Events in Sport
- 1898 US Open Men's Golf, Myopia Hunt Club: Scotsman Fred Herd easily wins by 7 strokes from countryman Alex Smith; first 72-hole US Open
- 1898 12th U.S. Women's National Championship: Juliette Atkinson beats Marion Jones (6-3, 5-7, 6-4, 2-6, 7-5)
- 1906 6th Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Wimbledon (5-0)
- 1915 US Open Men's Golf, Baltusrol GC: 4-time US Amateur champion Jerome Travers captures his only Open title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Tom McNamara
- 1916 Yanks score in every inning but 8th to beat Indians 19-3 in baseball
- 1936 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, Wisconsin
- 1947 Cincinnati Red Ewell Blackwell no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0
- 1948 Phillies pitching great Robin Roberts debut, loses 2-0 to Pirates
- 1950 Cleveland Indians score 14 runs in 1st inning, beat A's 21-2
- 1953 Eugene Stephens is 1st to get 3 hits & Red Sox score 17 runs in 1 Inning (7th) Red Sox beat Detroit 23-3
US Golf Open
1960 US Open Men's Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Arnold Palmer stages greatest comeback in tournament history; erases a 7-stroke final round deficit to win his only US Open title by 2 strokes ahead of Jack Nicklaus
Arnold Palmer
Jack Nicklaus
- 1960 Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66)
US Golf Open
1967 US Open Men's Golf, Baltusrol GC: Jack Nicklaus shoots a final round 65 for a new tournament record 275, 4 strokes ahead of Arnold Palmer
Jack Nicklaus
Arnold Palmer
- 1967 Houston Don Wilson no-hits Atlanta Braves, 2-0
- 1972 US Open Men's Golf, Pebble Beach GL: Jack Nicklaus captures his 3rd Open title, 3 strokes ahead of Bruce Crampton of Australia
- 1972 US Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws
- 1972 UEFA European Championship Final, Heysel Stadium, Brussels, Belgium: Gerd Müller scores a brace as West Germany beats Soviet Union, 3-0
- 1973 NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants
- 1975 Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a Red Sox 15-1 victory over Tigers
- 1975 Gary Gilmour takes 6-14 in Cricket World Cup semi v England
- 1976 Bowie Kuhn voids A's sales, totaling $35 million, of Joe Rudi & Rollie Fingers to Red Sox, & Vida Blue to Yankees
Event of Interest
1977 Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
Reggie Jackson
US Golf Open
1978 US Open Men's Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Andy North holds on for a 1-stroke victory over runners-up Dave Stockton and J. C. Snead to claim the first of his 2 US Open titles
Dave Stockton
US Golf Open
1984 US Open Men's Golf, Winged Foot GC: Fuzzy Zoeller beats Greg Norman of Australia by 8 strokes in a Monday 18-hole playoff to win his first Open title
Greg Norman
US Golf Open
1989 US Open Men's Golf, Oak Hill CC: Curtis Strange wins by 3 from Scott Simpson for first back-to-back Open titles since Ben Hogan 1950-51
Ben Hogan
Event of Interest
1993 Expo's Dennis Martínez is 92nd to win 200 games
Dennis Martínez
- 1994 Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec)
- 1995 US Open Men's Golf, Shinnecock Hills GC: Corey Pavin wins his only major championship, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Greg Norman of Australia
Event of Interest
1995 All Black Jonah Lomu scores the try of the Rugby World Cup, running over Mike Catt in New Zealand's 45-29 defeat of England
Jonah Lomu
- 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, Råsunda Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden: Hege Riise & Marianne Pettersen score within 3 minutes of each other to give Norway a 2-0 win over Germany
US Golf Open
2000 100th US Open Men's Golf, Pebble Beach GL: Tiger Woods wins his first US Open by a major championship record-setting 15 strokes over Ernie Els and Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Tiger Woods
- 2001 US Open Men's Golf, Southern Hills CC: Retief Goosen of South Africa wins first of 2 US Open titles in an 18-hole Monday playoff, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Mark Brooks
US Golf Open
2006 US Open Men's Golf, Winged Foot GC: Geoff Ogilvy of Australia makes clutch pars on the final 2 holes to win by 1, as runners-up Jim Furyk, Colin Montgomerie and Phil Mickelson all fail to par the 72nd hole
Phil Mickelson
Birthdays in Sport
- 1896 Cota Ramaswami, cricketer (Davis Cup for India 1922, Test 1936)
- 1912 Glen Morris, American Olympic track and field champion (Olympic gold, 1936) and actor (Tarzan, Hold That Co-ed), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1974)
- 1914 Billy Wade, cricket wicket-keeper (South African in 11 Tests 1938-50)
- 1915 Arthur Fagg, cricketer (dual double-centuries in a game for Kent 1938)
George Mikan
