Events in Sport
- 1911 25th U.S. Women's National Championship: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman beats Florence Sutton (8-10, 6-1, 9-7)
Donald Bradman
- 1930 Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games
Tennis Open
1939 44th Men's French Championships: Don McNeill beats Bobby Riggs (7-5, 6-0, 6-3)
Bobby Riggs
Boxing Title Fight
1954 Rocky Marciano beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Rocky Marciano
Ezzard Charles
Event of Interest
1960 Ted Williams hit his 500th HR
Ted Williams
- 1961 61st US Golf Open: Gene Littler shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
Golf Major
1962 62nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC PA
Jack Nicklaus
- 1962 FIFA World Cup Final: Brazil beats Czechoslovakia 3-1 in Santiago, Chile
- 1962 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
- 1973 Canadian Open Golf (La Canadienne), Montreal Municipal GC: Jocelyne Bourassa of Canada wins inaugural event in a playoff with Sandra Haynie & Judy Rankin
- 1973 73rd US Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC PA
- 1976 ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into NBA
- 1979 79th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 284 at Inverness Club in Toledo
- 1979 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
- 1984 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
Event of Interest
1988 Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens
Mike Tyson
Golf Tournament
1990 Christa Johnson wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
Christa Johnson
Event of Interest
1992 Philadelphia 76ers trade Charles Barkley to Phoenix Suns
Charles Barkley
Murder of Interest
1994 O.J. Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, LA cops chase his Ford Bronco for 1½ hours, eventually gives up (seen live on TV)
O.J. Simpson
- 1997 NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 & Minneapolis-St Paul & Columbus, Ohio in 2000
Historic Publication
2003 Moneyball, a book about the 2003 Oakland Athletics baseball team and GM Billy Beane's sabermetric approach, inspired by Bill James, is published
Bill James
- 2007 107th US Golf Open: Ángel Cabrera shoots a 285 at Oakmont GC PA
- 2008 62nd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2
- 2010 64th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 3
- 2012 112th US Golf Open: American golfer, Webb Simpson shoots a 281 at Olympic Club CA
- 2018 118th US Golf Open: Brooks Koepka wins by 1 from Tommy Fleetwood for first back-to-back Open titles since 1988-89 (Curtis Strange)
- 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race: Ex-F1 world champion Fernando Alonso teams with Kazuki Nakajima & Sébastien Buemi to win for Toyota Gazoo Racing
Birthdays in Sport
- 1861 Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)
Tommy Burns
1881 Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer, born in Hanover, Ontario (d. 1955)
Tommy Burns
- 1902 Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (d. 1982)
- 1923 Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, AAFC, NFL halfback, end (LA Rams)
- 1929 Tigran Petrosyan, USSR, world chess champion (1963-69)
- 1930 Brian Statham, cricketer
- 1930 James Gathers, Sumter SC, 200m runner (Olympic bronze 1952)
- 1932 Derek Ibbotson, 5K runner (Olympic bronze 1956)
- 1938 Judy Kimball-Simon, LPGA golfer
- 1940 Bobby Bell, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
- 1944 Chucho Castillo, Mexican bantamweight boxer (WBA, WBC, 1970), born in Nuevo Valle de Moreno, Mexico (d. 2013)
- 1945 Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist (5 time winner of Tour de France)
Tony Roche
1945 Tony Roche, Australian tennis player and coach, born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
Tony Roche
- 1948 David Concepcion, Venezuela, all star shortstop (Cincinnati Reds)
- 1950 Cathy Sherk, LPGA golfer
- 1952 Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player, coach and executive
- 1956 Nick Cook, English cricketer (left arm slow bowler in 15 Tests 1983-89), born in Leicester
- 1960 Mitzi Edge, LPGA golfer (1995 SAFECO Classic), born in Albany, Georgia
- 1962 Ed Brady, American NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs), born in Morris, Illinois
- 1963 Kevin Glover, NFL center (Detroit Lions), born in Washington D.C.
