland & Natasha Zvereva


Tennis PlayerZina Garrison
LPGA Championship
1990 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Bethesda CC: Beth Daniel wins her only major title by 1 stroke from fellow American Rosie Jones


LPGA GolferBeth Daniel

• 1991 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium (Mets beat Cubs 6-0)

Sports History
1991 Yankee Stadium fans throw cups and blowup dolls at Jose Canseco


MLB PlayerJosé Canseco

• 1992 American Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.16) at the World Championships in Perth, Australia, breaking his own record set in August 1991
• 1992 Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek of Poland (5,559 points) beats Hungarian Attila Mizsér by 113 points to win the Pentathlon gold at the Barcelona Olympics; Poland also wins teams gold
• 1992 Yevgeni Sadovyi of the Unified Team swims world 400m record (3:45.00) to wrap up 200-400m freestyle double at the Barcelona Olympics
• 1993 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession
• 1995 Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14

Sports History
1995 Monica Seles beats Martina Navratilova in her return to tennis


Tennis Player and Nine-Time Major ChampionMonica Seles

Tennis PlayerMartina Navratilova
Sports History
1996 MLB Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda retires, with a record of 1599-1439, 4 National League Pennants, and 2 World Series championships.


Baseball Pitcher and ManagerTommy Lasorda
Tour de France
2001 88th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)


Cyclist and Drug CheatLance Armstrong
Senior Open Championship
2001 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal County Down: Australian Ian Stanley wins in a playoff with Bob Charles of New Zealand


GolferBob Charles

• 2001 Copa América Final, Estadio El Campín, Bogotá: Defender Iván Córdoba scores winner as home team Columbia edge Mexico, 1-0
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• 2007 94th Tour de France won by Alberto Contador of Spain

Senior Open Championship
2007 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Tom Watson wins his 3rd Open Senior title by 1 shot from Mark O'Meara and Stewart Ginn


GolferTom Watson
Senior Open Championship
2012 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Turnberry: Fred Couples wins by 2 strokes from fellow American Gary Hallberg

Senior Open Championship
2013 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Birkdale: American Mark Wiebe wins in a playoff with Bernhard Langer of Germany

• 2014 Chicago Cubs player John Baker scores the win against the Colorado Rockies at Wrigley Field in the longest game in Cubs history
• 2018 British Senior Open Men's Golf, St. Andrews: Spaniard Miguel Ángel Jiménez wins by 1 shot from defending champion Bernhard Langer of Germany

Hall of Fame
2018 Chipper Jones, Alan Trammell, Trevor Hoffman, Vladimir Guerrero, Jim Thome and Jack Morris are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY

Tour de France
2018 Tour de France: Geraint Thomas becomes the first Welshman and only 3rd Briton to win the Tour; beats Dutchman Tom Dumoulin by 1' 51"; Peter Sagan wins green points jersey

• 2021 Australian canoeist Jessicas Fox with 109.96s wins inaugural women's C-1 slalom gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games
• 2021 Australian swimmer Emma McKeon wins the blue riband 100m freestyle gold medal in OR 51.96 at the Tokyo Olympics; her 8th career Olympic medal
• 2021 Croatian rowing brothers Martin and Valent Sinković team to win coxless pair gold at the Tokyo Olympics; pair's second Olympic gold after winning double sculls in 2016

Olympic Gold
2021 Following Simone Biles' withdrawal, teammate Sunisa Lee becomes first Hmong-American Olympic champion in any sport when she wins women's artistic individual all-around gymnastics gold in Tokyo


GymnastSimone Biles

• 2021 Russian backstroke swimmer Evgeny Rylov wraps up the 100/200m double with OR 1:53.27 in the longer event at the Tokyo Olympic Games
• 2021 South African swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker sets new women's 200m breaststroke WR 2:18.95 at the Tokyo Olympics beating the American pair of Lilly King and Annie Lazor

 

JULY 30

• 1844 1st US yacht club - NY Yacht Club organized by John Cox Stevens and 8 friends aboard the Gimcrack
• 1874 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Philadelphia in British Isles

• 1884 Nonpareil Dempsey [John Edward Kelly] fights George Fulljames, possibly the 1st middleweight fight with boxing gloves
• 1905 3rd Tour de France won by Louis Trousselier of France
• 1908 Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
• 1909 John Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
• 1911 9th Tour de France won by Gustave Garrigou of France
• 1930 1st FIFA World Cup Final, Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay: Uruguay beats Argentina, 4-2 in the inaugural event
• 1932 X Summer Olympic Games open in Los Angeles, USA

International Lawn Tennis Challenge

1933 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: Fred Perry beats André Merlin 4-6, 8-6, 6-2, 7-5 to give Great Britain a 3-2 victory over France; ends French 6 title win streak


Tennis Player and BroadcasterFred Perry

• 1937 Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base and registers no put outs
• 1939 Tour de France: Sylvère Maes of Belgium wins his 3rd title from Frenchman René Vietto
• 1947 Cincinnati Reds' pitcher Ewell Blackwell record-breaking 16 game winning streak ends, losing to NY Giants 5-4
• 1948 Czech distance running legend Emil Zátopek wins the 10,000m at the London Olympics in 29:59.6, an Olympic record

Sports History
1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players


MLB LegendTy Cobb

• 1954 Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles
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• 1955 42nd Tour de France: French cyclist Louison Bobet claims last of his 3 straight general classification victories

Sports History
1959 In his MLB debut, SF Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4 in a 7-2 win over Philadelphia Phillies at Seal Stadium


Baseball Hall of Fame 1st BasemanWillie McCovey

• 1960 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
• 1962 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago, MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels)
• 1965 Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants
• 1966 FIFA World Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London, England: Striker Geoff Hurst scores a hat trick as England beats West Germany, 4-2 after extra time
• 1968 Washington shortstop Ron Hansen makes 8th unassisted triple-play in MLB history and first in 41 years as Senators lose, 10-1 to Cleveland Indians
• 1969 Astros Denis Menke and Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets
• 1971 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289)
• 1973 Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0

Olympic Gold
1976 Future TV personality ('Keeping Up with the Kardashians') and transgender figure, Bruce Jenner (now Caitlin Jenner) sets WR 8,618 points to win decathlon gold at Montreal Olympics


Decathlete and Television PersonalityCaitlyn Jenner

• 1976 Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
• 1978 Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits & NL-record-tying 8 HRs
• 1980 American swimmers Mary T Meagher (2.06.37) and Craig Beardsley (1.58.21) both set 200m butterfly world records at the US National Swimming Championships at Irvine, California
• 1980 Houston Astros pitcher J. R. Richard suffers a stroke and collapses while playing a game of catch before an Astros game, ending his career
• 1982 Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats
• 1983 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg
• 1988 Cincinnati Reds pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month
• 1988 MLB Pitcher John Franco saves a record 13th game during the month of July

Sports History
1990 George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner of Baseball Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of NY Yankees


New York Yankees OwnerGeorge Steinbrenner

Sports History
1990 Graham Gooch scores 123 v India to follow up 1st innings 333


CricketerGraham Gooch

• 1991 Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
• 1992 Yael Arad becomes Israel's first ever Olympic medalist when she wins silver in the women's 61kg judo in Barcelona; 20th anniversary of Munich massacre and 500th anniversary of Alhambra Decree
• 1995 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Portrush GC: Brian Barnes of Scotland wins in a playoff with American Bob Murphy
• 1995 Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win v West Indies at Old Trafford

Hall of Fame
1995 Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter baseball's Hall of Fame


Baseball PlayerRichie Ashburn

MLB Third BasemanMike Schmidt

• 1996 Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager
• 2006 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Turnberry: American Loren Roberts wins in a playoff with Eduardo Romero of Argentina
• 2006 Bruce Sutter, relief pitcher for Cubs, Cardinals, and Braves, inducted into MLB Hall of Fame, in Cooperstown, New York
• 2012 General Motors (Chevrolet) sign a record breaking 7 year $559 million sponsorship deal with EPL club Manchester United

Senior Open Championship
2017 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Porthcawl: Bernhard Langer of Germany wins his 3rd Open Senior title by 3 shots from Corey Pavin


Golfer and Two-Time Masters ChampionBernhard Langer

 

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Tour de France

1910 Tour de France: Octave Lapize of France wins by just 4 points from Team Alcyon teammate François Faber of Luxembourg


CyclistFrançois Faber

• 1928 Halina Konopacka of Poland hurls discus world record 39.62m to win first gold medal in women's Olympic athletics at the Amsterdam Games; American Lillian Copeland and Ruth Sveberg of Sweden take minor medals
• 1928 In the first women’s Olympic track event, American sprinter Elizabeth Robinson equals her own world record 12.2s to win 100m gold medal in Amsterdam; Canadians Fanny Rosenfeld & Ethel Smith dead-heat (12.3s)

Baseball History
1930 NY Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig drives in 8 runs with a grand slam and 2 doubles in a 14-13 win over the rival Boston Red Sox


Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig

• 1932 26th Tour de France: French cyclist André Leducq wins after tallying 6 stage victories; his second Tour triumph (1930)
• 1932 Cleveland Indians christen their new home, Municipal Stadium before more than 76,000 fans; lose opener, 1-0 to the Philadelphia A's

International Lawn Tennis Challenge
1932 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: Home team wins 6th straight title as Jean Borotra beats American Wilmer Allison 1-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 7-5 for unassailable 3-1 lead; ends 3-2


Tennis PlayerJean Borotra
International Lawn Tennis Challenge
1934 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: Fred Perry beats American Frank Shields 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 15-13 to give Great Britain unassailable 3-1 lead to retain title; ends 4-1


Tennis Player and BroadcasterFred Perry

• 1936 IOC awards Tokyo, Japan 1940 Summer Olympic Games (later cancelled, Second Sino-Japanese War)
• 1938 32nd Tour de France: Italian cyclist Gino Bartali wins both general and mountain classifications

Jake Powell Suspended
1938 MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspends New York Yankees outfielder Jake Powell after he said on Chicago radio he kept in shape by "cracking" African Americans over the head with his nightstick


