Today's events in sports history

AUG 13

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

Cy Young Celebrated

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


MLB PitcherCy Young

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

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


Golfer and Two-Time PGA ChampionLeo Diegel

GolferHarry Vardon

GolferJock Hutchison

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

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


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherRed Ruffing

• 1933 Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist

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


GolferGene Sarazen

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

Sports History
1948 Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherSatchel Paige

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

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


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


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


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


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


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


Baseball PlayerJim Palmer
Election of Interest
1969 Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote


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


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


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderLou Brock

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

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


Track and Field AthleteJackie Joyner-Kersee

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

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


GolferPayne Stewart

GolferCurtis Strange

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

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


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


Golfer and PGA ChampionSteve Elkington

GolferColin Montgomerie

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

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


LPGA GolferMeg Mallon

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

World Record
2008 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins 3 gold medals, all in world record time, in the one day at the Beijing Olympics; 200m I/M (1:54.23), 200m butterfly (1.52.03) and 4 x 200m freestyle relay (6:58.56)


SwimmerMichael Phelps

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

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


Long-distance RunnerMo Farah

• 2016 Great Britain sets a world record of 3:14.051 to comfortably beat the United States in the women's cycling team pursuit at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
• 2016 Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson wins blue ribband women's 100m gold in 10.71 at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; American Tori Bowie second in 10.83 and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica 3rd 10.86
• 2016 The dominant Great Britain men's crew wins the eight at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; US scores a comfortable win over GB in the women's eight
• 2017 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Quail Hollow GC: Justin Thomas wins his first major by 2 shots from Francesco Molinari, Patrick Reed & Louis Oosthuizen

 

AUG 14

Jeffries TKOs Corbett

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


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJames J. Jeffries

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

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


MLB Hall of Fame 1st BasemanJimmie Foxx

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

Sports History
1947 Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000


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


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

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

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


NFL QuarterbackJohnny Unitas

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

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


MLB Third BasemanMike Schmidt

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

Sports History
1982 Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron)


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

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

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


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

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

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


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderDave Winfield
Sports History
1993 Reggie Jackson Day - NY Yanks retire 13th # (#44)


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


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


GolferNick Price

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

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


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


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt

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

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


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


Long-Distance RunnerKenenisa Bekele

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

 

AUG 15

• 1886 American MLB pitcher Guy Hecker scores 7 runs in 1 game
• 1899 Louisville's pitcher Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game

• 1903 New Zealand's All Blacks play their first Rugby Test Match against Australia's Wallabies at the Sydney Cricket Ground; New Zealand win 22-3
• 1905 Philadelphia A's future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell no-hits St Louis Browns, 2-0 in 5 innings
• 1912 Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game

International Lawn Tennis Challenge

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


Tennis PlayerNorman Brookes

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

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


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

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

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


All-Round Athlete and GolferBabe Didrikson Zaharias

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


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionEzzard Charles

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

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


Long JumperRalph Boston

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

Sports History
1964 Mayor Richard M. Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago


MLB shortstopErnie Banks

Mayor of ChicagoRichard M. Daley

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

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


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


GolferJack Nicklaus

GolferBilly Casper

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

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


Auto RacerJackie Stewart

• 1974 Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours or 52 days)
• 1977 England regain cricket Ashes by taking a 3-0 series lead over Australia

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


CricketerIan Botham

• 1981 Robin Leamy of US swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m
• 1989 Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69)

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


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


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

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

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


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


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

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

Sports History
1997 L.A. Dodgers retire Tommy Lasorda's #2


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


GolferTiger Woods

GolferSergio García

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

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


GolferVijay Singh

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

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


GolferPhil Mickelson

Golfer and PGA ChampionSteve Elkington

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

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


SwimmerRyan Lochte

SwimmerAaron Peirsol

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

 

AUG 16

• 1743 Champion of England titleholder Jack Broughton publishes 'Rules of the Ring' - earliest boxing code
• 1883 Dutch soccer club FC Dordrecht is established in Dort in the Western Netherlands (KNVB Cup 1914, 32)

• 1920 Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman is hit in head by NY Yankees pitcher Carl Mays; he dies the next day in only MLB game related fatality

US Open Women's Tennis

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


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


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1928 Belgian cyclist Georges Ronsse wins men's road race at UCI Road World Championships in Budapest, Hungary
• 1936 The Berlin Olympic equestrian competition concludes with Germany winning all 6 gold medals in an unprecedented team achievement
• 1936 XI Summer Olympic Games close in Berlin
• 1947 Future Baseball HOF outfielder Ralph Kiner hits 3 successive HRs for host Pittsburgh Pirates in a 12-7 win over St. Louis Cardinals; both clubs smash a then MLB record 10 homers
• 1954 American brand management company Authentic Brands Group first publishes sports magazine "Sports Illustrated"