- 1964 Michael Gross, West Germany, swimmer (Olympic-2 world records-1984)
- 1964 Steve Rhodes, cricketer (England wicket-keeper 1994-95)
- 1964 Rinaldo Capello, Italian racing driver
- 1965 Dan Jansen, West Allis Wisc, speed skater (Olympic gold 1984, 88, 92)
- 1965 Danny McManus, CFL quarterback (Edmonton Eskimos)
- 1965 Dermontti Dawson, NFL center (Pittsburgh Steelers)
- 1965 Gianluca Pozzi, Bari Italy, tennis star (1991 Brisbane)
- 1965 Mike Magnante, pitcher (KC Royals), born in Glendale, California
- 1965 Ray Seals, NFL defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers)
- 1966 Clare Look-Jaeger, high jumper, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- 1966 Fred Barnett, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
- 1967 Keith Sims, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins)
- 1967 Pearl Sinn, LPGA golfer
- 1967 Robyn Meagher, Antigonish Nova Scotia, 5k runner (Olympics 1996)
- 1967 Terry Davis, NBA forward/center (Dallas Mavericks, Wash Wizards)
- 1969 Karen Nystrom, ice hockey forward (Canada, Olympic silver 1998)
- 1969 Patric Kjellberg, hockey forward (Team Sweden Olympics 1998)
- 1969 Paul Tergat, Kenyan athlete
- 1970 Arnold Ale, WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores)
- 1970 Jason Hanson, NFL kicker (Detroit Lions)
- 1970 Ron "Popeye" Jones, American NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks, Toronto Raptors), born in Dresden, Tennessee
- 1970 Stephane Fiset, NHL goalie (Colorado Avalanche), born in Montreal, Quebec
- 1971 Tripp Schwenk, American 100m/200m backstroke (Olympic silver 1996)
- 1972 Dirk-Jan Derksen, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
- 1972 James McKnight, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
- 1973 Leander Paes, Indian tennis player
- 1974 Evangelia Psarra, Greek archer
- 1975 Petra Vaarakallio, ice hockey center (Finland, Olympics 1998)
- 1976 Sven Nys, Belgian mountainbiker & cyclo-crosser
- 1977 Mark Tauscher, American football player
- 1978 Isabelle Delobel, French European ice dancer
- 1979 Cawey Schau, canoeist (alt-Olympics 1996), born in Seattle, Washington
- 1979 Nick Rimando, American soccer player
- 1980 Andee Pickens, gymnast (alt-Olympics 1996), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
- 1980 Brittney McConn, Largo Fla, figure skater (1997 Eastern Sr champ)
Venus Williams
1980 Venus Williams, American tennis star considered one of the all-time greats of women's tennis, born in Lynwood, California
Venus Williams
- 1981 Kyle Boller, American football quarterback
- 1981 Shane Watson, Australian Test cricket all-rounder (2005-2015), born in Ipswich, Queensland
- 1982 Marek Svatoš, Slovakian ice hockey player
- 1985 Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot professional tennis player
- 1985 Rafael Sóbis, Brazilian footballer
- 1988 Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player
Weddings in Sport
Wedding of Interest
1924 Golfer Bobby Jones (22) weds high school sweetheart Mary Rice Malone (22) in Atlanta, Georgia
Bobby Jones
Wedding of Interest
2008 Ice hockey player star Martin Brodeur (36) weds Genevieve Nault at the Bavaro Princess Resort in the Dominican Republic
Martin Brodeur
Deaths in Sport
- 1906 Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player, dies
- 1938 H V "Ranji" Hordern, cricketer (7 Tests for Australia 1910-12, dies
- 1939 Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, dies at 46
- 1950 Syed Wazir Ali, cricketer (7 Tests for India), dies
- 1956 Bob Sweikert, American racing driver (b. 1926)
- 1968 José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
- 1970 Matthew Henderson, cricketer (one Test for NZ 1930), dies
- 1971 C Christopher Morris, cricketer (brilliant batsman for Philadelphia), dies
- 1974 Yadavendra Singh, cricketer (Yuvraj of Patiala, Test for India), dies
- 1984 Swale, Kentucky Derby winner, collapses & dies
- 1987 Dick Howser, mgr (NY Yankees & KC Royal), dies of brain cancer at 51
- 1989 John Matuszak, American NFL defensive end (Oak Raider) and actor (The Goonies), dies of an accidental propoxyphene overdose at 38
- 2002 Willie Davenport, American bobsledder and hurdler (Olympic gold 1968), dies at 59
- 2002 Fritz Walter, German footballer, dies at 81
- 2004 Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
- 2015 Ron Clarke, Australian runner (set 17 world records) and mayor, dies at 78