1st MLB CommissionerKenesaw Mountain Landis

• 1948 American sprinter Harrison Dillard runs an Olympic record 10.3s to beat countryman Barney Ewell for the 100m gold medal at the London Olympics
• 1948 American swimmer Wally Ris wins the coveted 100m freestyle gold medal at the London Olympics beating teammate Alan Ford by 0.4 seconds
• 1954 Milwaukee first baseman Joe Adcock becomes only the 3rd player in 20th century to hit 4 HRs in 9-inning game (Lou Gehrig & Gil Hodges) in 15-7 Braves' win over Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field; MLB record 18 total bases
• 1956 England cricket spin bowler Jim Laker takes 10-53 in Australia's 2nd innings; match figures 19-90 in 4th Test at Old Trafford; England win by innings & 170 runs
• 1961 31st MLB All Star Game (2nd), Fenway Park, Boston: First tie in history; called due to rain after 9 innings with the score, 1–1
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• 1961 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Olympia Fields CC: Jerry Barber wins his only major title in a Monday 18-hole playoff with Don January (67-68)
• 1962 England fast bowler Brian Statham becomes Test cricket's leading wicket-taker with world-record tally of 237 as Australian wicketkeeper Barry Shepherd is caught by Fred Truman for 10 in drawn 4th Test in Adelaide
• 1963 MLB Cleveland Indians ties record of 4 consecutive home runs to beat California Angels, 9-5; Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona and Larry Brown all go deep off Paul Foytack in 6th inning
• 1970 37th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Kansas City 24, All Stars 3 (69,940)
• 1971 4-time Eredivisie soccer champions Go Ahead from Dutch city of Deventer add 'Eagles' to famous name
• 1972 Chicago infielder Dick Allen becomes only 7th player in MLB history to hit 2 inside-the-park home runs in a game; both off Bert Blyleven in 8-1 White Sox win over Minnesota Twins
• 1973 England cricket batsman Frank Hayes scores unbeaten 106 in Test debut in 1st Test v West Indies at The Oval, London; tourists win by 158 runs
• 1976 East German runner Waldemar Cierpinski beats American Frank Shorter by 50 seconds to win the Olympic Games marathon in 2:09:55 in Montreal

Pete Rose's Hitting Streak
1978 Cincinnati infielder Pete Rose singles off Phil Niekro to extend his hitting streak to 44 games as Reds edge Atlanta Braves, 3-2; ties Willie Keeler's 81-year-old NL record


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherPhil Niekro

• 1981 Mid-season strike by MLB players ends after 42 days causing cancellation of 713 games; players and owners come to an agreement on free agent compensation

Baseball Hall of Fame
1983 Brooks Robinson, Juan Marichal, George Kell and Walter Alston are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York


Baseball Hall of Fame Third BasemanBrooks Robinson

Baseball ManagerWalter Alston

Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherJuan Marichal
US Women's Golf Open
1983 US Open Women's Golf, Cedar Ridge CC: Australian Jan Stephenson wins her 3rd major title; beats JoAnne Carner and Patty Sheehan by 1 stroke


LPGA GolferPatty Sheehan

GolferJoAnne Carner

• 1984 US men's gymnastics team score emotional upset win over world champion Chinese team in the combined event to take the gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics

Baseball Record
1987 Baltimore first baseman Eddie Murray hits his 299th and 300th career home runs to lead Orioles to an 8-4 win over Texas Rangers


MLB 1st BasemanEddie Murray

• 1988 Miami Dolphins beat San Francisco 49ers, 27-21 in the American Bowl at London's Wembley Stadium

Baseball Record
1988 Oakland DH Jose Canseco smacks 2 home runs off Scott Bankhead in A's 6-2 win over Seattle Mariners; becomes first MLB player to hit 30 HRs in first 3 years


MLB PlayerJosé Canseco
Baseball Hall of Fame
1988 Pittsburgh Pirates 1st baseman/left fielder and 7-time All Star Willie Stargell becomes 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame


Baseball Left fielder / First basemanWillie Stargell

• 1989 MLB Minnesota Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to New York Mets

Baseball History
1990 Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan records his 300th career victory, an 11-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers; 20th MLB pitcher to reach the milestone


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1992 Hungarian swimmer Krisztina Egerszegi earns her 3rd gold medal of the Barcelona Olympics winning 200m backstroke for the 100-200 double along with 400m I/M gold
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• 1992 Three world record swims on final night session at the Barcelona Olympics; Australian Kieren Perkins 1,500m (14:43.4); Tamás Darnyi of Hungary 200m backstroke (1:59.36); China's Yang Wenyi women's 50m freestyle (24.79)

Baseball Trade
1993 Toronto Blue Jays obtain future Baseball Hall of Fame OF Rickey Henderson from Oakland in exchange for minor leaguers Steve Karsay and Jose Herrera


MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson

• 1994 28th Curtis Cup Women's Golf, The Honors Course: US and GB & Ireland draw, 9-9

Baseball Hall of Fame
1994 New York Yankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto and Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Steve Carlton are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York


Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton

Sportscaster and MLB ShortstopPhil Rizzuto
Baseball Trade
1997 A's first baseman Mark McGwire becomes MLB's top home run hitter to be traded in the middle of a season when he moves from Oakland to St. Louis Cardinals (34 home runs and 81 RBI)


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

• 1997 College Football's all-time winningest coach Eddie Robinson and his Grambling State University program are placed on 2-years' probation for rules violations, including recruiting and academic eligibility
• 2005 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: Jeong Jang of South Korea leads wire-to-wire to win her first LPGA event and lone major title, 4 strokes ahead of Sophie Gustafson
• 2005 US Senior Open Men's Golf, NCR CC: Allen Doyle wins by 1 stroke ahead of Loren Roberts and D. A. Weibring for his 3rd Champions Tour major title
• 2007 Boston Celtics obtain former MVP and 10-time All-Star Kevin Garnett in a 7-for-1 deal with Minnesota Timberwolves; then the NBA's biggest ever trade for one player

Women's British Open
2011 British Open Women's Golf, Carnoustie GL: Yani Tseng of Taiwan becomes first to successfully defend the Open as a major championship, 4 strokes ahead of Brittany Lang


GolferYani Tseng
US Senior Golf Open
2011 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Inverness Club: Olin Browne wins by 3 strokes ahead of Mark O'Meara; 5th player in history to win on Nationwide Tour, PGA Tour and Champions Tour


GolferMark O'Meara
Olympic Games
2012 Germany wins London Olympic equestrian eventing final; daughter of Princess Anne, Zara Phillips part of GB silver medal winning team


Daughter of Princess AnneZara Phillips
Phelps Medal Record
2012 Michael Phelps becomes the greatest medal winner in Olympic history as part of the winning American 4 x 200m freestyle relay team in London; Phelps' 19th career Olympic medal and 15th overall gold


SwimmerMichael Phelps

• 2016 British Open Women's Golf, Woburn: Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand wins by 3 from Mo Martin & Mirim Lee
• 2016 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Baltusrol GC: American Jimmy Walker wins his first major by 1 shot from defending champion Jason Day of Australia
• 2017 England cricket spin bowler Moeen Ali takes a hat-trick in 239 run 3rd Test win over South Africa; 100th Test match played at The Oval, London
• 2021 American swimmer Caeleb Dressel wins 100m butterfly in WR 49.45 at the Tokyo Olympics; completes 100m freestyle/butterfly double

Ledecky's Third 800m Gold
2021 American swimming superstar Katie Ledecky wins the women's 800m gold for an unprecedented third consecutive Olympics in Tokyo; claims distance 800/1500m double


SwimmerKatie Ledecky

• 2021 Australian swimmer Kaylee McKeown wins gold in 200m backstroke to complete 100/200 double at the Tokyo Olympic Games

1st Mixed-Gender Olympic Swim Event
2021 First mixed-gender event to feature in Olympic swim program; Great Britain team of Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy & Anna Hopkin wins mixed 4×100m medley relay in WR 3:37.58 in Tokyo


SwimmerAdam Peaty
Jamaican 100m Sweep
2021 Jamaican sprinters Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson trifecta women's 100m final at the Tokyo Olympics; Thompson Herah retains title


SprinterElaine Thompson-Herah

 

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• 1906 Brooklyn Superbas MLB pitcher Harry McIntire no-hits Pittsburgh for 10 2/3 innings but loses in 13th, 1-0 on an unearned run

Tour de France

1909 Tour de France: François Faber of Luxembourg becomes the first foreigner to win the cycling classic


CyclistFrançois Faber

• 1918 Pittsburgh and Boston Braves play a MLB record 20 scoreless innings before Pirates win, 2-0 in 21
• 1924 Brooklyn pitcher Dazzy Vance strikes out a MLB record 7 consecutive batters as the Robins beat Cubs, 4-0
• 1928 Americans sweep medals at a rainy Olympic pole vault final in Amsterdam with Sabin Carr gold, from William Droegemuller and Charles McGinnis

Babe Ruth Hits HR #42
1928 Babe Ruth hits home run #42 in the Yankees 12-1 win v St. Louis Browns, takes him 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
Baseball Record
1933 NY's future Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell sets MLB record for consecutive scoreless innings at 45 1/3 as Giants lose 3-1 v Boston Braves


Baseball PitcherCarl Hubbell

• 1934 US Amateur Golf Championship format is changed to a 6-day event with no 36-hole stroke-play qualifying, and 36-hole matches for semi-finals and final

XI Summer Olympic Games
1936 XI Summer Olympic Games are opened by Adolph Hitler in Berlin


Dictator of Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler

• 1941 NY Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez sets MLB record for most walks in a shutout, issuing 11 in 9-0 win v St. Louis Browns

Baseball Record
1945 NY Giants outfielder Mel Ott hits historic 500th MLB home run off Braves Johnny Hutchings, joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx as only players to reach milestone


Baseball Player and ManagerMel Ott

• 1953 Boston Red Sox pitcher Ben Flowers sets then MLB record of 8 consecutive games in relief
• 1954 Tour de France: Louison Bobet of France wins by 15' 49" from Ferdinand Kübler, for the second of his 3 consecutive wins
• 1957 Ex MLB outfielder Glen Gorbous throws a regulation baseball a record 136m (445' 10") in a game promotion

Baseball Record
1957 Gil Hodges hits his 13th MLB career grand slam, a NL record and the last ever by a Brooklyn Dodgers player


MLB First BasemanGil Hodges
Cricket History
1961 Australian cricket captain Richie Benaud takes 6 for 70 in England's 2nd innings for a 54 run 4th Test win at Old Trafford


Cricketer and CommentatorRichie Benaud

• 1962 Boston Red Sox pitcher Bill Monboquette no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0

Davis Cup
1963 Arthur Ashe becomes first African-American tennis player to be named in the US Davis Cup team


Tennis PlayerArthur Ashe

• 1964 Dan 'Big Daddy' Garlits becomes first drag racer to run the 1/4 mile at over 200mph (201.34mph at Island Dragway, New Jersey)

F1 World Champion
1965 Scottish Lotus driver Jim Clark wins the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring to clinch his second F1 World Drivers Championship


Auto RacerJim Clark

• 1969 36th Chicago Charities College All-Star Game: NY Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208)

Baseball Record
1970 Future Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Stargell smacks 3 doubles and 2 homers in a 20-10 Pirates win v Braves at Atlanta Stadium


Baseball Left fielder / First basemanWillie Stargell
Sports History
1971 Richard Petty wins the Dixie 500 in Atlanta, Georgia to become the first NASCAR driver to win $1m in career earnings


