Year 1985 in Sports History (Part 2)

Events in Sport

Events 101 - 200 of 243

• May 15 Everton of England wins 25th European Cup Winner's Cup against Rapid Wien of Austria 3-1 in Rotterdam

• May 16 NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: Philadelphia Flyers beat Quebec Nordiques, 4 games to 2
• May 16 NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final: Edmonton Oilers beat Chicago Black Hawks, 4 games to 2

• May 20 Indians-Brewers game at Cleve Stadium is 1st rain-out of 1985, ends record string of 458 ML games since Opening Day without a rain-out

• May 26 Indianapolis 500: Danny Sullivan wins by 24 seconds following a spin
• May 29 Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months
• May 29 29th European Cup: Juventus beats Liverpool 1-0 at Brussels

• May 31 New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
• Jun 1 West Indian cricket batsman Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 in a tour match against Warwickshire at Taunton; 42 fours and 8 sixes of 258 balls

• Jun 3 Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1
• Jun 5 Steve Cauthen wins aboard Slip Anchor at Epsom Downs to become the only jockey to win both the Kentucky Derby (1978) and The Derby
• Jun 8 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27

• Jun 14 Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Baltimore Orioles

• Jun 16 US Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: 1978 champion Andy North wins by 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Dave Barr, T C Chen and Denis Watson
• Jun 16 Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11 inches) in Indianapolis

• Jun 23 Laffit Pincay Jr.becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million

• Jun 30 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Edgewood Tahore GC: Miller Barber wins by 4 strokes from Roberto De Vincenzo for back-to-back Senior Open titles

• Jul 6 Mom's Command wins the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont to clinch American thoroughbred racing's Triple Tiara for fillies

• Jul 8 Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red

• Jul 14 US Open Women's Golf, Baltusrol GC: Kathy Baker (later Guadagnino) wins her first LPGA Tour event and only major title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Judy Clark (later Dickinson)
• Jul 16 56th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome, Minn
• Jul 16 All star MVP: LaMarr Hoyt (San Diego Padres)

• Jul 21 72nd Tour de France won by Bernard Hinault of France
• Jul 27 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway becomes first woman to run 10,000m in under 31 minutes; takes world record down to 30:59.42 in Oslo, Norway

• Jul 28 L Brock, Enos Slaughter, A Vaughan, & H Wilhelm inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
• Aug 1 St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning of 9-8 loss v Cubs to set a NL rookie record 74

• Aug 4 Scott Verplank beats Jim Thorpe in Western Open playoff, first amateur to win a PGA Tour event since Gene Littler 1954
• Aug 4 New York Yankees retire champion Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Phil Rizzuto's #10

• Aug 6 MLB Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)
• Aug 8 Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993
• Aug 10 Oakland A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 HRs (off Matt Young at Seattle)
• Aug 10 Uno Lindstron of Sweden juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
• Aug 11 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Hubert Green wins by 2 strokes from fellow American Lee Trevino
• Aug 11 Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
• Aug 12 Baltimore Orioles W Gross & L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs

• Aug 20 Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
• Aug 22 30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11
• Aug 23 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
• Aug 25 Met Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)

• Aug 27 Mary Joe Fernández at 14 years 8 days old becomes youngest player to win at the US Tennis Open; beats England's Sara Gomer 6-1, 6-4 in a 1st round match
• Aug 29 NY Yank Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time

• Sep 1 Bill Elliott claims a $1 million bonus for winning 3 of the 4 crown jewel races on the NASCAR schedule: the Daytona 500, Winston 500 and Southern 500
• Sep 1 Dutch cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes the oldest road race elite world champion at 38 years, 8 months, 29 days; beats Greg Lamonde & Marino Argentin in Giavera del Montello
• Sep 3 England cricket swing bowler Richard Ellison with 5 for 76 helps dismiss Australia for 129 in 6th Test win at the Oval; England regains Ashes 3-1
• Sep 3 NY Mets catcher Gary Carter smashes 3 consecutive HRs in an 8-3 win v San Diego Padres at Jack Murphy Stadium
• Sep 4 Russian Igor Paklin sets new high jump world record at 2.41m in Kobe, Japan
• Sep 4 NY Mets catcher Gary Carter's 2 HRs in a 9-2 win in San Diego ties MLB record of 5 HRs in 2 games

