- 1906 Brooklyn Superbas MLB pitcher Harry McIntire no-hits Pittsburgh for 10 2/3 innings but loses in the 13th inning 1-0 on an unearned run
1909 7th Tour de France: François Faber of Luxembourg becomes the first foreigner to win the cycling classic
- 1918 Pittsburgh and Boston Braves play an MLB record 20 scoreless innings before the Pirates win 2-0 in the 21st inning
- 1924 MLB Brooklyn Robins pitcher Dazzy Vance strikes out an MLB record 7 consecutive batters and 14 overall in a 4-0 win over the visiting Chicago Cubs at Ebbets Field
- 1928 Americans sweep medals at a rainy Olympic pole vault final in Amsterdam, with Sabin Carr winning gold, followed by William Droegemuller and Charles McGinnis
Babe Ruth Hits HR #42
1928 Babe Ruth hits home run #42 in the Yankees' 12-1 win vs. the St. Louis Browns, putting him 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace
Scoreless Innings Record Set
1933 New York's future Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell sets an MLB record for consecutive scoreless innings at 45 1/3 as the Giants lose 3-1 to the Boston Braves
- 1934 US Amateur Golf Championship format changes to a 6-day event with no 36-hole stroke-play qualifying and 36-hole matches for semi-finals and final
XI Summer Olympic Games
1936 XI Summer Olympic Games are opened by Adolf Hitler in Berlin
Baseball Record
1941 NY Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez sets MLB record for most walks in a shutout, issuing 11 in a 9-0 win vs. St. Louis Browns
Ott Hits 500th HR
1945 New York Giants outfielder Mel Ott hits historic 500th MLB home run off Braves Johnny Hutchings, joins Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx as only players to reach milestone
- 1953 Boston Red Sox pitcher Ben Flowers sets then MLB record of eight consecutive games in relief
- 1954 41st Tour de France: Louison Bobet of France wins by 15 minutes and 49 seconds from Ferdinand Kübler for the second of his three consecutive wins
- 1957 Ex-MLB outfielder Glen Gorbous throws a regulation baseball a record 136 m (445 ft and 10 in) in a game promotion
Baseball Record
1957 Gil Hodges hits his 13th MLB career grand slam, a National League record and the last by a Brooklyn Dodgers player
Cricket History
1961 Australian cricket captain Richie Benaud takes 6 for 70 in England's second innings for a 54-run win in the fourth Test at Old Trafford
- 1962 Boston Red Sox pitcher Bill Monbouquette no-hits the Chicago White Sox in a 1-0 win at White Sox Park
1963 Arthur Ashe becomes first African-American tennis player to be named in the US Davis Cup team
- 1964 Dan "Big Daddy" Garlits becomes the first drag racer to run the 1/4 mile at over 200 mph (201.34 mph/324 km/h) at Island Dragway, New Jersey
1965 Scottish Lotus driver Jim Clark wins the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring to clinch his second F1 World Championship
- 1969 36th Chicago Charities College All-Star Game: NY Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208 attendees)
Baseball Record
1970 Future Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Stargell hits three doubles and two homers in a 20-10 Pirates win against the Braves at Atlanta Stadium
Richard Petty's Record Earnings
1971 Richard Petty wins the Dixie 500 in Atlanta, Georgia, to become the first NASCAR driver to win $1 million in career earnings
- 1972 Nate Colbert ties the MLB record by hitting five home runs and sets a record with 13 RBIs as the Padres beat Atlanta 9-0 and 11-7 in a doubleheader
- 1973 MLB All Star catchers Thurman Munson of the NY Yankees and Boston Red Sox's Carlton Fisk brawl at home plate at Fenway Park; Red Sox win 3-2
NBA Trade
1973 Struggling ABA club Virginia Squires trades star forward Julius Erving to New York Nets for George Carter and cash
Lauda Crashes
1976 Reigning world F1 champion Niki Lauda of Austria suffers a near-fatal crash during the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring motorsports complex, Nürburg, Germany
- 1976 Seattle Seahawks take the field for the first time in a preseason game against the San Francisco 49ers at the newly constructed Kingdome in Seattle
- 1976 XXI Summer Olympic Games close at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Canada
Baseball Record
1977 San Francisco Giants' first baseman Willie McCovey hits a National League record 18th MLB career grand slam
Baseball Record
1978 Atlanta Braves trounce Cincinnati Reds 16-4 and halt Pete Rose's National League record hitting streak at 44 games
- 1980 East German runner Waldemar Cierpinski wins his second consecutive Olympic Games marathon in 12:11:03 in Moscow
- 1980 Gerd Wessig of East Germany becomes the first male to set a high jump world record of 2.36 m (7 ft 9 in) at the Moscow Olympics
- 1982 After the first 13 runnings of the midsummer classic, Darryl Waltrip becomes the first driver to win the Talladega 500 twice
Greg Louganis
1982 American Greg Louganis becomes the first diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives, winning the 3 m springboard gold at the World Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Cricket History
1983 Despite a brave 112 not out by David Gower, New Zealand wins the second Test at Headingley by five wickets, achieving their first-ever Test cricket victory in England
- 1985 St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Vince Coleman steals two bases in the first inning of a 9-8 loss against the Cubs to set a National League rookie record of 74
