1884 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears makes it 4 straight US singles titles; beats Howard Taylor 6-0, 1-6, 6-0, 6-2
1890 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Oliver Campbell beats 2-time defending champion Henry Slocum 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1
- 1894 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Robert Wrenn beats Irishman Manliff Goodbody 6-8, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4
- 1902 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Defending champion William Larned beats Englishman R.F. Doherty 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 8-6
- 1908 Calgary City Rugby Football Club reorganizes as the Tigers
Chesbro's Final Highlander Game
1909 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Jack Chesbro plays his final game for the New York Highlanders in a 17-6 loss to the Tigers at Bennett Park, Detroit
- 1909 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats William Clothier 6-1, 6-2, 5-7, 1-6, 6-1 for his third consecutive and fifth overall US singles title
- 1910 Using twenty 137,000 candlepower arc lights, two amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park
Walsh No-hits Red Sox
1911 Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh no-hits Boston Red Sox 5-0 at White Sox Park
Mathewson Joins the Army
1918 Christy Mathewson resigns as Cincinnati Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in the Chemical Warfare Branch of the US Army
- 1920 American diver Louis Kuehn leads a US medal sweep in the men's 3 m springboard event at the Antwerp Olympics as teammates Clarence Pinkston and Louis Balbach take the minor medals
- 1921 J.E. Clair of Acme Packing Co. in Green Bay is granted an NFL franchise
World Record 3000m
1922 Paavo Nurmi runs a world record in the 3000 m (8:28.6)
- 1926 The second Women's World Games (track and field competition for women) are conducted over three days at Slottsskogsvallen Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden
1928 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Helen Wills defeats fellow American Helen Jacobs 6–2, 6–1 for her 5th of 7 US singles crowns
- 1937 Brooklyn Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cincinnati, 5-0, in a 7 2/3 inning game
Pearson No-hits Cleveland
1938 New York Yankees pitcher Monte Pearson no-hits the Cleveland Indians, 13-0; Joe DiMaggio hits three triples
Zátopek Takes the Treble
1952 Having already won 5,000 m and 10,000 m gold medals, Czech star Emil Zátopek claims a rare Olympic treble by winning the Helsinki Games marathon in an Olympic Record time of 2:23:03.2
23 Strikeouts in a Game
1955 Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds as both teams combine for a record 23 strikeouts
- 1956 Curt Roberts of Columbus (International League) hits four home runs in a seven-inning game
- 1958 The US performs a nuclear test over the South Atlantic Ocean as part of Operation Argus to study the Christofilos effect, a theoretical defensive shield to cloud Soviet radar
Senators Eye Minnesota Move
1958 Washington Senators owner Clark Griffith says he will probably accept an offer to move the team to Minnesota
- 1960 Anita Lonsbrough swims a 200 m breaststroke world and Olympic record of 2:49.5
- 1960 Australian swimmer John Devitt controversially wins the 100 m freestyle gold medal at the Rome Olympics, recording the same time of 55.2 as silver medalist American Lance Larson
- 1960 British swimmer Anita Lonsbrough sets a 200 m breaststroke world record of 2:49.5, beating the German pair Wiltrud Urselmann and Barbara Göbel to win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics
- 1966 Oakland pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385-game consecutive errorless streak
- 1974 NY Met Benny Ayala hits a home run in his first at-bat
- 1975 First night match at the US Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
- 1975 Veronica and Colin Scargill of England complete their tandem bicycle ride around the world, covering a record 18,020 miles (29,000 km)
- 1976 Transsexual Renée Richards is barred from competing in the US Tennis Open
- 1977 Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park home runs off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium as the Rangers win 8-2
