Events in Sport
- 1860 1st British Open Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park Sr. wins inaugural event by 2 strokes from fellow Scot Tom Morris Sr
- 1885 Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for 1885 season
- 1920 Chicago Bears (as Decatur Staleys) play 1st NFL game, win 7-0
- 1927 Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL President
- 1935 Pacific Association of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics
- 1964 In the first ever Olympic women's pentathlon Irina Press of the Soviet Union sets a world record 5,246 points to win the gold medal at the Tokyo Games
Event of Interest
1964 Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra
- 1964 Australian athlete Betty Cuthbert takes her 4th career Olympic gold medal as she wins the women's 400m at the Tokyo Games in Olympic record 52.0
- 1964 US swimmers go 1-2-3 in the women's 400m individual medley at the Tokyo Olympics; Donna de Varona wins gold in Olympic record 5:18.7 ahead of team mates Sharon Finneran and Martha Randall
- 1968 Soviet athlete Viktor Saneev sets world record 17.39m to win the triple jump at the Mexico City Olympics; world record improved 5 times by 3 different athletes during competition
- 1968 US men's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Zac Zorn, Stephen Rerych, Ken Walsh & Mark Spitz swim world record 3:31.7 to outclass the Soviet Union & Australia and win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
- 1968 Björn Ferm of Sweden beats Hungary's András Balczó by just 11 points to take the gold medal in the modern pentathlon at the Mexico City Olympics
- 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 68th World Series
- 1972 1st time Islanders shut-out-5-0 vs Penguins
- 1974 NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak
- 1974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL home victory, beating Chicago 4-3
- 1974 Oakland A's beat LA Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series makes A's only team other than Yanks to win 3 straight series
- 1976 Coldest World Series game Yankees vs Cincinnati, 39 degrees F (until 1997)
- 1978 NY Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8)
- 1978 NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2 in 75th World Series
- 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 76th World Series
- 1981 Brazilian Nelson Piquet driving for Brabham finishes 5th in the season ending Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas to clinch his first World Formula 1 Drivers title by 1 point from Carlos Reutemann
- 1982 Robin Yount is 1st to have 2 4-hit games in a World Series
- 1985 Lou Piniella named NY Yankee manager
- 1987 1st indoor World Series game (Minnesota Metrodome)
- 1988 Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of NY Yankees
- 1989 Earthquake in San Francisco (6.9) cancels 3rd game of World Series, kills 67
- 1991 Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races
Event of Interest
1991 Pitts Penguin Paul Coffey sets NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals & 744 assists)
Paul Coffey
Golf Tournament
1994 Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championships of Women's Golf
Beth Daniel
Event of Interest
2008 Sachin Tendulkar becomes the highest run-scorer ever in test cricket beating Brian Lara's record and passing 12,000 runs against Australia in Mohali
Sachin Tendulkar
Birthdays in Sport
- 1848 William "Candy" Cummings, American baseball player credited with creating the curveball, born in Ware, Massachusetts (d. 1924)
- 1859 William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (NY Giants, Cincinnati Reds)
- 1890 Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928)
- 1906 Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987)
- 1908 Red Rolfe, American baseball player (d. 1969)
- 1917 Martin Donnelly, cricketer (brilliant lefty bat for NZ post-war)
- 1919 John Moroney, cricketer (Australian opener 1949-51)
- 1921 Maria Gorokhovskaya, USSR, gymnast (Olympic gold 1952)
- 1924 Don Coryell, American College Football Hall of Fame/NFL coach (SD Chargers), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 2010)
- 1928 James "Junior" Gilliam, Dodgers (NL rookie of year 1953)
- 1932 Paul Anderson, American light super heavyweight lifter (Olympic gold 1956)
- 1934 Johnny Haynes, English footballer (d. 2005)
- 1935 Alan Brown, cricketer (England opening attack Brown & White vs Pak 1961)
- 1940 Jim Smith, English footballer and manager
- 1945 Dave Cutler, CFL place kicker (Edmonton Eskimos)
- 1946 Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter/actor (Olympic gold 1968, "Soap"), born in Pomona California
- 1958 Blaine McCallister, American PGA golfer (1989 Honda Classic), born in Fort Stockton, Texas
- 1960 James Patrick Delsing, American PGA golfer (1993 New England-2nd), born in St Louis, Missouri
- 1960 Mandy Yachad, cricketer (South African ODI opening batsman 1991)
- 1962 John Dorge, Australian basketball center (Olympics 1996)
- 1963 Vijay Mehra, cricketer (United Arab Emirates batsman 1996 World Cup)
- 1963 Sergio Goycochea, Argentine footballer
- 1965 Pinnaduwage Aravinda De Silva, cricket (Sri Lanka's greatest batsman)
- 1966 Danny Ferry, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
- 1966 Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and television personality
- 1967 Adrianne Werdel Witmeyer, tennis star (1990 Futures-Chiba), born in Los Angeles, California
- 1967 Marianne Werdel Witmeyer, tennis star, born in Los Angeles, California
- 1967 Mark Johnson, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates), born in Worcester, Massachusetts
- 1967 Nathalie Tauziat, Bangui Cent Afr Rep, tennis star (1993 Quebec City)
- 1967 Reggie Clark, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
- 1968 Heather McDermid, rower (Olympics 1996), born in Calgary, Alberta
- 1969 Alfred Pupunu, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
- 1969 Joe Courtney, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
- 1969 Theodore Ernest Els, PGA golfer (1994 US Open), born in Johannesburg, South Africa
- 1970 Anil Kumble, cricketer (great Indian leg-spinner since 1990)
- 1970 Jean-Paul de Young, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
- 1970 John Mabry, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals), born in Wilmington, Delaware
- 1970 Marciano Vink, soccer player (Genoa/PSV)
- 1970 Tasha Tsang, Saskatoon Saskatchwan, rower (Olympics 1996)
- 1971 Byron Chamberlain, NFL/WLAF tight end Denver Broncos, Rhein Fire)
- 1971 Ernest Dixon, NFL linebacker (New Orleans Saints)
- 1971 Henry McMillian, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
- 1972 Vicki Goetze, Michicot WI, LPGA golfer (1995 British Open-12th)
- 1972 Joe McEwing, American baseball player
- 1973 Keith McKenzie, NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl 31)
- 1974 John Rocker, American baseball player
- 1975 Francis Bouillon, American hockey player
- 1976 Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
- 1977 Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer
Kimi Räikkönen
1979 Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish auto racer (F1 World Champion 2007), born in Espoo, Finland
Kimi Räikkönen
Deaths in Sport
- 1918 Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb South African batsman 1905-12), dies
- 1958 Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (2 Tests for England 1899), dies at 81
- 1965 Barton King, cricketer (America's greatest cricket all-rounder), dies
- 1972 Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
- 1977 [Robert] Cal Hubbard, American football and baseball player and umpire (only person in football and baseball Hall of Fame), dies at 77
- 1991 Piet van Est, The Vuurbal, cyclist (7x Tour de France), dies at 57
- 1994 Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby League Player, dies at 83
- 2000 Leo Nomellini, wrestler (b. 1924)
- 2002 Aileen Riggin, American springboard diver (Olympic gold 1920, 24), dies at 96
- 2015 Howard Kendall, English footballer and football manager (Everton), dies at 69