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


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


LPGA GolferBetsy Rawls

GolferPatty Berg

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

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


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


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


Golfer and Two-Time PGA ChampionDave Stockton

GolferArnold Palmer

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

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


Auto RacerNigel Mansell

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

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


GolferNick Price

Golfer and Six-Time Major Championship WinnerNick Faldo

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

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


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


Football StarCristiano Ronaldo

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

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


SwimmerMichael Phelps

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

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


SailorBen Ainslie

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

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


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt

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

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


GolferTiger Woods

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

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


Professional GolferJordan Spieth

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

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


Snooker PlayerRonnie O'Sullivan

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

 

AUG 17

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

Sports History

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


Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig

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

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


Baseball PlayerRichie Ashburn

• 1963 Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit for cycle
• 1964 Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 v Aust at the Oval

Sports History
1966 Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time HR list


MLB LegendWillie Mays

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

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


Golfer and Four-Time Major Championship WinnerRay Floyd

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


Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton
Sports History
1973 Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one


GolferLee Trevino

• 1973 Willie Mays hits 660th & last HR (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati)

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


MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett

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

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


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

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

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


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


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali

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

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


MLB LegendCal Ripken Jr

• 1990 Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th HR

Sports History
1990 Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

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

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


GolferDavis Love III

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

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


LPGA GolferSe Ri Pak

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

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


Tennis ChampionRafael Nadal

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

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


SwimmerMichael Phelps

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


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


GolferInbee Park

GolferBrittany Lincicome

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

 

AUG 18

• 1886 Carr Baker Neel & Samuel Neel win US Lawn Tennis Association doubles
• 1914 Swiss track and road bicycle racer Oscar Egg sets new hour world record of 44.247 km at the outdoor Vélodrome Buffalo in Paris; record stands until 1933

• 1915 Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat St. Louis Cardinals, 3-1
• 1920 1st class cricket debut of Walter Hammond

PGA Championship

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


GolferGene Sarazen

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

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


Tennis PlayerHelen Wills Moody

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

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


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


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

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


Tennis PlayerHelen Jacobs

• 1941 Phillies commit 8 errors in a baseball game

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


Baseball PitcherCarl Hubbell

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

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


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


Baseball Player and Sports ExecutiveBranch Rickey

• 1960 Milwaukee Braves pitcher Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
• 1964 South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies
• 1965 Dutch soccer team FC Den Bosch (successor to BVV 1906 and Wilhelmina 1890) is established at 's-Hertogenbosch

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


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


Baseball Hall of Fame Third BasemanBrooks Robinson

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

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


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


MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett

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

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


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


MLB PlayerDan Quisenberry

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

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


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


LPGA GolferMeg Mallon

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


GolferTiger Woods

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

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


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


YachtsmanPeter Burling

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

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


Cricketer and Prime Minister of PakistanImran Khan

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

 

AUG 19

• 1900 Start of first and only Olympic cricket match in Paris; GB beats France by 158 runs
• 1903 Philadelphia Phillies suffer record 9th straight postponed game

• 1909 Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home of automobile race Indianapolis 500, opens in Speedway, Indiana
• 1911 NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times
• 1917 Sunday benefit baseball game at NYC's Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws

Baseball Record

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


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


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


Tennis PlayerHelen Jacobs

• 1941 Baseball umpire Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout

Sports History
1945 Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs Reds & wins


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


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck

• 1953 England regains cricket Ashes from Australia after winning series 1-0
• 1955 US raises import duty on bicycles 50%
• 1957 NY Giants board of directors vote 8-1 to move their baseball franchise to San Francisco in 1958 [1]
• 1962 Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55
• 1965 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jim Maloney throws his second no-hitter of the season in 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs
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• 1969 Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0

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


MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett

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

Sports History
1983 LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting


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


GolferGary Player

GolferLee Trevino
Sports History
1988 NY Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy Lafleur out of retirement


NHL LegendGuy Lafleur

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

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


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson
Sports History
1997 NY Yank 3rd baseman Wade Boggs pitches a scoreless inning vs Anaheim


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


LPGA GolferKelly Robbins

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


Formula 1 DriverMichael Schumacher

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


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


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


SwimmerMichael Phelps

SwimmerRyan Lochte

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

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


GolferLorena Ochoa

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

Sports History
2018 Novak Đoković beats Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the Cincinnati Masters to become the first player to win all 9 Masters 1,000 tennis tournaments since the series started in 1990


Tennis ChampionNovak Đoković

Tennis ChampionRoger Federer

 