• Sep 8 Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with 4,191 hits

• Sep 11 Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs v India
• Sep 11 Pete Rose of Cincinnati Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record
• Sep 15 Ryder Cup Golf, The Belfry: Europe beats US, 16½-11½; sole US loss in 50 years; Sam Torrance clinches for Europe beating Andy North, 1 up
• Sep 15 Yanks trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro
• Sep 20 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players
• Sep 21 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 to become Heavyweight Boxing Champion

• Sep 22 St Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man

• Sep 29 Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys)
• Oct 2 Detroit 1st baseman Darrell Evans hits home run #40 in Tigers' 4-2 win over Toronto Blue Jays; first to record 40 x HRs in a MLB season in both Leagues
• Oct 2 A Mayor Richard Caliguiri led coalition of public and private groups committed to keeping the struggling Pittsburgh Pirates in town for at least 5 years reach agreement to buy the baseball team for $22 million
• Oct 4 Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia
• Oct 6 New York Yankees knuckleballer Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games; at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out, beating Toronto 8-0

• Oct 7 Lynette Woodward chosen as 1st woman in Harlem Globetrotters
• Oct 13 During NLCS, Cards rookie Vince Coleman is injured stretching before game as his left leg is caught in Busch Stadium's automated tarpaulin

• Oct 16 KC Royals & St Louis Cardinals win their league championships
• Oct 16 MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 4 games to 2
• Oct 16 MLB American League Championship: Kansas City Royals beat Toronto Blue Jays, 4 games to 3
• Oct 17 Lou Piniella named NY Yankee manager
• Oct 21 Qasim Omar (206) & Javed Miandad (203*) make 397 stand v SL

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Birthdays in Sport

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 246

• May 9 Jake Long, American football player
• May 10 Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player
• May 12 Tally Hall, American soccer player, born in SeaTac, Washington
• May 12 Jeroen Simaeys, Belgian footballer, born in Mechelen, Belgium
• May 13 Travis Zajac, Canadian ice hockey player
• May 15 Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
• May 16 Anja Mittag, German footballer
• May 16 Corey Perry, Canadian ice hockey player
• May 17 Matt Ryan, American football player
• May 21 Andrew Miller, Major League Baseball player
• May 22 Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
• May 22 Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
• May 23 Ross Wallace, Scottish footballer
• May 24 Tim Bridgman, British racing driver, born in Harlow, England
• May 27 Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player
• May 31 Ian Vouyoukas, Greek basketball player
• Jun 1 Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian athlete (5,000m WR 14:11.15 2008; Olympic gold 5000m, 10000m 2008; 10000m 2012), born in Bekoji, Arsi Province, Ethiopia
• Jun 1 Dinesh Karthik, Indian cricket wicket-keeper and batsman (26 Tests, 63 dismissals; 94 ODI; 32 T20I), born in Udangudi, India
• Jun 4 Lukas Podolski, Polish-born footballer
• Jun 4 Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
• Jun 5 Kenny De Ketele, Belgian cyclist
• Jun 8 Alexandre Despatie, French-Canadian diver
• Jun 10 Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
• Jun 10 Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer
• Jun 12 Sam Thaiday, Australian professional rugby league player (Brisbane Broncos), born in Sydney, Australia
• Jun 13 Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
• Jun 13 Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese racing driver
• Jun 14 Andrew Bonner, Scottish football player
• Jun 14 Andy Soucek, Spanish racing driver
• Jun 17 Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot professional tennis player
• Jun 17 Rafael Sóbis, Brazilian footballer, born in Erechim, Brazil
• Jun 20 Souleymane Mamam, Togolese footballer
• Jun 20 Darko Miličić, Serbian basketball player (Detroit Pistons), born in Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia
• Jun 21 Anthony Morelli, American football player
• Jun 21 Byron Schammer, AFL footballer
• Jun 22 Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Greek-Cameroonian basketball player
• Jun 27 Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player (US Open 2004, French Open 2009), born in St. Petersburg, Russia
• Jun 27 Nico Rosberg, German Finnish race car driver (F1 World Champion 2016), born in Wiesbaden, West Germany
• Jun 27 James Hook, Welsh rugby player, born in Port Talbot, Wales
• Jun 28 Phil Bardsley, English football player (Burnley), born in Salford, England
• Jun 29 Quintin Demps, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles), born in San Antonio, Texas

