- 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
US Men's Tennis Open
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
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
- 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
- 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
PGA Championship
1946 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Portland GC: Ben Hogan beats Ed Oliver, 6 & 4 for first of his 9 major titles
Boxing Title Fight
1950 Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title
Sports History
1956 To make room for Enos Slaughter, NY Yankees release Phil Rizzuto
Sports History
1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship
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
Hockey Hall of Fame
1977 Canadian NHL player Tim Horton posthumously inducted into Hockey Hall of Fame
Sports History
1980 MLB Texas Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs
- 1983 Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark
Sports History
1985 Met Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
McGwire Hits 1st HR
1986 A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run
- 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
- 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
Amateur Championship
1996 96th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger 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
- 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
- 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