AUG 20

• 1888 Longest US men's single tennis tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80 game 1st-round contest
• 1900 Great Britain beats France by 158 runs in Paris; cricket's only appearance at an Olympic Games

Sports History

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


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

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

Sports History
1920 American Professional Football Association forms; Jim Thorpe installed as president; later to become the National Football League (NFL)


Versatile AthleteJim Thorpe

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

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


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


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


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


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


GolferByron Nelson

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

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


MLB Catcher and ManagerYogi Berra

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

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


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


LPGA GolferKathy Whitworth

GolferSandra Haynie
Sports History
1974 Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

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

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


Baseball PitcherDwight Gooden

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

Baseball Record
1989 Howard Johnson joins Barry Bonds & Willie Mays hitting 30 HRs & steal 30 bases


MLB Third BasemanHoward Johnson

MLB LegendWillie Mays

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

Sports History
1990 George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner


New York Yankees OwnerGeorge Steinbrenner

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

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


Hall of Fame NFL QuarterbackDan Marino

NFL QuarterbackJoe Montana

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

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


GolferAnnika Sörenstam

GolferKarrie Webb

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

PGA Championship
2000 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Valhalla GC: Tiger Woods becomes first since Ben Hogan (1953) to win 3 majors in a calendar year; wins back-to-back PGA titles in 3-hole playoff with Bob May


GolferTiger Woods

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


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


Long-Distance RunnerKenenisa Bekele

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

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


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt

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

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


Golfer and Masters ChampionFred Couples

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

Olympic Gold
2016 South Korean golfer Inbee Park wins the inaugural Olympic women's individual gold with a final score of 16 under par in Rio de Janeiro; Lydia Ko (New Zealand) 11 under par; Shanshan Feng (China) 10 under par

Olympic Games
2016 Star British runner Mo Farah wins the men's 5,000m in 13:03.30 at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; wraps up 5k/10k double which he also completed in London 2012

• 2016 The Hungarian crew wins canoe sprint K-4 500m at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Danuta Kozák becomes the only female to win K1, K2 and K4 at the same Olympics
• 2017 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Des Moines G & CC: US retains Cup 16½- 11½; down by 5, Europe can only halve the singles 6-6

 

AUG 21

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

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


Tennis PlayerWilliam Larned

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

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


GolferWalter Hagen

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

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


GolferJock Hutchison

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

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


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
Sports History
1932 Wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons


Baseball PitcherWes Ferrell

• 1948 Cleveland Indians 47-inning scoreless streak is broken as future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Lemon yields a home run to Aaron Robinson in a 3-2 loss to Chicago White Sox
• 1953 Baseball player representatives Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire labor leader John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiations with team owners

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


LPGA GolferMickey Wright

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

Cricket Record
1986 Ian Botham takes world-record 356th Test Cricket wkt (v NZ, The Oval)


CricketerIan Botham

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

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


SwimmerMichael Phelps

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

Olympic Gold
2008 Striker Carli Lloyd scores in extra time as the United States beat Brazil 1-0 to take the women's Football Gold Medal at the Beijing Olympics


Football StarHope Solo

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

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


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


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


GolferScottie Scheffler

 

AUG. 22

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

US Men's Tennis Open

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


Tennis PlayerRichard Sears

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

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


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1930 Australian cricket slow-medium bowler Percy Hornibrook takes 7-92 as England dismissed for 251 in an innings defeat in 5th Test at The Oval; Australia regain Ashes, 2-1
• 1933 Chicago Cubs president William Veeck, Sr. urges MLB to incorporate midsummer inter-league games and a split season
• 1934 Australian cricket spin bowler Clarrie Grimmett takes 5-64 as England dismissed for 145 in 5th Test at The Oval; Australia wins by 562 runs to regain Ashes, 2-1

Baseball Record
1934 Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 HRs to beat White Sox 3-2 in 12


Baseball PitcherWes Ferrell

• 1946 Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it
• 1946 Mikko Hietanen wins Oslo marathon (2:24:55)
• 1947 14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chicago Bears 0 (105,840)

Sports History
1950 Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competitor in a US national tennis competition


Tennis PlayerAlthea Gibson

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

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


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


Boxing ChampionFloyd Patterson

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

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


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


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


Baseball PlayerRoger Maris

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

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


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


Baseball PitcherDwight Gooden

• 1985 30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11

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


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson

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

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


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


NFL Running Back and Convicted CriminalO.J. Simpson

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

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


SprinterJustin Gatlin

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

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


Tennis PlayerJustine Henin

Tennis PlayerAmélie Mauresmo

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

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


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt

• 2010 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Crosswater Club: Fred Funk wins last of 3 Champions Tour majors by 1 stroke from Michael Allen and Taiwan's Lu Chien-soon
• 2015 15th Athletics World Championships open at Beijing, China
• 2021 British Open Women's Golf, Carnoustie CC: Anna Nordqvist of Sweden finishes 1 stroke clear of Madelene Sagström, Lizette Salas and Georgia Hall to win her third major title

