Events in Sport
- 1853 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- 1903 Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle
- 1906 St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
- 1908 Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1
- 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
Event of Interest
1938 Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles US tennis title
Alice Marble
- 1938 US National Championship Men's Tennis: Don Budge beats fellow American Gene Mako 6-3, 6-8, 6-2, 6-1 to become first player to win a Grand Slam
- 1938 US National Championship Women's Tennis: American Alice Marble wins her second US singles crown; beats Nancye Wynne Bolton of Australia 6-0, 6-3
- 1946 Yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs
Boxing Title Fight
1953 Rocky Marciano TKOs Roland LaStarza in 11 for 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
- 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
World Record
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
Carl Lewis
- 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 28th 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
- 1995 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA GHP Heartland Golf Classic
- 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
Event of Interest
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 (5-time Wimbledon singles champion), 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 professional golfer, 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 cricketer (wicket-keeper for West Indies & NZ), born in Port of Spain, Trinidad (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)
- 1945 Catherine Burns, American actress (Last Summer, One Life to Live, Catcher), born in NYC, New York
- 1946 "Mean" Joe Greene, NFL tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers), Coke spokesman
- 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 Dillard Pruitt, PGA golfer (1991 Chattanooga Classic), born in Greenville, South Carolina
- 1961 Allen Bestwick, Nascar broadcaster
- 1962 Arden Knoll, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Klondike-2nd), born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
- 1962 Mike Phelan, English footballer and coach (Manchester United), born in Nelson, England
- 1964 Rafael Palmeiro, 1st baseman (Baltimore Orioles), born in Havana, Cuba
- 1966 Atul Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman 1994- )
- 1966 Bernard Gilkey, outfielder (NY Mets), born in St Louis, Missouri
- 1966 Kevin Koslofski, Decatur Ill, outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
- 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)
- 1969 John Morton, WLAF WR (Frankfurt Galaxy)
- 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 Mario Cristobal, WLAF guard (Amsterdam Admirals)
- 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 football player
- 1974 Kiwane Garris, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
- 1974 Matt McKeon, Florissant MO, soccer midfielder (Olympic gold 1996)
- 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
- 1988 Karl Alzner, Canadian hockey player
- 1988 Lisa Wang, American gymnast
Weddings in Sport
Wedding of Interest
Deaths in Sport
September in History
A Sheep's Coat at Sunrise, A Man's Coat at Sunset
Is it possible to produce a wearable man’s coat from wool shorn from a sheep the same day? They did it in 1811 and again – in record time – 180 years later.
September 21, 1991
Airship Bomb Crew Meet their Match in Policeman
They dropped their bombs and planned to escape, but the German airship crew hadn’t reckoned on the tenacity of a lone British policeman on his bike.
September 24, 1916
'I Have Heard The Voice of Adolf Hitler . . .'
Hitler's speech threatening Czechoslovakia was broadcast on this day. Among those listening to the ‘mad dog of Europe’ was a journalist in an American hotel.
September 26, 1938
Fear as First Passenger Train Reaches 15mph
The steam engine Locomotion No. 1 took passengers for a ride on this day – the first in the world to do so and, for at least one person, at frightening speed.
September 27, 1825