Auto RacerRichard Petty

• 1972 Nate Colbert hits MLB record tying 5 HRs and record 13 RBI as Padres beat Atlanta 9-0, 11-7 in a doubleheader
• 1973 MLB All Star catchers Thurman Munson of the NY Yankees and Boston Red Sox' Carlton Fisk brawl at home plate Fenway Park; Red Sox win, 3-2

Sports History
1973 Struggling ABA club Virginia Squires trades star forward Julius Erving to New York Nets for George Carter and cash


NBA LegendJulius Erving
Sports History
1976 Reigning world F1 champion Niki Lauda of Austria suffers a near fatal crash during the German Grand Prix at The Nürburgring motorsports complex, Nürburg, Germany


Auto RacerNiki Lauda

• 1976 Seattle Seahawks take the field for the first time in pre-season game v SF 49ers at the newly constructed Kingdome in Seattle
• 1976 XXI Summer Olympic Games, Montreal, Canada: Officially close

Baseball Record
1977 San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th MLB career grand slam


Baseball Hall of Fame 1st BasemanWillie McCovey
Baseball Record
1978 Atlanta Braves trounce Cincinnati Reds, 16-4 and halt Pete Rose's NL record hitting streak at 44 games


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

• 1980 East German runner Waldemar Cierpinski wins his second consecutive Olympic Games marathon in 12:11:03 in Moscow
• 1980 Gerd Wessig of East Germany becomes the first male to set a high jump world record at the Olympics (2.36m [7' 9"] Moscow)
• 1982 After the first 13 runnings of the midsummer classic, Darryl Waltrip becomes the first driver the win the Talladega 500 twice

Sports History
1982 American Greg Louganis becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives in winning 3m springboard gold, World Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador


DiverGreg Louganis

• 1982 East German swimmer Petra Schneider breaks her own 400m medley world record by 0:19 (4:36.10) at the World Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador

Cricket History
1983 Despite brave 112no by David Gower, New Zealand wins 2nd Test at Headingley by 5 wickets, first ever NZ Test cricket victory in England


Cricket Batsman and CaptainDavid Gower

• 1985 St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning of 9-8 loss v Cubs to set a NL rookie record 74
• 1986 Twins pitcher Bert Blyleven becomes 10th to reach 3,000 MLB strikeout milestone, 2-hits A's, 10-1

Boxing Title Fight
1987 Mike Tyson outpoints Tony Tucker in 12 rounds in a heavyweight boxing unification matchup in Las Vegas; first to own all 3 major belts WBA, WBC and IBF simultaneously


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

• 1989 Australia beats England by 9 wickets in the 4th cricket Test at Old Trafford, taking an unassailable 3-0 series lead to regain the Ashes
• 1992 American sprinter Gail Devers wins an incredibly close blanket finish in the women's 100m at the Barcelona Olympics, with 5 athletes within 0.06 seconds of Devers (10.82)
• 1992 British athlete Linford Christie (32) becomes the oldest man to win an Olympic 100m gold medal edging Frankie Fredericks in Barcelona

Baseball Hall of Fame
1993 14-time MLB All Star Reggie Jackson is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY


MLB Right FielderReggie Jackson

• 1993 England wins the women's cricket World Cup for the first time since the inaugural event in 1973 with a 67 run victory over New Zealand at Lord's

Sports History
1994 Baltimore shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. becomes only the second player after Lou Gehrig to appear in 2,000 consecutive MLB games, in a 1-0 win vs Twins


MLB LegendCal Ripken Jr

Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig

• 1996 American athlete Michael Johnson wins 200m at the Atlanta Olympics in a world record 19.32 seconds to become the first man to complete the 200m-400m double
• 1996 Dan O'Brien wins the decathlon gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics to become the first American since Bruce Jenner in 1976 to win the gruelling event
• 1996 French sprinter Marie-José Pérec wins the 200m final at the Atlanta Olympics to become only the 2nd athlete to win the 200-400m Olympic double (Valerie Brisco-Hooks 1984)
• 1996 Tiffeny Milbrett scores the winner as the US beats China 2-1 at the Atlanta Olympics for the first ever Olympic gold medal in women's soccer
• 1997 6th Athletics World Championships open at Athens, Greece

Canadian Women's Open
1999 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Priddis Greens GC: Australian Karrie Webb wins by 2 from Laura Davies of England

Contract of Interest
2002 In signing star linebacker Ray Lewis to a 5-year contract extension the Baltimore Ravens give him a $19m signing bonus, then the largest in NFL history

• 2004 British Open Women's Golf, Sunningdale: England's Karen Stupples wins her lone major title, 5 shots ahead of runner-up Rachel Teske of Australia

US Senior Golf Open
2004 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Bellerive GC: Peter Jacobson wins by 1 shot from 2-time champion Hale Irwin

• 2010 Australian Stuart Appleby finishes with an 11-under-59 to win the Greenbrier Classic at White Sulphur Springs, to become only the 5th player and first non-American to break 60 on the PGA Tour

Women's British Open
2010 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: 21 year old Yani Tseng of Taiwan becomes youngest-ever winner of 3 major championships, 1 stroke ahead of Katherine Hull of Australia

US Senior Golf Open
2010 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Sahalee CC: Berhard Langer of Germany wins by 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Fred Couples

• 2012 8 female badminton doubles players are disqualified from the 2012 Summer Olympics for attempting to manipulate the draw by throwing matches
• 2012 American Nathan Adrian clocks 47.52 in winning the 100m freestyle gold at the London Olympics, his first swim under 48 seconds
• 2012 Bradley Wiggins' win in the London Olympics cycling time trial gives him the most aggregate medals (7) of any British Olympian (4 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
• 2012 Great Britain collects its first ever gold medal in women's rowing with Heather Stanning and Helen Glover in the coxless pairs at the London Olympics
• 2014 Indiana Pacers NBA super-star Paul George suffers a gruesome compound fracture of his lower right leg in a Team USA scrimmage
• 2018 Australian Rugby League's 'Immortals' tally moves to 13 as pre-War stars Dally Messenger, Frank Burge & Dave Brown along with latter day giants Norm Provan & Mal Meninga are added
• 2021 American swimmer Caeleb Dressel wins his 5th gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics in 50m freestyle and 4x100m medley relay
• 2021 American swimmer Robert Finke wins men's 1,500m gold in 14:39.65 at the Tokyo Olympics, completing long distance double 800/1,500m
• 2021 Australian swimmer Emma McKeon claims gold in 50m freestyle and 4x100m medley relay for total 7 medals at Tokyo Olympics; equals record set by Russian gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya in 1952
• 2021 Chinese diver Shi Tingmao completes women's 3m springboard/synchronized 3m springboard double at the Tokyo Olympics for second consecutive Games
• 2021 Italian Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar avoid a jump-off by agreeing to share the long jump gold medal after tying on 2.37m at the Tokyo Olympic Games
• 2021 Marcell Jacobs becomes first Italian athlete to win the coveted 100m in 9.80 at the Tokyo Olympics

 

AUG 2

• 1864 Saratoga Racecourse, America's oldest Thoroughbred racetrack, opens its inaugural meet with four days of racing
• 1906 Chicago White Sox beat Boston Americans, 3-0 to start AL record 19 game MLB win streak

Walter Johnson's First Game

1907 Legendary pitcher Walter Johnson at 19 begins his 21 year Baseball Hall of Fame playing career with Washington with 3-2 loss v Detroit


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

• 1912 US Open Men's Golf, CC of Buffalo: John McDermott successfully defends title by 2 strokes from Tom McNamara
• 1921 After 3 hours deliberation a Chicago jury acquits 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal; next day they are banned from organised baseball for life
• 1924 A's 1st baseman Joe Hauser sets AL record of 14 total bases in a game; 3 HRs and a double as Philadelphia beats Cleveland Indians, 12-4 at Dunn Field
• 1929 Philadelphia 1st baseman Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR in Phillies' 2-0 win v Pittsburgh Pirates
• 1936 A Finnish trifecta in the 10,000m final at the Berlin Olympics; Ilmari Salminen beats teammates Arvo Askola and Volmari Iso-Hollo
• 1936 Americans Cornelius Johnson, Dave Albritton and Delos Thurber sweep the high jump medals at the Berlin Olympics
• 1936 Tour de France: Sylvère Maes of Belgium wins his second title from Frenchman Antone Magne
• 1938 MLB conducts the first test of bright yellow baseballs during Dodgers vs Cardinals doubleheader
• 1948 Danish swimmer Greta Anderson (1:06.3) touches out American Ann Curtis by 0.2 in the women's 100m freestyle at the London Olympics
• 1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands wins the 100m in 11.9 at the London Olympics; 1st of unprecedented 3 individual track & field gold medals
• 1948 Italians Adolfo Consolini and Giuseppe Tosi go 1-2 in the men's discus final at the London Olympics

Olympic Gold
1952 17 year-old future world champion Floyd Patterson wins the gold medal in the middleweight division at the Helsinki Olympic Games with a 1st round KO of Romanian Vasile Tita


Boxing ChampionFloyd Patterson
Baseball Record
1959 Future Hall of Fame 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 MLB home runs in SF Giants 5-3 win v Pittsburgh Pirates


Baseball Hall of Fame 1st BasemanWillie McCovey

• 1959 Milwaukee Braves outfielder Bill Bruton hits 3 triples in 11-5 win v St. Louis Cardinals; 2 of them bases loaded, first time in 20th Century
• 1959 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Minneapolis GC: Bob Rosburg wins by 1 stroke from Jerry Barber and Doug Sanders
• 1961 St Louis Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in an exhibition game in Toronto, Canada
• 1967 New Orleans Saints play 1st ever pre-season game, lose to LA Rams 16-7 at Anaheim Stadium
• 1968 Ron Hansen (Washington Senators) & Tim Cullen (Chicago White Sox) become the first MLB players to be traded for each other twice in the same season; they had been traded in February in opposite directions

Sports History
1973 Future Baseball Hall of Fame 3rd baseman George Brett gets his 1st MLB hit on debut for the Kansas City Royals in 3-1 win over Chicago White Sox


MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett

• 1977 In his comeback Test, England cricket batsman Geoff Boycott is unbeaten on 80 after a 1st innings 107 as England beats Australia by 7 wickets in the 3rd Test at Trent Bridge
• 1979 MLB New York Mets purchase contract of outfielder José Cardenal from Philadelphia Phillies between games of a double-header between the two teams
• 1979 Washington, D.C. trial attorney Edward Bennett Williams buys MLB's Baltimore Orioles from Jerold Hoffberger for reported $12.3 million
• 1980 Cuban super-heavyweight Teofilo Stevenson becomes the 1st fighter to win 3 Olympic gold medals in the same division, scores 4-1 points decision over Pyotr Zayev (Soviet Union) in Moscow

Cricket History
1981 England cricket all-rounder Ian Botham takes 5 for 11 to end Australia's chase of 151 target, all out 121 for 29 run defeat in 4th Test at Edgbaston


