US Golf Open
1913 US Open Men's Golf, The Country Club: 20-year old amateur Francis Ouimet wins his only Open title in an 18-hole playoff, 5 strokes ahead of Britons Harry Vardon & Ted Ray
PGA Championship
1919 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Engineers CC: Defending champion Jim Barnes defeats Fred McLeod, 6 & 5 in the final
Baseball Record
1922 St. Louis Cardinals future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games
- 1924 Carl Mays is 1st pitcher to win 20 games seasons for 3 different teams
- 1924 Cub's Grover Cleveland Alexander beats NY Giants to win 300th game
PGA Championship
1924 PGA Championship Men's Golf, French Lick CC: 1921 champion Walter Hagen beats Englishman Jim Barnes 2-up in the final
Sports History
1931 MLB's Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184
Sports History
1953 Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR
Sports History
1954 Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy
Baseball Record
1955 Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH
- 1955 Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 HRs in a season
Sports History
1958 Baltimore Oriole knuckleball pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits NY Yankees 1-0
Baseball Record
1961 Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yanks clinch pennant #26
- 1964 20th America's Cup yachting: Eric Ridder skippered Constellation beats English challenger Sovereign for a 4-0 American series sweep off Newport, RI
Baseball Record
1968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
Davis Cup
1969 58th Davis Cup: American pair Bob Lutz & Stan Smith clinch final 8-6, 6-1, 11-9 over Ilie Năstase & Ion Țiriac of Romania in Cleveland, OH; ends 5-0
- 1969 MLB Pittsburgh Pirate Bob Moose no-hits NY Mets, 4-0
Ryder Cup
1969 Ryder Cup Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: US, Great Britain tie, 16-16; great sporting gesture, America's Jack Nicklaus concedes missable 3-foot putt to Tony Jacklin at the 18th hole for the draw
Sports History
1973 Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
- 1973 Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season
Ryder Cup
1975 Ryder Cup Golf, Laurel Valley GC: US beats Great Britain & Ireland, 21-11; Arnold Palmer non-playing American captain; Bernard Hunt GB & I skipper
- 1980 Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of catcher Thurman Munson unveiled at Yankee Stadium: Munson died in plane crash in 1979
Sports History
1980 George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good
- 1980 Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out
- 1981 Ryder Cup Golf, Walton Heath GC: US wins 18½-9½; 6th and final Ryder Cup for Jack Nicklaus as a player; wins all 4 of his matches
- 1983 3,112 turn out to see Pirates play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
- 1984 Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time
- 1985 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players
NFL Record
1987 Chicago running back Walter Payton scores his NFL record 107th rushing touchdown in the Bears' 20-3 victory over Tampa Bay
Sports History
1987 French driver Alain Prost wins Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril; his record 28th Formula 1 victory
- 1987 San Francisco wide receiver Dwight Clark's NFL record streak of 105 consecutive games with a reception ends in 49ers 27-26 victory in Cincinnati
Olympic Gold
1988 American diver Greg Louganis wins the 3m springboard gold medal at the Seoul Olympics after famously hitting his head on the board the previous day
Sports History
1988 Boston Red Sox Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons
Federation Cup
1998 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Geneva, Switzerland: Conchita Martínez & Arantxa Sánchez Vicario beat Martina Hingis & Patty Schnyder of Switzerland 6-0, 6-2 in doubles decider to clinch Spain's 5th title, 3-2
- 1998 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Muirfield Village: US retains Cup; beats Europe 16-12 for third consecutive victory
- 2013 Alex Rodriquez sets new MLB record with 24 Grand Slam home runs for the New York Yankees
- 2015 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, GC St. Leon-Rot: US regains Cup 14½ to 13½; Paula Creamer beats Sandra Gal 4 & 3 in deciding singles match
- 2020 107th Tour de France: Slovenian Tadej Pogačar claims yellow jersey from countryman Primož Roglič; also wins mountains and U25 classifications; green jersey, Sam Bennett
- 2020 US Open Men's Golf, Winged Foot CC: American Bryson DeChambeau claims his first career major title as the only player to score under par; wins by 6 strokes from Matthew Wolff
- 2021 Kansas City Royals' Salvador Perez hits his 46th home run to break Hall of Famer Johnny Bench's MLB record for most in a season by a catcher, in Royals 7-2 win in Cleveland
World Record
2022 Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge breaks his own world record for the marathon in 2 hours 1 minute 9 seconds in Berlin (previous record 2:01:39) [1]