- 1892 Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan
- 1899 African-American inventor Issac R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame
- 1904 Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games-an AL record, also record for total complete games AL 1,098, NL 1,089
- 1916 In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3
- 1920 Cleveland Indians outfielder Elmer Smith hits baseball's first ever World Series grand slam and teammate Bill Wambsganss makes the 1st unassisted World Series triple play (Game 5)
- 1920 Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie
- 1921 NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10
- 1923 NY Giants & NY Yankees become first teams to play each other in 3 consecutive Baseball World Series; Giants win Game 1, 5-4; first WS game played at Yankee Stadium
- 1924 Baseball World Series: Washington Senators edge NY Giants, 4-3 in 12 innings in Game 7 at Griffith Stadium to take series, 4-3; Sens' first World Series victory
- 1926 Baseball World Series: St Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 3-2 at Sportsman's Park for 4 games to 3 series victory
Sports History
1930 AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
Sports History
1930 MLB New York Yankees announce signing former Chicago Cubs manager Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
- 1931 Baseball World Series: St Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia A's, 4-2 at Sportsman's Park for a 4 games to 3 series win
- 1937 Baseball World Series: in second consecutive all-New York WS, Yankees again beat Giants, 4-2 at the Polo Grounds for a 4-1 series victory
- 1945 Baseball World Series: Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 9-8 at Wrigley Field to clinch series, 4 games to 3; Tigers second championship
- 1948 Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland
- 1949 3rd NHL All-Star Game, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: All-Stars beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-1
World Series
1951 Baseball World Series: two-time defending champion NY Yankees beat NY Giants, 4-3 at Yankee Stadium for 4-2 series victory; MVP: Yankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto
World Series
1956 Baseball World Series: Behind Yogi Berra's 2 HRs, NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 9-0 in Game 7 at Ebbets Field; MVP: Yankees pitcher Don Larsen
Sports History
1956 Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match v Australia in Karachi
NHL All-Star Game
1964 18th NHL All-Star Game, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: All-Stars beat Toronto, 3-2; MVP: Jean Béliveau, Montreal, C
- 1964 XVIII Summer Olympic Games open in Tokyo, Japan
- 1968 Baseball World Series: Detroit Tigers beat St Louis Cardinals, 4-1 at Busch Memorial Stadium to clinch, 4-3 series win; MVP: Tigers pitcher Mickey Lolich
- 1973 MLB National League Championship: New York Mets beat Cincinnati Reds, 3 games to 2
- 1974 MLB Oakland A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against team owner Charlie Finley
- 1974 US Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff army General George Brown's deplores Jewish influence in US security policy during question and answers after speech at Duke University
- 1976 Giant's Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey opens with the NY Giants going down 24–14 to the Dallas Cowboys in from of 76,042 fans
- 1976 Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33
- 1979 Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game
- 1980 MLB American League Championship: Kansas City Royals beat New York Yankees, 3 games to 0
- 1980 Yanks lose 4-2 & are swept by Royals in AL Championship series
- 1982 MLB American League Championship: Milwaukee Brewers beat California Angels, 3 games to 2
- 1982 MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat Atlanta Braves, 3-0
- 1983 Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers
- 1987 Hartford center Doug Jarvis ends his career having played an NHL record 964 consecutive games as the Whalers lose 6-2 to the New York Rangers
- 1990 MLB American League Championship: Oakland Athletics beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 0
- 1993 NFL Cleveland Browns' Najee Mustafaa sets club record for longest interception (97 yds)
Sports History
1994 NY Giants retire Lawrence Taylor's #56
Election of Interest
2002 Former cricketer Imran Khan elected to the Pakistani Parliament after winning the seat of Mianwali-I
F1 World Champion
2004 Having already clinched his record 7th F1 World Drivers Championship, German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins a record 13th race of the season with victory at the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka
Senior Players Championship
2010 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC Potomac: Mark O'Meara wins his lone Champions Tour major title with par on first playoff hole against Michael Allen
- 2017 Joel Embiid signs a five-year, $148 million designated rookie scale maximum contract extension with the 76ers
- 2019 3,500 women are the first to be allowed to attend a football match in Iran for a World Cup qualifier in Tehran, since the Islamic revolution
- 2020 French Open Women's Tennis: 19-year-old Iga Świątek of Poland wins her country's first singles major title; beats American Sofia Kenin 6-4, 6-1