Events in Sport
- 1927 NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs
- 1930 Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
- 1931 Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks
- 1934 2,500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
- 1934 Idle Detroit wins pennant, as Red Sox beat Yankees 5-0
- 1938 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Don Budge beats fellow American Gene Mako 6-3, 6-8, 6-2, 6-1 to become first player to win a Grand Slam
US Open Women's Tennis
1938 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American Alice Marble wins her second US singles crown; beats Nancye Wynne Bolton of Australia 6-0, 6-3
Alice Marble
- 1946 Yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs
Boxing Title Fight
1953 Rocky Marciano TKOs home town favourite Roland LaStarza in 11 at NYC's Polo Grounds to retain his world heavyweight boxing title
Rocky Marciano
Event of Interest
1968 NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack
Gil Hodges
- 1979 Russian ice skaters Protopopov & Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland
- 1980 Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season
- 1983 Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in season
- 1983 Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of Hanif, v India Jullundur
- 1984 Cubs clinch NL East title
Baseball Record
1985 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
World Record
1988 Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec)
Carl Lewis
- 1988 American heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets new world record 7,291 points to win the gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; East Germans Sabine John & Anke Behmer take the minor medals
- 1988 Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson breaks his own 100m world record with a time of 9.79 at the Seoul Olympics; disqualified 3 days later for use of drug stanozolol; Carl Lewis awarded gold and world record 9.92
- 1988 Soviet gymnast Vladimir Artemov shares horizontal bar gold medal with team mate Valeri Liukin at the Seoul Olympics; also wins the parallel bars event to take his gold medal haul to 4 for the Games
- 1988 East German cyclist Christa Luding-Rothenburger wins silver medal in the women's track sprint at the Seoul Olympics; first athlete to win medals at Summer & Winter Games in same year; won speed skating gold in Calgary
- 1988 Swimmer Silke Hörner wins her second gold medal of the Seoul Olympics as part of the victorious East German 4 x 100m medley relay team
- 1988 West German swimmer Michael Gross wins 200m butterfly in Olympic record 1:56.94 at the Seoul Games; third career gold medal
- 1988 American swimmer Matt Biondi sets world record 22.14 to win the 50m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; his 4th of 5 gold medals for the Games
- 1989 Ryder Cup: US & Europe draw, 14-14 at The Belfry, England
Event of Interest
1991 Deion Sanders, left Braves July 31 to report to NFL Falcons, returns
Deion Sanders
- 1992 John Jaha ties record of 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers)
- 1992 Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in NJ Devils history
- 1995 Ryder Cup Golf, Oak Hill CC: Europe wins 14½-13½; unheralded Irish rookie Philip Walton secures victory for Europe beating Jay Haas 1 up
- 2006 Ryder Cup Golf, K Club, Ireland: Europe, captained by Ian Woosnam wins convincingly 18½-9½ for 3rd consecutive Cup victory
Event of Interest
2017 NFL players kneal, lock arms or stay in their dressing room during the anthem in protests against comments made by President Donald Trump
Donald Trump
Event of Interest
2017 LeBron James calls President Donald Trump "U Bum" in a tweet in response to Trump's comments about Stephen Curry
LeBron James
Donald Trump
Stephen Curry
Event of Interest
2017 Roger Federer is unbeaten as Team Europe dominates Team World 15-9 in the inaugural Laver Cup Tennis event in Prague, Czech Republic
Roger Federer
- 2017 Tour Championship Men's Golf, East Lake GC: Xander Schauffele wins rich season-ending event by 1 stroke from Justin Thomas
Football Awards
2018 Real Madrid midfielder & Croatian World Cup captain Luka Modrić is named world's best male player at the FIFA Awards in London; Brazil & Orlando Pride forward Marta best female player; France's Didier Deschamps best men's coach
Luka Modrić
Didier Deschamps
Birthdays in Sport
- 1871 Lottie Dod, British all-round athlete (Wimbledon 1887-88, 1891-93), born in Bebington, England (d. 1960)
- 1884 Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (Tour de France 1911), born in Vabre-Tizac, France (d. 1963)
