TODAY'S EVENTS IN SPORTS HISTORY 2025

JULY 26

• 1914 Philippe Thys of Belgium wins 12th Tour de France
• 1928 Gene Tunney scores an 11-round TKO win over Tom Heeney at Yankee Stadium, NYC, in only his second and final defense of his world heavyweight boxing title
• 1928 New York Yankees score 11 runs in 12th inning, defeating Tigers 12-1 in Detroit

• 1931 Antonin Magne of France wins 25th Tour de France

International Lawn Tennis Challenge

1931 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: Henri Cochet defeats Fred Perry 6-4, 1-6, 9-7, 6-3 to give France a 3-2 win over Great Britain and fifth consecutive title


Tennis Player and BroadcasterFred Perry

Tennis PlayerHenri Cochet

• 1931 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Midlothian CC: June Beebe defeats Mrs. Melvin Jones, 3 & 2, for golf's only major title

DiMaggio Hitting Streak Ends
1933 Joe DiMaggio ends 61-game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League


Baseball PlayerJoe DiMaggio

• 1939 Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits three consecutive home runs
• 1947 46th Men's French Championships: Jozsef Asboth defeats Eric Sturgess 8-6, 7-5, 6-4

French Women's Championship
1947 French Championships Women's Tennis: In an all-American final, Patricia Todd wins her only major singles title defeating Doris Hart 6-3, 3-6, 6-4


Tennis PlayerDoris Hart
Babe Ruth Story
1948 "Babe Ruth Story" premieres; Babe Ruth makes his final public appearance


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
Durocher Returns
1948 Leo Durocher returns to Ebbets Field as manager of the New York Giants


Baseball Player and ManagerLeo Durocher

• 1950 Dodgers' Jim Russell is the first to switch-hit home runs twice in a game

Sports History
1952 Baseball player Mickey Mantle hits his first grand slam for the New York Yankees


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

• 1953 Tour de France: Louison Bobet of France wins first of 3 consecutive Tour general classification events
• 1955 Last day as Test cricket umpire for Frank Chester

PGA Championship
1955 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Meadowbrook CC: Doug Ford scores a 4 & 3 win over Cary Middlecoff in the Tuesday final; first of 2 majors (Masters 1957)


GolferCary Middlecoff

• 1957 Mickey Mantle hits career home run number 200

Baseball History
1959 Chicago White Sox's Larry Doby plays his final MLB game and retires in 1962 after playing for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderLarry Doby
Baseball Record
1962 Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets home run record of 31 by a pitcher


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherWarren Spahn

• 1967 Minnesota Twins defeat the Yankees 3-2 in 18 innings

Baseball Record
1970 Reds catcher Johnny Bench, playing for the day in the outfield, goes 4-for-5 with seven RBIs, including three consecutive home runs off St. Louis Cardinals' Steve Carlton in a 12-5 win at Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati


MLB CatcherJohnny Bench

Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton

• 1978 Johnny Bench hits his 300th career home run

US Women's Golf Open
1981 US Open Women's Golf, La Grange CC: Pat Bradley shoots final round 66 (−6) to finish one stroke ahead of runner-up Beth Daniel; second of Bradley's 6 major titles

Sports History
1984 Bowie Kuhn announces pitcher Vida Blue is suspended for the rest of 1984 due to cocaine conviction


Major League Baseball pitcher Vida Blue
Baseball History
1984 Montreal Expos infielder Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with hit #3,502


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

• 1987 74th Tour de France won by Stephen Roche of Ireland
• 1987 Pitcher Jim "Catfish" Hunter, outfielder Billy Williams, and third baseman Ray Dandridge are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York

Baseball Record
1988 Mike Schmidt sets an NL record by appearing in 2,155 games at third base as the Phillies and NY Mets end the game at 2:13 am


MLB Third BasemanMike Schmidt

• 1990 US defeats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games
• 1991 CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders
• 1991 Expos' Mark Gardner no-hits Dodgers for 9 innings but loses in 10th

Baseball Record
1992 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for the 23rd consecutive season


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan
Tour de France
1992 Tour de France: Miguel Induráin of Spain defends his title by 4 minutes and 35 seconds from Italian Claudio Chiappucci; Laurent Jalabert points winner

US Women's Golf Open
1992 US Open Women's Golf, Oakmont CC: Patty Sheehan wins an 18-hole Monday playoff over runner-up Juli Inkster, 72 to 74


LPGA GolferPatty Sheehan
US Senior Golf Open
1998 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Riviera CC: Hale Irwin wins by one stroke ahead of Vicente Fernández of Argentina


GolferHale Irwin

• 2009 96th Tour de France won by Alberto Contador of Spain

Senior Open Championship
2009 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Sunningdale: American Loren Roberts wins his second Open Senior title in a playoff with Mark McNulty and Fred Funk


GolferFred Funk
Sports History
2014 Brian Ortega makes his UFC debut against Mike De La Torre on UFC on Fox 12


Mixed Martial ArtistBrian Ortega
Tour de France
2015 102nd Tour de France won by Chris Froome of Great Britain


Road CyclistChris Froome
Senior Open Championship
2015 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Sunningdale: American Marco Dawson wins by 1 shot from Bernhard Langer of Germany


Golfer and Two-Time Masters ChampionBernhard Langer

• 2019 Australian cricket captain Meg Lanning records a T20 International world record individual score of 133 off 63 balls in a 93-run win against England at Chelmsford; Southern Stars clinch Women's Ashes

Juventus Wins 9th Straight Serie A
2020 Italian football giants Juventus win their ninth straight Serie A title with goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and Federico Bernardeschi in a 2-0 win over Sampdoria


Football StarCristiano Ronaldo
Adam Peaty Wins Gold
2021 Dominant British breaststroke swimmer Adam Peaty successfully defends his 100 m title at the Tokyo Olympics, defeating Arno Kamminga of the Netherlands and Italian Nicolò Martinenghi


SwimmerAdam Peaty

• 2021 Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz becomes the first athlete from the Philippines to win gold at the Olympics in the 55 kg class at the Tokyo Games
• 2024 XXXIII Summer Olympic Games officially open along the River Seine and at Jardins du Trocadéro, in front of the Eiffel Tower, Paris

 

JULY 27

• 1913 11th Tour de France won by Philippe Thys of Belgium

International Lawn Tennis Challenge

1913 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon, England: Maurice McLoughlin beats Charles Dixon 8-6, 6-3, 6-2 to give US an unassailable 3-1 lead over the British Isles; US wins, 3-2


Tennis PlayerMaurice McLoughlin

• 1914 Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade
• 1919 Firmin Lambot of Belgium wins 13th Tour de France
• 1920 14th Tour de France: Belgian rider Philippe Thys becomes first to win the race 3 times
• 1920 American defender Resolute beats Thomas Lipton's British challenger Shamrock IV 3-2 in the 14th America's Cup
• 1924 VIII Summer Olympic Games close at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Paris, France

Mel Ott Hits 1st HR
1927 Mel Ott, 18, hits his first league home run (inside the park)


Baseball Player and ManagerMel Ott

• 1928 Kent cricket leg-spinner Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July
• 1930 24th Tour de France: French cyclist André Leducq scores first of two Tour victories (1932)

International Lawn Tennis Challenge
1930 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: The home team wins its fourth straight title as Jean Borotra beats American George Lott 5-7, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2, 8-6 for an unassailable 3-1 lead; ends 4-1


Tennis PlayerJean Borotra

• 1937 32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1)
• 1937 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: GB 4 title streak ends as American Frank Parker beats Charles Hare 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 for an unbeatable 3-1 lead; ends 4-1
• 1945 Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from NY Yankees
• 1946 45th Women's French Championships: Margaret Osborne defeats Pauline Betz 1-6, 8-6, 7-5
• 1946 Boston Red Sox's Rudy York hits two grand slams in one game and gets 10 RBIs

French Men's Open
1946 French Championships Men's Tennis: Marcel Bernard defeats Jaroslav Drobný 3-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-3


Ice Hockey and Tennis StarJaroslav Drobný
Yogi Berra Begins Streak
1947 New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra starts a record 148-game errorless streak


MLB Catcher and ManagerYogi Berra
Bradman's Last Test Century
1948 Bradman's 29th and last Test Cricket century, part of winning 3-404


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

• 1952 Swedish race walker John Mikaelsson wins back-to-back gold medals in the 10,ooo m event at the Helsinki Olympics, having won the corresponding race in London in 1948
• 1953 Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons, "Chief" Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, Bill Klem, and Tom Connolly are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1954 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Keller GC: Chick Herbert scores a 4 & 3 win over defending champion Walter Burkemo in the Tuesday final
• 1956 England cricket spin bowler Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's first innings in the fourth Test at Manchester; best return ever in Test cricket; bettered in the 2nd innings with 10-53
• 1959 Baseball's new Continental League is formally announced by attorney William Shea; teams in Denver, Colorado; Houston, Texas; Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota; New York City; and Toronto, Ontario are confirmed, with three more to be named later
• 1959 William Shea announces plans to have a baseball team in New York City in 1961
• 1967 Helmond Sport football team founded in Helmond, Netherlands

LPGA Championship
1969 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Concord GC: Betsy Rawls wins her second LPGA C'ship, 4 strokes ahead of runners-up Carol Mann and Susie Maxwell Berning


LPGA GolferBetsy Rawls

GolferCarol Mann

• 1970 Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game

Baseball Hall of Fame
1970 Lou Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, and Jesse Haines are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York


MLB CommissionerFord Frick

• 1973 40th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Miami 14, All-Stars 3 (54,103 attendees)
• 1973 Walter Blum becomes the sixth jockey to ride 4,000 winners
• 1974 Kanhai and Jameson add 465 runs for the second wicket in a county cricket match between Warwickshire and Gloucestershire
• 1978 Cleveland Indians' Duane Kuiper becomes the third player in MLB history to hit two bases-loaded triples in a game at Yankee Stadium

Baseball Record
1983 Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts, also winning his first game as a Kansas City Royal


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton

Baseball PitcherGaylord Perry
Baseball History
1984 Montreal Expos first baseman Pete Rose collects his record 3,503rd career single, passing Ty Cobb with a hit off former Phillies teammate Steve Carlton at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

MLB LegendTy Cobb

• 1984 West Indies cricket opening batsman Gordon Greenidge smashes 223 in an innings and 64-run win over England in the fourth Test at Manchester; West Indies lead the series 4-0

10,000m Record Set
1985 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway becomes the first woman to run 10,000 m in under 31 minutes, setting the world record at 30:59.42 in Oslo, Norway


Long Distance RunnerIngrid Kristiansen

• 1986 24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA defeats Czechoslovakia in Prague, Czechoslovakia (3-0)

Canadian Women's Open
1986 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Board of Trade CC: Pat Bradley wins in a playoff against Ayako Okamoto of Japan


LPGA GolferPat Bradley
Tour de France
1986 Greg LeMond of USA wins 73rd Tour de France


CyclistGreg LeMond
Baseball History
1988 Baseball star Tommy John commits a record three errors on one play as the Yankees rout the Brewers 16-3


Baseball PitcherTommy John
Baseball History
1989 Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy becomes the 10th player to achieve six RBIs in an inning (6th)


Baseball OutfielderDale Murphy
Cricket History
1990 Graham Gooch scores 333 against India at Lord's


CricketerGraham Gooch

• 1990 Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 minutes in county cricket, setting a world record
• 1992 Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Republican National Convention
• 1992 Japanese swimmer Kyoko Iwasaki wins the 200 m breaststroke in Barcelona to become the youngest to win an Olympic gold medal at 14 years and 6 days old
• 1993 Detroit infielder Travis Fryman hits for the cycle, but the Tigers lose 12-7 to the NY Yankees
• 1993 NBC TV is awarded coverage of the 1996 Olympics for $456 million
• 1993 New York Met Anthony Young wins, ending his losing streak at 27 games
• 1996 Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, killing one and injuring 110
• 1996 Brazilian pair Jackie Silva and Sandra Pires win inaugural women's beach volleyball gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics
• 1996 David Sales makes 210 on first class cricket debut for Northants vs. Worcs

Senior Open Championship
1997 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Portrush GC: Gary Player of South Africa wins with birdie on second playoff hole against countryman John Bland


GolferGary Player

• 1997 Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser's #16
• 1997 Jan Ullrich of Germany wins 84th Tour de France

Tour de France
2003 90th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)


CyclistLance Armstrong
Senior Open Championship
2003 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Turnberry: American Tom Watson wins in a playoff against Carl Mason of England


GolferTom Watson

• 2008 95th Tour de France won by Carlos Sastre of Spain
• 2008 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Troon: Bruce Vaughan birdies first extra playoff hole to beat fellow American John Cook by a stroke

