Events in Sport
- 1906 New York Highlanders beat Boston Pilgrims, 7 - 0 and 1 - 0 for their MLB record 5th straight doubleheader sweep
- 1916 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitchers Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown face each other for a final time; after 25 contests Mathewson takes a 13-12 advantage with Reds 10-8 winners over Cubs
- 1919 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Forest Hills NY: Bill Johnston wins his 2nd US title; beats Bill Tilden 6-4, 6-4, 6-3
- 1920 Man o' War wins the 1 5/8-mile Lawrence Realization Stakes at Belmont Park by 100 lengths, the largest winning margin in modern thoroughbred racing history; world record time 2.40.8
World Record
1922 Finnish super athlete Paavo Nurmi runs a 2000m world record 5:26.3 in Tampere, Finland
Paavo Nurmi
Event of Interest
1934 Australian cricket super-batsman Don Bradman scores 149 not out in just 104 minutes (17 fours, 4 sixes) in drawn tour match v England XI at Folkestone
Donald Bradman
- 1937 15 year old cyclist Doris Kopsky becomes 1st Amateur Bicycle League of America woman's national champion in 4:22.4 in Buffalo, NY
- 1941 New York Yankees clinch their 3rd straight AL pennant; beat the Red Sox, 6-3; earliest date in baseball history a team has captured a flag
- 1944 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills: American Frank Parker wins 1st of 4 Grand Slam titles; beats William Talbert 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
- 1944 US Women's National Tennis Championship, Forest Hills: Pauline Betz Addie wins her 3rd straight US title; beats Margaret Osborne 6-3, 8-6
- 1945 American chess grandmaster Reuben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid (10 seconds per move) games blindfolded in New York City
- 1947 Champion Middlesex cricket batsman Denis Compton scores 101 for South of England in tour match defeat to South Africa at Lord's; his record 17th century of the English season
- 1950 NASCAR’s first paved super speedway, Darlington Raceway hosts Southern 500, first 500-mile event in NASCAR history; winner Johnny Mantz in a Plymouth
- 1966 Australian Jack Brabham clinches his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship with a 6th place in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza
- 1972 US 4 x 100m medley relay team of Mike Stamm, Tom Bruce, Mark Spitz & Jerry Heidenreich sets world record 3:48.16 to win gold at the Munich Olympics; Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 Olympic gold medals at a single Games
- 1972 American swimmer Mike Burton sets a world record 15:52.58 to win the 1,500m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
- 1972 American swimmer Melissa Belote with a world record 2:19.19 takes the 200m backstroke gold medal at the Munich Olympics; wraps up backstroke double having won the 100m in Olympic record time
- 1972 Soviet sprinter Valeriy Borzov runs 20.00 to win the men's 200m gold medal at the Munich Olympics; wraps up the 100/200m double at the Games
- 1972 Kenyan legend Kipchoge Keino follows his 1,500m gold in Mexico City with an Olympic record 8:23.64 to win the 3,000m steeplechase at the Munich Olympics
- 1972 16 year old Ulrike Meyfarth of West Germany with a world record equalling 1.92m, wins the women's high jump gold medal at the Munich Olympics; youngest winner of individual athletics event in Olympic history
- 1972 Willem Ruska of the Netherlands wins gold medals in both the heavyweight & open class Olympic judo competitions in Munich; first judoka to win 2 Olympic gold medals at one Games
- 1972 Italian diver Klaus Dibiasi wins his 2nd of 3 consecutive 10m platform gold medals the Munich Olympics
- 1979 Sunil Gavaskar scores 221 in India's 8 for 429 chasing 438 in drawn 4th cricket Test v England at The Oval; England win series 1-0
- 1981 Longest MLB game at Fenway Park ends in 20 innings; Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox, 8-7
- 1983 US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, North Shore CC: Jay Sigel successfully defends title 8 & 7 over Chris Perry
- 1983 Greg LeMond wins UCI World Road Race Championship in 7h 01' 21" in Altenrhein, Switzerland; first American cyclist to take the title
- 1985 Russian Igor Paklin sets new high jump world record at 2.41m in Kobe, Japan
- 1985 NY Mets catcher Gary Carter's 2 HRs in a 9-2 win in San Diego ties MLB record of 5 HRs in 2 games
