Events in Sport
- Aug 5 Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union breaks his own world pole vault record (6.10m) in Malmö Sweden
- Aug 6 American softball pitcher Debbie Doom strikes out 17 in her 2nd consecutive perfect game at the Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba; beats Nicaragua, 8-0
World Record
Aug 7 American team of Carl Lewis, Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell & Dennis Mitchell set 4 x 100m relay world record of 37.67 seconds in Zürich, Switzerland
PGA Championship
Aug 11 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Crooked Stick GC: John Daly wins by 3 strokes from fellow American Bruce Lietzke
Sports History
Aug 12 Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon & Marshall
- Aug 13 American Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60) at the World Championships in Perth, Australia
Sports History
Aug 14 MLB Minnesota Twins Dave Winfield is 23rd to hit 400 HR
Sports History
Aug 20 Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million
- Aug 22 Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100m backstroke (1:00.31)
- Aug 23 3rd Athletics World Championships open at Tokyo, Japan
- Aug 24 Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0
- Aug 25 Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds
- Aug 25 Cubs Doug Dascenzo commits his 1st career error after 242 games
- Aug 25 Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.62)
- Aug 25 Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53)
- Aug 26 Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0
Baseball Record
Aug 28 Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martínez both perfect game pitcher
Birthdays in Sport
Deaths in Sport
Paul Brown
Aug 5 Paul Brown, American NFL Hall of Fame coach (Cleveland Browns, 1946-62, 1968-69; Cincinnati Bengals, 1970-75), dies of pneumonia at 82