 

AUG 23

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

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

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


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


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


Tennis PlayerBetty Nuthall

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

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


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


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

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

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


Auto RacerAlberto Ascari

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

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


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


Baseball PlayerHank Greenberg

Baseball PlayerAlex Johnson

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

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


Baseball PitcherGaylord Perry

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

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


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

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

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


MLB OutfielderDavid Justice

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

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


Long-Distance RunnerKenenisa Bekele

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

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


Basketball PlayerDiana Taurasi

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

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


GolferLydia Ko

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

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


Football StarThomas Müller

 

AUG 24

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

US Men's Tennis Open

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


Tennis PlayerRichard Sears

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

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


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionTommy Burns

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

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


Versatile AthleteJim Thorpe

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

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


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


Tennis PlayerHelen Wills Moody

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

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


Baseball PlayerTed Williams
Baseball History
1945 MLB Cleveland Indians ace Bob Feller returns from serving in the US Navy and strikes out 12


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


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck

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

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


Baseball Player and ManagerLeo Durocher

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

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


Ice Hockey LegendGordie Howe

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


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


Golfer and Two-Time PGA ChampionDave Stockton

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

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


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


LPGA GolferPat Bradley

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

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


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt

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

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


NFL LegendJerry Rice

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

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


Basketball PlayerLeBron James

NBA GuardKobe Bryant

• 2014 Canadian Open Women's Golf, London Hunt CC: Ryu So-yeon wins by 2 from fellow South Korean Na Yeon Choi

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


Tennis PlayerSerena Williams

 

AUG 25

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

Captain Webb Conquers the English Channel

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


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

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

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


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


Tennis PlayerWilliam Larned

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

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


SwimmerEthelda Bleibtrey

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

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


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

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

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


GolferBen Hogan

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


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


Champion BoxerSugar Ray Robinson

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

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


Sportscaster and MLB ShortstopPhil Rizzuto

Baseball PlayerEnos Slaughter

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

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


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


Baseball PlayerRocky Colavito

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

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


NHL Star and BusinessmanTim Horton

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

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


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and CoachFerguson Jenkins

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

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


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


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

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

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


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

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

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


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


GolferTiger Woods

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

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


GolferLydia Ko

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

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


GolferRory McIlroy

GolferXander Schauffele

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

 

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US Men's Tennis Open

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


Tennis PlayerRichard Sears

• 1890 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Oliver Campbell beats 2-time defending champion Henry Slocum 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1
• 1894 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Robert Wrenn beats Irishman Manliff Goodbody 6-8, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4

US Men's Tennis Open
1901 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats Beals Wright 6-2, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4 for the first of 7 US singles titles


Tennis PlayerWilliam Larned

• 1902 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Defending champion William Larned beats Englishman R.F. Doherty 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 8-6
• 1908 Calgary City Rugby Football Club re-organizes as the Tigers

Baseball History
1909 Future Baseball HOF pitcher Jack Chesbro's final game for NY Highlanders; 17-6 loss to the Tigers at Bennett Park, Detroit


Baseball PitcherJack Chesbro

• 1909 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats William Clothier 6-1, 6-2, 5-7, 1-6, 6-1 for his 3rd straight & 5th overall US singles title
• 1910 Using twenty 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park

Baseball History
1911 Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0 at White Sox Park


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and ManagerEd Walsh

• 1918 Christy Mathewson resigns as Cincinnati Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of US Army
• 1920 American diver Louis Kuehn leads a US medal sweep in the men's 3m springboard event at the Antwerp Olympics; teammates Clarence Pinkston & Louis Balbach take the minor medals
• 1921 J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise

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


Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi

• 1926 2nd Women's World Games (track & field competition for women) is conducted over 3-days at the Slottsskogsvallen Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden

US Open Women's Tennis
1928 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Helen Wills defeats fellow American Helen Jacobs 6–2, 6–1 for her 5th of 7 US singles crowns


Tennis PlayerHelen Jacobs

• 1937 Brooklyn Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game

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


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


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


Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax

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

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


MLB Hall of Fame Infielder and BroadcasterJoe Morgan

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

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


MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson

Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderLou Brock

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

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


Baseball Pitcher and ManagerTommy Lasorda

• 1990 Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats

Sports History
1990 Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)


Marathon RunnerRosa Mota

• 1992 CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
• 1992 Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent & Ryan Thompson

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


GolferTiger Woods

• 1995 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Beaconsfield GC: Jenny Lidback wins by 1 stroke from Liselotte Neumann of Sweden

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


NHL StarDino Ciccarelli

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

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


GolferEduardo Romero

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

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


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt

• 2017 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Ottawa Hunt GC: Park Sung-hyun of South Korea wins by 2 from Mirim Lee

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


BoxerFloyd Mayweather Jr.