Event of Interest
1988 Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills NY
Mike Tyson
- 1988 The relocated Phoenix Cardinals play first regular-season NFL game; lose 21-14 v Bengals at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati
Baseball Record
1991 MLB Statistical Accuracy Committee votes to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris' 1961 home run record of 61 (passing Babe Ruth's 60) & determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings
Roger Maris
Event of Interest
1992 In his record 115th and final US Open singles match, Jimmy Connors is beaten by Ivan Lendl 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-0 in a 2nd-round night match
Jimmy Connors
Ivan Lendl
Tennis Open
1993 Mats Wilander beats fellow Swede Mikael Pernfors in a US Open marathon 7-6, 3-6, 1-6, 7-6, 6-4 in 4 hours, 1 minute; match ends at 2:26am
Mats Wilander
Mikael Pernfors
- 1994 Tom Tupa scores the first 2-point conversion in NFL history, running in a fake extra point attempt for the Cleveland Browns in a 28-20 win at Cincinnati
NFL Record
1994 Miami quarterback Dan Marino throws 5 touchdown passes in Dolphins' 39-35 win over New England; sets NFL record with his 18th game of 4-or-more touchdown passes
Dan Marino
- 1994 Chinese diver Fu Mingxia wins 10m platform gold medal at World Swimming Championships in Rome, Italy; becomes first female to win back-to-back world titles in the event
- 1995 Chicago White Sox third baseman Robin Ventura hits grand slams in consecutive innings, the 4th and 5th, of a 14-3 rout of the Texas Rangers
- 1998 NY Yankees beat Chicago WS, 11-6, to win their 100th game on the earliest date in MLB history besting the 1906 Chicago Cubs & 1954 Cleveland Indians by 5 days
- 1999 MLB's Cincinnati Reds set a National League record with 9 home runs as they rout the Philadelphia Phillies, 22-3
- 2000 England wins 5th cricket Test v West Indies by 158 runs at The Oval for first series win (3-1) over WI since 1969; Windies captain Courtney Walsh's 132nd and final Test
- 2002 Argentina pulls off one of the biggest upsets in basketball history, beating the US, 87-80 in 2nd round of the World Championships; 1st US loss in 59 games since sending NBA players to international competition in 1992
- 2002 After blowing an 11-run lead to Kansas City, Scott Hatteberg's bottom of the 9th walk off HR gives Oakland a historic MLB victory, 12-11; A's set AL record 20 game winning streak
- 2005 20 year old Kyle Busch becomes youngest driver to win a NASCAR Cup Series race when he out duels Greg Biffle in the Sony HD 500 at California Speedway
Golf Tournament
2006 Tiger Woods matches the lowest final round of his career (8-under 63) in the Deutsche Bank C'ship at Norton, Mass. to win for the 5th straight time and 7th time this PGA Tour season
Tiger Woods
- 2006 Damon Allen moves past ex-CFL & NFL star Warren Moon as pro football's all-time leading passer; throws for 207 yards & 2 scores as Toronto routs Hamilton, 40-6; Allen 70,595 career passing yards
Event of Interest
2018 NFL player Colin Kaepernick who kneeled during the US national anthem is the new face of Nike's 30th anniversary advertising campaign
Colin Kaepernick
Birthdays in Sport
- 1885 Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast, born in Athens, Greece (d. 1971)
- 1902 Lorna Johnstone, English equestrian dressage (Olympic-13th-1968), born in York, England (d. 1990)
- 1902 Thomas "Tommy" Mitchell, British cricketer, born in Cresswell, Derbyshire, England (d. 1996)
- 1918 William Talbert, American tennis doubles champ (US 1942, 45, 46, 48), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1999)
- 1920 Clemar Bucci, Argentine racing driver, born in Zenón Pereyra, Santa Fe, Argentina (d. 2011)
- 1926 Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player, born in Sceptre, Saskatchewan (d. 2015)
- 1932 Bevo Francis, American basketball player (college basketball record scorer), born in Hammondsville, Ohio (d. 2015)
- 1937 Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer (Olympic gold 100m freestyle 1956, 60, 64), born in Sydney, NSW
- 1941 Ramesh Sethi, East African cricketer
Ray Floyd
1942 Raymond Floyd, American golfer (four-time Major winner), born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Ray Floyd
Tom Watson