1924 George Mikan, American Basketball Hall of Fame center (4-time NBA All Star 1951-54), born in Joliet, Illinois (d. 2005)
George Mikan
- 1933 Jean Wicki, Swiss 4-man bobsled (Olympic gold 1972)
- 1939 Lou Brock, one-time baseball stolen base leader (St Louis Cards)
- 1939 Lynn Whiting, horse trainer
- 1949 Jerry Hollendorfer, horse trainer
- 1950 Annelie Ehrhardt, German DR, 100m hurdler (Olympic gold 1972)
- 1961 Andres Galarraga, Venezuelan infielder (Colorado Rockies), born in Caracas
- 1963 Bruce Smith, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
- 1963 Joe Walter, NFL tackle (Cin Bengals)
- 1964 Thanh Nguyen, Saigon Vietnam, 141 lbs US weightlifter (Olympics 1996)
- 1966 Bob Kempainen, marathoner (Olympics 1996), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- 1966 Doug Bodger, Chemainus BC, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, San Jose)
- 1966 Kurt Browning, Alberta, figure skater (Olympic-5-1994)
- 1966 Luke Jensen, Grayling Mich, tennis star (1993 French Open doubles)
- 1966 Robert Kempainen, marathoner (Olympics 1996), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- 1966 Sandy Alomar, catcher (Cleveland Indians), born in Salinas, Puerto Rico
- 1968 John Lumkes, 3k steeplechase runner, born in Chicago, Illinois
- 1969 Fernando Valenzula, jockey
- 1969 Jay Leeuwenburg, NFL guard/center (Chicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts)
- 1971 Blair Pocock, cricketer (New Zealand opening batsman 1993)
- 1971 Nigel Owens, Welsh Rugby Referee (Stonewall Sportsperson of the Decade), born in Mynyddcerrig, Carmarthenshire
- 1972 Otakar Vejvoda, Kladno CZE, hockey forward (Team Czech Rep)
- 1973 Rayna Stewart, safety/cornerback (Tennessee Oilers)
- 1973 Tracy Noonan, Lawrence Mass, soccer goalkeeper (Olympics 1996)
- 1973 Alexandros Papadimitriou, Greek hammer thrower
- 1974 Keith Poole, wide receiver (New Orleans Saints)
- 1974 Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer
- 1975 Aleksandrs Koliņko, Latvian footballer
- 1975 Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player
- 1980 Antonio Gates, American football player
- 1980 Craig Mottram, Australian middle distance runner
- 1984 Mateus, Angolan footballer
- 1984 Janne Happonen, Finnish ski jumper
- 1986 Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
- 1992 Bob Kempainen, marathoner (Olympics-66), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Weddings in Sport
- 2005 "Queens Park Rangers" football striker Djibril Cisse (23) weds Jude Littler at Bodelwyddan Castle in Denbighshire, North Wales
Deaths in Sport
- 1898 George Ulyett, cricketer (949 runs 50 wkts for England 25 Tests), dies
- 1952 Efim Bogoljubov, Russian-German chess player, dies at 63
- 1958 Douglas Jardine, cricketer (22 Tests for England), dies
- 1962 George Sargent, English golfer (US Open 1909), dies at 79
- 1967 Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942)
- 1967 Giacomo Russo, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
- 1980 André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
- 1990 Dennis Dyer, South African cricketer (scored 96 3 Tests for South Africa), dies at 76
- 1996 Pierre Chany, writer/cycling journalist, dies at 73
- 2003 Larry Doby, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (1st African-American in AL, Cleveland Indians), dies of cancer at 79
- 2005 Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
- 2012 Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach, dies at 78
- 2013 Gene Freese, American MLB player, dies from complications of back surgery at 79
- 2014 Michael Frederick, Barbadian cricketer (one Test WI v England 1954, scored 0 & 30), dies at 87
- 2018 Walter Bahr, American soccer midfielder, coach (1950 US beat England 1-0), dies of complications broken hip at 91
June in History
![Lomu – The Unstoppable Gentle Giant]()
Lomu – The Unstoppable Gentle Giant
Jonah Lomu was a phenomenon in Rugby Union – a man-mountain who inspired fear and respect in equal measure among his opponents.
June 18, 1995!['Ship in Distress' Sails Into History Books]()
'Ship in Distress' Sails Into History Books
What was claimed to be the first trans-Atlantic crossing by a steam ship – even if sails helped – was completed on this day and is still celebrated
June 19, 1819!['Gorgeous Gussie' Shocks Wimbledon]()
'Gorgeous Gussie' Shocks Wimbledon
There is a strict dress code at Wimbledon and, as Gussie Moran discovered on this day in tennis history, tennis players break it at their peril.
June 20, 1949![Deadly Quest For The Northern Passage]()
Deadly Quest For The Northern Passage
For centuries mankind had sought the fabled Northern Passage - a new route for shipping from Europe to Asia. Explorer Henry Hudson's attempt did not go well.
June 22, 1611