Mixed Martial ArtistConor McGregor

• 2018 Reigning French Open tennis champion Simona Halep becomes first top-seeded woman to lose in 1st round of the U.S. Open; loses to Kaia Kanepi 6-2, 6-4; first match at newly renovated Louis Armstrong Stadium
• 2019 Race car driver Jessi Combs dies while setting new fastest women's land speed record of 522.783 mph at Alvord Desert, Oregon (posthumously awarded 2020)

 

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• 1884 MLB pitcher Mickey Welsh makes record for most consecutive batters struck out to begin a game, striking out the 1st 9 men he faces

US Men's Tennis Open

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


Tennis PlayerRichard Sears

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

US Men's Tennis Open
1907 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats Robert LeRoy 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 for his third US singles title


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


Baseball PlayerTris Speaker

• 1920 American swimmer Norman Ross wins his 2nd of 3 gold medals at the Antwerp Olympics; beats teammate Ludwig Langer in the men's 400m freestyle; also wins 1,500m and 4 x 200m freestyle relay

World Record 300m
1920 Ethelda Bleibtrey leads an American medal sweep of the Antwerp Olympic women's 300m freestyle with a world record swim of 4:34.0


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


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

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

Dylan Goes Electric
1965 Bob Dylan booed for playing electric guitar In concert at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York City


Singer-SongwriterBob Dylan

• 1967 Boston signs 1st free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus
• 1970 Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970

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


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


SwimmerShane Gould

• 1972 North Korean shooter Ri Ho-jun wins the 50m rifle prone event at the Munich Olympics; his nation's first ever Olympic gold medal

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


GymnastOlga Korbut

• 1976 Toronto Metros-Croatia beat the Minnesota Kicks to the win the 1976 North American Soccer League championship

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


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

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

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


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


1500m RunnerSebastian Coe

• 1987 2nd Athletics World Championships open at Rome, Italy

Baseball Record
1987 Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams & Willie McCovey with 522 HRs


MLB Third BasemanMike Schmidt

Baseball PlayerTed Williams

Baseball Hall of Fame 1st BasemanWillie McCovey

• 1988 88th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks

Baseball History
1989 Frank Viola and NY Mets outduel Orel Hershiser and LA Dodgers 1-0


Baseball PitcherOrel Hershiser

Big US Open Upset
1990 #1 seed Stefan Edberg loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov in one of the biggest upsets in U.S. Open history


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


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


MLB PitcherDennis Martínez

• 1992 Brewers beat Blue Jays 22-2 with AL record 31 hits in 9 innings
• 1992 Test cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo

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


GolferTiger Woods

• 1994 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Ottawa Hunt GC: Martha Nause wins by 1 from Michelle Mcgann
• 1995 Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson
• 2004 A huge upset at the Athens Olympic Stadium in the men's 4×100m relay; Great Britain 38.07 edges the United States 38.08 to take the gold medal
• 2004 British athlete Kelly Holmes wraps up the 800/1,500m double at the Athens Olympics taking out the 1.5k in 3:57.90
• 2004 Carlos Tevez scores the winner as Argentina beats Paraguay 1-0, maintaining an undefeated record to win the men's football gold medal at the Athens Olympics
• 2004 Led by San Antonio Spurs shooting guard Manu Ginóbili Argentina beats Italy 84-69 for the Olympic basketball gold medal in Athens; star-studded US team takes bronze
• 2004 Moroccan super star athlete Hicham El Guerrouj wraps up the 1,500/5,000m double at the Athens Olympics taking the 5k gold in 13:14.39
• 2004 The diving competition at the Athens Olympics concludes with the Chinese contingent dominant, winning 6 of the 8 gold medals
• 2004 The US women's basketball team goes through the Athens Olympics undefeated to win its 5th Olympic gold medal, beating Australia 74-63 in the final
• 2005 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Reserve Vineyards & GC: Loren Roberts wins first of 4 Champions Tour majors with bogey on 2nd playoff hole against Dana Quigley