1949 Tom Watson, golfer (British Open 1975, 77, 80, 82, 83), born in Kansas City, Missouri
Tom Watson
- 1949 Dean Pees, National Football League defensive coordinator
- 1950 Doyle Alexander, American baseball player
- 1950 Ehteshamuddin, Pakistani cricketer
- 1953 Michael Stean, chess player
- 1956 Shane Gould, freestyle swimmer (Olympics 3 Gold-1972)
- 1958 Ray Freeman, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Coast Carolina), born in Greensboro, North Carolina
- 1961 Rizwan-uz-Zaman, Pakistani cricketer
- 1962 Kiran More, Indian cricketer
- 1963 Donna Wilkins, LPGA golfer (1987 S&H Golf Classic-5th), born in Miami, Florida
- 1963 John Vanbiesbrouck, NHL goalie (Team USA, Florida), born in Detroit, Michigan
- 1964 Guy Donald Boros, PGA golfer (1994 Deposit Guaranty-3rd), born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- 1964 Tomas Sandstrom, NHL forward (Anaheim, Team Sweden 1998)
- 1966 Jearl A Miles, 400m/long jumper (Olympic gold 1996), born in Gainesville, Florida
- 1967 Darrin Murray, New Zealand cricketer
- 1968 Carlette Guidry-White, 100m/long jumper
- 1968 Mike Piazza, catcher (LA Dodgers), born in Norristown, Pennsylvania
- 1968 Rick McNair, water polo 2m defender (Olympics 1996), born in Berkeley, California
- 1970 Cari Read, synchronized swimmer (Olympic silver 1996), born in Edmonton, Alberta
- 1970 Janae Lautenschlager, Canoga Park California, diver (Olympics 1996)
- 1970 Luis Lopez, Puerto Rican baseball infielder (San Diego Padres), born in Cidra, Puerto Rico
- 1971 Brian Storey, 470 sailor (Olympics 1996), born in Richmond, British Columbia
- 1971 John Thierry, NFL defensive end (Chicago Bears)
- 1971 Monty Grow, NFL safety (Jacksonville Jaguars)
- 1971 Tyrone Johnson, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
- 1971 Maik Taylor, Northern Irish footballer
- 1972 Daniel Nestor, Canadian tennis player (Olympics 1996), born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- 1972 Jason Fisk, NFL defensive tackle (Minnesota Vikings)
- 1972 Norman Hand, NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
- 1973 Robert Couch, NFL tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
- 1974 Jean Lavertue, weightlifter (Olympics 1996), born in Montreal, Quebec
- 1974 Lincoln Roberts, West Indian cricketer
- 1975 Nikolaos Lyberopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1976 Helen Denman, swimmer (Olympics 1996), born in Perth, Australia
- 1977 Sun-Woo Kim, Korean Major League Baseball player
- 1979 Kosuke Matsuura, Japanese racing driver
- 1979 Maxim Afinogenov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1980 Pat Neshek, American baseball player
- 1981 Richard Garcia, Australian footballer
- 1983 Tareq Aziz, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1984 Hamish McIntosh, Australian football player
- 1986 James Younghusband, Philippine footballer
Weddings in Sport
Wedding of Interest
1989 Tennis star Björn Borg (33) weds rock singer Loredana Berte (39) in a civil wedding
Björn Borg
Deaths in Sport
Hank Greenberg
1986 Hank Greenberg, American Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman (5-time All Star, Detroit Tigers), dies of cancer at 75
Hank Greenberg
- 1996 Sam Cook, English cricketer (Gloucestershire slow bowler with one Test for England), dies at 75
- 2004 Alphonso Ford, American basketball player, dies at 32
- 2004 Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (b. 1929)
- 2006 Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer, dies at 64
- 2011 Lee Roy Selmon, American football player (b. 1954)
September in History
The Great Fire of London
The Great Fire of London began on this day when sparks from a baker’s oven ignited his home. Fanned by strong winds, the blaze consumed 80 per cent of the city.
September 2, 1666
Tragedy of Macbeth Brings Fits of Laughter
Lawrence of Arabia star Peter O’Toole returned to the stage on this day playing Shakespeare’s Macbeth in London. Critics savaged the production but the fans?
September 3, 1980
Jesse James – Hero or Cold Killer?
Hailed by some as a folk hero and by others as a cold-bloodied killer, Jesse James, one of America’s most infamous outlaws, was born on this day.
September 5, 1847
Woman Jockey Rides Into Record Books
Jockey Gay Kelleway is the only woman to ride a winner at England’s famous Royal Ascot. She was also the first jockey to wear a TV camera on her helmet.
September 6, 1992