Vanderbilt's Circumnavigation
1853 Cornelius Vanderbilt circumnavigates the world aboard his private yacht North Star
Baseball Record
1922 St Louis Cardinals future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby sets National League HR mark at 42
- 1927 New York Yankees set a record of 106 victories
- 1927 NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs
- 1929 New York Yankee pitcher Tom Zachary ends season 12-0, record for most pitching wins without a loss in one season
- 1930 Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
- 1931 Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks
- 1934 2,500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
- 1934 Idle Detroit wins pennant, as Red Sox beat Yankees 5-0
- 1938 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Don Budge beats fellow American Gene Mako 6-3, 6-8, 6-2, 6-1 to become first player to win a Grand Slam
US Open Women's Tennis
1938 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American Alice Marble wins her second US singles crown; beats Nancye Wynne Bolton of Australia 6-0, 6-3
Marciano TKOs LaStarza
1953 Rocky Marciano TKOs home town favourite Roland LaStarza in 11 at NYC's Polo Grounds to retain his world heavyweight boxing title
- 1954 Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning
- 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
- 1963 Idle Dodgers clinch their 2nd LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards
- 1967 NFL St. Loius Cardinals' Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals at Pittsburgh Steelers, setting NFL record at the time
Sports History
1968 NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack
- 1969 NY Mets clinch NL East pennant
- 1971 Houston Astros beat San Diego Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings
- 1972 Jack Tatum, Oakland, sets NFL record with 104-yard fumble return, in a 20-14 win over Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field, Green Bay Wisconsin; record tied by Aeneas Williams of the Arizona Cardinals in 2000
Sports History
1972 NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Baltimore Colts (44-34)
- 1977 Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards
Sports History
1978 Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74
- 1979 Russian Olympic and World Champion figure skaters Oleg Protopopov & Ludmila Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland
- 1980 Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season
Baseball Record
1983 Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in season
Cricket Debut
1983 Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of champion Pakistan batsman Hanif Mohammad; scores 6 in drawn 2nd Test v India in Jullundur; goes on to play 45 Tests
- 1984 Chicago Cubs clinch NL East title
Baseball Record
1985 Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th), and joins Willey McCovey to hit 2 HRs in an inn twice
World Record
1988 American heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets new world record 7,291 points to win the gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; East Germans Sabine John & Anke Behmer take the minor medals
World Record
1988 American swimmer Matt Biondi sets world record 22.14 to win the 50m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; his 4th of 5 gold medals for the Games
- 1988 Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100m in 9.79 sec
World Record
1988 Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson breaks his own 100m world record with a time of 9.79 at the Seoul Olympics; disqualified 3 days later for use of drug stanozolol; Carl Lewis awarded gold and world record 9.92
- 1988 Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec)
- 1988 East German cyclist Christa Luding-Rothenburger wins silver medal in the women's track sprint at the Seoul Olympics; first athlete to win medals at Summer & Winter Games in same year; won speed skating gold in Calgary
- 1988 Soviet gymnast Vladimir Artemov shares horizontal bar gold medal with teammate Valeri Liukin at the Seoul Olympics; also wins the parallel bars event to take his gold medal haul to 4 for the Games
- 1988 Swimmer Silke Hörner wins her second gold medal of the Seoul Olympics as part of the victorious East German 4 x 100m medley relay team
- 1988 West German swimmer Michael Gross wins 200m butterfly in Olympic record 1:56.94 at the Seoul Games; third career gold medal
- 1989 Ryder Cup: US & Europe draw, 14-14 at The Belfry, England
Sports History
1991 Deion Sanders, left Braves July 31 to report to NFL Falcons, returns
- 1992 John Jaha ties record of 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers)
Sports History
1992 Pedro Martínez makes his MLB debut for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Cincinnati Reds
- 1992 Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in NJ Devils history
Sports History
1992 Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is oldest player to reach 100-RBI
Boxing Title Fight
1994 Oliver McCall TKOs Lennox Lewis in 2nd round to win heavyweight boxing title at Wembley Arena in London, England
- 1995 Ryder Cup Golf, Oak Hill CC: Europe wins 14½-13½; unheralded Irish rookie Philip Walton secures victory for Europe beating Jay Haas 1 up
- 2006 Ryder Cup Golf, K Club, Ireland: Europe, captained by Ian Woosnam wins convincingly 18½-9½ for 3rd consecutive Cup victory
- 2007 ICC Men's Cricket T20 World Cup, Johannesburg: India wins inaugural tournament with a 5-run win over Pakistan; Man of the Series: Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi (91 runs • 12 wkts)
Sports History
2017 Laver Cup Men's Tennis, Prague: Roger Federer is unbeaten as Team Europe dominates Team World, 15-9 in the inaugural teams event
Sports History
2017 LeBron James calls President Donald Trump "U Bum" in a tweet in response to Trump's comments about Stephen Curry
- 2017 Margo Hayes completes the third-ever female ascent of a 9a+ (5.15a) graded route by ascending Realization/Biographie in Céüse, France
Sports History
2017 NFL players kneal, lock arms or stay in their dressing room during the anthem in protests against comments made by President Donald Trump
Sports History
2017 Tour Championship Men's Golf, East Lake GC: Xander Schauffele wins rich season-ending event by 1 stroke from Justin Thomas
Football Awards
2018 Real Madrid midfielder & Croatian World Cup captain Luka Modrić is named world's best male player at the FIFA Awards in London; Brazil & Orlando Pride forward Marta best female player; France's Didier Deschamps best men's coach
- 2023 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Finca Cortesin, Casares, Andalusia, Spain: Europe wins 3rd straight title; retains trophy after 14-14 tie with Team USA; Carlota Ciganda undefeated for Europe (4-0)
Taylor Swift Attends Chiefs Game
2023 Taylor Swift attends Kansas City Chiefs game at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri, amid rumours she is dating player Travis Kelce [1]
