- 1900 1st International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Boston, MA: Dwight Davis and Holcombe Ward beat Ernest Black and Herbert Roper Barrett 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to give the US an unassailable 3-0 lead over the British Isles
TY Cobb Family Tragedy
1905 Ty Cobb's mother, Amanda, kills her husband after mistaking him for a burglar
1908 6th Tour de France: French road cyclist Lucien Petit-Breton successfully defends his title, beating François Faber of Luxembourg
Sports History
1918 Cincinnati Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games and suspends him for "indifferent play"
- 1923 New York State Golf Association forms
Ruth's Only Pinch-hit
1925 Babe Ruth pinch-hits for Bobby Veach and flies out
- 1930 Percy Williams runs a world record of 10.3 seconds in the 100 m
- 1934 Fourth Women's World Games (track and field competition for women) take place over three days at White City Stadium in London
- 1936 Helen Stephens claims the women's sprint double at the Berlin Olympics, winning the 100 m and participating as part of the victorious American 4 x 100 m relay team
- 1936 Hungarian swimmer Ferenc Csik wins the 100 m freestyle gold medal in 57.6 seconds at the Berlin Olympics, beating Japanese pair Masanori Yusa and Shigeo Arai
Owen Helps US Win Gold
1936 Jesse Owens is part of the American 4 x 100 m relay team that wins gold in a world record time of 39.8 seconds at the Berlin Olympics; his fourth gold medal of the Games
- 1936 Korean nationals representing Japan earn medals in the marathon at the Berlin Olympics: Sohn Kee-chung wins gold and Nam Sung-yong wins bronze
- 1937 Ranger (US) easily beats Endeavour II (England) in Race 4 to wrap up the 17th America's Cup yachting series 4-0; it is the final competition for 21 years
- 1946 First time all Major League Baseball games (8) are played at night
- 1948 Italian rider Mario Ghella beats Reg Harris of Great Britain for the gold medal in the cycling sprint final at the London Olympics
- 1948 The US crew blitzes the field to win the rowing eights gold medal at the London Olympics, beating silver medalists Great Britain by 10.2 seconds
- 1957 24th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 22, All-Stars 12 (75,000 attendees)
- 1963 NY Met pitcher Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends with a complete game 7–3 win over the Chicago Cubs at the Polo Grounds, NYC
Sports History
1964 MLB Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jim Bunning continues perfectly against the New York Mets until two outs in the 5th inning in the first match-up since throwing a perfect game in June when Joe Christopher beats out a bunt; Bunning masters the Mets for 15 innings over the two games
- 1975 First NFL game in Louisiana Superdome; Houston defeats Saints 13-7
- 1975 MLB Los Angeles Dodgers Davey Lopes steals his record 32nd consecutive base without being caught
- 1976 Clive Lloyd scores a double century in 120 minutes, WI vs. Glamorgan
- 1976 Pittsburgh Pirate John Candelaria no-hits the LA Dodgers, 2-0
- 1977 NHL refuses the merger of six World Hockey Association clubs
1981 52nd MLB All-Star Game: NL wins 5-4 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland; MVP: Gary Carter (Montreal Expos)
- 1984 Daley Thompson of Great Britain scores 8,797 points to win the Olympic decathlon in Los Angeles, later recognized as a world record
- 1984 Valerie Brisco-Hooks beats fellow American Florence Griffith to win the 200 m gold at the LA Olympics and completes the 200-400 m double
- 1987 LA Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London (NFL expo)
- 1987 PGA Championship Men's Golf, PGA National Palm Beach: Larry Nelson wins the second PGA C'ship in a playoff with fellow American Lanny Wadkins
- 1988 Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their first official night game at Wrigley Field
- 1992 Cuban boxer Félix Savón wins the first of three consecutive Olympic heavyweight gold medals when he dominates Nigerian David Izonritei on points at the Barcelona Games
- 1992 Future six-weight boxing world champion Oscar De La Hoya of the US defeats German Marco Rudolph on points to win the lightweight gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics
Cricket History
1992 Last day of Test cricket for British player David Gower
- 1992 XXV Summer Olympic Games close at Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc, Barcelona, Spain
- 1997 Yankees break Minnesota Twins' Brad Radke's streak of 12 consecutive wins
- 1998 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Portrush GC: Welshman Brian Huggett beats Eddie Pollard of Northern Ireland by a stroke on the first playoff hole
Baseball Record
2002 SF Giants outfielder Barry Bonds hits his 600th career home run
- 2008 US wins all three medals in women's fencing sabre event at the Beijing Olympics, the first US podium sweep of a fencing event since 1904; Mariel Zagunis wins gold ahead of Sada Jacobson and Rebecca Ward
Usain Bolt's Golden Double
2012 Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt wins the 200m at the London Olympics in 19.32 seconds, becoming the first to win the 100m and 200m double in consecutive Olympics
Katie Ledecky Wins Gold
2016 American swimmer Katie Ledecky wins her second gold medal of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in the women's 200 m freestyle with a time of 1:53.73, ahead of Sarah Sjöström of Sweden and Australian Emma McKeon
Olympic Gold
2016 American swimmer Michael Phelps swims 1:53.36 to win the men's 200 m butterfly gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, beating Japan's Masato Sakai by 0.04 seconds for his 20th Olympic gold medal
- 2016 Chinese weightlifter Deng Wei sets a world record of 147 kg in the clean and jerk and another for a total score of 262 kg to win the women's 63 kg gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
- 2016 Hungary's Katinka Hosszú swims an Olympic record of 2:06.58 in the women's 200 m individual medley, winning her third gold medal of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
- 2018 EPL club Tottenham Hotspur fails to bring in a player during the transfer window for the first time since FIFA made the system compulsory in 2002-03
- 2020 PGA Championship Men's Golf, TPC Harding Park: 23-year-old American Collin Morikawa fires final round 64 (-6) to win his first major title by 2 strokes from Paul Casey of England
Serena Williams to Retire
2022 Tennis superstar Serena Williams announces her intention to retire in an interview with "Vogue" [1]
- 2023 MLB Phillies pitcher Michael Lorenzen throws a no-hitter in his first career complete game, a 7-0 win over the Washington Nationals, and outfielder Weston Wilson makes his MLB debut, hitting a home run in his first at-bat at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia
- 2023 Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Michael Lorenzen no-hits Washington Nationals, 7-0 at Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia
- 2025 Jen Pawol, 48, becomes the first woman to umpire an MLB regular-season game when she joins the crew at Truist Park as the Atlanta Braves host a doubleheader against the Miami Marlins [1]