London Olympics Opening Ceremony
2012 Queen Elizabeth II opens the 30th Olympic Games in London with some help from 007

Senior Open Championship
2014 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Porthcawl: Bernhard Langer of Germany wins his second Open Senior title by 13 strokes from Colin Montgomerie of Scotland

• 2014 Vincenzo Nibali of Italy wins 101st Tour de France
• 2019 American swimmer Caeleb Dressel wins three gold medals in one day at the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea: 50 m freestyle, 100 m butterfly, and mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay (WR 3:19.40)
• 2019 MLB Phillies revive the reviled 1979 all-burgundy alternate uniforms as part of a "retro night" promotion in a 15-7 loss to the Atlanta Braves at Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia [1]

Simone Biles Withdraws
2021 American gymnast and four-time Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles withdraws from the women's team final at the Tokyo Games citing need to focus on her mental health; also misses individual finals

2021 Fiji retains the Olympic Rugby Sevens title with a 27-12 win over New Zealand in Tokyo, Japan, achieving only the second gold in the country's Olympic history

• 2021 Ítalo Ferreira of Brazil and American Carissa Moore claim inaugural men's and women's surfing gold medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games
• 2021 Triathlete Flora Duffy wins first Olympic gold medal for Bermuda in the women's event at the Tokyo Games

Sports History
2024 Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus retains her 400 m freestyle crown at the Paris Olympics in 3:57.49, defeating Canada's Summer McIntosh and Katie Ledecky of the US

Olympic Gold
2024 Australian swimmer Emma McKeon wins her career sixth gold and 14th Olympic medal over three Games as part of the victorious 4 x 100 m freestyle relay team in Paris

 

JULY 28

• 1906 Yankees turn a triple play and defeat Cleveland 6-4
• 1912 10th Tour de France won by Odile Defraye of Belgium
• 1928 IX Summer Olympic Games open in Amsterdam, Netherlands

• 1929 24th Davis Cup: France defeats USA in Paris (3-2)
• 1929 Chicago Cardinals become first NFL team to train out of state (Michigan)

International Lawn Tennis Challenge

1929 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: Home team wins three straight titles as Henri Cochet defeats American George Lott 6-1, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 for a 3-2 victory


Tennis PlayerHenri Cochet

• 1929 Maurice De Waele of Belgium winds 23rd Tour de France
• 1931 MLB Chicago White Sox score 11 in the 8th to beat the Yankees 14-12 in New York
• 1933 NFL divides into two five-team divisions
• 1935 29th Tour de France won by Romain Maes of Belgium

International Lawn Tennis Challenge
1936 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: 4 straight titles for GB as Fred Perry beats Australian Jack Crawford 6-2, 6-3, 6-3 for a 3-2 victory


Tennis Player and BroadcasterFred Perry
Bradman Scores 202
1938 Don Bradman scores 202 for Australia against Somerset in 225 minutes with 32 fours


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

• 1940 Yankee Charlie Keller hits three home runs to defeat White Sox 10-9
• 1956 43rd Tour de France won by Roger Walkowiak of France
• 1957 MLB Chicago White Sox outfielder Jim Landis strikes out five times in a loss to the Orioles in Baltimore
• 1972 39th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Dallas 20, All-Stars 7 (54,162 attendees)
• 1976 White Sox pitchers John Odom (5 innings) and Francisco Barrios (4 innings) no-hit the A's

Ian Botham Debut
1977 Legendary England cricket all-rounder Ian Botham on debut takes 5 for 74 in the Australian first innings in a seven-wicket third Test win at Trent Bridge


CricketerIan Botham

• 1978 At Old Timer's Game, it is announced that Martin will again manage the Yankees

Dave Kingman
1979 Dave Kingman becomes the sixth player to have a second three-home-run game


Baseball PlayerDave Kingman

• 1984 23rd modern Olympic Games open in Los Angeles

Canadian Women's Open
1985 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Beaconsfield GC: Pat Bradley wins by one from Jane Geddes


LPGA GolferPat Bradley

LPGA GolferJane Geddes
Baseball Hall of Fame
1985 Lou Brock, Enos Slaughter, A Vaughan, and Hoyt Wilhelm are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York


Baseball PlayerEnos Slaughter

Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderLou Brock

Baseball Player and Knuckleball PitcherHoyt Wilhelm
Ángel Cordero Jr
1987 Ángel Cordero Jr becomes fourth jockey to win 6,000 races


JockeyÁngel Cordero Jr.
US Women's Golf Open
1987 US Open Women's Golf, Plainfield CC: England's Laura Davies wins the first of her four major titles in an 18-hole Tuesday playoff over runners-up Ayako Okamoto and JoAnne Carner


LPGA GolferLaura Davies

GolferJoAnne Carner
Baseball Record
1989 Braves' Dale Murphy hits two three-run home runs in an inning, becoming the 14th man to hit two home runs in an inning and ties the record of six RBIs in an inning


Baseball OutfielderDale Murphy

• 1989 Cardinals' Vince Coleman is caught stealing, ending his record streak at 50
• 1991 Buffalo Bills defeat Philadelphia Eagles 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley

Baseball Record
1991 Dennis Martínez pitches the 13th perfect game in baseball history


MLB PitcherDennis Martínez
Federation Cup
1991 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Nottingham, England: Spain wins first title with 2-1 victory over US; Conchita Martínez and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario clinch final 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 against Gigi Fernández and Zina Garrison-Jackson


Tennis PlayerZina Garrison

Tennis PlayerArantxa Sánchez Vicario

Tennis PlayerConchita Martínez
Tour de France
1991 Tour de France: Spanish rider Miguel Induráin defeats Gianni Bugno of Italy by 3 minutes and 36 seconds for the first of five consecutive Tour wins; Djamolidine Abdoujaparov is points winner


CyclistMiguel Induráin
US Senior Golf Open
1991 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Jack Nicklaus matches course record of 65 to defeat Chi Chi Rodriguez by four strokes in an 18-hole Monday playoff

1992 Groundbreaking of Florida Marlins' 7,500-seat spring training stadium
Baseball Record
1993 Mariner Ken Griffey Jr. is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderKen Griffey Jr.

• 1994 Baseball players decide to strike on August 12, 1994
• 1994 Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers throws the only perfect game in franchise history against the California Angels

Modell Begin Move Talks
1995 Art Modell's rep begins secrets talks to move the NFL team Cleveland Browns to Baltimore


BusinessmanArt Modell

• 1996 Americans Karch Kiraly and Kent Steffes win inaugural beach volleyball gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics; Kiraly is first to win gold in indoor and beach events

Senior Open Championship
1996 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Portrush GC: Defending champion Brian Barnes of Scotland wins by three strokes from Bob Charles and David Oakley


GolferBob Charles
Baseball History
1996 NY Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th home run


Baseball PlayerDarryl Strawberry
NHL Trade
1997 NY Ranger center Mark Messier signs with Vancouver for $20 million over 3 years

Tour de France
2002 89th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)

2002 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal County Down: Noboru Sugai of Japan wins by two shots from John irwin of Canada

• 2012 Ye Shiwen of China sets world record in the women's 400 m individual medley (4:28.43) to take the gold medal at the London Olympics

Baseball History
2015 Pedro Martínez's number 45 is retired by the Boston Red Sox

Tour de France
2019 106th Tour de France: 22-year-old Egan Bernal becomes first Colombian and Latin American winner; Points champion: Peter Sagan of Slovakia

Senior Open Championship
2019 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Lytham, and St Annes GC: Germany's Bernhard Langer wins his fourth Senior Open by two strokes from Paul Broadhurst

2019 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: South Korean Ko Jin-young wins her second major title of the season by two strokes from Shanshan Feng, Jennifer Kupcho and Kim Hyo-joo

• 2021 19-year-old gymnast Daiki Hashimoto of Japan becomes youngest Olympic men's artistic individual all-around champion in history at the Tokyo Games
• 2021 Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus claims an Olympic double by winning the women's 200 m freestyle in an Olympic record time of 1:53.50 in Tokyo; 2 days earlier, she defeated American superstar Katie Ledecky in the 400 m freestyle
• 2021 Japanese swimmer Yui Ohashi wins the women's individual medley double with a victory in the 200 m individual medley at the Tokyo Olympics; 3 days earlier, she won the 400 m individual medley gold medal

 

JULY 29

• 1751 First international world title prizefight: Jack Stack of England defeats challenger M. Petit of France in 29 minutes in England
• 1874 Major Walter Clopton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
• 1899 Southern California Golf Association forms

• 1906 4th Tour de France won by René Pottier of France
• 1908 St. Louis Browns' future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Philadelphia A's in a 5-4 win against his previous team at Sportsman's Park II, St. Louis
• 1911 Boston Red Sox's Joe Wood no-hits St. Louis Browns, 5-0

Wagner's Grand Slam HR

1915 Pirate Honus Wagner, at 41, hits a grand slam home run


MLB ShortshopHonus Wagner
Cleveland's 125th Anniversary
1921 Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, aged 54, pitches two innings


MLB PitcherCy Young

• 1924 Paul Runyan wins PGA the golf championship
• 1928 23rd Davis Cup: France defeats USA in Paris (4-1)
• 1928 Cleveland Indians score 17 in the first two innings to defeat the New York Yankees 24-6 at Dunn Field, setting a record with 24 singles in one game

International Lawn Tennis Challenge
1928 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: Home team retains title as Henri Cochet defeats American Bill Tilden 9-7, 8-6, 6-4 for a 3-1 lead; ends 4-1


Tennis PlayerBill Tilden

Tennis PlayerHenri Cochet

• 1934 28th Tour de France won by Antonin Magne of France

PGA Men's Championship
1934 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Park CC: Paul Runyan wins the first of his two PGA crowns, defeating Craig Wood in 38 holes


GolferCraig Wood

• 1935 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: 3rd straight GB title as Pat Hughes & Raymond Tuckey beat Americans Wilmer Allison & John Van Ryn 6-2, 1-6, 6-8, 6-3, 6-3 for unassailable 3-0 lead; ends 5-0
• 1938 Olympic National Park is established in Washington state, featuring the longest undeveloped coastline in America
• 1940 SV Urk Dutch soccer team forms
• 1944 MLB Cincinnati Reds' Frank McCormick hits a home run off New York Giants' Ace Adams in both games of a doubleheader

XIV Summer Olympics
1948 King George VI opens the XIV Summer Olympic Games at Wembley Stadium in London


King of the United KingdomGeorge VI

• 1950 Pee Wee Reese hits the 3,000th home run for the Dodgers
• 1951 38th Tour de France won by Hugo Koblet of Switzerland
• 1956 US Open Women's Golf, Northland CC: Kathy Cornelius wins her only major title by 7 strokes in an 18-hole playoff against amateur Barbara McIntire

Patterson TKOs Jackson
1957 Floyd Patterson TKO's Tommy Jackson in the 10th round for the heavyweight boxing title


Boxing ChampionFloyd Patterson

• 1961 Philadelphia Phillies lose 4-3 to the SF Giants at Connie Mack Stadium, the first of an MLB record 23 consecutive defeats
• 1965 Major League record 26 strikeouts: Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
• 1968 Cincinnati Reds' George Culver no-hits Phillies 6-1

Baseball Record
1974 MLB St. Louis Cardinals' Lou Brock steals his 700th base


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderLou Brock
Yankees Announce Shake Up
1978 On Old Timer's Day, the NY Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as the NY Yankees manager in 1980, and Bob Lemon will become the GM


Baseball Player and ManagerBilly Martin
Canadian Women's Open
1979 Canadian Open Women's Golf (Peter Jackson Classic), St. George's CC: Amy Alcott wins by three strokes from Nancy Lopez for her first major title


LPGA GolferNancy Lopez

GolferAmy Alcott

• 1981 Anti-apartheid protesters against the Springbok rugby tour are confronted by police, who use batons to stop them from marching to the South African consulate in New Zealand

Baseball Record
1983 MLB San Diego Padres first baseman Steve Garvey ends his National League record of 1,207 consecutive games streak


Baseball PlayerSteve Garvey

• 1984 American cyclists Alexi Grewal and Connie Carpenter win the road race double around the streets of Mission Viejo at the Los Angeles Olympics
• 1984 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), St. George's CC: Juli Inkster wins by one stroke over Ayako Okamoto of Japan
• 1986 New York jury rules National Football League violated antitrust laws and awards United States Football League $1 in damages
• 1988 Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling
• 1988 Rick Sutcliffe steals home, becoming the first pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to do so
• 1989 Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets a high jump record at 8.046 ft (2.45 m) in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Phillies Retire #32
1989 Philadelphia Phillies retire #32 in honor of pitcher Steve Carlton


Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton

• 1989 Vince Coleman's record streak stops at 50 consecutive stolen bases
• 1989 White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher and Sammy Sosa
• 1990 26th Curtis Cup: US wins 14-4
• 1990 Boston Red Sox set a Major League record with 12 doubles in a game

Federation Cup
1990 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Norcross, Georgia: US retains title with 2-1 victory over Soviet Union; Gigi Fernández and Zina Garrison-Jackson clinch final with 6-4, 6-3 win against Larisa Neiland & Natasha Zvereva


Tennis PlayerZina Garrison
LPGA Championship
1990 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Bethesda CC: Beth Daniel wins her only major title by one stroke from fellow American Rosie Jones


LPGA GolferBeth Daniel

• 1991 First Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium (Mets defeat Cubs 6-0)

Fans Heckle Canseco
1991 Yankee Stadium fans throw cups and blowup dolls at Jose Canseco


MLB PlayerJosé Canseco

• 1992 American Michael Ray Barrowman swims a world record in the 200 m breaststroke (2:10.16) at the World Championships in Perth, Australia, breaking his own record set in August 1991
• 1992 Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek of Poland defeats Hungarian Attila Mizsér by 113 points (5,559 points) to win the pentathlon gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics; Poland also wins the team gold
• 1992 Yevgeni Sadovyi of the Unified Team swims a world record in the 400 m freestyle in 3:45.00 to complete the 200-400 m freestyle double at the Barcelona Olympics
• 1993 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Thomas Browning is arrested for marijuana possession
• 1995 Carolina Panthers defeat Jacksonville Jaguars in their first NFL exhibition game 20-14

Monica Seles Returns
1995 Monica Seles defeats Martina Navratilova in her return to tennis after she was stabbed in an on-court attack in 1993


Tennis Player and Nine-Time Major ChampionMonica Seles
Tommy Lasorda Retires
1996 MLB Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda retires, with a record of 1599-1439, four National League Pennants, and two World Series championships.


Baseball Pitcher and Manager Tommy Lasorda
No Winner Tour de France
2001 88th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)

Senior Open Championship
2001 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal County Down: Australian Ian Stanley wins in a playoff with Bob Charles of New Zealand


Golfer Bob Charles

• 2001 Copa América Final, Estadio El Campín, Bogotá: Defender Iván Córdoba scores the winner as the home team Colombia edges Mexico 1-0

Marco van Basten
2004 Marco van Basten is named the manager of the Netherlands national soccer team

2007 94th Tour de France won by Alberto Contador of Spain
Senior Open Championship
2007 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Tom Watson wins his 3rd Open Senior title by 1 shot from Mark O'Meara and Stewart Ginn


GolferTom Watson

Golfer Mark O'Meara
Senior Open Championship
2012 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Turnberry: Fred Couples wins by 2 strokes from fellow American Gary Hallberg


Golfer and Masters Champion Fred Couples
Senior Open Championship
2013 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Birkdale: American Mark Wiebe wins in a playoff against Bernhard Langer of Germany

• 2014 Chicago Cubs player John Baker scores in the bottom of the 16th for a 4-3 win over the Colorado Rockies at Wrigley Field in the longest game (6 hours, 27 minutes) in Cubs history

Ortega vs Moicano
2017 Brian Ortega wins Fight of the Night against Renato Moicano at UFC 214

2018 British Senior Open Men's Golf, St. Andrews: Spaniard Miguel Ángel Jiménez wins by one shot against defending champion Bernhard Langer of Germany
Baseball Hall of Fame
2018 Chipper Jones, Alan Trammell, Trevor Hoffman, Vladimir Guerrero, Jim Thome, and Jack Morris are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher Jack Morris
Tour de France
2018 Tour de France: Geraint Thomas becomes the first Welshman and only the third Briton to win the Tour, defeating Dutchman Tom Dumoulin by 1 minute and 51 seconds; Peter Sagan wins green points jersey

2021 Australian canoeist Jessica Fox wins the inaugural women's C-1 slalom gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games with a time of 109.96 seconds
Emma McKeon
2021 Australian swimmer Emma McKeon wins the women's 100 m freestyle gold medal in an Olympic record of 51.96 at the Tokyo Olympics; her eighth career Olympic medal

2021 Croatian rowing brothers Martin and Valent Sinković team to win coxless pair gold at the Tokyo Olympics, the pair's second Olympic gold after winning double sculls in 2016
Sunisa Lee
2021 Following Simone Biles' withdrawal, teammate Sunisa Lee becomes first Hmong-American Olympic champion in any sport, winning women's artistic individual all-around gymnastics gold in Tokyo

2021 Russian backstroke swimmer Evgeny Rylov wraps up the 100/200 m double with an Olympic record of 1:53.27 in the longer event at the Tokyo Olympic Games

• 2021 South African swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker sets a new women's 200 m breaststroke world record in 2:18.95 at the Tokyo Olympics, defeating the American pair of Lilly King and Annie Lazor
• 2024 British cyclist Tom Pidcock successfully defends his Olympic mountain bike cross country gold medal at the Paris Games with a time of 1:26:22
• 2024 Michael Jung of Germany wins his third Olympic individual eventing gold medal on Chipmunk FRH at the Paris equestrian venue at the Château de Versailles

 

JULY 30

• 1844 First US yacht club, New York Yacht Club, is organized by John Cox Stevens and eight friends aboard the Gimcrack
• 1874 Boston and Philadelphia are the first baseball teams to play outside the US in the British Isles

Dempsey vs. Fulljames

1884 Nonpareil Jack Dempsey fights George Fulljames in what is possibly the first middleweight fight with boxing gloves


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJack Dempsey

• 1905 Louis Trousselier of France wins the third Tour de France
• 1908 Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
• 1909 John Heydler becomes president of baseball's National League
• 1911 9th Tour de France won by Gustave Garrigou of France
• 1930 First FIFA World Cup Final, Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay: Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 in the inaugural event
• 1932 X Summer Olympic Games open in Los Angeles, California

International Lawn Tennis Challenge
1933 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: Fred Perry beats André Merlin 4-6, 8-6, 6-2, 7-5 to give Great Britain a 3-2 victory over France, ending France's six-title winning streak


Tennis Player and BroadcasterFred Perry

• 1937 Phillies' Dolph Camilli plays first base and registers no putouts
• 1939 Tour de France: Sylvère Maes of Belgium wins his 3rd title from Frenchman René Vietto
• 1947 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Ewell Blackwell's record-breaking 16-game winning streak ends with a 5-4 loss to the New York Giants

Zátopek Sets 10,000 Record
1948 Czech distance running legend Emil Zátopek wins the 10,000 m at the London Olympics with an Olympic record of 29:59.6


Distance RunnerEmil Zátopek
Ty Cobb Testifies
1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players


MLB LegendTy Cobb
Ford Frick Waiver Rule
1952 Ford Frick sets a waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in the same league get the right to bid


MLB CommissionerFord Frick

• 1954 Bob Kennedy hits the first grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles
• 1955 42nd Tour de France: French cyclist Louison Bobet claims last of his 3 straight general classification victories

Willie McCovey Debuts
1959 In his MLB debut, SF Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4 in a 7-2 win over Philadelphia Phillies at Seal Stadium


Baseball Hall of Fame 1st BasemanWillie McCovey

• 1960 First AFL preseason game: Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo 28-7
• 1962 33rd MLB All-Star Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago, MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels)
• 1965 MLB Milwaukee Brewers manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the San Francisco Giants
• 1966 FIFA World Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London: Striker Geoff Hurst scores a hat trick as England beats West Germany 4-2 after extra time
• 1968 Washington shortstop Ron Hansen makes the eighth unassisted triple play in MLB history and the first in 41 years as the Senators lose 10-1 to the Cleveland Indians
• 1969 Astros Denis Menke and Jim Wynn hit grand slams in the ninth inning against the Mets
• 1971 38th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 24, All-Stars 17 (52,289 attendees)
• 1973 Texas Rangers' Jim Bibby no-hits first-place Oakland 6-0

Jenner Wins Decathlon
1976 Future TV personality ("Keeping Up with the Kardashians") and transgender figure, Bruce Jenner (now Caitlin Jenner), sets a world record with 8,618 points to win decathlon gold at the Montreal Olympics


Decathlete and Television PersonalityCaitlyn Jenner

• 1976 Japan defeats Russia for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
• 1978 Expos crush Braves 19-0, collecting 28 hits and tying the National League record with eight home runs
• 1980 American swimmers Mary T. Meagher (2.06.37) and Craig Beardsley (1.58.21) set 200 m butterfly world records at the US National Swimming Championships at Irvine, California
• 1980 Houston Astros pitcher J. R. Richard suffers a stroke and collapses while playing a game of catch before an Astros game, ending his career
• 1982 Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seating
• 1983 Weightlifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg
• 1988 Cincinnati Reds pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month
• 1988 MLB Pitcher John Franco saves a record 13th game during the month of July

Steinbrenner Resigns
1990 George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner of Baseball Fay Vincent to resign as principal owner of the NY Yankees


New York Yankees OwnerGeorge Steinbrenner

Lawyer and MLB CommissionerFay Vincent
Cricket History
1990 Graham Gooch scores 123 against India, following his first innings of 333


CricketerGraham Gooch

• 1991 Red Sox player Carlos Quintana becomes the 11th player to achieve six RBIs in an inning (3rd)
• 1992 Yael Arad becomes Israel's first Olympic medalist when she wins silver in the women's 61 kg judo in Barcelona; 20th anniversary of the Munich massacre and 500th anniversary of the Alhambra Decree
• 1995 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Portrush GC: Brian Barnes of Scotland wins in a playoff against American Bob Murphy
• 1995 Dominic Cork takes a hat-trick in England's Test cricket win against West Indies at Old Trafford

Baseball Hall of Fame
1995 Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter baseball's Hall of Fame


Baseball PlayerRichie Ashburn

MLB Third BasemanMike Schmidt

• 1996 Tommy Lasorda retires as LA Dodgers' manager
• 2000 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal County Down: Irishman Christy O'Connor Jr. successfully defends his title by 2 shots from John Bland of South Africa
• 2006 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Turnberry: American Loren Roberts wins in a playoff against Eduardo Romero of Argentina
• 2006 Bruce Sutter, relief pitcher for the Cubs, Cardinals, and Braves, is inducted into the MLB Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
• 2012 General Motors (Chevrolet) signs a record-breaking 7-year, $559 million sponsorship deal with EPL club Manchester United

Senior Open Championship
2017 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Porthcawl: Bernhard Langer of Germany wins his third Open Senior title by three shots against Corey Pavin


Golfer and Two-Time Masters ChampionBernhard Langer

GolferCorey Pavin

• 2023 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Porthcawl GC: Alex Čejka of Germany wins his third seniors major title in a playoff against Irishman Pádraig Harrington
• 2023 Évian Championship Women's Golf, Évian Resort GC: Céline Boutier of France wins her first major title by 6 strokes over Canada's defending champion Brooke Henderson

 

JULY 31

• 1899 Albert Trott hits a ball from Monty Noble over the pavilion at Lord's Cricket Ground

Tour de France

1910 Tour de France: Octave Lapize of France wins by just 4 points from Team Alcyon teammate François Faber of Luxembourg


CyclistFrançois Faber

• 1928 Halina Konopacka of Poland hurls a discus world record of 39.62 m to win the first gold medal in women's Olympic athletics at the Amsterdam Games
• 1928 In the first women’s Olympic track event, American sprinter Elizabeth Robinson equals her own world record of 12.2 s to win the 100 m gold medal in Amsterdam; Canadians Fanny Rosenfeld and Ethel Smith tie in 12.3 s

Baseball History
1930 NY Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig drives in 8 runs with a grand slam and 2 doubles in a 14-13 win over the rival Boston Red Sox


Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig

• 1932 Cleveland Indians christen their new home, Municipal Stadium, before more than 76,000 fans; lose opener 1-0 to the Philadelphia A's
• 1932 French André Leducq wins 26th Tour de France, his second Tour triumph (first in 1930), after tallying six stage victories

International Lawn Tennis Challenge
1932 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: Home team wins sixth straight title as Jean Borotra defeats American Wilmer Allison 1-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 7-5 for an unassailable 3-1 lead; ends 3-2


Tennis PlayerJean Borotra
International Lawn Tennis Challenge
1934 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: Fred Perry beats American Frank Shields 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 15-13 to give Great Britain unassailable 3-1 lead to retain title; ends 4-1