CricketerIan Botham
Baseball Record
1982 Oakland outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 100th MLB base of the season in 6-5 win v Seattle, first to steal 100 twice in modern era


MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson

• 1984 Jeff Blatnick becomes first American to win a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Los Angeles Olympics, Blatnick was in remission for Hodgkin’s disease

Cricket History
1985 England captain David Gower scores his 5,000th run in Test cricket during the drawn 4th Test v Australia at Old Trafford


Cricket Batsman and CaptainDavid Gower
Sports History
1986 American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee beats her own world heptathlon record by 13 points (7,161) in Houston


Track and Field AthleteJackie Joyner-Kersee

• 1986 Curtis Cup Women's Golf, Prairie Dunes CC: Great Britain & Ireland beats the US 13-5, the visitors first win on American soil
• 1986 Lee Elder fires a record 11-under par 61 on his way to winning the Senior PGA Merrill Lynch/Golf Digest Commemorative at Sleepy Hollow CC; mark stands for 11 years
• 1987 Cincinnati outfielder Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in one season as he homers in Reds 5-4 win v Giants

Federation Cup
1987 Federation Cup Tennis Final: Steffi Graf & Claudia Kohde-Kilsch beat Chris Evert & Pam Shriver in the doubles as Germany beats US 2-1 in Vancouver, Canada


Tennis PlayerSteffi Graf

Tennis LegendChris Evert

• 1987 Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49mph) in winning the Marlboro 500 at the Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, Michigan
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• 1990 Yankees rookie 1st baseman Kevin Maas hits his 10th MLB homer in 6-5 loss v Detroit, fastest to reach that mark, just 77 at bats
• 1992 American Jacki Joyner-Kersee becomes first athlete to win consecutive gold medals in the gruelling heptathlon with a 199 point win over Irina Belova (Soviet Union) at the Barcelona Olympics

Baseball Hall of Fame
1992 Tom Seaver, Rollie Fingers, Hal Newhouser & Bill McGowan are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherTom Seaver

• 1992 Vitaly Scherbo of Belarus becomes the first gymnast to win 6 gold medals at one Olympics in Barcelona, also first to win 4 gold in one day's competition (pommel, vault, rings & parallel bars)
• 1993 Maryland investors led by Baltimore attorney Peter Angelos buy the Baltimore Orioles at auction in New York for $173m, nearly $50m more than ever paid for a baseball team

Olympic Gold
1996 The star-studded United States men's basketball team, Dream Team III, beat Yugoslavia 95-69 to win the gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics


NBA CenterHakeem Olajuwon
Canadian Women's Open
1998 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Essex GC: Brandie Burton wins by 1 shot from Annika Sörenstam


GolferAnnika Sörenstam

• 1998 Curtis Cup Women's Golf, Minikahda GC: US beats Great Britain & Ireland 10-8
• 1998 Tour de France: Marco Pantani of Italy makes it a Tour & Giro d'Italia double, German Erik Zabel is points winner
• 2003 South African cricket batsman Graeme Smith blazes 259, fast bowler Makhaya Ntini has 5 wickets in each England innings as Proteas win 2nd Test by an innings and 92 at Lord's

Women's British Open
2009 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes GC: Catriona Matthew wins her lone major title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Karrie Webb; first Scot to win the title


GolferKarrie Webb

GolferCatriona Matthew
World Records Galore
2009 Michael Phelps ends the World Swimming Championships in Rome with his 5th gold medal as part of the US 4x100m medley relay team that recorded the 43rd world record of the controversial meet


SwimmerMichael Phelps

• 2009 US Open Senior Men's Golf, Crooked Stick GC: Fred Funk wins by 6 strokes from Joey Sindelar with a tournament record score (-20)
• 2012 American swimmer Michael Phelps wins an unprecedented third consecutive gold medal in the 200m individual medley in 1:54.27 at the London Olympics
• 2012 American swimmer Rebecca Soni becomes first woman to win the 200m breaststroke twice with a world record 2:19.59 at the London Olympics
• 2014 Super Rugby Final, ANZ Stadium, Sydney: NSW Waratahs win their first SR title in a nail-biting 33-32 home effort against New Zealand's Canterbury Crusaders

Women's British Open
2015 British Open Women's Golf, Turnberry: Inbee Park of South Korea shoots final found 65 (−7) to win her 7th major title, 3 strokes ahead of compatriot Ko Jin-young


GolferInbee Park

 

AUG 3

• 1852 America's first intercollegiate sporting event takes place as the Harvard heavyweight rowing crew beats Yale by 2 lengths over 2 miles on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire
• 1881 US National Lawn Tennis Association removes "National" from its name

• 1906 Washington Nationals' Tom Hughes becomes first MLB pitcher to win a 1-0 extra innings game off his own home run in 10th v St. Louis Browns

Sports History

1909 MLB umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting in the face of A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins who had questioned a call; 2 weeks later Hurst banned for life


Baseball LegendEddie Collins

• 1914 NY Yankees catcher Les Nunamaker throws out 3 Tigers' runners to 2nd base during the 1st innings, only time in 20th Century
• 1921 MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Landis hands out life bans to 8 Chicago White Sox players accused in Black Sox scandal despite their acquittal by a Chicago jury

Sports History
1923 Baseball games cancelled following the death of US President Warren G. Harding


29th US PresidentWarren G. Harding
Sports History
1924 Dutch track cyclist Piet Moeskops wins his 4th consecutive UCI world sprint championship in Paris


Track CyclistPiet Moeskops

• 1928 Ray Barbuti wins 400m in 47.8 at the Amsterdam Olympics, the only individual track event won by an American at the Games

Sports History
1930 For the 2nd time in the year, Phillies outfielder Chuck Klein hits safely in 26 straight games, run halted in 2nd game of doubleheader v Boston Braves


Baseball Hall of Fame Right FielderChuck Klein

• 1932 Official automatic timing & photo-finish camera for track events is used for the 1st time at Los Angeles Olympics, instrumental in changing 110m hurdles final, review gives Donald Finley bronze ahead of American Jack Keller
• 1933 Philadelphia A's beat NY Yankees, 7-0, first time in 308 games 'Bronx Bombers' are shut out

The Greatest 45 Minutes in Sports History
1936 American sprinter Jesse Owens wins the 100m (10.3 seconds) in front of Adolf Hitler in a famous race at the Berlin Olympics, first of 4 gold medals at the Games


Jesse Owens gets into his stride at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin

• 1936 Karl Hein (56.49 Olympic record) and Erwin Blask make it a German 1-2 in the hammer throw at the Berlin Olympics

Sports History
1941 Joe DiMaggio goes 0-4 in Yankees 6-2 loss v St. Louis Browns, ending his on-base streak of 74 games, 2nd in MLB history


Baseball PlayerJoe DiMaggio

• 1948 American divers Vicki Draves, Zoe Ann Olsen and Patsy Elsener go 1-2-3 in a US clean sweep of the medals in the women's 3m springboard at the London Olympics
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• 1948 An American 1-2 in the men's 200m at the London Olympics with Mel Patton (21.1) beating teammate Barney Ewell
• 1948 An American clean sweep of the medals in the men's 3m springboard diving at the London Olympics with Bruce Harlan winning gold, Miller Anderson silver and Sammy Lee bronze
• 1948 An American sweep of the medals in the men's shot put at the London Olympics with Wilbur Thompson taking gold ahead of teammates Jim Delaney & Jim Fuchs

Sports History
1948 Negro League veteran pitcher Satchel Paige, age 42, debuts in Cleveland after controversial signing, goes 7 innings in 5-3 win v Washington


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherSatchel Paige

• 1948 The US 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of Wally Ris, Jimmy McLane, Wally Wolf and Bill Smith swim a world record 8:46.0 to win gold at the London Olympics
• 1949 Basketball Association of America (BAA) & National Basketball League (NBL) merge to form National Basketball Association (NBA), Maurice Podoloff elected head of new league

F1 World Champion
1952 Italian Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari clinches Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by winning German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring


Auto RacerAlberto Ascari

• 1952 XV Summer Olympic Games close in Helsinki, Finland
• 1955 Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing, Le Mans disaster and Bill Vukovich death at Indianapolis contributing factors
• 1955 Belgian middle distance runner Roger Moens breaks Rudolph Harbig's long standing 800m world record (1:45.7) in Oslo, Norway
• 1956 American sprinter Willie Williams sets 100m world record at 10.1 in Berlin, Germany
• 1959 27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA
• 1959 AL beats NL 5-3 in Game 2 of All Star Baseball doubleheader (to boost player pension fund) at LA Memorial Coliseum
• 1960 For the only time in MLB history teams exchange managers as Detroit trades Jimmy Dykes (44-52) for Cleveland's Joe Gordon (49-46)
• 1960 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in exhibition game at CNE Stadium in Toronto
• 1961 Pittsburgh Pirates rout the St. Louis Cardinals, 19-0, the largest lopsided shutout in NL history
• 1962 NY Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games
• 1969 Cincinnati Reds with 25 hits & 10 runs in 5th edge Philadelphia Phillies 19-17 at Connie Mack Stadium
• 1970 The second ever NFL work stoppage ends with NFL and Players' Association agreeing to a 4-year, $19.1 million deal

PGA Championship
1979 Sam Snead, at 67 years, 2 months and 7 days sets the record for the oldest player to make the cut in a major - PGA Championship at Oakland Hills CC


GolferSam Snead

• 1980 Al Kaline, Duke Snider, Chuck Klein and Tom Yawkey are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1980 XXII Summer Olympic Games close in Moscow, Russia
• 1982 Pitching coach Clyde King becomes NY Yankees 3rd manager of the season replacing Gene Michaels after Yanks swept at home by Chicago White Sox
• 1984 17 year old Australian swimmer Jon Sieben stages a withering finish to upset hot favourite Michael Gross of West Germany in 200m butterfly at Los Angeles Olympics, world record (1:57.04)
• 1984 Mary Lou Retton scores 10 for final vault to win the individual all-round competition in Los Angeles and become first American woman to win an Olympic gymnastics medal
• 1984 Mexicans Ernesto Canto and Raúl González take the gold and silver medals in the 20k walk at the Los Angeles Olympics
• 1986 First NFL 'American Bowl' exhibition game at London's Wembley Stadium, Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6

Baseball Hall of Fame
1986 Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr and Ernie Lombardi are inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY


Baseball Hall of Fame 1st BasemanWillie McCovey

Hall of Fame Baseball PlayerBobby Doerr
Baseball Record
1987 Detroit Tigers ace Jack Morris ties AL record with 5 wild pitches in a 4-2, 10 innings loss v Kansas City Royals


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherJack Morris

• 1987 Twins pitcher Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound in 11-3 win v Angels, ejected and suspended for 10 games
• 1989 Cincinnati Reds set MLB record for most hits in 1st inning of a game with 16 for 14 runs in an 18-1 rout of Houston Astros

