US Men's Tennis Open
1887 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears wins 7th straight US singles title; beats Henry Slocum 6-1, 6-3, 6-2
- 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
- 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
Hobbs Scores 316
1926 Jack Hobbs scores 316 not out at Lord's (Surrey v Middlesex)
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
- 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)
- 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
Casey Stengel Retires
1965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
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
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
- 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
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
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
Sports History
1987 2nd World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in 100m after Ben Johnson is disqualified
- 1987 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
- 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
- 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
Sports History
2012 Andy Roddick announces he will retire following the U.S. Open