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


GolferBrittany Lincicome

GolferMichelle Wie

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

Most Expensive Sports Memorabilia
2022 A 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card sells for $12.6 million at auction, becoming the world's most expensive piece of sporting memorabilia [1]


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


GolferRory McIlroy

GolferScottie Scheffler

 

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• 1882 Australia beat England by 7 runs - "Death of English cricket" with Australian fast bowler Fred Spofforth posting 14-90 (7-46 & 7-44)

Heavyweight History

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


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJohn L. Sullivan

• 1885 Phillies Charlie Ferguson no-hits Providence 1-0
• 1889 1st American International professional lawn tennis contest (Newport, Rhode Island)
• 1895 The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England.
• 1906 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Clothier beats defending champion Beals Wright 6-3, 6-0, 6-4

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


Tennis PlayerWilliam Larned

• 1908 US Open Men's Golf, Myopia Hunt GC: Fred McLeod defeats fellow Scot Willie Smith by 6 strokes in an 18-hole playoff to win his only major title
• 1920 An American sweep of the medals in the men's 100m freestyle at the Antwerp Olympics; Duke Kahanamoku sets world record 1:00.4 in defending his 1912 gold medal
• 1920 An American sweep of the medals in the women's 3m springboard diving event at the Antwerp Olympics; Aileen Riggin wins gold ahead of teammates Helen Wainwright & Thelma Payne

World Record
1920 Ethelda Bleibtrey wins her 3rd gold medal of the Antwerp Olympics; teams with Irene Guest, Frances Schroth & Margaret Woodbridge in American 4 x 100m freestyle relay team; world record 5:11.6


SwimmerEthelda Bleibtrey

• 1920 Swedish swimmer Håkan Malmrot completes the breaststroke double at the Antwerp Olympics beating teammate Thor Henning in the 200m; also beats Henning for gold in the 400m

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


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1935 2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 5, All-Stars 0 (77,450)
• 1937 MLB Philadelphia A's Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
• 1940 7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84,567)
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• 1950 International Olympic Committee votes to admit West Germany & Japan in 1952

Olympic Gold
1960 Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser wins blue ribband 100m freestyle gold medal at the Rome Olympics; retains title won in Melbourne 1956; will win unprecedented 3rd consecutive 100m gold in Tokyo 1964


SwimmerDawn Fraser

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

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


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


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

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


MLB LegendWillie Mays

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

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


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


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


SwimmerShane Gould

• 1972 SF Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row

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


MLB LegendTy Cobb

Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderLou Brock

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

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


MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett

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

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


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan
Sports History
1987 Portuguese athlete Rosa Mota wins Women's Marathon at World Chapionships in Rome in 2hr 25:17mins


Marathon RunnerRosa Mota

• 1993 93rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris

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


LPGA GolferBetsy King

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

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


Formula 1 DriverMichael Schumacher

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

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


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


GolferSuzann Pettersen

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


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


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


MLB 1st BasemanAlbert Pujols

 

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  1892 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, R.I.: Three straight US singles titles to Oliver Campbell; beats Fred Hovey 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
• 1904 American runner Thomas Hicks wins marathon gold medal in a time of 3:28:53 over a 40k course at the St. Louis Olympics

Ty Cobb Debuts

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


MLB LegendTy Cobb

Baseball PitcherJack Chesbro

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

Babe Ruth Thrown Out
1922 Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922


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


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


Tennis PlayerHelen Wills Moody

Tennis PlayerBetty Nuthall
Louis vs Farr
1937 Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJoe Louis

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

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


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


Baseball Hall of Fame ManagerCasey Stengel

• 1969 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by American Steve Melnyk
• 1972 American women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Shirley Babashoff, Jane Barkman, Jenny Kemp & Sandy Neilson beats East Germany by just 0.36 to win gold at the Munich Olympics; world record 3:55.19

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


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


SwimmerShane Gould

• 1972 Japanese breaststroker Nobutaka Taguchi beats American pair Tom Bruce & John Hencken to win the 100m gold medal in world record 1:04.94 at the Munich Olympic Games
• 1972 Slalom canoeing is introduced at the Munich Olympics with East Germany winning all 4 events

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


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


Tennis PlayerJohn McEnroe

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


Racing Hall of Fame JockeyBill Shoemaker

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

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


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

• 1987 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
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• 1987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100m in world record 9.83 sec

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


MLB Center FielderKirby Puckett

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

Baseball Record
2006 Greg Maddux wins his 330th career game


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


Tennis Player and U.S. Open ChampionAndy Roddick

 