Baseball Record
1989 Future Baseball Hall of Fame left fielder Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 stolen bases in 9 of his first 11 seasons in MLB


MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson

• 1989 Jorge Velásquez wins aboard Maddie Bumpo in the 3rd at Arlington International Racecourse to become only the 5th jockey in the world to ride 6,000 career winners
• 1990 NY Yankees rookie 1st baseman Kevin Maas sets a MLB record for hitting 10 home runs in the fewest at bats (72)

Tour de France
1996 5-time Tour de France winner Miguel Induráin of Spain wins the 52.2k road time trial in 1:04:05, 12 seconds ahead of countryman Abraham Olano at the Atlanta Olympics


CyclistMiguel Induráin
Olympic Gold
1996 American Andre Agassi wins the men's singles Tennis gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics beating Spaniard Sergi Bruguera 6-2, 6-3, 6-1


Tennis LegendAndre Agassi

Tennis StarSergi Bruguera

• 1997 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Glen Abbey GC: Colleen Walker wins by 2 shots from Liselotte Neumann of Sweden
• 1997 Manchester United beats Chelsea 4-2 on penalties to win the Charity Shield, after a bad-tempered 1-all draw at Wembley
• 1998 The Oval stages first competitive cricket match played under floodlights in London when home team Surrey loses to Sussex by 8 wickets in the day/night 40-over fixture
• 1999 Arsenal FC completes a huge signing coup snapping up ace French striker Thierry Henry for a bargain £10 million from Italian club Juventus.
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• 2000 England cricket wicket-keeper Alec Stewart becomes only the 4th batsman to score a century (105) in his 100th Test, during the 3rd Test against the West Indies at Old Trafford
• 2001 8th Athletics World Championships open at Edmonton, Canada
• 2001 Olympic champion Gezahegne Abera of Ethiopia becomes first athlete to achieve Olympics-World Championships marathon double; runs 2:12:42 to beat Kenya's Simon Biwott by just 0.1s in Edmonton World Championships

Women's British Open
2003 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes GC: Annika Sörenstam of Sweden wins by 1 stroke from Se Ri Pak; completes career grand slam for Sörenstam


LPGA GolferSe Ri Pak

GolferAnnika Sörenstam
Baseball Record
2004 St. Louis 1st baseman Albert Pujols becomes first player in MLB history to hit at least 30 HRs in each of his first 4 seasons as Cardinals beat Montreal, 10-6


MLB 1st BasemanAlbert Pujols
Baseball Record
2006 Barry Bonds' 715th MLB home run ball (moved him past Babe Ruth for 2nd all-time) fetches $220,100 at auction


MLB LegendBarry Bonds

• 2006 Brazilian Champ Car driver Cristiano da Matta crashes into a deer during testing at Road America, Wisconsin; seriously injured but returns to racing in 2008

Women's British Open
2008 British Open Women's Golf, Sunningdale GC: Jiyai Shin of South Korea shoots final round 66 (−6) to win her first major championship, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Yani Tseng


GolferYani Tseng

• 2008 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Broadmoor GC: Eduardo Romero of Argentina wins by 4 strokes ahead of Fred Funk for his second Champions Tour major title
• 2012 American Missy Franklin swims a world record 2:04.06 to win the 200m backstroke gold medal at the London Olympics

Olympic Gold
2012 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins the 100m butterfly in London to take his all-time Olympic gold medal tally to a record 17


SwimmerMichael Phelps

• 2013 Super Rugby Final, Waikato Stadium, Hamilton: Chiefs successfully defend title with a 27-22 over ACT Brumbies
• 2016 International Olympic Committee approves baseball/softball, karate, sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding to be included in the sports program for 2020 Games only; total number of sports, 33

World Record
2017 Brazilian soccer forward Neymar transfers from FC Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for a world-record transfer fee of €222M on a 5-year deal


FootballerNeymar
Olympic Gold
2021 Jamaican athlete Elaine Thompson-Herah wins 200m gold in Tokyo to become the first female to claim the 100/200m double at consecutive Olympic Games


SprinterElaine Thompson-Herah

• 2021 Karsten Warholm of Norway runs first ever sub-46 second 400m hurdles 45.94 WR to claim gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
• 2021 New Zealand canoeist Lisa Carrington wins her third straight Olympic K-1 200m title at the Tokyo Games; also wins K-2 500m for her 4th career Olympic gold medal

 

AUG 4

• 1907 Tour de France: Lucien Petit-Breton of France beats countryman Gustave Garrigou to win first of 2 Tour victories

Sports History

1910 MLB pitching duel; Philadelphia A's Jack Coombs and White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 0-0 tie in 16 innings


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and ManagerEd Walsh

• 1922 Lizzie Murphy becomes the first female to play against MLB players in a charity exhibition; all-stars from New England and AL v Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park
• 1929 Cleveland Indians, trailing 6-5 in 9th with 2 outs score AL record tying 9 runs, beat NY Yankees 14-6

Sports History
1934 Giants outfielder Mel Ott becomes first player in MLB history to score 6 runs in a game as New York beats Phillies, 21-4


Baseball Player and ManagerMel Ott
Olympic Gold
1936 American athlete Jesse Owens wins his 2nd gold medal at the Berlin Olympics; beats German Luz Long in the long jump final with an Olympic record


Track and Field AthleteJesse Owens

• 1936 American Helen Stephens runs 11.5 to win the 100m at the Berlin Olympics, beating controversial intersex athlete Stanisława Walasiewicz of Poland
• 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Mickey Owens becomes 1st MLB player to take 3 foul pop-ups in one inning (3rd) in 11-6 win v NY Giants

Golf Tournament
1945 American golfer Byron Nelson wins Canadian Open at Uplands & Thornhill CC for a record 11th consecutive PGA victory, on way to record season tally of 18


GolferByron Nelson

• 1945 Red Sox outfielder Tom McBride drives in MLB record tying 6 runs in an inning (4th) during 15-4 win v Washington
• 1947 American boxer Ike Williams knocks out Bob Montgomery in 6 rounds in Philadelphia to unify the world lightweight title
• 1948 An American sweep of the medals in the 110m hurdles at the London Olympics with William Porter taking gold, ahead of Clyde Scott and Craig Dixon
• 1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands wins the 80m hurdles in Olympic record 11.2 at the London Olympics; 2nd of unprecedented 3 individual track & field gold medals
• 1948 Hungary's Olga Gyarmati wins the first ever Olympic women's long jump competition at the London Games
• 1948 The women's shot put introduced to track & field program at the London Olympics; inaugural gold medallist Micheline Ostermeyer of France who also won the women's discus gold
• 1953 New York Yankees hurler Vic Raschi sets MLB record for a pitcher by driving in 7 runs in a 15-0 win v Detroit
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• 1956 Lee Petty dismounts car on lap 32, waves red flag to field because of dusty conditions at NASCAR Grand National at Tulsa, Oklahoma; race halted and never completed

F1 World Champion
1957 Argentine Maserati driver Juan Manuel Fangio clinches his record 5th F1 World Drivers Championship (4th consecutive) in winning the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring


Auto RacerJuan Manuel Fangio

• 1961 28th NFL Chicago College All-Star Game: Philadelphia 28, All-Stars 14, 66,000 at Soldier Field
• 1967 34th NFL Chicago College All-Star Game: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 ; 70,934 at Soldier Field
• 1973 NY Yankees pitcher Lindy McDaniel puts in one of the best relief stints in MLB history, entering in 2nd inning, allows only 1 run in 13 innings in 3-2 win v Detroit Tigers
• 1976 England beats Australia by 8 wickets in the limited overs cricket international at Lord's; first time women are permitted to play on the main square at 'the home of cricket'
• 1980 7-time All Star Maury Wills becomes only the 3rd black manager in MLB history when Darrell Johnson is fired by Seattle Mariners after a 9 game losing streak
• 1982 Outfielder Joel Youngblood becomes only MLB player to get hits for 2 different teams in 2 different cities on the same day; singles for Mets in Chicago day game; traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game

Olympic Gold
1984 American athlete Carl Lewis wins the 100m in 9.9 seconds in Los Angeles, first of 9 Olympic gold medals over 3 Games


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

• 1984 Americans Al Joyner and Mike Conley take the gold and silver medals in the men's triple jump at the Los Angeles Olympics

Sports History
1985 Future Hall of Fame infielder Rod Carew of the California Angels singles off Minnesota's Frank Viola to collect his MLB 3,000th career hit; Angels win, 6–5


Baseball Hall of Fame InfielderRod Carew
Sports History
1985 New York Yankees retire Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Phil Rizzuto's #10


Sportscaster and MLB ShortstopPhil Rizzuto

• 1985 Scott Verplank beats Jim Thorpe in Western Open playoff, first amateur to win a PGA Tour event since Gene Littler 1954

Sports History
1985 Tom Seaver of Chicago White Sox becomes 17th pitcher to win 300 MLB career games, beating New York, 4-1; 54,032 at Yankee Stadium


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherTom Seaver

• 1986 After winning only token damages in antitrust lawsuit against the NFL, USFL owners vote to suspend operations for 1986 season; folded before 4th season
• 1992 In its debut at the Barcelona Olympics the badminton singles gold medals are both won by Indonesian athletes, whilst both men's & women's doubles go to South Korea
• 1992 Italian fencer Giovanna Trillini wraps up gold medals in both women's foil events at the Barcelona Olympics as part of the winning team
• 1992 The diving competition at the Barcelona Olympics concludes with Chinese athletes dominant, winning 3 of 4 gold medals contested - American Mark Lenzi wins 3m springbaord

Baseball Record
1993 Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits in 11-10 win v Giants, 4th time this season the Padre has 5 or more hits; ties MLB record


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderTony Gwynn
Sports History
1995 Following a suspension from the league for substance abuse former Mets outfielder Darryl Strawberry joins NY Yankees and eventually helps the Bronx Bombers to win the 1996 World Series


Baseball PlayerDarryl Strawberry

Canadian Women's Open
1996 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Edmonton CC: Laura Davies wins by 2 from Karrie Webb and Nancy Lopez


LPGA GolferLaura Davies

LPGA GolferNancy Lopez

GolferKarrie Webb
Baseball Hall of Fame
1996 Jim Bunning, Earl Weaver, Bill Foster and Ned Hanlon inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and SenatorJim Bunning

MLB ManagerEarl Weaver

• 1996 XXVI Summer Olympic Games close in Atlanta, Georgia

Cricket Record
2001 Australian cricket spinner Shane Warne skittles England (162) with 6/33 to guide tourists to a 7 wicket 3rd Test victory at Trent Bridge; Aussies regain Ashes with record 7th straight Test win v England


Cricketer and BroadcasterShane Warne
Sports History
2005 American Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day (52) announces his retirement from the saddle; $298m in career purses