Tennis Player and BroadcasterFred Perry

• 1936 IOC awards Tokyo, Japan, the 1940 Summer Olympic Games, which are later canceled due to the Second Sino-Japanese War
• 1938 32nd Tour de France: Italian cyclist Gino Bartali wins both general and mountain classifications

Jake Powell Suspended
1938 MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspends New York Yankees outfielder Jake Powell after he says on Chicago radio he keeps in shape by "cracking" African Americans over the head with his nightstick


1st MLB CommissionerKenesaw Mountain Landis

• 1948 American sprinter Harrison Dillard runs an Olympic record of 10.3 s to defeat countryman Barney Ewell for the 100 m gold medal at the London Olympics
• 1948 American swimmer Wally Ris wins the coveted 100 m freestyle gold medal at the London Olympics, defeating teammate Alan Ford by 0.4 seconds
• 1954 Milwaukee first baseman Joe Adcock becomes only the third player in the 20th century to hit four home runs in a nine-inning game, joining Lou Gehrig and Gil Hodges, in a 15-7 Braves' win over the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field; MLB record 18 total bases
• 1956 England cricket spin bowler Jim Laker takes 10-53 in Australia's second innings; match figures 19-90 in the fourth Test at Old Trafford; England wins by an innings and 170 runs
• 1961 31st MLB All-Star Game (2nd) at Fenway Park, Boston: first tie in history; called due to rain after nine innings with the score 1–1
• 1961 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Olympia Fields CC: Jerry Barber wins his only major title in a Monday 18-hole playoff with Don January (67-68)
• 1962 England fast bowler Brian Statham becomes Test cricket's leading wicket-taker with a world-record tally of 237 as Australian wicketkeeper Barry Shepherd is caught by Fred Trueman for 10 in the drawn fourth Test in Adelaide
• 1963 MLB Cleveland Indians tie record of 4 consecutive home runs to beat California Angels 9-5; Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona, and Larry Brown all go deep off Paul Foytack in the sixth inning
• 1970 37th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Kansas City 24, All-Stars 3 (69,940 attendees)
• 1971 Four-time first division soccer champions Go Ahead from the Dutch city of Deventer add "Eagles" to their famous name
• 1972 MLB Chicago White Sox slugger Dick Allen becomes only the seventh player in MLB history to hit two inside-the-park home runs in a game, both off Bert Blyleven, in an 8-1 White Sox win over the Minnesota Twins
• 1973 England cricket batsman Frank Hayes scores an unbeaten 106 in his Test debut in the first Test against the West Indies at The Oval, London; the tourists win by 158 runs
• 1976 East German runner Waldemar Cierpinski beats American Frank Shorter by 50 seconds to win the Olympic Games marathon in 2:09:55 in Montréal

Pete Rose's Hitting Streak
1978 Cincinnati Reds infielder Pete Rose singles off Phil Niekro to extend his hitting streak to 44 games as the Reds edge the Atlanta Braves 3-2, tying Willie Keeler's 81-year-old NL record


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherPhil Niekro

• 1981 Mid-season strike by MLB players ends after 42 days, causing the cancellation of 713 games; players and owners come to an agreement on free agent compensation

Baseball Hall of Fame
1983 Brooks Robinson, Juan Marichal, George Kell, and Walter Alston are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York


Baseball Hall of Fame Third BasemanBrooks Robinson

Baseball ManagerWalter Alston

Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherJuan Marichal
US Women's Golf Open
1983 US Open Women's Golf, Cedar Ridge CC: Australian Jan Stephenson wins her third major title, beating JoAnne Carner and Patty Sheehan by one stroke


LPGA GolferPatty Sheehan

GolferJoAnne Carner

• 1984 US men's gymnastics team scores an emotional upset win over the world champion Chinese team in the combined event to take the gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics

Baseball Record
1987 Baltimore first baseman Eddie Murray hits his 299th and 300th career home runs to lead the Orioles to an 8-4 win over the Texas Rangers


MLB 1st BasemanEddie Murray

• 1988 Miami Dolphins beat San Francisco 49ers 27-21 in the American Bowl at London's Wembley Stadium

Baseball Record
1988 Oakland DH Jose Canseco smacks two home runs off Scott Bankhead in A's 6-2 win over the Seattle Mariners and becomes the first MLB player to hit 30 home runs in his first 3 years


MLB PlayerJosé Canseco
Baseball Hall of Fame
1988 Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman/left fielder and seven-time All-Star Willie Stargell becomes the 200th man to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame


Baseball PlayerWillie Stargell

• 1989 MLB Minnesota Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to the New York Mets

Baseball History
1990 Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan records his 300th career victory with an 11-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers, becoming the 20th MLB pitcher to reach the milestone


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1992 Hungarian swimmer Krisztina Egerszegi earns her third gold medal of the Barcelona Olympics, winning the 200 m backstroke for the 100-200 double along with the 400 m I/M gold
• 1992 Three world record swims on the final night session at the Barcelona Olympics: Australian Kieren Perkins in the 1,500 m freestyle (14:43.4), Tamás Darnyi of Hungary in the 200 m backstroke (1:59.36), and Yang Wenyi of China in the women's 50 m freestyle (24.79)

Baseball Trade
1993 Toronto Blue Jays acquire future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Rickey Henderson from Oakland in exchange for minor leaguers Steve Karsay and José Herrera


MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson

• 1994 28th Curtis Cup Women's Golf at The Honors Course: US and GB & Ireland draw 9-9

Baseball Hall of Fame
1994 New York Yankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto and Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Steve Carlton are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York


Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton

Sportscaster and MLB ShortstopPhil Rizzuto

• 1997 College football's all-time winningest coach, Eddie Robinson, and his Grambling State University program are placed on two years' probation for rules violations, including recruiting and academic eligibility

Baseball Trade
1997 First baseman Mark McGwire becomes MLB's top home run hitter to be traded in the middle of a season when he moves from Oakland to the St. Louis Cardinals with 34 home runs and 81 RBIs


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

• 2005 British Open Women's Golf at Royal Birkdale GC: Jeong Jang of South Korea leads wire-to-wire to win her first LPGA event and only major title, four strokes ahead of Sophie Gustafson
• 2005 US Senior Open Men's Golf, NCR CC: Allen Doyle wins by one stroke ahead of Loren Roberts and D. A. Weibring for his third Champions Tour major title
• 2007 Boston Celtics obtain former MVP and 10-time All-Star Kevin Garnett in a 7-for-1 deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves, the NBA's biggest trade for one player

Women's British Open
2011 British Open Women's Golf, Carnoustie GL: Yani Tseng of Taiwan becomes the first to successfully defend the Open as a major championship, four strokes ahead of Brittany Lang


GolferYani Tseng
US Senior Golf Open
2011 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Inverness Club: Olin Browne wins by three strokes ahead of Mark O'Meara, becoming the fifth player in history to win on the Nationwide Tour, PGA Tour, and Champions Tour


GolferMark O'Meara
Equestrian Final
2012 Germany wins the London Olympic equestrian eventing final; Zara Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne, is part of the GB silver medal-winning team


Daughter of Princess AnneZara Phillips
Phelps Medal Record
2012 Michael Phelps becomes the greatest medal winner in Olympic history as part of the winning American 4 x 200 m freestyle relay team in London, earning his 19th career Olympic medal and 15th overall gold


SwimmerMichael Phelps

• 2016 British Open Women's Golf, Woburn: Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand wins by three from Mo Martin and Mirim Lee
• 2016 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Baltusrol GC: American Jimmy Walker wins his first major by one shot from defending champion Jason Day of Australia
• 2017 England cricket spin bowler Moeen Ali takes a hat-trick in a 239-run third Test win over South Africa in the 100th Test match played at The Oval, London
• 2021 American swimmer Caeleb Dressel wins the 100 m butterfly in a world record time of 49.45 seconds at the Tokyo Olympics and completes the 100 m freestyle/butterfly double

Ledecky's Third 800m Gold
2021 American swimming superstar Katie Ledecky wins the women's 800 m gold for an unprecedented third consecutive Olympics in Tokyo and claims the distance 800/1500 m double


SwimmerKatie Ledecky

• 2021 Australian swimmer Kaylee McKeown wins gold in the 200 m backstroke to complete the 100/200 m double at the Tokyo Olympic Games

1st Mixed-Gender Olympic Swim Event
2021 First mixed-gender event to feature in Olympic swim program; Great Britain team of Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy, and Anna Hopkin wins mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay in a world record 3:37.58 in Tokyo


SwimmerAdam Peaty
Jamaican 100m Sweep
2021 Jamaican sprinters Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, and Shericka Jackson achieve a trifecta in the women's 100 m final at the Tokyo Olympics; Thompson-Herah retains her title


SprinterElaine Thompson-Herah

SprinterShelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

• 2024 Australian slalom canoeist Jessica Fox successfully defends her C-1 slalom gold medal with a time of 101.06 seconds and completes the K-1/C-1 double at the Paris Olympic Games
• 2024 China's Pan Zhanle sets one of only two new world records at the Paris Olympic swim meet with 46.40 seconds in the 100 m freestyle final ahead of Australia's Kyle Chalmers and David Popovici of Romania

 

AUGUST 1

• 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

Tour de France

1909 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


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
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


Baseball PitcherCarl Hubbell

• 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 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


Baseball PitcherLefty Gomez
Ott Hits 500th HR
1945 NY 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


Baseball Player and ManagerMel Ott

• 1953 Boston Red Sox pitcher Ben Flowers sets then MLB record of eight consecutive games in relief
• 1954 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


MLB First BasemanGil Hodges
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

Arthur Ashe
1963 Arthur Ashe becomes first African-American tennis player to be named in the US Davis Cup team


Tennis PlayerArthur Ashe

• 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)

Jim Clark
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


Baseball PlayerWillie Stargell
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


Auto RacerRichard Petty

• 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


NBA LegendJulius Erving
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 Hall of Fame 1st BasemanWillie McCovey
Baseball Record
1978 Atlanta Braves trounce Cincinnati Reds 16-4 and halt Pete Rose's National League record hitting streak at 44 games


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

• 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 the 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

Baseball Hall of Fame
1982 Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, Travis Jackson, and Happy Chandler inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame


Baseball Outfielder and ManagerFrank Robinson

Baseball PlayerHank Aaron
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


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

• 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 100m at the Barcelona Olympics, with 5 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

Baseball Hall of Fame
1993 14-time MLB All Star Reggie Jackson is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York


MLB Right FielderReggie Jackson

• 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


MLB LegendCal Ripken Jr

Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig

• 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

Canadian Women's Open
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


NFL LegendRay Lewis

• 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

US Senior Golf Open
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
Women's British Open
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

US Senior Golf Open
2010 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Sahalee CC: Berhard Langer of Germany wins by three strokes ahead of runner-up Fred Couples


Golfer and Masters ChampionFred 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
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• 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


FootballerJason Koumas

• 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


SwimmerEmma McKeon

• 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 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

 

AUGUST 2

• 1864 Saratoga Racecourse, America's oldest thoroughbred racetrack, opens its inaugural meet with four days of racing
• 1906 Chicago White Sox beat Boston Americans, 3-0 to start AL record 19 game MLB win streak

Walter Johnson's First Game

1907 Legendary pitcher Walter Johnson at 19 begins his 21 year Baseball Hall of Fame playing career with Washington with 3-2 loss v Detroit


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

• 1912 US Open Men's Golf, CC of Buffalo: John McDermott successfully defends title by 2 strokes from Tom McNamara
• 1921 After 3 hours deliberation a Chicago jury acquits 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal; next day they are banned from organised baseball for life
• 1924 A's 1st baseman Joe Hauser sets AL record of 14 total bases in a game; 3 HRs and a double as Philadelphia beats Cleveland Indians, 12-4 at Dunn Field
• 1929 Philadelphia 1st baseman Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR in Phillies' 2-0 win v Pittsburgh Pirates
• 1936 A Finnish trifecta in the 10,000m final at the Berlin Olympics; Ilmari Salminen beats teammates Arvo Askola and Volmari Iso-Hollo
• 1936 Americans Cornelius Johnson, Dave Albritton and Delos Thurber sweep the high jump medals at the Berlin Olympics
• 1936 Tour de France: Sylvère Maes of Belgium wins his second title from Frenchman Antone Magne
• 1938 MLB conducts the first test of bright yellow baseballs during Brooklyn Dodgers vs. St. Louis Cardinals doubleheader
• 1948 Danish swimmer Greta Anderson (1:06.3) touches out American Ann Curtis by 0.2 in the women's 100m freestyle at the London Olympics
• 1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands wins the 100m in 11.9 at the London Olympics; 1st of unprecedented 3 individual track & field gold medals
• 1948 Italians Adolfo Consolini and Giuseppe Tosi go 1-2 in the men's discus final at the London Olympics

