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
Event of Interest
May 16 Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year

Michael Jordan
- 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
Boxing Title Fight
May 20 Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

Larry Holmes
Event of Interest
May 25 Allan Border scores 4th successive 1st class 100 (v Derbyshire)

Allan Border
Event of Interest
May 30 Stanley Cup Final, Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton, AL: Edmonton Oilers take back-to-back titles; beat Philadelphia Flyers, 8-3 for a 4-1 series victory; Wayne Gretzky and Jari Kurri each post a goal and 3 assists

Wayne Gretzky

Jari Kurri
LPGA Championship
Jun 2 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Nancy Lopez wins by 8 shots from fellow American Alice Miller

Nancy Lopez
French Open Women's Tennis
Jun 8 French Open Women's Tennis: Chris Evert beats Martina Navratilova 6-3, 6-7, 7-5 for her 17th Grand Slam title and 6th French singles crown

Chris Evert

Martina Navratilova
NBA Finals
Jun 9 NBA Championship, Boston Garden: Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 111-100 for a 4 games to 2 series victory; Finals MVP: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
French Open Men's Tennis
Jun 9 French Open Men's Tennis: Sweden's Mats Wilander wins 4th career Grand Slam title; beats Czech star Ivan Lendl 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2

Mats Wilander

Ivan Lendl
- Jun 14 Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Baltimore Orioles
Boxing Title Fight
Jun 15 Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title

Mike Weaver
Event of Interest
Jun 19 Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place

Reggie Jackson
- Jun 23 Laffit Pincay Jr.becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million
Event of Interest
Jun 23 Senior Tournament Players Championship Men's Golf, Canterbury GC: Defending champion Arnold Palmer wins his final major by 11 shots from Miller Barber, Lee Elder, Gene Littler & Charles Owens

Arnold Palmer
- 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
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 6 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 for her 6th Wimbledon singles title

Martina Navratilova

Chris Evert
- Jul 6 Mom's Command wins the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont to clinch American thoroughbred racing's Triple Tiara for fillies
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 7 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Boris Becker beats South African Kevin Curren 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 to become the youngest man (17) to win a Wimbledon singles title

Boris Becker
- Jul 8 Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red
Event of Interest
Jul 11 Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)

Nolan Ryan
Event of Interest
Jul 13 New York Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) and Elston Howard (32) uniforms

Roger Maris
- 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)
British Golf Open
Jul 21 British Open Men's Golf, Royal St George's GC: Scotsman Sandy Lyle wins his only Open title by 1 stroke from runner-up Payne Stewart; last time event features double cut (after 36 and 54 holes), introduced in 1968

Payne Stewart
- 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
Golf Major
Jul 28 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Beaconsfield GC: Pat Bradley wins by 1 from Jane Geddes

Pat Bradley

Jane Geddes
- 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
Event of Interest
Aug 2 England captain David Gower scores his 5,000th run in Test cricket during the drawn 4th Test v Australia at Old Trafford

David Gower
- 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
Event of Interest
Aug 4 Tom Seaver of Chicago White Sox becomes 17th pitcher to win 300 MLB career games, beating New York, 4-1; 54,032 at Yankee Stadium

Tom Seaver
- 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
Event of Interest
Aug 20 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)

Dwight Gooden
- 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)
Event of Interest
Aug 26 Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs California Angels

Eddie Murray
Event of Interest
Aug 31 Ángel Cordero Jr. becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100m

Ángel Cordero Jr.
- 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
Event of Interest
Sep 6 Mark Messier loses control of his Porsche and totals three cars, and would later be charged with hit and run and careless driving (he would pay a fine)

Mark Messier
US Open Women's Tennis
Sep 7 US Open Women's Tennis: Hana Mandlíková beats Martina Navratilova 7-6, 1-6, 7-6 for her first US title

Hana Mandlikova

Martina Navratilova
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 8 US Open Men's Tennis: Czech star Ivan Lendl wins his first US title; beats NYC home town favourite John McEnroe 7-6, 6-3, 6-4

Ivan Lendl

John McEnroe
- 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
Event of Interest
Sep 22 Billy Martin's right arm is broken by pitcher Ed Whitson

Billy Martin
- Sep 22 St Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man
Baseball Record
Sep 24 Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th), and joins Willey McCovey to hit 2 HRs in an inn twice

Andre Dawson
Baseball Record
Sep 25 Rickey Henderson steals Yankee record 75th base of season

Rickey Henderson
- 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
Event of Interest
Oct 6 French McLaren driver Alain Prost clinches his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship with a 4th placing in the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch

Alain Prost
- 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
Event of Interest
Oct 14 New York Jets retire Joe Namath's #12 on nationally televised Monday Night Football; beat Miami Dolphins, 23-7

Joe Namath
- 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
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
Michael Phelps
Jun 30 Michael Phelps, American swimmer (record 23 Olympic gold medals), born in Baltimore, Maryland

Michael Phelps
Megan Rapinoe
Jul 5 Megan Rapinoe, American pro soccer player (American co-captain), born in Redding, California

Megan Rapinoe
- 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
Luka Modrić
Sep 9 Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer (Real Madrid C.F.) and captain of Croatia, born in Zadar, Croatia, Yugoslavia

Luka Modrić
- 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