JockeyPat Day
Baseball Record
2007 32-year-old Alex Rodriguez becomes the youngest player in MLB history to hit 500 home runs, connecting on the 1st pitch he sees as NY Yankees beat Kansas City, 16-8


MLB ShortstopAlex Rodriguez
Baseball Record
2007 San Francisco slugger Barry Bonds homers off Clay Hensley in 2nd inning of 3-2 loss to San Diego to tie Hank Aaron’s 33 year-old MLB career home run record of 755


MLB LegendBarry Bonds

Baseball PlayerHank Aaron

• 2010 On 3rd anniversary of his 500th MLB career home run, Alex Rodriguez reaches the 600 HR mark in the NY Yankees 5-1 win v Toronto; 7th and youngest to reach milestone

Olympic Gold
2012 Golden double for US at London Olympic tennis as Serena Williams destroys Maria Sharapova 6-0, 6-1 in women's singles; Bob & Mike Bryan win men’s doubles beating French pair Michael Llodra & Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4 7-6


Tennis PlayerSerena Williams

Tennis PlayerMaria Sharapova

• 2012 South African Oscar Pistorius becomes first double-leg amputee to compete at the Olympics; 400m London; out in semi's
• 2012 Super Rugby Final, Waikato Stadium, Hamilton: Chiefs win their first SR title with a 37-6 thrashing of the Sharks (Durban, RSA) at home

World Record
2012 US takes the 4 x 100m medley relay double at the London Olympics with Michael Phelps collecting his 18th Olympic gold medal; women's team sets world record 3:52.05


SwimmerMichael Phelps

• 2013 British Open Women's Golf, St. Andrews: American Stacy Lewis wins her second major, 2 shots ahead of runners-up Na Yeon Choi and Hee Young Park
• 2018 Super Rugby Final, AMI Stadium, Christchurch: Canterbury Crusaders successfully defend title with 37-18 home win against the Lions from Johannesburg; Crusaders' 9th SR title
• 2019 Australian cricket batsman Steve Smith hits brilliant 142 following his 1st innings 144 in 1st Test v England at Edgbaston; only 4th batsman all-time to score more than 140 in each innings of a Test match
• 2019 British Open Women's Golf, Woburn GC: Hinako Shibuno of Japan wins her maiden major title in her first LPGA event; beats American Lizette Salas by 1 stroke
• 2021 Americans Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad go 1-2 in women's 400m hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics; McLaughlin sets WR 51.46s
• 2022 Russian court sentences WNBA star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison for drug smuggling amid claims she is being used as a pawn between the US and Russia [1]

 

AUG 5

• 1901 Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets the first officially recognised world long jump record at 24' 11 3/4" in Dublin, Ireland
• 1921 KDKA Pittsburgh presents first radio broadcast of MLB; Pirates beat Phillies, 8-0; Harold Arlin first play-by-play broadcaster

• 1927 Phillies outfielder Cy Williams hits for cycle in just 4 at bats in 9-7 win v Pirates

World Record

1936 American athlete Jesse Owens wins 200m in world record time (20.7s), his 3rd gold medal of the Berlin Olympics


Track and Field AthleteJesse Owens

• 1936 Italian athlete Ondina Valla runs a world record 11.6 in the semi finals of the 80m hurdles at the Berlin Olympics; wins final the next day but can't match the time
• 1936 Ken Carpenter (50.48 Olympic record) and Gordon Dunn make it an American 1-2 in the men’s discus throw at the Berlin Olympics
• 1940 St Louis Brown's pitcher John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings (rain shortened)
• 1948 A Jamaican 1-2 in the men's 400m at the London Olympics with Arthur Wint (46.2) beating teammate Herb McKenley for the gold medal
• 1948 A Swedish sweep of the medals in the 3000m steeplechase at the London Olympics with Tore Sjöstrand taking gold ahead of teammates Erik Elmsäter & Göte Hagström
• 1948 Americans Sammy Lee and Bruce Harlan go 1-2 in the 10m platform diving at the London Olympics
• 1948 Cleveland Indians set club record for most double plays in a game (6) in a 3-0 win v Washington
• 1959 Chicago Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL), 55-26 in a pre-season exhibition at CNE Stadium in Toronto
• 1961 Chicago Bears (NFL) beat Montreal Alouettes (CFL), 34-16 in a pre-season exhibition at Molson Stadium in Montreal

Sports History
1963 Craig Breedlove sets world land speed record of 407.477 mph in Spirit of America at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah


Auto RacerCraig Breedlove

• 1965 South African cricket batsman Graeme Pollock scores a classic 125 to set the Proteas on the way to a 2nd Test win against England at Trent Bridge
• 1966 33rd NFL Chicago College All-Star Game: Green Bay 38, All-Stars 0; 72,000 at Soldier Field

Cricket History
1966 West Indies cricket captain Garfield Sobers scores 174 including a century between lunch & tea to set up a 4th Test win v England at Headingley


CricketerGarfield Sobers

• 1967 First exhibition after AFL/NFL merger, Denver Broncos (AFL) surprise Detroit Lions (NFL), 13-7 at University of Denver

Baseball Record
1969 Pirates outfielder Willie Stargell smashes first and longest home run ever hit out of Dodger Stadium; the incomparable shot off Alan Foster, measures 506 feet


Baseball Left fielder / First basemanWillie Stargell

• 1972 Detroit Tigers shortstop Ed Brinkman commits an error, ending record streak of 72 games & 331 total chances without a misplay
• 1973 15 year old Australian swimmer Stephen Holland smashes Mike Burton's 1,500m world record by a massive 14.78 seconds (15:37.8) in Brisbane

Sports History
1973 Atlanta Braves pitcher Phil Niekro no-hits San Diego Padres, 9-0; first no-hitter for franchise in Atlanta


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherPhil Niekro

• 1975 Philadelphia Phillies create MLB record when first 8 batters get hits off Bill Bonham, beat Cubs 13-5
• 1978 New Orleans Saints beat Philadelphia Eagles 14-7 in an NFL exhibition at Mexico City's Olympic Stadium
• 1978 The first all-seater stadium is opened in Aberdeen, Scotland; Aberdeen & London club Tottenham Hotspurs play a friendly to inaugurate the Pittodrie Stadium

PGA Championship
1979 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Australian David Graham wins on the 3rd playoff hole against Ben Crenshaw


GolferBen Crenshaw
Baseball Record
1979 Philadelphia Phillies 3rd baseman Pete Rose collects NL record 2,427th career single in a 5-2 home loss vs Pirates


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose
Baseball Hall of Fame
1979 Willie Mays, Warren Giles, and Hack Wilson inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY


MLB LegendWillie Mays

Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderHack Wilson

• 1980 Montreal Expos Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game as a manager in 11-5 win v Mets, for whom Doug Flynn hits MLB record tying 3 triples

PGA Championship
1982 PGA Championship, Southern Hills CC: Raymond Floyd fires an opening round 9-under-par 63, tying the tournament 18-hole record


Golfer and Four-Time Major Championship WinnerRay Floyd
Sports History
1984 American Joan Benoit wins first Olympic marathon for women (2:24:52) ahead of Grete Waitz of Norway at the Los Angeles Games


Long Distance RunnerGrete Waitz

• 1984 American super-hurdler Edwin Moses wins the 400m hurdles gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics, his 105th consecutive race victory
• 1984 Evelyn Ashford runs an Olympic 100m record time of 10.97 to beat American teammate Alice Brown in the LA Games final
• 1984 The rowing competition at the LA Olympics concludes with Romania dominant in the women's section winning 5 of 6 gold medals; US wins the eights from Romania
• 1984 Toronto designated hitter Cliff Johnson hits MLB record 19th career pinch-hit HR in Blue Jays 4-3 win over Baltimore Orioles

Baseball Record
1986 Giants left-handed pitcher Steve Carlton becomes 2nd to reach 4,000 strikeout milestone when he gets center-fielder Eric Davis in 11-5 loss v Reds


Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton

World Record
1986 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 5,000m world record (14:37.33) in Stockholm, Sweden


Long Distance RunnerIngrid Kristiansen

• 1988 Thoroughbred trainer Dale Baird wins his 5,000th career race with Stuffed Johnnie at Mountaineer Park; second to reach milestone behind Jack Van Berg
• 1989 First ever dead heat in harness racing's Hambletonian; Park Avenue Joe and Probe tie the 3rd and final heat; Park Avenue Joe wins series on count back
• 1991 Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union breaks his own world pole vault record (6.10m) in Malmö Sweden
• 1992 Cuba wins baseball's inaugural gold medal at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, beating Chinese Taipei 11-1
• 1995 5th Athletics World Championships open at Gothenburg, Sweden
• 1996 Kansas City Chiefs rout Dallas Cowboys 32-6 in an NFL pre-season exhibition game in Monterrey Mexico

Baseball Record
1999 St. Louis slugger Mark McGwire becomes only the 16th MLB player to reach the 500 home run milestone as the Cardinals lose 10-2 v San Diego at Busch Stadium


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

• 2000 Moni Maker wins the $500,00 Nat Ray at the Meadowlands in world record 1:52.1 to become harness racing's first $5m stakes earner

Women's British Open
2001 British Open Women's Golf, Sunningdale GC: Se Ri Pak of South Korea wins by 2 strokes from Mi Hyun Kim; event gains LPGA major status for first time


LPGA GolferSe Ri Pak

• 2001 Cleveland Indians tie a MLB record in erasing a 12 run Seattle lead to win 15-14, also preventing the Mariners from reaching a record 117 season wins
• 2005 NBA announces Las Vegas will host the 2007 All Star game; first time event will be held in a city without an NBA team

Baseball Record
2005 St. Louis Cardinals 1st baseman Albert Pujols becomes the first player to connect for 30 home runs in each of his first 5 MLB seasons


MLB 1st BasemanAlbert Pujols
Hall of Fame
2006 Warren Moon becomes the first black quarterback to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio; joined by Troy Aikman, John Madden, Rayfield Wright, Harry Carson and Reggie White


NFL LegendReggie White
Sports History
2007 Atlanta left-hander Tom Glavine becomes only the 23rd pitcher in MLB history to reach the 300 win milestone as the Braves beat Cubs, 8-3


Baseball PitcherTom Glavine
Women's British Open
2007 British Open Women's Golf, St. Andrews: Lorena Ochoa of Mexico leads wire-to-wire to win the first of her 2 major titles, 4 strokes ahead of Maria Hjorth and Jee Young Lee


GolferLorena Ochoa
Sports History
2010 Group led by Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan & Pittsburgh attorney Chuck Greenberg is confirmed as winning bidder in court ordered auction of Texas Rangers MLB franchise (value $593m)


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan
Olympic Games
2012 Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt wins the 100m at the London Olympics in 9.63, besting the record he set in 2008 Olympics