AUG 31

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

• 1894 Phillies outfielder Billy Hamilton equals George Gore's MLB single game stolen bases record with 7 steals in 10-8 win vs Washington Senators in Philadelphia
• 1900 Brooklyn pitcher Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Philadelphia Phillies in 2nd inning of the Superbas' 9-4 loss at Washington Park; Kennedy still achieves his 4th 20-win season
• 1903 New York Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month, beating the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-1 and 9-2 at the Polo Grounds
• 1904 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier 10-8, 6-4, 9-7 for his lone major singles title
• 1905 25th US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Beals Wright beats defending champion Holcombe Ward 6-2, 6-1, 11-9 for his lone major singles title
• 1909 A. J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball
• 1909 Swedish runner Thure Johansson runs world record marathon (2:40:34.2) in Stockholm
• 1913 Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven, Netherlands
• 1915 Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
• 1918 Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)

World Record 10,000m

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


Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi

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

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


MLB First BasemanGil Hodges

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

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


Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax

• 1960 US sweeps the medals in the shot put at the Rome Olympics; Bill Nieder wins gold with 19.68m, ahead of countrymen Parry O'Brien and Dallas Long
• 1964 Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of MLB California Angels
• 1966 Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
• 1968 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher

Cricket History
1968 Garfield Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over


CricketerGarfield Sobers

• 1970 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0)
• 1971 Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)

World Record 200m Relay
1972 American 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of John Kinsella, Fred Tyler, Steve Genter & Mark Spitz swim a world record 7:35.78 to beat West Germany for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics


SwimmerMark Spitz

• 1972 American super swimmer Mark Spitz wraps up the Olympic butterfly double with a world record 54.27 in the 100m in Munich, having already won the 200m in world record time 2:00.70
• 1972 Australian swimmer Gail Neall with a world record 5:02.97 wins the 400m individual medley gold medal at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 Finnish runner Lasse Viren runs Olympic and world record 10,000m (27:38.4)

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


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


Tennis PlayerTracy Austin

Tennis PlayerAndrea Jaeger

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

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


JockeyÁngel Cordero Jr.
Sports History
1987 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385)


GolferCurtis Strange

• 1987 The Great Potato Incident: Minor league Williamsport Bills catcher Dave Bresnahan attempts to lure an opposing baserunner off third base using a potato carved to look like a baseball. Umpire calls runner safe, and the catcher is fined $50 and released by the team [1] [2]

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


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderKen Griffey Jr.

• 1990 Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season
• 1991 Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3
• 1993 Minnesota Twins beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 22 innings

Sports History
1994 Pentium computer beats world chess champ Garry Kasparov


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


Baseball Player and ManagerDon Mattingly

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

Sports History
1999 Dino Ciccarelli retires from the NHL


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


GolferTom Watson

GolferTom Kite

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

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


Football StarCristiano Ronaldo

 

SEPT 1

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

• 1893 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Scotland's William Auchterlonie wins by 2 shots from amateur Johnny Laidley
• 1906 New York Highlanders win their 6th consecutive MLB game in 3 days from Washington Senators; sweep AL record 3 straight double headers
• 1906 Philadelphia beats the Red Sox 4-1 in 24 innings in Boston in the longest game in AL baseball history; both starters go the distance as A's hurler Jack Coombs overcomes Boston's Joe Harris

US Men's Tennis Open

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

• 1915 Jerome Travers establishes a US Amateur Golf Championship record by downing George Crump, 14 & 13, in a 1st-round match at the Country Club of Detroit in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
• 1922 NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"
• 1925 Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of International Olympic Committee; replaced by Henri de Baillet-Latour of Belgium

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


Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig

• 1936 Belgian boxer Gustave Roth beats Heinz Lazek of Austria in a 15 round points decision to win the EBU and vacant IBU world light heavyweight title in Vienna
• 1939 Last day of 1st-class cricket in England before the declaration of war against Germany; great slow left-armer Hedley Verity finishes with amazing figures of 7 for 9 v Sussex to give Yorkshire the County Championship
• 1945 Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Vince DiMaggio smashes his 4th grand slam of season, tying NL record, in an 8-3 win v Boston Braves

US Women's Golf Open
1946 1st US Open Women's Golf, Spokane CC: Patty Berg wins inaugural Open and only one played in match play format; takes 36-hole final 5 & 4 over Betty Jameson

• 1947 Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: USA retains title as Ted Schroeder outlasts Australian Dinny Pails 6-3, 8-6, 4-6, 9-11, 10-8 4-1 for a 3-1 lead; ends 4-1
• 1947 Infielder Jack Lohrke hits NY Giants' 183rd homer of season in 2-1 win v Boston Braves; breaks NY Yankees MLB mark of 182 set in 1936

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

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

Sports History
1964 SF Giants reliever Masanori Murakami becomes the first Japanese-born player to appear in US MLB; on debut, the Osuki native throws a scoreless inning in a 4-1 loss v New York Mets