Patterson Wins Gold
1952 17 year-old future world champion Floyd Patterson wins the gold medal in the middleweight division at the Helsinki Olympic Games with a 1st round KO of Romanian Vasile Tita


Boxing ChampionFloyd Patterson

• 1952 Hungarian boxer László Papp wins his 2nd straight Olympic gold medal

Willie McCovey's 1st HR
1959 Future Hall of Fame 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 MLB home runs in SF Giants 5-3 win v Pittsburgh Pirates


Baseball Hall of Fame 1st BasemanWillie McCovey

• 1959 Milwaukee Braves outfielder Bill Bruton hits 3 triples in 11-5 win v St. Louis Cardinals; 2 of them bases loaded, first time in 20th Century
• 1959 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Minneapolis GC: Bob Rosburg wins by 1 stroke from Jerry Barber and Doug Sanders
• 1960 Baseball's new Continental League formally disbands without ever having played a game after established MLB promise of expansion including New York City achieved the owners' desired effect; on August 2, 1960, the Continental League formally disbanded.
• 1961 St Louis Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in an exhibition game in Toronto, Canada
• 1967 NFL New Orleans Saints play 1st ever pre-season game, lose to Los Angeles Rams 16-7 at Anaheim Stadium in California
• 1968 Ron Hansen (Washington Senators) & Tim Cullen (Chicago White Sox) become the first MLB players to be traded for each other twice in the same season; they had been traded in February in opposite directions

George Brett Debuts
1973 Future Baseball Hall of Fame 3rd baseman George Brett gets his 1st MLB hit on debut for the Kansas City Royals in 3-1 win over Chicago White Sox


MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett

• 1977 In his comeback Test, England cricket batsman Geoff Boycott is unbeaten on 80 after a 1st innings 107 as England beats Australia by 7 wickets in the 3rd Test at Trent Bridge
• 1979 MLB New York Mets purchase contract of outfielder José Cardenal from Philadelphia Phillies between games of a double-header between the two teams
• 1979 Washington, D.C. trial attorney Edward Bennett Williams buys MLB's Baltimore Orioles from Jerold Hoffberger for reported $12.3 million
• 1980 Cuban super-heavyweight Teofilo Stevenson becomes the 1st fighter to win 3 Olympic gold medals in the same division, scores 4-1 points decision over Pyotr Zayev (Soviet Union) in Moscow

Cricket History
1981 England cricket all-rounder Ian Botham takes 5 for 11 to end Australia's chase of 151 target, all out 121 for 29 run defeat in 4th Test at Edgbaston


CricketerIan Botham
Baseball Record
1982 Oakland A's outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 100th MLB base of the season in 6-5 win v Seattle, first to steal 100 twice in modern era


MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson

• 1984 Jeff Blatnick becomes first American to win a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Los Angeles Olympics, Blatnick was in remission for Hodgkin’s disease

Cricket History
1985 England captain David Gower scores his 5,000th run in Test cricket during the drawn 4th Test v Australia at Old Trafford


Cricket Batsman and CaptainDavid Gower
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
1986 American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee beats her own world heptathlon record by 13 points (7,161) in Houston


Track and Field AthleteJackie Joyner-Kersee

• 1986 Curtis Cup Women's Golf, Prairie Dunes CC: Great Britain & Ireland beats the US 13-5, the visitors first win on American soil
• 1986 Lee Elder fires a record 11-under par 61 on his way to winning the Senior PGA Merrill Lynch/Golf Digest Commemorative at Sleepy Hollow CC; mark stands for 11 years
• 1987 Cincinnati outfielder Eric Davis is seventh to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in one season as he homers in Reds 5-4 win against the Giants

Federation Cup
1987 Federation Cup Tennis Final: Steffi Graf and Claudia Kohde-Kilsch defeat Chris Evert and Pam Shriver in the doubles as Germany defeats the US 2-1 in Vancouver, Canada


Tennis PlayerSteffi Graf

Tennis LegendChris Evert

• 1987 Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 mph) in winning the Marlboro 500 at the Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, Michigan
• 1990 Yankees rookie 1st baseman Kevin Maas hits his 10th MLB homer in 6-5 loss v Detroit, fastest to reach that mark, just 77 at bats
• 1992 American Jacki Joyner-Kersee becomes first athlete to win consecutive gold medals in the gruelling heptathlon with a 199 point win over Irina Belova (Soviet Union) at the Barcelona Olympics

Baseball Hall of Fame
1992 Tom Seaver, Rollie Fingers, Hal Newhouser & Bill McGowan are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherTom Seaver

• 1992 Vitaly Scherbo of Belarus becomes the first gymnast to win 6 gold medals at one Olympics in Barcelona, also first to win 4 gold in one day's competition (pommel, vault, rings & parallel bars)
• 1993 Maryland investors led by Baltimore attorney Peter Angelos buy the MLB Baltimore Orioles team at auction in New York for $173M, nearly $50M more than ever paid for a baseball team

Dream Team III
1996 The star-studded United States men's basketball team, Dream Team III, beat Yugoslavia 95-69 to win the gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics


NBA CenterHakeem Olajuwon
Canadian Women's Open
1998 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Essex GC: Brandie Burton wins by 1 shot from Annika Sörenstam


GolferAnnika Sörenstam

• 1998 Curtis Cup Women's Golf, Minikahda GC: US beats Great Britain & Ireland 10-8
• 1998 Tour de France: Marco Pantani of Italy makes it a Tour & Giro d'Italia double, German Erik Zabel is points winner
• 2003 South African cricket batsman Graeme Smith blazes 259, fast bowler Makhaya Ntini has 5 wickets in each England innings as Proteas win 2nd Test by an innings and 92 at Lord's

Women's British Open
2009 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes GC: Catriona Matthew wins her lone major title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Karrie Webb; first Scot to win the title


GolferKarrie Webb

GolferCatriona Matthew
World Records Galore
2009 Michael Phelps ends the World Swimming Championships in Rome with his 5th gold medal as part of the US 4x100m medley relay team that recorded the 43rd world record of the controversial meet


SwimmerMichael Phelps
US Senior Golf Open
2009 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Crooked Stick GC: Fred Funk wins by 6 strokes from Joey Sindelar with a tournament record score (-20)


GolferFred Funk

• 2012 American swimmer Michael Phelps wins an unprecedented third consecutive gold medal in the 200m individual medley in 1:54.27 at the London Olympics
• 2012 American swimmer Rebecca Soni becomes first woman to win the 200m breaststroke twice with a world record 2:19.59 at the London Olympics
• 2014 Super Rugby Final, ANZ Stadium, Sydney: NSW Waratahs win their first SR title in a nail-biting 33-32 home effort against New Zealand's Canterbury Crusaders

Women's British Open
2015 British Open Women's Golf, Turnberry: Inbee Park of South Korea shoots final found 65 (−7) to win her 7th major title, 3 strokes ahead of compatriot Ko Jin-young


GolferInbee Park

• 2024 Australian Kaylee McKeown joins Roland Matthes of Germany (1968, 72) as the only swimmers to achieve the Olympic 100/200m backstroke double when McKeown wins the 200m event in Paris
• 2024 In a rare podium sweep, France wins the men's BMX with Joris Daudet, Sylvain André and Romain Mahieu going 1-2-3 at the Paris Olympics
• 2024 SF Giants pitcher Blake Snell no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 3-0 at Great American Ballpark, Cincinnati, Ohio

 

AUGUST 3

• 1852 America's first intercollegiate sporting event takes place when the Harvard heavyweight rowing crew beats Yale by 2 lengths over 2 miles on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire
• 1881 US National Lawn Tennis Association removes "National" from its name
• 1906 Washington Nationals' Tom Hughes becomes the first MLB pitcher to win a 1-0 extra innings game with his own home run in the 10th inning against the St. Louis Browns

Umpire Starts a Riot

1909 MLB umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting in the face of A's second baseman Eddie Collins, who questioned a call; Hurst is banned for life


Baseball LegendEddie Collins

• 1914 Yankees catcher Les Nunamaker throws out three Tigers' runners at second base during the first inning, the only time in the 20th century
• 1921 MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Landis hands out lifetime bans to eight Chicago White Sox players accused in the Black Sox scandal despite their acquittal by a Chicago jury

Games Cancelled on President's Death
1923 Baseball games are canceled following the death of US President Warren G. Harding


29th US PresidentWarren G. Harding
Piet Moeskops Sprint Champion
1924 Dutch track cyclist Piet Moeskops wins his fourth consecutive UCI World Sprint Championship in Paris


Track CyclistPiet Moeskops

• 1928 Ray Barbuti wins the 400 m in 47.8 at the Amsterdam Olympics, the only individual track event won by an American at the Games

Chuck Klein's Second Streak
1930 For the second time in the year, Phillies' outfielder Chuck Klein hits safely in 26 straight games, but the run is halted in the second game of a doubleheader against the Boston Braves


Baseball Hall of Fame Right FielderChuck Klein

• 1932 Official automatic timing and photo-finish camera for track events are used for the first time at the Los Angeles Olympics, instrumental in changing the 110 m hurdles final; review gives Donald Finlay bronze ahead of American Jack Keller
• 1933 Philadelphia A's defeat NY Yankees 7-0, the first time in 308 games "Bronx Bombers" are shut out

Jesse Owens Wins Gold
1936 American sprinter Jesse Owens wins the 100 m in 10.3 seconds in front of Adolf Hitler in a famous race at the Berlin Olympics, the first of four gold medals he wins at the Games


Jesse Owens gets into his stride at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin

• 1936 Karl Hein (Olympic record of 56.49) and Erwin Blask achieve a German 1-2 in the hammer throw at the Berlin Olympics

DiMaggio Ends Streak
1941 Joe DiMaggio goes 0-4 in the Yankees' 6-2 loss to the St. Louis Browns, ending his on-base streak of 74 games, second in MLB history


Baseball PlayerJoe DiMaggio

• 1948 American divers Vicki Draves, Zoe Ann Olsen and Patsy Elsener go 1-2-3 in a US clean sweep of the medals in the women's 3 m springboard at the London Olympics
• 1948 An American 1-2 in the men's 200 m at the London Olympics with Mel Patton (21.1) defeating teammate Barney Ewell
• 1948 An American clean sweep of the medals in the men's 3 m springboard diving at the London Olympics with Bruce Harlan winning gold, Miller Anderson silver and Sammy Lee bronze
• 1948 An American sweep of the medals in the men's shot put at the London Olympics with Wilbur Thompson taking gold ahead of teammates Jim Delaney and Jim Fuchs

Paige's Cleveland Debut
1948 Negro League veteran pitcher Satchel Paige, age 42, debuts in Cleveland after a controversial signing and goes 7 innings in a 5-3 win against Washington


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherSatchel Paige

• 1948 The US 4 x 200 m freestyle relay team of Wally Ris, Jimmy McLane, Wally Wolf, and Bill Smith swim a world record of 8:46.0 to win gold at the London Olympics
• 1949 Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball League (NBL) merge to form the National Basketball Association (NBA), with Maurice Podoloff elected as head of the new league

Ascari Wins F1 Championship
1952 Italian Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari clinches the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship by winning the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring


Auto RacerAlberto Ascari

• 1952 XV Summer Olympic Games close at the Helsingin Olympiastadion, Helsinki, Finland
• 1955 Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing; Le Mans disaster and Bill Vukovich death at Indianapolis are contributing factors
• 1955 Belgian middle-distance runner Roger Moens breaks Rudolf Harbig's long-standing 800 m world record (1:45.7) in Oslo, Norway
• 1956 American sprinter Willie Williams sets a 100 m world record at 10.1 in Berlin, Germany
• 1958 MLB Baltimore Orioles manager Paul Richards is ejected from both games of a doubleheader at Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan
• 1959 27th MLB All-Star Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California
• 1959 AL defeats NL 5-3 in Game 2 of the All-Star Baseball doubleheader to boost the player pension fund at LA Memorial Coliseum
• 1960 For the only time in MLB history, teams exchange managers as Detroit trades Jimmy Dykes (44-52) for Cleveland's Joe Gordon (49-46)
• 1960 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) defeat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in an exhibition game at CNE Stadium in Toronto
• 1961 Pittsburgh Pirates rout St. Louis Cardinals 19-0, the largest lopsided shutout in NL history
• 1962 NY Met Frank Thomas hits his sixth home run in three games
• 1969 Cincinnati Reds, with 25 hits and 10 runs in the 5th, edge Philadelphia Phillies 19-17 at Connie Mack Stadium
• 1970 The second NFL work stoppage ends with NFL and Players' Association agreeing to a 4-year, $19.1 million deal