• Jun 30 Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
• Jun 30 Cody Runnels, American wrestler
• Jul 1 Chris Perez, American MLB reliever (All Star 2011-12), born in Bradenton, Florida
• Jul 2 Rhett Bomar, American football player
• Jul 2 Chad Henne, American football player

• Jul 9 Paweł Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer
• Jul 9 Ashley Young, English footballer
• Jul 9 BJ Watling, New Zealand cricket wicketkeeper (top Test score 205 2019), born in Durban, Natal Province, South Africa
• Jul 10 Mario Gómez, German footballer
• Jul 13 Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
• Jul 17 Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer, born in Irvine, United Kingdom
• Jul 21 Von Wafer, American basketball player, born in Homer, Louisiana
• Jul 22 Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player
• Jul 23 Luis Ángel Landín, Mexican footballer
• Jul 24 Patrice Bergeron, Canadian hockey player
• Jul 25 Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian auto racer (Formula E champion 2014-15), born in Heidelberg, West Germany
• Jul 26 Gaël Clichy, French footballer (İstanbul Başakşehir), born in Toulouse, France
• Jul 30 Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer, born in Oslo, Norway
• Aug 3 Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby league footballer, born in Auckland, New Zealand
• Aug 4 Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
• Aug 4 Luis Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
• Aug 4 Ha Seung-Jin, Korean basketball player
• Aug 5 Laurent Ciman, Belgian footballer, born in Farciennes, Belgium
• Aug 5 Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer (Chelsea), born in Oumé, Ivory Coast
• Aug 8 Brayan Ruiz, Costa Rican football player
• Aug 9 Luca Filippi, Italian racing driver
• Aug 9 Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
• Aug 9 JaMarcus Russell, American football player
• Aug 10 Roy O'Donovan, Irish footballer
• Aug 14 Christian Gentner, German footballer, born in Nürtingen, Germany
• Aug 22 Brittany Lang, American golfer (US Open 2016), born in Richmond, Virginia
• Aug 30 Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer, born in Swansea, Wales
• Aug 30 Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer (2 Olympic golds, 1 silver), born in Katherine, Australia
• Aug 30 Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer (3 Olympic medals), born in Perth, Australia
• Aug 30 Steven Smith, Scottish footballer (Rangers), born in Bellshill, Scotland
• Sep 3 Scott Carson, English footballer, born in Whitehaven, England
• Sep 3 Kelvin Wilson, English footballer, born in Nottingham, England
• Sep 5 Ryan Guy, American soccer player, born in Carlsbad, California
• Sep 6 Ali Ashfaq, Maldivian footballer, born in Malé, Maldives
• Sep 6 Alberto Valerio, Brazilian racing driver, born in Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Sep 7 Rafinha [Márcio Rafael Ferreira de Souza], Brazilian footballer, born in Londrina, Paraná, Brazil

• Sep 9 J.R. Smith, American basketball player, born in Freehold, New Jersey
• Sep 11 Shaun Livingston, American basketball player, born in Peoria, Illinois
• Sep 11 Zack Stortini, Canadian ice hockey player, born in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada
• Sep 12 Jack Wilkinson, English footballer (Hartlepool United), born in Beverley, England
• Sep 14 Delmon Young, American baseball player, born in Montgomery, Alabama
• Sep 17 Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
• Sep 17 Brendan Clarke, Irish Soccer Player with St. Patrick's Athletic
• Sep 17 Tomáš Berdych, Czech tennis player (13 ATP Tour titles), born in Valašské Meziříčí, Czech Republic
• Sep 17 Mason Raymond, Canadian ice hockey player
• Sep 19 Brittany Lincicome, American golfer (ANA Inspiration 2009, 15), born in St. Petersburg, Florida
• Sep 22 Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer
• Sep 23 Brian Brohm, American football player
• Sep 23 Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player
• Sep 23 Hossein Ka'abi, Iranian footballer
• Sep 23 Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player

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