- 1903 New Zealand's All Blacks play their first Rugby Test Match against Australia's Wallabies at the Sydney Cricket Ground; New Zealand win 22-3
- 1905 Philadelphia A's future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell no-hits St Louis Browns, 2-0 in 5 innings
- 1912 Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game
- 1914 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, NYC, New York: Norman Brookes beats American Dick Norris Williams 6-1, 6-2, 8-10, 6-3 to give Australasia unassailable 3-1 lead; win 3-2
- 1925 White Sox Dickie Kerr, 1st appearance since winning 2 world series games in 1919
- 1931 Spakenburg soccer team forms
- 1936 Marshall Wayne and Elbert Root make it an American 1-2 in the 10m platform diving at the Berlin Olympics
- 1936 Americans make a clean sweep of the 3m diving medals via Marjorie Gestring, Katherine Rawls and Dorothy Poynton-Hill at the Berlin Olympics
- 1936 The Berlin Olympic fencing competition concludes with Italy winning 4 of the 7 gold medals and Hungary taking the other 3
- 1936 Annibale Frossi scores twice as Italy beats Austria 2-1 in extra time in the soccer final at the Berlin Olympics
A Kiss For Adolf Hitler
1936 Carla de Vries, an American tourist at the swimming event of the Berlin Olympics finds Adolf Hitler “so friendly and gracious” she shakes his hand and gives him a kiss
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- 1939 First night game at baseball's Comiskey Park, Sox beat Browns 5-2
- 1945 Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually
- 1948 US Open Women's Golf, Atlantic City CC: Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins by 8 strokes from Betty Hicks
Boxing Title Fight
1950 Ezzard Charles TKOs Freddie Beshore in 14 to retain heavyweight boxing title
Ezzard Charles
- 1952 19th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Los Angeles 10, All-Stars 7 (88,316)
- 1958 25th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 35, Detroit 19 (70,000)
- 1960 CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium
- 1960 Chicago Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo)
- 1960 Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0
- 1964 Fred Trueman takes 300th Test Cricket wicket (Neil Hawke)
Event of Interest
1964 Mayor Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago
Ernie Banks
- 1964 Phillies triple-play NY Mets
- 1964 Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 3½"
PGA Championship
1965 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Laurel Valley GC: Dave Marr wins his only major title, beating Billy Casper and Jack Nicklaus by 2 strokes
Jack Nicklaus
- 1966 Puerto Rican champion José Torres beats Eddie Cotton on points in Las Vegas to retain the WBC/WBA light-heavyweight boxing title
- 1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
- 1971 Charles Lismont wins Helsinki marathon (2:13:09.0)
- 1971 Despite crashing out on lap 36, Scotsman Jackie Stewart clinches his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship at the Austrian Grand Prix at Österreichring; French Tyrrell driver François Cevert wins the race
- 1974 Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours or 52 days)
- 1977 England regain cricket Ashes by taking a 3-0 series lead over Australia
Event of Interest
1981 Ian Botham scores a century in 86 balls v Australia at Old Trafford
Ian Botham
Event of Interest
1989 In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines
Tim Raines
Baseball Record
1990 Mark McGwire is 1st to hit 30 HRs in each of his 1st 4 seasons
Mark McGwire
- 1992 Striker Brian Deane scores both goals for Sheffield United in a season-opening 2-1 home win over Manchester United at Bramall Lane; first of Deane's goals is the first in EPL's inaugural season
PGA Championship
1993 75th PGA Championship Men's Golf, Inverness GC: Paul Azinger wins his first major title in a playoff with Greg Norman of Australia
Greg Norman
Event of Interest
1993 Nolan Ryan, 324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1
Nolan Ryan
- 1997 Dan Wilson hits Seattle Mariners 3,000th HR
Event of Interest
1997 L.A. Dodgers retire Tommy Lasorda's #2
Tommy Lasorda
PGA Championship
1999 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Medinah CC: Tiger Woods wins his 2nd major by 1 stroke from Spaniard Sergio Garcia
Tiger Woods
- 2004 Bay of Plenty defeat Auckland 33-26 in Rugby Union to win NZ's Ranfurly shield for the first time in the shield's 102 year history and after 28 unsuccessful challenges
- 2004 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Whistling Straits GC: Vijay Singh of Fiji wins his 2nd PGA C'ship in a playoff with Chris DiMarco & Justin Leonard
- 2004 South African 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend & Ryk Neethling smash the world record with 3:13.17 at the Athens Olympics
PGA Championship
2005 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Baltusrol GC: American Phil Mickelson wins by 1 stroke from Australian Steve Elkington and Thomas Bjørn of Denmark
Phil Mickelson
Steve Elkington
- 2008 German swimmer Britta Steffen beats Australian Libby Trickett by 0.04 to win the blue ribband 100m freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
- 2008 American breaststroker Rebecca Soni avenges her defeat to Leisel Jones of Australia in the 100m when she swims world record 2:20.22 to beat Jones in 200m at the Beijing Olympics
World Record
2008 An American 1-2 in the 200m backstroke at the Beijing Olympics with Ryan Lochte swimming a world record 1:53.94 to beat teammate Aaron Peirsol
Ryan Lochte
- 2008 Despite China winning the women's gymnastics team all-round gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, Americans Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson go 1-2 in the individual all-round
- 2009 12th Athletics World Championships open at Berlin, Germany
- 2010 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Whistling Straits GC: Martin Kaymer of Germany wins his first major title by 1 stroke in 3-hole aggregate playoff with Bubba Watson
- 2012 Seattle Mariners' Felix Hernandez becomes 23rd pitcher to throw a perfect game (1-0 vs Tampa Bay)
- 2016 Anita Włodarczyk of Poland sets a world record 82.29m to win the women's hammer throw gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Zhang Wenxiu (China) silver, and Sophie Hitchon (Great Britain) bronze.
- 2016 Thiago Braz da Silva of Brazil sets an Olympic record 6.03m to win the men's pole vault gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games
- 2016 Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas dives at the line to win the women's 400m gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; beats American 6-time Olympic gold medallist Allyson Felix by 0.07
- 2019 60th annual finger wrestling (Fingerhakeln) championships takes place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, part of Partenkirchner Festival week
