Cricket History
1886 W. G. Grace makes his highest Test Cricket score, scoring 170 vs Australia at The Oval
- 1896 Willem II soccer team forms in Tilburg
- 1928 IX Summer Olympic Games close in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 1936 After 24 year absence a baseball demonstration game is played between 2 American teams at Berlin Olympics, World Champions beat US Olympics, 6-5
- 1936 American diver Marjorie Gestring wins 3m springboard gold at the Berlin Olympics, youngest Olympic gold medalist (13 years 268 days)
- 1936 The gymnastics competition at the Berlin Olympics concludes with Germany dominating, winning 6 of 9 gold medals including the men’s & women’s teams events
- 1948 Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game
- 1948 Indian maestro Balbir Singh Dosanjh scores twice as India beats Great Britain 4-0 for the field hockey gold medal at the London Olympics; India's 4th consecutive Olympic hockey title
- 1948 The canoeing program at the London Olympics concludes with Sweden (4) and Czechoslovakia (3) dominant, combining for 7 of the 9 gold medals
- 1949 16th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 38, All-Stars 0 (93,780)
- 1950 First international game by an NFL team, New York Giants beat CFL's Ottawa Roughriders, 20-6 at Ottawa's Lansdowne Stadium
- 1953 Ann Davison arrives in Miami in her 23 foot boat Felicity Ann, becoming the 1st woman to sail solo across the Atlantic
- 1960 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)
Sports History
1960 Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 8.21m
Sports History
1963 Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year
Baseball Record
1964 Mickey Mantle switch-hits HR record 10th & final time in a game with one going up 502 feet
Sports History
1970 Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball [1]
Cricket History
1972 Ian & Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings
PGA Championship
1973 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Canterbury GC: Jack Nicklaus wins 3rd of 5 PGA C'ships by 4 from Bruce Crampton of Australia
Baseball Record
1974 Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 & walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2
- 1974 Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st teammates inducted to hall of fame on same day
- 1978 NFL New England Patriots wide receiver Darryl Stingley suffers a spinal cord injury leaving him with incomplete quadriplegia from a hit by Oakland Raiders Jack Tatum, in a pre-season exhibition game
- 1984 Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls & 19 ejections
- 1984 Carlos Lopes of Portugal wins the men's marathon at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2:09:21, an Olympic record that stands for 24 years
Baseball Hall of Fame
1984 Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, & Luis Aparicio are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY
PGA Championship
1990 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Shoal Creek: Wayne Grady of Australia wins his only major title by 3 strokes from American Fred Couples
Cricket History
1991 Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon & Marshall
- 1994 1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition - SF vs Denver)
- 1994 Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association go on strike leading to cancellation of World Series for only the second time in MLB history (1904); labour dispute
Cricket History
1995 Lara completes 6th Test Cricket century, 152 at Trent Bridge
PGA Championship
2007 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Southern Hills CC: Defending champion Tiger Woods wins his 4th PGA C'ship by 2 shots from Woody Austin
World Record
2008 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 3rd of 8 gold medals at the Beijing Olympics when he takes the 200m freestyle in world record 1:42.96
- 2008 American swimmer Natalie Coughlin becomes the first to successfully defend the gold medal in the women's 100 m backstroke when she wins event at the Beijing Olympics
Olympic Games
2008 An American 1-2 in the 100m backstroke at the Beijing Olympics with Aaron Peirsol swimming a world record 52.54 to beat teammate Matt Grevers
PGA Championship
2012 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Kiawah Island Golf Resort: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland wins by 8 strokes from Englishman David Lynn
- 2012 XXX Summer Olympic Games close in London, England
World Record
2016 American star swimmer Katie Ledecky sets world record 8:04.79 to dominate the women's 800m field at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; medal tally of 4 gold, 1 silver make her most decorated US female athlete at one Olympics
- 2016 Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszú wins her 4th medal of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics finishing 2nd in the women's 200m backstroke; gold to American Maya DiRado in 2:05:99
- 2016 Italian jockey Frankie Dettori aboard Predilection rides his 3,000th British winner at Newmarket
- 2016 Joseph Schooling of Singapore sets Olympic record 50.39 to win men's 100m butterfly gold at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; rare 3-way tie for silver at 51.14, Michael Phelps (USA), Chad le Clos (South Africa) & László Cseh (Hungary)
Sports History
2017 Usain Bolt injures himself in his very last race, the men's 4x100m relay, Jamaica misses gold at world championships
- 2018 100th PGA Championship Men's Golf, Bellerive CC: Brooks Koepka becomes only the 5th player to win 2 major titles in a calendar year (US Open 2018) when he beats Tiger Woods by 2 strokes
- 2019 Baltimore Orioles concede 7 home runs in doubleheader defeats against NY Yankees to break the American League single season HRs allowed record with 248 and counting
Sports History
2021 Kawhi Leonard re-signs with the Los Angeles Clippers to a max four-year, $176.3 million contract