• 1967 Cincinnati Reds reliever Bob Lee walks Dick Groat with bases loaded in 21st inning to give SF Giants a 1-0 win at Crosley Field; 20 scoreless innings ties MLB mark, Pirates v Braves 1918

US Men's Tennis Open
1971 Australian John Newcombe becomes 1st male top-seed to lose in US Open 1st round when beaten by eventual finalist Jan Kodeš 6-2, 6-7, 6-7, 3,-6

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


Baseball PlayerRoberto Clemente

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

Bobby Fischer playing 50 opponents simultaneously in 1964. He won 47 of the matches, drew 2 and lost 1

• 1972 An American sweep of the medals in the women's 200m butterfly at the Munich Olympics; Karen Moe takes gold in world record 2:15.57 ahead of teammates Lynn Colella and Ellie Daniel

World Record
1972 Australian swimmer Shane Gould wins the 200m freestyle in world record 2:03.56 at the Munich Olympics; her 3rd gold medal & 3rd world record of the Games

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

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


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


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

• 1978 Baltimore Orioles pitcher Sammy Stewart fans 7 consecutive batters in his MLB debut, en route to 9-3 win v Chicago White Sox

Sports History
1980 Canadian one-legged distance runner Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario with Fox unable to continue because of illness

• 1981 Fast bowler Terry Alderman takes his 42nd wicket of the series on the last day of the 5th cricket Test vs England at The Oval; haul remains record by an Australian bowler in England; England wins series 3-1
• 1981 Mike Brearley's last day as England cricket captain in 6th Test draw v Australia at The Oval; maintains his unbeaten record at home as England's 3-1 series win confirmed
• 1984 Middlesex beats Kent off the last ball of the Nat West Trophy cricket final in London; John Emburey hits Kent seamer Richard Ellison to square leg for 4 for the winning runs

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


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


Auto RacerBill Elliott

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

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


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


Tennis LegendChris Evert

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

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


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


Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major ChampionIvan Lendl

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

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


Tennis PlayerPete Sampras

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

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


NHL Legend and OwnerMario Lemieux

• 2001 Australian Rugby Union team gives all-conquering captain John Eales perfect send off in his final international with a famous last minute, 29-26 win over New Zealand in Sydney; Wallabies retain Tri Nations Series

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


MLB Pitching LegendGreg Maddux

MLB OutfielderSammy Sosa

• 2001 Jockey Tim Moccasin caps a streak of 14 consecutive victories, a North American record, at Marquis Downs in Saskatoon, Canada aboard Intricate Stitch in the 5th race

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


NBA GuardKobe Bryant
Sports History
2006 Roger Goodell begins his tenure as NFL Commissioner


Commissioner of the National Football League (NFL)Roger Goodell

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

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


Football PlayerGareth Bale

• 2015 India scores their first Test cricket series victory in Sri Lanka since 1993 winning 3rd Test in Colombo by 117 runs; Ravichandran Ashwin (4) & Ishant Sharma (3) combine for 7 Sri Lankan 2nd innings wickets

Sports History
2016 NFL San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneels in protest during the US national anthem before pre-season game against the Chargers at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium, objecting to racial injustice and police brutality in the US


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


Formula 1 DriverKimi Räikkönen

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

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


Football StarCristiano Ronaldo

 

SEPT 2

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

US Men's Tennis Open

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


Tennis PlayerRichard Sears

• 1905 New Zealand beats Australia 14-3 in cold, wet conditions in the first international Rugby Union match between the countries on New Zealand soil at Tahuna Park in Dunedin
• 1923 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, NYC, NY: Bill Johnson beats John Hawkes 6-0, 6-2, 6-1 for unassailable 3-1 lead for US over Australia; ends 4-1; US 4th straight win

US Men's Tennis Open
1924 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Bill Tilden wins 5th straight US singles title; beats Bill Johnston for 3rd consecutive year 6-1, 9-7, 6-2


Tennis PlayerBill Tilden

• 1936 NFL Chicago College All-Star Game: All-Stars 7, Detroit Lions 7; 76,000 at Soldier Field

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


GolferByron Nelson

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


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


Auto RacerJuan Manuel Fangio

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

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


MLB LegendStan Musial

Baseball PlayerTris Speaker

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


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


NFL Coach and SportscasterJohn Madden

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

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


Tennis LegendChris Evert

Tennis LegendJimmy Connors

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

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


Baseball Player and ManagerBilly Martin

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

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


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


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


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


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


CricketerKim Hughes

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

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


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


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


Formula 1 DriverMichael Schumacher