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt
Sports History
2013 MLB bans New York Yankees infielder Alex Rodriguez for 211 games as a result of the Biogenesis Laboratories scandal


MLB ShortstopAlex Rodriguez

• 2013 Rain intervenes to end the 3rd cricket Test between Australia and England at Old Trafford; England retains the Ashes after winning the first 2 Tests
• 2016 XXXI Summer Olympic Games officially open in Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 2017 Jamaican sprint super-star Usain Bolt finishes 3rd behind Justin Gatlin and Christian Coleman in his final individual race, the 100m at IAAF World Championships in London
• 2017 Super Rugby Final, Ellis Park: Canterbury Crusaders (NZ) travel to Johannesburg and beat Lions, 25-17 for their 8th SR title
• 2018 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Lyham & St. Annes: England's Georgia Hall wins her first major title by 2 shots from Pornanong Phatlum of Thailand

World Record
2018 English swimmer Adam Peaty breaks his own world record in 57.00 as he wins his 9th European 100m breaststroke title in Glasgow, Scotland


SwimmerAdam Peaty
Sports History
2021 FC Barcelona confirms record breaking Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi will leave the club because of Spanish La Liga regulations on player payments


Football StarLionel Messi

• 2021 New Zealand canoeist Lisa Carrington wins her third Olympic gold medal of the Tokyo Games by winning K-1 500m; 5th career gold for Carrington

 

AUG 6

Sports History

1890 Future Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young throws 3-hit ball in his MLB debut for the Cleveland Spiders in 8-1 win vs Chicago Colts


MLB PitcherCy Young

• 1908 St Louis Cardinals Johnny Lush pitches 2nd career no-hitter vs Brooklyn Superbas; wins, 2-0 (1st no-hitter 1906)
• 1936 American athlete Forrest Towns runs world record 14.1 in 110m hurdles semi finals at the Berlin Olympics; later can't match the time but wins the gold medal in the final
• 1936 Jack Lovelock of New Zealand runs a world record (3:47.8) to win the gold medal in the 1,500m at the Berlin Olympics
• 1936 Japanese athletes quinella the triple jump at the Berlin Olympics; Naoto Tajima wins gold and Masao Harada silver
• 1937 MLB overturns New York Yankees' 7-6 win over Cleveland Indians because of umpire error
• 1941 Detroit Tigers pitcher Al Benton collects 2 sacrifices in an inning, a MLB record; wins 11-2 vs Cleveland Indians
• 1945 Australian Test cricket all-rounder Keith Miller scores 110 not out for Australian Services on Day 1 of drawn 4th Victory Test against England at Lord's
• 1948 17 year old American Bob Mathias scores 7,139 points to edge out Ignace Heinrich of France by just 165 in the decathlon at the London Olympics
• 1948 A Swedish 1-2 in the men's 1,500m at the London Olympics with Henry Eriksson (3:49.8) beating teammate Lennart Strand by 0.6 seconds
• 1948 Dutch super athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen wins London Olympics 200m in 24.4s to become the first women to claim 3 individual track & field gold at a Games, having already won the 100m and 80m hurdles
• 1948 Vicki Draves wins her second diving gold medal at the London Olympics beating American teammate Patsy Elsener in the 10m platform
• 1949 Future Hall of Famer Luke Appling appears in a MLB record 2,154th (en route to 2,218) game at shortstop for the Chicago White Sox

Sports History
1952 St. Louis Browns veteran pitcher Satchel Paige, 46, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout, 1-0 v Detroit Tigers in 12 innings


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherSatchel Paige
Sports History
1953 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from military service in Korea; ends abbreviated season with .407 batting average


Baseball PlayerTed Williams

• 1956 After going bankrupt in 1955, the American national broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena
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• 1958 American athlete Glenn Davis breaks his own world record by 0.3 (49.2) in 400m hurdles in Budapest, Hungary
• 1961 British auto racer Sterling Moss scores his 16th and final Formula 1 victory in the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring
• 1963 Philadelphia NBA franchise changes name from 'Nationals' to the '76ers', based on US Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1776
• 1965 32nd NFL Chicago College All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16; 68,000 at Soldier Field

Boxing Title Fight
1966 Muhammad Ali knocks out English boxer Brian London in round 3 at Earl's Court in London to retain his undisputed world heavyweight title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali
Baseball Record
1967 Future Baseball Hall of Fame 3rd baseman Brooks Robinson (Baltimore Orioles) hits into MLB record 4th career triple play


Baseball Hall of Fame Third BasemanBrooks Robinson

• 1967 Minnesota Twins pitcher Dean Chance throws a perfect no-hitter vs Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings before game is called because of weather

Baseball History
1972 Hank Aaron hits 660th & 661st HRs for the Atlanta Braves, breaking Babe Ruth's MLB record of homers for one team


Baseball PlayerHank Aaron
PGA Championship
1972 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Gary Player of South Africa wins by 2 shots from Americans Tommy Aaron & Jim Jamieson


GolferGary Player
Baseball Hall of Fame
1973 Roberto Clemente, Warren Spahn, Billy Evans, Monte Irvin, Mickey Welch and George "High Pockets" Kelly are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY


Baseball PlayerRoberto Clemente

Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherWarren Spahn
PGA Championship
1978 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oakmont CC: John Mahaffey recovers from 7 down with 14 to play to force playoff; beats Tom Watson & Jerry Pate on 2nd hole


GolferTom Watson

• 1982 Curtis Cup Golf, Denver CC: United States beats Great Britain & Ireland 14½-3½
• 1983 First NFL exhibition game in Europe; Minnesota Vikings beat St Louis Cardinals 28-10 at London's Wembley Stadium
• 1984 After Americans Roger Kingdom & Greg Foster both equal the Olympic record in 110m hurdles semi's in Los Angeles, Kingdom beats Foster in the final in a new Games record 13.20 seconds

Olympic Gold
1984 American athlete Carl Lewis wins long jump (8.54m), his second of 4 gold medals at Los Angeles Olympics


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

• 1985 MLB Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)
• 1986 Baltimore's Jim Dwyer & Larry Sheets, and Rangers Toby Harrah hit MLB record 3 grand slams in Texas' 13-11 win

Baseball Record
1988 Oakland A's outfielder Jose Canseco becomes 11th MLB player to record 30 HRs & 30 steals in a season


MLB PlayerJosé Canseco

• 1988 Rich Gossage becomes the second player in MLB history to record 300 career saves as Cubs beat Phillies, 7-4
• 1989 Boston Red Sox retire Baseball Hall of Fame left fielder, 1st baseman Carl Yastrezemski's #8

Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY


MLB Hall of Fame Infielder and BroadcasterJoe Morgan

Baseball PlayerJim Palmer

• 1991 American softball pitcher Debbie Doom strikes out 17 in her 2nd consecutive perfect game at the Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba; beats Nicaragua, 8-0
• 1992 The US track team sweeps the medals in the long jump at the Barcelona Olympics as Carl Lewis wins gold (28 feet, 5 1/2 inches), Mike Powell silver and Joe Greene bronze
• 1992 Wrestler Bruce Baumgartner becomes the first American to win in three straight Olympics, capturing the gold in the 286-pound freestyle division in Barcelona
• 1995 Cleveland's major league sports franchises, NFL Browns & MLB Indians, play in Cleveland for 1st time ever; both lose - White Sox 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition)
• 1997 Newly established NHL franchise Nashville Predators name Barry Trotz as inaugural coach; lasts 15 seasons and 1,196 regular season games

Cricket Record
1997 Sri Lanka slams world record 952 for 6 in the 1st cricket Test against India in Colombo; Sanath Jayasuriya 340, Roshan Mahanama 225 - record partnership 576


CricketerSanath Jayasuriya
Sports History
1999 Tony Gwynn goes 4 for 5 and collects his 3,000th MLB hit as San Diego beats Expos, 12-10 at Montreal Olympic Stadium


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderTony Gwynn
Sports History
2001 Two-time champion Marion Jones is disqualified and has her string of 42 consecutive 100m final victories snapped by Zhanna Pintusevich-Block of Ukraine at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada


Track and Field Athlete and Drug CheatMarion Jones

• 2002 32-year old reliever Robb Nen becomes 16th and youngest closer to record 300 career saves as he protects Giants 11-10 lead v Cubs
• 2005 10th Athletics World Championships open at Helsinki, Finland
• 2006 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes GC: 43 year old American Sherri Steinhauer wins her second major title, 3 strokes ahead of Sophie Gustafson and Cristie Kerr
• 2006 For a MLB record 11th time in his career, Padres closer Trevor Hoffman records 30 or more saves in a season; beats mark set by Lee Smith, baseball's all-time saves leader

Golf Tournament
2006 Tiger Woods (30) becomes the youngest player to compile 50 PGA Tour wins with a 3 stroke victory over Jim Furyk in the Buick Open at Grand Blanc, Michigan


GolferTiger Woods

GolferJim Furyk

• 2016 Australian women's 4 × 100m freestyle relay team of Emma McKeon, Brittany Elmslie, Bronte Campbell & Cate Campbell sets a new world record 3:30.65 to win gold ahead of US and Canada at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
• 2016 Hoàng Xuân Vinh of Vietnam records 202.5 points to win the gold medal in the men's 10m air pistol at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Vietnam's first ever gold medal in any Olympic event
• 2016 Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszú sets world record 4:26.36 to win the gold medal in the women's 400m individual medley at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
• 2016 Super Rugby Final, Westpac Stadium Wellington: Wellington Hurricanes win their first SR title with a 20-3 win over the Lions from Johannesburg
• 2017 British Open Women's Golf, Kingbarns GC: South Korean In-Kyung Kim wins by 2 strokes from Jodi Ewart Shadoff of England
• 2021 Faith Kipyegon of Kenya retains her Olympic 1,500m title in OR 3:53.11 at the Tokyo Olympics

Olympic Gold
2021 Jamaican 100/200m champion Elaine Thompson-Herah claims her third track gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics as part of the winning Jamaican 4x100m relay team


SprinterElaine Thompson-Herah

 

AUG 7

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

Sports History

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


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

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

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


Track CyclistPiet Moeskops
Baseball Record
1929 New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games for the second time in 13-1 win v Philadelphia A's


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

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

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


Baseball Player and ManagerLeo Durocher

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

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


Middle-Distance RunnerRoger Bannister

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


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


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


GolferArnold Palmer

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

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


MLB Catcher and ManagerYogi Berra

Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax

Negro League Baseball LegendJosh Gibson

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

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


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


GolferJack Nicklaus

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

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


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

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

Sports History
1992 The Orlando Magic signs NBA No. 1 draft pick Shaquille O'Neal


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


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


NBA GuardJerry West

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


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


SprinterJustin Gatlin

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

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


MLB LegendBarry Bonds

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

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


American Football PlayerEmmitt Smith

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

AUG 8

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

• 1902 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Brooklyn, NY: Malcolm Whitman beats Reginald Doherty 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 to give US a 3-2 win over the British Isles