PGA Championship
1979 Sam Snead, at 67 years, 2 months, and 7 days, sets the record for the oldest player to make the cut in a major - PGA Championship at Oakland Hills CC


GolferSam Snead

• 1980 Al Kaline, Duke Snider, Chuck Klein, and Tom Yawkey are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1980 XXII Summer Olympic Games close at the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow, Russia
• 1982 Pitching coach Clyde King becomes the New York Yankees' third manager of the season, replacing Gene Michael after the Yankees are swept at home by the Chicago White Sox
• 1984 17-year-old Australian swimmer Jon Sieben stages a withering finish to upset hot favorite Michael Gross of West Germany in the 200 m butterfly at the Los Angeles Olympics in a world record time of 1:57.04
• 1984 Mary Lou Retton scores 10 for final vault to win the individual all-round competition in Los Angeles and become the first American woman to win an Olympic gymnastics medal
• 1984 Mexicans Ernesto Canto and Raúl González take the gold and silver medals in the 20 km walk at the Los Angeles Olympics
• 1986 First NFL "American Bowl" exhibition game at London's Wembley Stadium; Chicago Bears defeat Dallas Cowboys 17-6

Baseball Hall of Fame
1986 Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, and Ernie Lombardi are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY


Baseball Hall of Fame 1st BasemanWillie McCovey

Hall of Fame Baseball PlayerBobby Doerr
Jack Morris
1987 Detroit Tigers ace Jack Morris ties the AL record with five wild pitches in a 4-2, 10-inning loss against the Kansas City Royals


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherJack Morris

• 1987 Twins pitcher Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound in an 11-3 win against the Angels, ejected and suspended for 10 games
• 1989 Cincinnati Reds set an MLB record for the most hits in the first inning of a game with 16, scoring 14 runs in an 18-1 rout of the Houston Astros
• 1989 Jorge Velásquez wins aboard Maddie Bumpo in the 3rd at Arlington International Racecourse to become only the fifth jockey in the world to ride 6,000 career winners

Rickey Henderson
1989 MLB Oakland A's outfielder Rickey Henderson sets an AL record of 50 stolen bases in 9 of his first 11 big-league seasons


MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson

• 1990 New York Yankees rookie first baseman Kevin Maas sets an MLB record by hitting 10 home runs in the fewest at-bats (72)

Andre Agassi
1996 American Andre Agassi wins the men's singles tennis gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics, defeating Spaniard Sergi Bruguera 6-2, 6-3, 6-1


Tennis LegendAndre Agassi

Tennis StarSergi Bruguera
Tour de France
1996 Five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Induráin of Spain wins the 52.2 km road time trial in 1:04:05, 12 seconds ahead of countryman Abraham Olano at the Atlanta Olympics


CyclistMiguel Induráin

• 1997 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Glen Abbey GC: Colleen Walker wins by two shots against Liselotte Neumann of Sweden
• 1997 Manchester United defeats Chelsea 4-2 on penalties to win the Charity Shield after a bad-tempered 1-1 draw at Wembley
• 1998 The Oval hosts its first competitive cricket match played under floodlights in London as the home team Surrey loses to Sussex by 8 wickets in the day/night 40-over fixture

Arsenal Sign Thierry Henry
1999 Arsenal FC completes a huge signing coup, snapping up ace French striker Thierry Henry for an estimated fee of £11 million from Italian club Juventus


Footballer and ManagerThierry Henry

• 2000 England cricket wicket-keeper Alec Stewart becomes only the 4th batsman to score a century (105) in his 100th Test, during the 3rd Test against the West Indies at Old Trafford
• 2001 Eighth Athletics World Championships open in Edmonton, Canada
• 2001 Olympic champion Gezahegne Abera of Ethiopia becomes the first athlete to achieve the Olympics-World Championships marathon double, running 2:12:42 to defeat Kenya's Simon Biwott by just 0.1 seconds in the Edmonton World Championships

Women's British Open
2003 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes GC: Annika Sörenstam of Sweden wins by 1 stroke from Se Ri Pak; completes career grand slam for Sörenstam


LPGA GolferSe Ri Pak

GolferAnnika Sörenstam
Albert Pujols
2004 St. Louis first baseman Albert Pujols becomes the first player in MLB history to hit at least 30 home runs in each of his first four seasons as the Cardinals beat Montreal 10-6


MLB 1st BasemanAlbert Pujols
Baseball Record
2006 Barry Bonds' 715th MLB home run ball, which moves him past Babe Ruth for second all-time, fetches $220,100 at auction


MLB LegendBarry Bonds

• 2006 Brazilian Champ Car driver Cristiano da Matta crashes into a deer during testing at Road America, Wisconsin; seriously injured but returns to racing in 2008

Women's British Open
2008 British Open Women's Golf, Sunningdale GC: Jiyai Shin of South Korea shoots a final round of 66 (−6) to win her first major championship, three strokes ahead of runner-up Yani Tseng

US Senior Golf Open
2008 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Broadmoor GC: Eduardo Romero of Argentina wins by four strokes ahead of Fred Funk for his second Champions Tour major title

2012 American Missy Franklin swims a world record 2:04.06 to win the 200 m backstroke gold medal at the London Olympics
Michael Phelps
2012 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins the 100 m butterfly in London to take his all-time Olympic gold medal tally to a record 17


SwimmerMichael Phelps

• 2013 Super Rugby Final, Waikato Stadium, Hamilton: Chiefs successfully defend title with a 27-22 over ACT Brumbies

Alex Puccio
2014 Alex Puccio ascends Jade in Rocky Mountain National Park, becoming the fourth woman to climb V14

2016 International Olympic Committee approves baseball/softball, karate, sport climbing, surfing, and skateboarding to be included in the sports program for the 2020 Games only; total number of sports is 33
Neymar's Record Transfer
2017 Brazilian soccer forward Neymar transfers from FC Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for a world-record transfer fee of €222 million on a five-year contract

Elaine Thompson-Herah
2021 Jamaican athlete Elaine Thompson-Herah wins 200 m gold in Tokyo to become the first female to claim the 100/200 m double at consecutive Olympic Games


SprinterElaine Thompson-Herah

• 2021 Karsten Warholm of Norway runs the first sub-46 second 400 m hurdles in a world record of 45.94 seconds to claim the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
• 2021 New Zealand canoeist Lisa Carrington wins her third straight Olympic K-1 200 m title at the Tokyo Games; also wins K-2 500 m for her fourth Olympic gold medal

First WNBA Player to 10,000 Points
2023 Phoenix Mercury guard Diana Taurasi becomes the first WNBA player to reach 10,000 points as she scores 42 points in a 91-71 win over the Atlanta Dream at Footprint Center, Phoenix, Arizona

Olympic Gold
2024 American gymnast Simone Biles wins the vault final for her third gold medal of the Paris Olympics and career seventh gold over three Games

Most Decorated Female Swimmer
2024 American swimmer Katie Ledecky ties Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina as the most decorated female Olympian of all time when she wins her fourth consecutive 800m in Paris, her ninth individual gold medal

2024 Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh wins the 200 m individual medley for her third gold medal of the Paris Olympics, becoming the first Canadian Olympian to win three in one Games

• 2024 In a major upset in athletics, Julien Alfred edges race favorite Sha'Carri Richardson of the US for the women's 100 m gold medal at the Paris Olympics; St. Lucia's first-ever Olympic medal
• 2024 US mixed 4×100 m medley relay team of Ryan Murphy, Nic Fink, Gretchen Walsh, and Torri Huske win gold in a new world record of 3:37.43 at the Paris Olympic Games

 

AUGUST 4

• 1907 Tour de France: Lucien Petit-Breton of France beats countryman Gustave Garrigou to win first of 2 Tour victories

Coomb and Walsh Pitching Duel

1910 MLB pitching duel: Philadelphia A's Jack Coombs and White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 0-0 tie in 16 innings


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and ManagerEd Walsh

• 1922 Lizzie Murphy becomes the first female to play against MLB players in a charity exhibition: All-Stars from New England and the AL vs. Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park
• 1929 Cleveland Indians, trailing 6-5 in the 9th with 2 outs, score an AL record-tying 9 runs to beat the NY Yankees 14-6

Ott 1st to 6 Runs
1934 Giants outfielder Mel Ott becomes the first player in MLB history to score six runs in a game as New York beats Phillies 21-4


Baseball Player and ManagerMel Ott
Owns Wins Second Gold
1936 American athlete Jesse Owens wins his second gold medal at the Berlin Olympics, defeating German Luz Long in the long jump final with an Olympic record


Track and Field AthleteJesse Owens

• 1936 American Helen Stephens wins the 100 m in 11.5 seconds at the Berlin Olympics, defeating controversial intersex athlete Stanisława Walasiewicz of Poland
• 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Mickey Owen becomes the first MLB player to catch three foul pop-ups in one inning (third) in an 11-6 win against the NY Giants

Nelson's Record PGA Victory
1945 American golfer Byron Nelson wins the Canadian Open at Uplands & Thornhill Country Club for a record 11th consecutive PGA victory on his way to a record season tally of 18


GolferByron Nelson

• 1945 Red Sox outfielder Tom McBride drives in an MLB record-tying 6 runs in an inning (4th) during a 15-4 win against Washington
• 1947 American boxer Ike Williams knocks out Bob Montgomery in six rounds in Philadelphia to unify the world lightweight title
• 1948 An American sweep of the medals in the 110 m hurdles at the London Olympics with William Porter taking gold, ahead of Clyde Scott and Craig Dixon
• 1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands wins the 80 m hurdles in an Olympic record of 11.2 seconds at the London Olympics, the second of an unprecedented four individual track and field gold medals
• 1948 Hungary's Olga Gyarmati wins the first ever Olympic women's long jump competition at the London Games
• 1948 The women's shot put is introduced to the track and field program at the London Olympics; inaugural gold medalist Micheline Ostermeyer of France also wins the women's discus gold
• 1953 New York Yankees pitcher Vic Raschi sets an MLB record for a pitcher by driving in 7 runs in a 15-0 win against Detroit
• 1956 At a NASCAR Grand National race in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Lee Petty stops his car on lap 32, climbs the flagstand, and waves a red flag to the field, halting the race due to dusty conditions; the race is never completed

Juan Manuel
1957 Argentine Maserati driver Juan Manuel Fangio clinches his record fifth F1 World Drivers' Championship (fourth consecutive) by winning the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring


Auto RacerJuan Manuel Fangio

• 1961 28th NFL Chicago College All-Star Game at Soldier Field: Philadelphia 28, All-Stars 14 (66,000 attendees)
• 1967 34th NFL Chicago College All-Star Game at Soldier Field: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 (70,934 attendees)
• 1973 New York Yankees pitcher Lindy McDaniel puts in one of the best relief stints in MLB history, entering in the second inning and allowing only one run in 13 innings in a 3-2 win against the Detroit Tigers
• 1976 England beats Australia by 8 wickets in the limited-overs cricket international at Lord's; it is the first time women are permitted to play on the main square at "the home of cricket"

Sports History
1980 Seven-time All-Star Maury Wills becomes only the third Black manager in MLB history when Darrell Johnson is fired by the Seattle Mariners after a nine-game losing streak


Baseball Player and ManagerMaury Wills

• 1982 Outfielder Joel Youngblood is the only MLB player to get hits for two different teams in two different cities on the same day: singles for the Mets in a Chicago day game, gets traded, then singles for the Expos in a Philadelphia night game

Carl Lewis's 1st Gold
1984 American athlete Carl Lewis wins the 100 m in 9.9 seconds in Los Angeles, the first of nine Olympic gold medals over three Games


Olympic Sprinter and Long JumperCarl Lewis

• 1984 Americans Al Joyner and Mike Conley win the gold and silver medals in the men's triple jump at the Los Angeles Olympics

Baseball History
1985 Future Hall of Fame infielder Rod Carew of the California Angels singles off Minnesota's Frank Viola to collect his 3,000th career MLB hit; the Angels win 6–5


Baseball Hall of Fame InfielderRod Carew
Baseball Hall of Fame
1985 New York Yankees retire Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Phil Rizzuto's #10


Sportscaster and MLB ShortstopPhil Rizzuto
Golf Tournament
1985 Scott Verplank beats Jim Thorpe in a Western Open playoff, becoming the first amateur to win a PGA Tour event since Gene Littler in 1954


