- 1911 NY Highlanders get 13 walk & steal 15 bases (including then record 6 in one inning), beating Browns 18-12; each team committed 6 errors
- 1919 Fastest major league game (51 mins), Giants beat Phillies 6-1
- 1920 8 Chicago White Sox baseball players are indicted by a grand jury, charged with fixing 1919 World Series; infamous "Black Sox scandal"
PGA Championship
1921 4th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Inwood CC Far Rockaway NY
Lou Gehrig's Streak Ends
1930 Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
- 1938 Homer in the Gloamin' - famous walk-off home run hit by Gabby Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs against the Pittsburgh Pirates
NFL History
1940 Bud Brennan, a fan at Memorial Stadium, races out of stands and attempts to tackle Tom Harmon at 3-yard line, Harmon easily evades
- 1940 Michigan's Tom Harmon runs 72, 86 & 94 yard touchdowns
- 1941 Phillies lose club record 111th game
Ted Williams Best Year
1941 Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting avg
- 1942 NY Americans NHL team folded
Sports History
1951 New York's Allie Reynolds' 2nd no-hitter of 1951, an 8-0 home victory over Boston Red Sox; Yankees clinch pennant #18
- 1951 Norm Van Brocklin of Rams passes for NFL record 554 yards
Sports History
1952 St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance, throwing one pitch to Chicago Cubs Frank Baumholtz
- 1955 1st World Series color TV broadcast on NBC-TV (Yanks beat Dodgers)
- 1960 Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 (off Jack Fisher)
- 1964 53rd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (3-2)
- 1969 NFL Minnesota Vikings QB Joe Kapp passes for 7 touchdowns vs Baltimore Colts in 52-14 home win
- 1970 Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Australia) in 22nd America's Cup
- 1972 Canada defeats the USSR in the eighth and final game of the ice hockey Summit Series
Sports History
1974 California Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0
- 1975 New York City Marathon: Tom Fleming claims men's title in 2:19:27; Kim Merritt wins women's event in 2:46:14
Boxing Title Fight
1976 Muhammad Ali beats Ken Norton in a 15 round unanimous points decision for the WBA, WBC and The Ring heavyweight boxing titles
Boxing Title Fight
1979 Larry Holmes beats Earnie Shavers by TKO in 11th round in Las Vegas for WBC heavyweight boxing title
- 1980 Australian Williams driver Alan Jones clinches his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by winning the Canadian Grand Prix at Île Notre-Dame Circuit
- 1984 Cleveland Indians down 0-10 to Minnesota Twins, win 11-10
- 1986 Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21
- 1986 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)
- 1988 American athletes go 1-2-3 in the 400m at the Seoul Olympics with Steve Lewis taking the gold medal in 43.87 ahead of teammates Butch Reynolds & Danny Everett
- 1988 Australian Debbie Flintoff-King wins the 400m hurdles gold at the Seoul Olympics in 53.17, just 0.01 ahead of Tatyana Ledovskaya of the Soviet Union
- 1988 Despite totally dominating his sport for 14 years, Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka wins his only Olympic gold medal with a vault of 5.90m at the Seoul Games
- 1988 Javed Miandad scores his 19th Test Cricket century (v Aus, Faisalabad)
Sports History
1988 LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale's record by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings
Sports History
1993 Dennis Martínez is 7th to win 100 games in AL & NL
- 1995 Dennis Martínez' fastball breaks Minnesota Twins Kirby Puckett's jaw, in what becomes his final career plate appearance, in Cleveland Indians 12-4 win
- 1995 Troy Dixon scores cricket century on 1st-class debut for Qld v W Prov
- 1996 NY Yankee Jim Leyitz is 2nd catcher to wear a hockey mask
- 1996 Orioles' Roberto Alomar suspended 5 games for spitting at ump
- 1996 Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas & Alabama)
- 1997 Ryder Cup Golf, Valderrama GC, Spain: Europe wins 14½-13½ to retain the Cup; first time event contested in continental Europe; first of 6 consecutive victories at home by Europe
Baseball Record
1997 St Louis Cardinals Mark McGwire hits his 58th HR of 1997 (34 with Oak A's)
- 2003 Final game played at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, Atlanta Braves defeat Phillies, 5-2
- 2008 MLB Boston Red Sox retire Johnny Pesky's jersey (number 6)
- 2008 The last game played at Shea Stadium before its demolition happens between baseball teams The New York Mets and the Florida Marlins, the Marlins win 4-2
- 2014 Ryder Cup Golf, Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland: Europe wins 16½-11½ to win Cup for 3rd consecutive time
Ronaldo Case Dismissed
2018 Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo accused of rape in 2009 in US lawsuit filed in Nevada; case dismissed based on improper breach of attorney-client privileged communications
- 2020 Stanley Cup Final, Rogers Place, Edmonton, Alberta: Tampa Bay Lightning claim second championship in franchise history with a 2-0 Game 6 win over Dallas Stars; win series 4-2
Aaron Judge Ties HR Record
2022 New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hits his 61st home run of the season, tying Roger Maris's AL record from 1961 in an 8-3 win over Blue Jays in Toronto