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


Tennis PlayerLaurence Doherty

Tennis PlayerWilliam Larned

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

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


SwimmerFlorence Chadwick

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

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


Baseball Hall of Fame ManagerCasey Stengel

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

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


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


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

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

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


YachtsmanRussell Coutts

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

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


GolferGary Player

GolferBob Charles

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

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


MLB CatcherJohnny Bench
Sports History
1990 Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

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

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


NBA LegendMagic Johnson

NBA Power ForwardCharles Barkley

NBA LegendLarry Bird

• 1997 Mariners Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Chicago White Sox

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


NFL QuarterbackJohn Elway

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

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


Rugby Union PlayerRichie McCaw

Rugby Union PlayerBrian O'Driscoll

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

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


Basketball PlayerDiana Taurasi

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

 

AUG 9

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

Sports History

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


MLB LegendTy Cobb

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


CyclistFrançois Faber

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

Sports History
1925 Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

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

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


Track and Field AthleteJesse Owens

• 1936 Korean nationals representing Japan earn medals in the marathon at the Berlin Olympics; Sohn Kee-chung won gold and Nam Sung-yong bronze
• 1937 Ranger (US) easily beats Endeavour II (England) in race 4 to wrap up the 17th America's Cup yachting series, 4-0; it's the final competition for 21 years
• 1946 1st time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night
• 1948 Italian rider Mario Ghella beats Reg Harris of Great Britain for the gold medal in the cycling sprint final at the London Olympics
• 1948 The US crew blitzes the field to win the rowing eights gold medal at the London Olympics; beat silver medallists Great Britain by 10.2 seconds
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• 1957 24th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 22, All-Stars 12 (75,000)
• 1963 NY Met pitcher Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends with a complete game 7–3 win over the Chicago Cubs at the Polo Grounds, NYC
• 1964 Bunning continues pitching perfectly to NY Mets until 2 outs in 5th, when Joe Christopher beats out a bunt. He totals 15 innings

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


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherSatchel Paige

• 1975 1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7
• 1975 Dodger Davey Lopes steals record 32nd consecutive base without being caught
• 1976 Clive Lloyd scores double-ton in 120 mins, WI v Glamorgan
• 1976 Pitt Pirate John Candelaria no-hits LA Dodgers, 2-0
• 1977 NHL refuses merger of 6 WHA clubs
• 1981 52nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland

Sports History
1981 All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos)


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


Golfer and Three-Time Major Championship WinnerLarry Nelson

GolferFuzzy Zoeller

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

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


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky

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

Cricket History
1992 Last day of Test Cricket for David Gower


Cricket Batsman and CaptainDavid Gower

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

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


MLB LegendBarry Bonds

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

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


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


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


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


SwimmerMichael Phelps

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

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


Tennis PlayerSerena Williams

 

AUG 10

• Baseball Record
  
  1888 NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game winning streak record
  
  
  Major League Baseball PitcherTim Keefe
  
  • 1901 Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
  Sports History
  1904 NY Highlanders pitcher Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games in a 5-1 loss to Chicago White Sox at South Side Park, Chicago
  
  
  Baseball PitcherJack Chesbro
  US Open Women's Tennis
  1933 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Helen Jacobs beats Helen Wills Moody 8-6, 3-6, 3-0, ret
  
  
  Tennis PlayerHelen Wills Moody
  
  Tennis PlayerHelen Jacobs
  Sports History
  1934 Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player
  
  
  Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
  • 1936 First time the Olympic cycling road race is conducted as a mass start event with Frenchmen Robert Charpentier and Guy Lapébie taking gold and silver, and France winning the teams gold medal
  • 1944 Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cincinnati Reds 2-0
  Sports History
  1948 Bradman scores 133* Aust v Lancashire, 216 mins, 17 fours
  
  
  Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
  Boxing Title Fight
  1949 Ezzard Charles TKOs Gus Lesnevich in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
  
  
  Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionEzzard Charles
  • 1954 All-time great English jockey Sir Gordon Richards retires from the saddle with British record 4,870 winning rides
  Sports History
  1969 Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win
  
  
  Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherDon Sutton
  • 1971 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research
  Baseball Record
  1971 Twins' Harmon Killebrew is 10th to amass 500 HRs, & adds his 501st
  
  
  Baseball PlayerHarmon Killebrew
  • 1972 Finnish runner Lasse Virén wraps up the 5,000/10,000m double at the Munich Olympics; runs Olympic record 13:26.42 for the 5k gold medal
  PGA Championship
  1975 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Firestone CC: Jack Nicklaus wins his 4th PGA crown by 2 shots from Australian Bruce Crampton
  
  
  GolferJack Nicklaus
  
  GolferBruce Crampton
  • 1977 Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM
  Canadian Women's Open
  1980 Canadian Open Women's Golf (Peter Jackson Classic), Richelieu Valley GC: Pat Bradley wins by 1 from JoAnn Carner for her first of 6 major titles
  
  
  LPGA GolferPat Bradley
  • 1980 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oak Hill CC: Jack Nicklaus wins 5th and final PGA C'ship by a convincing 7 strokes from Andy Bean
  Sports History
  1981 Pete Rose, 3,631 career hit, breaks Stan Musial's NL hit record
  
  
  MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose
  
  MLB LegendStan Musial
  Sports History
  1983 1st World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in Men's Long Jump
  
  
  Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis
  • 1984 Famous Mary Decker-Zola Budd collision during 3,000m at the LA Olympics; Decker falls, Budd finishes 7th; Maricica Puică of Romania wins
  • 1984 Ian Ferguson of New Zealand wins 2 canoeing gold medals in the one day taking the K-1 500 and K-2 500 (with Paul MacDonald) at the LA Olympics; wins K-4 1000 the next day
  • 1984 Sweden's Agneta Andersson takes out the women's canoeing 500m double at the Los Angeles Olympics with wins in the K-1 and K-2 (with Anna Olsson) events
  Olympic Gold
  1984 The US beats Spain 96-65 to win the men's basketball gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics; future 'dream team' members Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing and Chris Mullin feature
  
  
  Basketball SuperstarMichael Jordan
  
  Hall of Fame NBA CentrePatrick Ewing
  Baseball Record
  1985 Oakland A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 HRs (off Matt Young at Seattle)
  
  
  Baseball PlayerDave Kingman
  • 1985 Uno Lindstron of Sweden juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
  Sports History
  1986 Billy Martin Day, his uniform number 1 retired
  
  
  Baseball Player and ManagerBilly Martin
  Sports History
  1986 Pitcher Bob Forsch grand slams to lead Cardinals to a 5-4 win over Pittsburgh Pirates, in St. Louis
  
  
  Baseball PitcherBob Forsch
  • 1987 Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball
  World Record
  1988 Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 sec)
  
  
  SwimmerMatt Biondi
  • 1989 A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning
  • 1989 Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
  • 1991 NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53
  • 1995 Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly
  • 1996 New Zealand beats South Africa, 29-18 in Cape Town to win the inaugural Tri Nations Rugby Series with an unbeaten record; All Blacks flyhalf Andrew Mehrtens lands 5 penalties and 2 conversions
  • 1996 Yanks lose ending 3rd best home series victory streak at 24
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  • 1997 36th Walker Cup: US, 18-6
  • 1997 Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine
  Sports History
  1997 Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to then record 5 year, $57.5 million deal
  
  
  MLB Pitching LegendGreg Maddux
  • 2002 New Zealand beats South Africa, 30-23 in Durban to win their fourth Tri Nations Rugby Series; All Blacks score 4 tries to 2
  World Record
  2008 American super-star swimmer Michael Phelps wins the 400m individual medley at the Beijing Olympics in world record 4:03.84
  
  
  SwimmerMichael Phelps
  • 2008 British cyclist Nicole Cooke wins the road race at the Beijing Olympics; Great Britain's 200th gold in the modern Olympics
  • 2008 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Irishman Pádraig Harrington wins his second straight major by 2 shots from Sergio Garcia and Ben Curtis
  • 2013 14th Athletics World Championships open at Moscow, Russia
  PGA Championship
  2014 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Valhalla GC: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland wins his second PGA C'ship by 1 shot from Phil Mickelson
  
  
  GolferPhil Mickelson
  
  GolferRory McIlroy
  • 2016 18 year old Australian Kyle Chalmers creates huge upset when he swims a junior world record 47.58 to win the blue ribband men's 100m freestyle gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
  • 2016 South Korean shooter Jin Jong-oh recovers from 7th place during the final to record an Olympic record 193.7 and win gold in men's 50m pistol at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; first shooter to win 3 consecutive Olympic gold medals in one event
  • 2016 Weightlifter Nijat Rahimov of Kazakhstan sets a world record 214kg in the clean & jerk, and finishes with 379kg overall, to win the gold medal in the men's 77kg at the Ro de Janeiro Olympics
  
  New Zealand beats South Africa, 30-23 in Durban to win their fourth Tri Nations Rugby Series; All Blacks score 4 tries to 2

 

AUG 11

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

Sports History

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


NFL Head CoachCurly Lambeau
Sports History
1926 Cleveland Indians future Baseball HOF outfielder Tris Speaker hits his 700th double in 7-2 loss to Chicago White Sox at Dunn Field, Cleveland


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


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


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

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

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


Baseball PlayerJoe DiMaggio

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

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


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherWarren Spahn

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

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


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherSatchel Paige

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


MLB PlayerDon Drysdale
Sports History
1970 Future Baseball HOF pitcher Jim Bunning becomes 2nd Cy Young Award winner to win 100 games in both NL and AL; Phillies beat Houston 6-5 at Astrodome


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


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


GolferJack Nicklaus

GolferLee Trevino

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

Sports History
1980 Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns


MLB Right FielderReggie Jackson

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

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


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


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

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


MLB CatcherJohnny Bench

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

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


GolferLee Trevino

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

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


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


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


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


MLB PlayerJosé Canseco

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

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


MLB Pitching LegendRoger Clemens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

AUG 12

• 1876 Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup
• 1879 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)

• 1884 Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211 at The Oval

Cricket History

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


CricketerW. G. Grace

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

Sports History
1960 Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 8.21m


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


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


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

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

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


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


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


GolferJack Nicklaus

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


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

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

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


Baseball PlayerHarmon Killebrew

Baseball PlayerRick Ferrell

MLB PlayerDon Drysdale

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

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


Golfer and PGA ChampionWayne Grady

Golfer and Masters ChampionFred Couples

Cricket History
1991 Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon & Marshall


Cricketer and Master BlasterViv Richards

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

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


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


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


SwimmerMichael Phelps

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

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


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


GolferRory McIlroy

• 2012 XXX Summer Olympic Games close in London, England

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


SwimmerKatie Ledecky

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

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


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt

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