- 1890 Mike González, Cuban baseball player, born in Havana, Cuba (d. 1977)
- 1894 Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer (US Open 1927, PGA 1930, British Open 1931), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1968)
- 1921 Jim McKay, American sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2008)
- 1924 Sammy Guillen, West Indian cricket wicket-keeper (5 Tests West Indies & 3 Tests New Zealand), born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago (d. 2013)
- 1924 Nina Bocharova, Soviet-Ukrainian gymnast (Olympic gold 1952), born in Suprunivka, Ukraine
- 1934 John Brunner, Britsih sci-fi author (100th Millennium), born in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England (d. 1995)
- 1934 Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer (Stockport County), born in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland
- 1941 John Mackey, NFL tight end (Baltimore Colts, San Diego Chargers)
- 1941 Tony Rutter, British motorcycle road racer (Formula Two World C'ship 1981-84; 7 x Isle of Man TT Races), born in Wordsley, England (d. 2020)
- 1945 Catherine Burns, American actress (Last Summer, One Life to Live, Catcher), born in NYC, New York
- 1946 "Mean" Joe Greene, American NFL tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers), Coke spokesman, born in Temple, Texas
- 1946 Pat Pocock, cricketer (intermittent England off-spinner 1968-85)
- 1950 Mohinder Amarnath, cricketer (son of Lala Indian batsman of 70's/80's)
- 1951 Terry Metcalf, NFL, CFL running back (St Louis, Toronto), born in Seattle, Washington
- 1956 Ilona Briesenick-Slupianek, German DR, shot-putter (Olympic gold 1980)
- 1961 Allen Bestwick, Nascar broadcaster
- 1962 Mike Phelan, English footballer and coach (Manchester United), born in Nelson, England
- 1962 Jake Phelps, American skateboarder, journalist (editor Thrasher magazine), born in San Francisco, CA (d. 2019)
- 1964 Rafael Palmeiro, 1st baseman (Baltimore Orioles), born in Havana, Cuba
- 1966 Atul Bedade, Indian cricketer (ODI batsman), born in Bombay, India
- 1966 Bernard Gilkey, outfielder (NY Mets), born in St Louis, Missouri
- 1966 Kevin Koslofski, American MLB outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers), bon in Decatur, Illinois
- 1967 Frank Cornish, NFL center/guard (Jacksonville Jaguars, Philadelphia Eagles)
- 1967 Roland Jansen, soccer player (Willem II)
- 1969 Andrew Greene, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins, Saskatchewan Roughriders)
- 1970 Jeanette Kollasch, WPVA volleyballer (Pismo-17th-1995), born in Evanston, Illinois
- 1970 Kristin Talbot, American speed skater (Olympics 1994), born in Schuylerville New York
- 1970 Paul Spoljaric, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
- 1970 Winfred Tubbs, NFL linebacker (New Orleans Saints)
- 1972 Jeff Hill, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
- 1973 Rodrick Rhodes, NBA forward (Houston Rockets)
- 1973 Eddie George, American College Football Hall of Fame running back (Heisman Trophy 1995, Ohio State; Pro Bowl 1997-2000, Houston / Tennessee Oilers / Titans), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1974 Kiwane Garris, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
- 1974 Matt McKeon, soccer midfielder (Olympic gold 1996), born in Florissant, Missouri
- 1976 Carlos Almeida, Angolan basketball player
- 1977 Frank Fahrenhorst, German footballer
- 1978 Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
- 1979 Fábio Aurélio, Brazilian footballer
- 1980 Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer
- 1980 John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
- 1980 Daniele Bennati, Italian professional road racing cyclist
- 1980 Dean Canto, Australian racing driver
- 1981 Drew Gooden, National Basketball Association player
- 1981 Ryan Briscoe, Australian racing driver
- 1982 Morgan Hamm, American gymnast
- 1982 Paul Hamm, American gymnast
- 1982 Jeff Karstens, American baseball player
- 1983 Randy Foye, American basketball player
- 1987 Matthew Connolly, English footballer (Cardiff City), born in Barnet, England
- 1988 Karl Alzner, Canadian hockey player
- 1988 Lisa Wang, American gymnast
Weddings in Sport
Deaths in Sport
- 1896 Percy McDonnell, Australian cricketer (19 Tests 1880-88, 3 centuries), dies a 35
- 1919 Frank Laver, cricketer (15 Tests for Aust 1899-1909), dies
- 1933 Mike Donlin, American baseball player (NY Giants), dies at 55
- 2002 Leon Hart, American College Football Hall of Fame end and fullback (Heisman Trophy 1949, Notre Dame), dies at 73
- 2008 Mickey Vernon, American MLB baseball player, dies at 90