- 1978 Dutch cyclist Gerrie Knetemann wins the UCI Road World Championship, defeating Francesco Moser of Italy and Dane Jorgen Marcussen in Nürburg, West Germany
Morgan Creates 200/500 Club
1978 MLB Cincinnati Reds' Joe Morgan is the first to hit 200 home runs and have 500 stolen bases
- 1978 MLB New York Yankees pitcher Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 record in August
1985 Mary Joe Fernández, at 14 years and 8 days old, becomes the youngest player to win at the US Tennis Open, defeating England's Sara Gomer 6-1, 6-4 in a first-round match
Lasorda Wins 1,000th Game
1988 Dodgers' Tommy Lasorda wins his 1,000th game as manager, topping Philadelphia 4-2
- 1990 Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
Mota European Champion
1990 Rosa Mota wins the women's marathon (2:31:27) at the European Championships in Split, Croatia
- 1992 CFL revokes BC Lions' franchise
Baseball Trade
1992 Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent and Ryan Thompson
- 1995 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Beaconsfield GC: Jenny Lidback wins by one stroke from Liselotte Neumann of Sweden
Golf Tournament
1995 Tiger Woods wins the 95th US Golf Amateur Championship
- 2004 Australia wins its first-ever Olympic men's field hockey gold medal with a 2-1 win after extra time against the Netherlands in Athens
- 2004 China's first-ever gold in Olympic Games men's track and field; Liu Xiang wins the 110 m hurdles in Athens, equaling Colin Jackson's 1993 world record time of 12.91 seconds
- 2004 German kayaker Birgit Fischer wins gold in K-4 500 m and silver in K-2 500 m in Athens; she is the first woman in any sport to win gold medals at six different Olympics, with golds 24 years apart, and the first person to win two or more medals in five different Games
- 2004 In a huge upset in the men's basketball semifinal at the Athens Olympics, Argentina beats a star-studded but unsettled US team 89-81; they go on to take gold and the US takes bronze
- 2004 Osleidys Menéndez of Cuba throws an Olympic record of 71.53 m to easily beat German Steffi Nerius for the women's javelin gold medal at the Athens Games
- 2004 Timothy Mack vaults an Olympic record of 5.95 m to win the pole vault gold medal over fellow American Toby Stevenson (5.90 m) at the Athens Olympics
The Tradition
2006 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Reserve Vineyards & GC: Eduardo Romero of Argentina wins first of two Champions Tour majors with a birdie on the first playoff hole against Lonnie Nielsen
- 2011 Australia claims the final Tri Nations Rugby Series with a 25-20 win over New Zealand in Brisbane; Argentina's Pumas join the competition the following year; the series is rebranded as The Rugby Championship
- 2011 The 13th Athletics World Championships open in Daegu, South Korea
Bolt Wins Double
2015 15th Athletics World Championships: Usain Bolt of Jamaica adds the men's 200 m gold to his 100 m win
- 2017 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Ottawa Hunt GC: Park Sung-hyun of South Korea wins by two strokes over Mirim Lee
- 2018 Reigning French Open tennis champion Simona Halep becomes the first top-seeded woman to lose in the first round of the U.S. Open, losing to Kaia Kanepi 6-2, 6-4 in the first match at the newly renovated Louis Armstrong Stadium
- 2019 Race car driver Jessi Combs dies while setting a new fastest women's land speed record of 522.783 mph (841.34 km/h) at Alvord Desert, Oregon (posthumously awarded in 2020)
Biles Wins 8th US Championship
2023 Gymnast Simone Biles (26) wins her record 8th US Championship in San Jose, California
Tour Championship
2023 Tour Championship, Men's Golf, East Lake GC, GA: Norwegian Viktor Hovland secures a five-stroke win over American Xander Schauffele for the biggest victory of his career
- 2024 Britain's Daniel Evans beats Russia's Karen Khachanov 6-7 (6), 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-4 in new record for the longest match in US Open history (5 hours, 35 minutes)
New Heights
2024 Jason Kelce and his brother Travis Kelce sign a deal for their “New Heights” podcast with Amazon's Wondery for more than $100 million [1]