GolferGene Littler
Baseball History
1985 Tom Seaver of Chicago White Sox becomes 17th pitcher to win 300 MLB career games, defeating New York 4-1 at Yankee Stadium (54,032 attendees)


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherTom Seaver

• 1986 USFL owners vote to suspend operations for the 1986 season and fold before the fourth season after winning only token damages in an antitrust lawsuit against the NFL
• 1992 In its debut at the Barcelona Olympics the badminton singles gold medals are both won by Indonesian athletes, whilst both men's and women's doubles go to South Korea
• 1992 Italian fencer Giovanna Trillini wraps up gold medals in both women's foil events at the Barcelona Olympics as part of the winning team
• 1992 The diving competition at the Barcelona Olympics concludes with Chinese athletes dominating, winning three of the four gold medals contested; American Mark Lenzi wins the 3 m springboard

Baseball Record
1993 Tony Gwynn gets six hits in an 11-10 win against the Giants, the fourth time this season the Padre has five or more hits, tying the MLB record


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderTony Gwynn
Baseball History
1995 Following a suspension from the league for substance abuse, former Mets outfielder Darryl Strawberry joins the NY Yankees and eventually helps the Bronx Bombers win the 1996 World Series


Baseball PlayerDarryl Strawberry
Canadian Women's Open
1996 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Edmonton CC: Laura Davies wins by two strokes over Karrie Webb and Nancy Lopez


LPGA GolferLaura Davies

LPGA GolferNancy Lopez

GolferKarrie Webb
Baseball Hall of Fame
1996 Jim Bunning, Earl Weaver, Bill Foster, and Ned Hanlon are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and SenatorJim Bunning

MLB ManagerEarl Weaver

• 1996 XXVI Summer Olympic Games close at Centennial Olympic Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia

Cricket Record
2001 Australian cricket spinner Shane Warne skittles England (162) with 6/33 to guide tourists to a 7-wicket third Test victory at Trent Bridge; Aussies regain the Ashes with a record seventh straight Test win against England


Cricketer and BroadcasterShane Warne
Pat Day retires
2005 American Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day (52) announces his retirement from the saddle with $298 million in career purses


JockeyPat Day
Alex Rodriguez
2007 32-year-old Alex Rodriguez becomes the youngest player in MLB history to hit 500 home runs, connecting on the first pitch he sees as the NY Yankees beat Kansas City 16-8


MLB ShortstopAlex Rodriguez
Barry Bonds
2007 San Francisco slugger Barry Bonds homers off Clay Hensley in the second inning of a 3-2 loss to San Diego to tie Hank Aaron’s 33-year-old MLB career home run record of 755


MLB LegendBarry Bonds

Baseball PlayerHank Aaron

• 2010 On the third anniversary of his 500th MLB career home run, Alex Rodriguez reaches the 600 HR milestone in the NY Yankees' 5-1 win against Toronto; he is the seventh and youngest player to achieve this milestone

Serena Williams Leads Double
2012 Golden double for the US at the London Olympic tennis as Serena Williams defeats Maria Sharapova 6-0, 6-1 in women's singles; Bob and Mike Bryan win men’s doubles, beating the French pair Michael Llodra and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4, 7-6


Tennis PlayerSerena Williams

Tennis PlayerMaria Sharapova

• 2012 South African Oscar Pistorius becomes the first double-leg amputee to compete at the Olympics in the 400 m event in London; he is out in the semifinals
• 2012 Super Rugby Final, Waikato Stadium, Hamilton: Chiefs win their first Super Rugby title with a 37-6 victory over the Sharks (Durban, RSA) at home

US Swim Golds
2012 The US wins the 4 x 100 m medley relay double at the London Olympics with Michael Phelps collecting his 18th Olympic gold medal; the women's team sets a world record of 3:52.05


SwimmerMichael Phelps
Women's British Open
2013 British Open Women's Golf, St. Andrews: American Stacy Lewis wins her second major, 2 shots ahead of runners-up Na Yeon Choi and Hee Young Park


GolferStacy Lewis

• 2018 Super Rugby Final, AMI Stadium, Christchurch: Canterbury Crusaders successfully defend their title with a 37-18 home win against the Lions from Johannesburg; Crusaders' 9th Super Rugby title
• 2019 Australian cricket batsman Steve Smith hits a brilliant 142 following his first innings of 144 in the first Test against England at Edgbaston; he is only the fourth batsman of all time to score more than 140 in each innings of a Test match
• 2019 British Open Women's Golf, Woburn GC: Hinako Shibuno of Japan wins her maiden major title in her first LPGA event; beats American Lizette Salas by 1 stroke
• 2021 Americans Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad go 1-2 in the women's 400 m hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics; McLaughlin sets a world record of 51.46 seconds
• 2022 A Russian court sentences WNBA star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison for drug smuggling amid claims she is being used as a pawn between the US and Russia [1]
• 2024 At the Paris Olympics, Noah Lyles becomes the first American sprinter to win the 100 m gold medal in 20 years; his time of 9.784 seconds edges Jamaica's Kishane Thompson by 0.005 seconds
• 2024 Double American world records at the Paris Olympics with swimmer Bobby Finke setting 14:30.67 in the men's 1,500 m freestyle and the 4 x 100 m medley relay team of Regan Smith, Lilly King, Gretchen Walsh, and Torri Huske setting 3:49.63

 

AUGUST 5

• 1901 Peter O'Connor of Ireland sets the first officially recognised world long jump record at 24 feet and 11 3/4 inches (7.61 meters) in Dublin, Ireland
• 1921 KDKA Pittsburgh presents the first radio broadcast of MLB as the Pirates beat the Phillies 8-0 with Harold Arlin as the first play-by-play broadcaster
• 1927 Phillies outfielder Cy Williams hits for the cycle in just four at-bats in a 9-7 victory against the Pirates

Owen's World Record Gold

1936 American athlete Jesse Owens wins the 200 m in a world record time of 20.7 seconds, his third gold medal of the Berlin Olympics


Track and Field AthleteJesse Owens

• 1936 Italian athlete Ondina Valla runs a world record time of 11.6 seconds in the semifinals of the 80 m hurdles at the Berlin Olympics; wins the final the next day but can't match the time
• 1936 Ken Carpenter (50.48 Olympic record) and Gordon Dunn achieve an American 1-2 finish in the men’s discus throw at the Berlin Olympics
• 1940 St. Louis Browns pitcher John Whitehead no-hits the Detroit Tigers 4-0 in six innings (rain-shortened)
• 1948 A Swedish sweep of the medals in the 3000 m steeplechase at the London Olympics with Tore Sjöstrand taking gold ahead of teammates Erik Elmsäter and Göte Hagström
• 1948 Americans Sammy Lee and Bruce Harlan go 1-2 in the 10 m platform diving at the London Olympics
• 1948 Cleveland Indians set a club record for most double plays in a game (6) in a 3-0 win against Washington
• 1948 Jamaica achieves a 1-2 finish in the men's 400 m at the London Olympics, with Arthur Wint (46.2) defeating teammate Herb McKenley for the gold medal
• 1956 Belgian race car driver André Milhoux (27) competes in his only Grand Prix, driving a Gordini T32 in Germany; he is forced to retire after 15 laps due to an engine problem
• 1959 Chicago Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 55-26 in a pre-season exhibition at CNE Stadium in Toronto
• 1961 Chicago Bears (NFL) beat Montreal Alouettes (CFL) 34-16 in a pre-season exhibition at Molson Stadium in Montreal

Sports History
1963 Craig Breedlove sets a world land speed record of 407.45 mph (655.73 km/h) in the Spirit of America at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah


Auto RacerCraig Breedlove

• 1965 South African cricket batsman Graeme Pollock scores a classic 125 to set the Proteas on the way to a second Test win against England at Trent Bridge
• 1966 33rd NFL Chicago College All-Star Game at Soldier Field: Green Bay 38, All-Stars 0 (72,000 attendees)

Cricket History
1966 West Indies cricket captain Garfield Sobers scores 174, including a century between lunch and tea, to set up a fourth Test win against England at Headingley


CricketerGarfield Sobers

• 1967 First exhibition after AFL/NFL merger, Denver Broncos (AFL) surprise Detroit Lions (NFL), 13-7 at the University of Denver

Baseball Record
1969 Pirates outfielder Willie Stargell smashes his first and longest home run ever hit out of Dodger Stadium; the incomparable shot off Alan Foster measures 506 feet


Baseball PlayerWillie Stargell

• 1972 Detroit Tigers shortstop Ed Brinkman commits an error, ending a record streak of 72 games and 331 total chances without a misplay

Sports History
1973 Atlanta Braves pitcher Phil Niekro no-hits the San Diego Padres 9-0, achieving the first no-hitter for the franchise in Atlanta


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherPhil Niekro

• 1973 Fifteen-year-old Australian swimmer Stephen Holland smashes Mike Burton's 1,500 m world record by a massive 14.78 seconds (15:37.8) in Brisbane
• 1975 Philadelphia Phillies set an MLB record when the first eight batters get hits off Bill Bonham and beat the Cubs 13-5
• 1978 New Orleans Saints beat Philadelphia Eagles 14-7 in an NFL exhibition at Mexico City's Olympic Stadium
• 1978 The first all-seater stadium opens in Aberdeen, Scotland; Aberdeen and London club Tottenham Hotspur play a friendly to inaugurate Pittodrie Stadium

PGA Championship
1979 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Australian David Graham wins on the thirrd playoff hole against Ben Crenshaw


GolferBen Crenshaw
Baseball Record
1979 Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Pete Rose collects a National League record 2,427th career single in a 5-2 home loss against the Pirates


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose
Baseball Hall of Fame
1979 Willie Mays, Warren Giles, and Hack Wilson inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY


MLB LegendWillie Mays

Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderHack Wilson

• 1980 Montreal Expos manager Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game in an 11-5 victory against the Mets, for whom Doug Flynn hits an MLB record-tying three triples

PGA Championship
1982 PGA Championship, Southern Hills CC: Raymond Floyd fires an opening round of 9-under-par 63, tying the tournament 18-hole record


Golfer and Four-Time Major Championship WinnerRay Floyd
Sports History
1984 American Joan Benoit wins the first Olympic marathon for women (2:24:52) ahead of Grete Waitz of Norway at the Los Angeles Games


Long Distance RunnerGrete Waitz

• 1984 American super-hurdler Edwin Moses wins the 400 m hurdles gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics, his 105th consecutive race victory
• 1984 Evelyn Ashford runs a 100 m record time of 10.97 to beat American teammate Alice Brown in the Los Angeles Olympic Games final
• 1984 The rowing competition at the Los Angeles Olympics concludes with Romania dominating the women's section, winning 5 of 6 gold medals, while the US wins the eights from Romania
• 1984 Toronto designated hitter Cliff Johnson hits an MLB record 19th career pinch-hit HR in the Blue Jays' 4-3 win over the Baltimore Orioles

Baseball Record
1986 Giants left-handed pitcher Steve Carlton becomes the second player to reach the 4,000 strikeout milestone when he strikes out center fielder Eric Davis in an 11-5 loss to the Reds


Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton
World Record
1986 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets a 5,000 m world record in 14:37.33 in Stockholm, Sweden


Long Distance RunnerIngrid Kristiansen

• 1988 Thoroughbred trainer Dale Baird wins his 5,000th career race with Stuffed Johnnie at Mountaineer Park, becoming the second to reach the milestone behind Jack Van Berg
• 1989 First-ever tie in harness racing's Hambletonian as Park Avenue Joe and Probe tie the third and final heat; Park Avenue Joe wins the series on a countback
• 1991 Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union breaks his own world pole vault record (6.10 m) in Malmö, Sweden
• 1992 Cuba wins baseball's inaugural gold medal at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, beating Chinese Taipei 11-1
• 1995 5th Athletics World Championships open at Gothenburg, Sweden
• 1996 Kansas City Chiefs rout Dallas Cowboys 32-6 in an NFL preseason exhibition game in Monterrey, Mexico

Baseball Record
1999 St. Louis slugger Mark McGwire becomes the 16th MLB player to reach the 500 home run milestone as the Cardinals lose 10-3 to San Diego at Busch Stadium


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

• 2000 Moni Maker wins the $500,000 Nat Ray at the Meadowlands in a world record time of 1:52.1 to become harness racing's first $5 million stakes earner

Women's British Open
2001 British Open Women's Golf at Sunningdale GC: Se Ri Pak of South Korea wins by two strokes over Mi Hyun Kim; event gains LPGA major status for the first time