- 1986 Twins pitcher Bert Blyleven becomes the 10th player to reach the 3,000 MLB strikeout milestone and 2-hits the A's, 10-1
Tyson vs Tucker
1987 Mike Tyson outpoints Tony Tucker in 12 rounds in a heavyweight boxing unification matchup in Las Vegas, becoming the first to own all three major belts: WBA, WBC, and IBF simultaneously
- 1989 Australia beats England by nine wickets in the fourth cricket Test at Old Trafford, taking an unassailable 3-0 series lead to reclaim the Ashes
- 1992 American sprinter Gail Devers wins an incredibly close blanket finish in the women's 100 m at the Barcelona Olympics, with five athletes within 0.06 seconds of Devers (10.82)
- 1992 British athlete Linford Christie (32) becomes the oldest man to win an Olympic 100 m gold medal, edging Frankie Fredericks in Barcelona
1993 14-time MLB All Star Reggie Jackson is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
- 1993 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup, Lord's: England wins for the first time since the inaugural event in 1973 with a 67-run victory over New Zealand
Baseball Record
1994 Baltimore shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. becomes the second player after Lou Gehrig to appear in 2,000 consecutive MLB games in a 1-0 win vs. Twins
- 1996 American athlete Michael Johnson wins 200 m at the Atlanta Olympics in a world record 19.32 seconds to become the first man to complete the 200-400 m double
- 1996 Dan O'Brien wins the decathlon gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics to become the first American since Bruce Jenner in 1976 to win the gruelling event
- 1996 French sprinter Marie-José Pérec wins the 200 m final at the Atlanta Olympics to become only the second athlete to win the 200-400 m Olympic double (Valerie Brisco-Hooks 1984)
- 1996 Tiffeny Milbrett scores the winner as the US beats China 2-1 at the Atlanta Olympics for the first Olympic gold medal in women's soccer
- 1997 6th Athletics World Championships open at Athens, Greece
1999 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Priddis Greens GC: Australian Karrie Webb wins by two strokes over Laura Davies of England
NFL Largest Signing Bonus
2002 In signing star linebacker Ray Lewis to a 5-year contract extension, the Baltimore Ravens give him a $19 million signing bonus, the largest in NFL history
- 2004 British Open Women's Golf, Sunningdale: England's Karen Stupples wins her lone major title, 5 shots ahead of runner-up Rachel Teske of Australia
2004 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Bellerive GC: Peter Jacobson wins by 1 shot from 2-time champion Hale Irwin
- 2010 Australian Stuart Appleby finishes with an 11-under 59 to win the Greenbrier Classic at White Sulphur Springs, becoming the fifth player and first non-American to break 60 on the PGA Tour
2010 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: 21-year-old Yani Tseng of Taiwan becomes youngest-ever winner of 3 major championships, 1 stroke ahead of Katherine Hull of Australia
2010 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Sahalee CC: Berhard Langer of Germany wins by three strokes ahead of runner-up Fred Couples
- 2012 American Nathan Adrian clocks 47.52 in winning the 100 m freestyle gold at the London Olympics, his first swim under 48 seconds
- 2012 Bradley Wiggins' win in the London Olympics cycling time trial gives him the most aggregate medals (7) of any British Olympian (4 gold, 1 silver, and 2 bronze)
- 2012 Eight female badminton doubles players are disqualified from the 2012 Summer Olympics for attempting to manipulate the draw by throwing matches
- 2012 Great Britain collects its first ever gold medal in women's rowing with Heather Stanning and Helen Glover in the coxless pairs at the London Olympics
Sports History
2013 Jason Koumas signs a 1-year deal with Tranmere Rovers after a successful trial
- 2014 Indiana Pacers NBA superstar Paul George suffers a gruesome compound fracture of his lower right leg during a Team USA scrimmage
- 2018 Australian Rugby League's "Immortals" tally increases to 13 as pre-war stars Dally Messenger, Frank Burge, and Dave Brown, along with latter-day giants Norm Provan and Mal Meninga, are added
- 2021 American swimmer Bobby Finke wins 1,500 m gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, completing the long-distance 800/1,500 m double
- 2021 American swimmer Caeleb Dressel wins his fifth gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics in the 50 m freestyle and 4 x 100 m medley relay
Emma McKeon
2021 Australian swimmer Emma McKeon claims gold in the 50 m freestyle and the 4 x 100 m medley relay for a total of 7 medals at the Tokyo Olympics, equaling the record set by Russian gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya in 1952
- 2021 Chinese diver Shi Tingmao completes the women's 3 m springboard / synchronized 3 m springboard double at the Tokyo Olympics for second consecutive Games
- 2021 Italian Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar avoid a jump-off by agreeing to share the high jump gold medal after tying at 2.37 m at the Tokyo Olympic Games
- 2021 Marcell Jacobs becomes the first Italian athlete to win the coveted 100 m in 9.80 at the Tokyo Olympics
- 2023 Houston Astros pitcher Framber Valdez no-hits Cleveland Guardians, 2-0 at Minute Maid Park, Houston
