- 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
- 1888 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Henry Slocum beats Howard Taylor 6-4, 6-1, 6-0
US Men's Tennis Open
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
Suspension of Tris Speaker
1918 Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on umpire Tom Connolly
- 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
- 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
- 1951 Pirates snap NY Giants 16 game winning streak
- 1956 Australia clings on for a draw in 5th Test at The Oval, London; England retain cricket Ashes with Jim Laker's 46 wickets a record series haul
- 1958 American baseball player Nellie Fox sets record for consecutive games without striking out (98)
- 1960 White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as umpire called time
- 1967 MLB Boston Red Sox sign 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
World Record Mile
1981 Britain's Sebastian Coe sets a then 1-mile word record of 3:47.33
- 1987 2nd Athletics World Championships open at Rome, Italy
Baseball Record
1987 Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams & Willie McCovey with 522 HRs
- 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
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
Baseball Record
1990 Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively
Baseball Record
1991 Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martínez both perfect game pitcher
- 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
- 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
- 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]
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