LPGA GolferSe Ri Pak

• 2001 Cleveland Indians tie an MLB record by erasing a 12-run Seattle lead to win 15-14, also preventing the Mariners from reaching a record 117 season wins
• 2005 NBA announces Las Vegas will host the 2007 All-Star Game, the first time the event will be held in a city without an NBA team

Baseball Record
2005 St. Louis Cardinals 1st baseman Albert Pujols becomes the first player to connect for 30 home runs in each of his first five MLB seasons


MLB 1st BasemanAlbert Pujols
Hall of Fame
2006 Warren Moon becomes the first Black quarterback to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, joined by Troy Aikman, John Madden, Rayfield Wright, Harry Carson, and Reggie White


NFL LegendReggie White
Women's British Open
2007 British Open Women's Golf, St. Andrews: Lorena Ochoa of Mexico leads wire-to-wire to win the first of her two major titles, four strokes ahead of Maria Hjorth and Jee Young Lee


GolferLorena Ochoa
Sports History
2007 New York Mets left-hander Tom Glavine becomes the 23rd pitcher in MLB history to reach the 300-win milestone in an 8-3 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field in Chicago


Baseball PitcherTom Glavine
Sports History
2010 Group led by Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan and Pittsburgh attorney Chuck Greenberg is confirmed as the winning bidder in a court-ordered auction of the Texas Rangers MLB franchise, valued at $593 million


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan
Olympic Games
2012 Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt wins the 100 m at the London Olympics in 9.63 seconds, breaking the record he set in the 2008 Olympics


Olympic SprinterUsain Bolt
Sports History
2013 MLB bans New York Yankees infielder Alex Rodriguez for 211 games due to the Biogenesis Laboratories scandal


MLB ShortstopAlex Rodriguez

• 2013 Rain intervenes to end the third cricket Test between Australia and England at Old Trafford; England retains the Ashes after winning the first two Tests
• 2016 XXXI Summer Olympic Games officially open in Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 2017 Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt finishes third behind Justin Gatlin and Christian Coleman in his final individual race, the 100 m at the IAAF World Championships in London
• 2017 Super Rugby Final, Ellis Park: Canterbury Crusaders (NZ) travel to Johannesburg and defeat the Lions 25-17 for their eighth Super Rugby title
• 2018 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Lyham & St. Annes: England's Georgia Hall wins her first major title by 2 shots from Pornanong Phatlum of Thailand

World Record
2018 English swimmer Adam Peaty breaks his own world record in 57.00 as he wins his 9th European 100m breaststroke title in Glasgow, Scotland


SwimmerAdam Peaty
Sports History
2021 FC Barcelona confirms record-breaking Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi will leave the club because of Spanish La Liga regulations on player payments


Football StarLionel Messi

• 2021 New Zealand canoeist Lisa Carrington wins her third Olympic gold medal of the Tokyo Games by winning the K-1 500 m, her fifth career gold
• 2024 Japanese gymnast Shinnosuke Oka wins the final of the horizontal bar for his third gold medal of the Paris Olympics after earlier claiming the all-around and team gold medals

 

AUGUST 6

Cy Young Debuts for Cleveland

1890 Future Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young makes his MLB debut, throwing a 3-hitter for the Cleveland Spiders in an 8-1 win over the Chicago Colts at League Park in Cleveland; Young's first career error leads to Chicago's only run


MLB PitcherCy Young

• 1908 St. Louis Cardinals' Johnny Lush pitches a second career no-hitter in a 2-0 win over the Brooklyn Superbas; a change in MLB rules makes this unofficial as the game was shortened by rain
• 1936 American athlete Forrest Towns runs a world record of 14.1 in the semi-finals of the 110 m hurdles at the Berlin Olympics; he can't match the time in the final but wins the gold medal
• 1936 Jack Lovelock of New Zealand runs a world record time of 3:47.8 to win the gold medal in the 1,500 m at the Berlin Olympics
• 1936 Japanese athletes achieve a quinella in the triple jump at the Berlin Olympics; Naoto Tajima wins gold and Masao Harada wins silver
• 1937 MLB overturns New York Yankees' 7-6 win over Cleveland Indians due to umpire error
• 1941 MLB Detroit Tigers pitcher Al Benton collects two sacrifices in an inning, an MLB record, and wins 11-2 against the Cleveland Indians

4th Victory Test
1945 Australian Test cricket all-rounder Keith Miller scores 110 not out for Australian Services on day one of the drawn fourth Victory Test against England at Lord's


CricketerKeith Miller

• 1948 A Swedish 1-2 in the men's 1,500 m at the London Olympics with Henry Eriksson defeating teammate Lennart Strand by 0.6 seconds in a time of 3:49.8
• 1948 Dutch super athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen wins the 200 m in 24.4 seconds at the London Olympics, becoming the first woman to claim three individual track and field gold medals at a Games, having already won the 100 m and 80 m hurdles
• 1948 Seventeen-year-old American Bob Mathias scores 7,139 points to edge out Ignace Heinrich of France by just 165 points in the decathlon at the London Olympics
• 1948 Vicki Draves wins her second diving gold medal at the London Olympics, defeating American teammate Patsy Elsener in the 10 m platform
• 1949 Future Hall of Famer Luke Appling appears in an MLB record 2,154th game at shortstop for the Chicago White Sox en route to 2,218

Paige's Record Shut-Out
1952 St. Louis Browns veteran pitcher Satchel Paige, 46, becomes the oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout, 1-0 over the Detroit Tigers in 12 innings


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherSatchel Paige
Ted Williams Returns
1953 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Ted Williams returns to the Red Sox from military service in Korea and ends the abbreviated season with a .407 batting average


Baseball PlayerTed Williams

• 1956 After going bankrupt in 1955, the American national broadcaster DuMont Television Network airs its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena
• 1958 American athlete Glenn Davis runs a world record of 49.2 seconds in the 400 m hurdles, breaking his own world record by 0.3 seconds in Budapest, Hungary
• 1961 British auto racer Sterling Moss scores his 16th and final Formula 1 victory in the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring
• 1963 Philadelphia NBA franchise changes name from "Nationals" to "76ers," based on the US Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia in 1776
• 1965 32nd NFL Chicago College All-Star Game at Soldier Field: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000 attendees)

Ali KOs London
1966 Muhammad Ali knocks out English boxer Brian London in round 3 at Earl's Court in London to retain his undisputed world heavyweight title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali
Brooks Robinson
1967 Future Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles hits into an MLB-record fourth career triple play


Baseball Hall of Fame Third BasemanBrooks Robinson

• 1967 Minnesota Twins pitcher Dean Chance throws a perfect no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox, winning 2-0 in five innings before the game is called due to weather

Aaron Breaks Ruth Record
1972 Hank Aaron hits his 660th and 661st home runs for the Atlanta Braves, breaking Babe Ruth's MLB record for most home runs with one team


Baseball PlayerHank Aaron
PGA Championship
1972 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Gary Player of South Africa wins by two shots from Americans Tommy Aaron and Jim Jamieson


GolferGary Player
Baseball Hall of Fame
1973 Roberto Clemente, Warren Spahn, Billy Evans, Monte Irvin, Mickey Welch, and George "High Pockets" Kelly are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY


Baseball PlayerRoberto Clemente

Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherWarren Spahn
PGA Championship
1978 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oakmont CC: John Mahaffey recovers from 7 down with 14 to play to force playoff; beats Tom Watson & Jerry Pate on 2nd hole


GolferTom Watson

• 1982 Curtis Cup Golf, Denver CC: United States beats Great Britain & Ireland 14½-3½
• 1983 First NFL exhibition game in Europe: Minnesota Vikings beat St. Louis Cardinals 28-10 at London's Wembley Stadium
• 1984 After Americans Roger Kingdom and Greg Foster equal the Olympic record in the semi-finals of the 110 m hurdles in Los Angeles, Kingdom beats Foster in the final with a new Games record of 13.20 seconds

Carl Lewis Wins Gold
1984 American athlete Carl Lewis wins the long jump with a jump of 8.54 m, his second of four gold medals at the Los Angeles Olympics


Olympic Sprinter and Long JumperCarl Lewis

• 1985 MLB Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike lasting 1 day
• 1986 Baltimore's Jim Dwyer & Larry Sheets, and Rangers Toby Harrah hit MLB record 3 grand slams in Texas' 13-11 win

Baseball Record
1988 Oakland A's outfielder Jose Canseco becomes 11th MLB player to record 30 home runs and 30 steals in a season


MLB PlayerJosé Canseco

• 1988 Rich Gossage becomes the second player in MLB history to record 300 career saves as the Cubs beat the Phillies 7-4
• 1989 Boston Red Sox retire Baseball Hall of Fame left fielder and first baseman Carl Yastrzemski's #8

Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY


MLB Hall of Fame Infielder and BroadcasterJoe Morgan

Baseball PlayerJim Palmer

• 1991 American softball pitcher Debbie Doom strikes out 17 in her second consecutive perfect game at the Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba, defeating Nicaragua 8-0
• 1992 The US track team sweeps the medals in the long jump at the Barcelona Olympics as Carl Lewis wins gold with a jump of 28 feet, 5 1/2 inches (8.67 meters), Mike Powell wins silver, and Joe Greene wins bronze
• 1992 Wrestler Bruce Baumgartner becomes the first American to win in three straight Olympics, capturing the gold in the 286-pound freestyle division in Barcelona
• 1995 Cleveland's major league sports franchises, NFL Browns and MLB Indians, play in Cleveland for the first time; both lose: White Sox 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition)
• 1997 Newly established NHL franchise Nashville Predators name Barry Trotz as inaugural coach; lasts 15 seasons and 1,196 regular season games

Sri Lanka's Record Innings
1997 Sri Lanka sets a world record of 952 for 6 in the first cricket Test against India in Colombo; Sanath Jayasuriya scores 340, Roshan Mahanama scores 225 in a record partnership of 576


CricketerSanath Jayasuriya
Tony Gwynn
1999 Tony Gwynn goes 4 for 5 and collects his 3,000th MLB hit as San Diego beats the Expos 12-10 at Olympic Stadium in Montreal


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderTony Gwynn
Marion Jones Disqualified
2001 Two-time champion Marion Jones is disqualified and has her string of 42 consecutive 100m final victories snapped by Zhanna Pintusevich-Block of Ukraine at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada


Track and Field Athlete and Drug CheatMarion Jones

• 2002 32-year-old reliever Robb Nen becomes the 16th and youngest closer to record 300 career saves as he protects the Giants' 11-10 lead against the Cubs
• 2005 10th Athletics World Championships open at Helsinki, Finland
• 2006 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Lytham and St Annes GC: 43-year-old American Sherri Steinhauer wins her second major title, three strokes ahead of Sophie Gustafson and Cristie Kerr
• 2006 For an MLB record 11th time in his career, Padres closer Trevor Hoffman records 30 or more saves in a season, surpassing the record set by Lee Smith, baseball's all-time saves leader

Tiger Woods Record Tour Win
2006 Tiger Woods (30) becomes the youngest player to compile 50 PGA Tour wins with a three-stroke victory over Jim Furyk in the Buick Open in Grand Blanc, Michigan


GolferTiger Woods

GolferJim Furyk
US Swimming Relay Gold
2016 Australian women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay team of Emma McKeon, Brittany Elmslie, Bronte Campbell, and Cate Campbell set a new world record of 3:30.65 to win gold ahead of the US and Canada at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics


SwimmerEmma McKeon

• 2016 Hoàng Xuân Vinh of Vietnam records 202.5 points to win the gold medal in the men's 10 m air pistol at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Vietnam's first gold medal in any Olympic event
• 2016 Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszú sets world record 4:26.36 to win the gold medal in the women's 400 m individual medley at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
• 2016 Super Rugby Final, Westpac Stadium Wellington: Wellington Hurricanes win their first Super Rugby title with a 20-3 victory over the Lions from Johannesburg
• 2017 British Open Women's Golf, Kingbarns GC: South Korean In-Kyung Kim wins by 2 strokes from Jodi Ewart Shadoff of England
• 2021 Faith Kipyegon of Kenya retains her Olympic 1,500 m title in an Olympic record of 3:53.11 at the Tokyo Olympics

Elaine Thompson-Herah's 3rd Gold
2021 Jamaican 100/200m champion Elaine Thompson-Herah claims her third track gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics as part of the winning Jamaican 4 x 100 m relay team


SprinterElaine Thompson-Herah
Imran Khan Convicted
2023 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is convicted of illegally selling state gifts and sentenced to 3 years [1]


Cricketer and Prime Minister of PakistanImran Khan

• 2024 Chinese diver Quan Hongchan successfully defends her 10 m platform gold medal at the Paris Olympics, adding to her 10 m synchro platform gold with partner Chen Yuxi