- 1906 New York Highlanders beat Boston Pilgrims 7-0 and 1-0 for their MLB record fifth consecutive doubleheader sweep
Mathewson vs. Brown
1916 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitchers Christy Mathewson and Mordecai Brown face each other for the final time; after 25 contests, Mathewson takes a 13-12 advantage with the Reds as 10-8 winners over the Cubs
1919 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Bill Johnston wins his second US title, beating Bill Tilden 6-4, 6-4, 6-3
- 1920 Man o' War wins the 1 5/8-mile Lawrence Realization Stakes at Belmont Park by 100 lengths, the largest winning margin in modern thoroughbred racing history, with a world record time of 2:40.8
World Record 2000m
1922 Finnish super athlete Paavo Nurmi runs a 2000 m world record of 5:26.3 in Tampere, Finland
- 1922 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, New York City: Bill Tilden beats James Anderson 6-4, 5-7, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 for an unassailable 3-1 lead for the US over Australasia; the US retains the title, ending 4-1
- 1923 New York Yankees pitcher "Sad" Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia A's, 2-0
- 1932 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Keller GC: Olin Dutra wins the first of 2 major titles, beating Frank Walsh, 4 & 3
Bradman Scores 149no
1934 Australian cricket super-batsman Don Bradman scores 149 not out in just 104 minutes (17 fours, 4 sixes) in a drawn tour match against England XI at Folkestone
- 1937 Fifteen-year-old cyclist Doris Kopsky becomes the first Amateur Bicycle League of America women's national champion in 4:22.4 in Buffalo, New York
- 1941 New York Yankees clinch their third straight AL pennant, beating the Red Sox 6-3; the earliest date in baseball history a team captures a pennant
- 1944 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American Frank Parker wins his first of four Grand Slam titles, beating William Talbert 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
- 1944 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Pauline Betz Addie wins her third consecutive US title, beating Margaret Osborne 6-3, 8-6
- 1945 American chess grandmaster Reuben Fine wins four simultaneous rapid (10 seconds per move) games blindfolded in New York City
- 1947 Champion Middlesex cricket batsman Denis Compton scores 101 for South of England in a tour match defeat to South Africa at Lord's, achieving his record 17th century of the English season
- 1950 NASCAR's first paved superspeedway, Darlington Raceway, hosts the Southern 500, the first 500-mile event in NASCAR history; Johnny Mantz wins in a Plymouth
- 1966 Australian Jack Brabham clinches his third Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship with a sixth place in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza
- 1972 16-year-old Ulrike Meyfarth of West Germany, with a world record-equalling 1.92 m, wins the women's high jump gold medal at the Munich Olympics; she is the youngest winner of an individual athletics event in Olympic history
- 1972 American swimmer Melissa Belote, with a world record of 2:19.19, wins the 200 m backstroke gold medal at the Munich Olympics and wraps up the backstroke double, having won the 100 m in Olympic record time
- 1972 American swimmer Mike Burton sets a world record of 15:52.58 to win the 1500 m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
- 1972 Italian diver Klaus Dibiasi wins his second of three consecutive 10 m platform gold medals at the Munich Olympics
- 1972 Kenyan legend Kipchoge Keino follows his 1500 m gold in Mexico City with an Olympic record of 8:23.64 to win the 3000 m steeplechase at the Munich Olympics
- 1972 Soviet sprinter Valeriy Borzov runs 20.00 to win the men's 200 m gold medal at the Munich Olympics, wrapping up the 100/200 m double at the Games
Spitz's Record 7th Gold
1972 US 4 x 100 m medley relay team of Mike Stamm, Tom Bruce, Mark Spitz, and Jerry Heidenreich sets a world record of 3:48.16 to win gold at the Munich Olympics; Mark Spitz becomes the first athlete to win seven Olympic gold medals at a single Games
- 1972 Willem Ruska of the Netherlands wins gold medals in both the heavyweight and open class Olympic judo competitions in Munich, becoming the first judoka to win two Olympic gold medals at one Games
Cricket History
1979 Sunil Gavaskar scores his third double century in Test cricket (221) to guide India to a famous draw against England in the fourth Test at The Oval
- 1981 Longest MLB game at Fenway Park ends in 20 innings as Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox 8-7
World Road Race Championship
1983 Greg LeMond wins UCI World Road Race Championship in 7h 01' 21" in Altenrhein, Switzerland; first American cyclist to take the title
- 1983 US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, North Shore CC: Jay Sigel successfully defends his title 8 and 7 over Chris Perry
Baseball Record
1985 New York Mets catcher Gary Carter hits two home runs in a 9-2 win in San Diego, tying the MLB record of five home runs in two games
- 1985 Russian Igor Paklin sets a new high jump world record at 2.41 m in Kobe, Japan
Sports History
1988 Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills, New York
- 1988 The relocated Phoenix Cardinals play their first regular-season NFL game and lose 21-14 to the Bengals at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati
Maris Record Clarified
1991 MLB Statistical Accuracy Committee votes to drop the asterisk next to Roger Maris' 1961 home run record of 61, passing Babe Ruth's 60, and determines an official no-hitter must go at least 9 innings
1992 In his record 115th and final US Open singles match, Jimmy Connors is beaten by Ivan Lendl 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-0 in a second-round night match
- 1993 MLB New York Yankees one-handed pitcher Jim Abbott no-hits Cleveland Indians 4-0 at Yankee Stadium
- 1993 Penn State University plays its first football game in the Big Ten, beating Minnesota 38-20; quarterback John Sacca throws four touchdown passes to Bobby Engram
- 1994 Chinese diver Fu Mingxia wins the 10 m platform gold medal at the World Swimming Championships in Rome, Italy, becoming the first female to win back-to-back world titles in the event
NFL Record
1994 Miami quarterback Dan Marino throws five touchdown passes in Dolphins' 39-35 win over New England; sets NFL record with his 18th game of four or more touchdown passes
- 1994 Tom Tupa scores the first two-point conversion in NFL history, running a fake extra point attempt for the Cleveland Browns in a 28-20 win at Cincinnati
- 1995 Chicago White Sox third baseman Robin Ventura hits grand slams in consecutive innings, the fourth and fifth, of a 14-3 rout of the Texas Rangers
- 1998 NY Yankees beat Chicago White Sox, 11-6, to win their 100th game on the earliest date in MLB history besting the 1906 Chicago Cubs and 1954 Cleveland Indians by 5 days
- 1999 MLB's Cincinnati Reds set a National League record with nine home runs as they rout the Philadelphia Phillies 22-3
England Defeat the West Indies
2000 England claims the first series since 1969, 3-1 over West Indies, winning the fifth Test by 158 runs at The Oval, London; West Indies captain Courtney Walsh plays his 132nd and final Test
- 2002 After blowing an 11-run lead to Kansas City, Scott Hatteberg's bottom of the 9th walk-off home run gives Oakland a historic MLB victory, 12-11; A's set an AL record 20-game winning streak
- 2002 Argentina pulls off one of the biggest upsets in basketball history, beating the US 87-80 in the second round of the World Championships; first US loss in 59 games since sending NBA players to international competition in 1992
Busch Youngest NASCAR Winner
2005 20-year-old Kyle Busch becomes the youngest driver to win a NASCAR Cup Series race when he outduels Greg Biffle in the Sony HD 500 at California Speedway
- 2006 Damon Allen moves past former CFL and NFL star Warren Moon as professional football's all-time leading passer, throwing for 207 yards and two scores as Toronto routs Hamilton 40-6 to achieve 70,596 career passing yards
Golf Tournament
2006 Tiger Woods matches the lowest final round of his career (8-under 63) in the Deutsche Bank Championship at Norton, MA to win for the fifth consecutive time and seventh time this PGA Tour season
Kaepernick's Star Rises
2018 NFL player Colin Kaepernick, who kneeled during the US national anthem, is the new face of Nike's 30th anniversary advertising campaign
