- 1888 Longest US men's single tennis tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80 game 1st-round contest
- 1900 Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games
- 1912 Wash Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleveland Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings
- 1915 White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleve in exchange for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, & $31,500
- 1919 Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)
- 1920 American Professional Football Association forms, which would later become the National Football League (NFL)
Event of Interest
1920 Preliminary meeting is conducted in Akron, Ohio to form American Professional Football Association and elect officers, installing Jim Thorpe as president
Jim Thorpe
- 1920 Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow Indian players to attend Ray Chapman's funeral in Cleveland
- 1921 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Germantown CC, PA: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory wins her 6th US singles title; beats 3-time champion Mary Browne 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
- 1922 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris
Donald Bradman
US Open Women's Tennis
1931 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Wills Moody beats Eileen Bennett Whittingstall of England 6-4, 6-1 for her 7th and final US singles title
Helen Wills Moody
- 1934 Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match
Baseball Record
1938 Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & last grand slam
Lou Gehrig
PGA Championship
1944 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Manito G & CC: Bob Hamilton wins his only major title, 1 up in the 36-hole final over heavily favoured Byron Nelson
Byron Nelson
- 1945 Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR
- 1947 Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
- 1948 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
- 1949 78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland
- 1957 Chicago White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Washington Senators, 6-0
- 1958 Cubs use 1st baseman Dale Long as their 1st major league lefty catcher since 1906
- 1961 Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses, beat Braves
- 1964 Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 v India in only Test Cricket innings
Event of Interest
1964 Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders
Yogi Berra
Baseball Record
1965 Eddie Mathews & Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team
Hank Aaron
Golf Tournament
1967 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Pekin CC: Kathy Whitworth wins by 7 strokes from Sandra Haynie
Kathy Whitworth
- 1974 Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat
Event of Interest
1974 Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
Nolan Ryan
- 1980 NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
- 1980 Cleve Dan Spillner, 545 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles
- 1982 Don Lever becomes first captain of NHL New Jersey Devils
- 1985 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
Baseball Record
1989 Howard Johnson joins Barry Bonds & Willie Mays hitting 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
Howard Johnson
Willie Mays
- 1990 Gene Michael names NY Yankee VP/GM replacing Harding Peterson
Event of Interest
1990 George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
George Steinbrenner
Event of Interest
1991 Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million
Dan Marino
Joe Montana
- 1993 Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)
- 1994 Vuyani Bungu, the South African junior featherweight, wins the IBF World Boxing Title
- 1995 British Open Women's Golf, Woburn, Duke's Course: Australian Karrie Webb scores a 6 stroke win over runners-up Annika Sörenstam and Jill McGill
- 1999 7th Athletics World Championships open at Seville, Spain
PGA Championship
2000 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Valhalla GC: Tiger Woods becomes first since Ben Hogan (1953) to win 3 majors in a calendar year; wins back-to-back PGA titles in 3-hole playoff with Bob May
Tiger Woods
Ben Hogan
- 2004 Ethiopian runners Kenenisa Bekele (27:05.10 OR) and Sileshi Sihine go 1-2 in the 10,000m at the Athens Olympics
Olympic Games
2004 American swimmer Michael Phelps wraps up the 100/200m butterfly double at the Athens Olympics when he wins the 100m (51.25 OR) ahead of team mate Ian Croker
Michael Phelps
- 2006 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Medinah CC: Tiger Woods wins his 3rd PGA C'ship by 5 strokes from Shaun Micheel
- 2008 Russian long-distance swimmer Larisa Ilchenko wins inaugural women's open water marathon (10k) in 1:59:27.7 at the Beijing Olympics
World Record
2008 Usain Bolt of Jamaica wraps up the 100/200m double in style with a new 200m world record 19.30 at the Beijing Olympics
Usain Bolt
- 2009 12th Athletics World Championships: Usain Bolt wins 200m
Event of Interest
2011 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, Westchester CC: Fred Couples wins first of 2 Champions Tour major titles with birdie on 3rd playoff hole against John Cook
Fred Couples
- 2012 South Africa become the top-ranked test cricket nation after defeating England
- 2016 German canoeist Sebastian Brendel teams with Jan Vandrey to win the C-2 1,000m at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; wraps up C-1 / C-2 1,000m double
- 2016 The Hungarian crew wins canoe sprint K-4 500m at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Danuta Kozák becomes the only female to win K1, K2 and K4 at the same Olympics
- 2016 Canoeists Max Rendschmidt and Marcus Gross part of winning German crew in K-4 100m at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; wrap up K-2 / K-4 1,000m double
- 2016 Star British runner Mo Farah wins the men's 5,000m in 13:03.30 at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; wraps up 5k/10k double which he also completed in London 2012
- 2016 Controversial South African middle distance runner Caster Semenya retains her Olympic women's 800m title in a time of 1:55.28 in the final in Rio de Janeiro
- 2016 4 women's high jump competitors tie at clearing winning height 1.97m at the Rio Olympics; all then fail at 2.00m; Ruth Beitia of Spain wins the gold based on having no misses prior to bar being raised to 2.00m
- 2016 Chinese diver Chen Aisen does the Olympic 10m platform double in Rio de Janeiro; having already won the synchronised event, he wins the individual gold by a comfortable margin
- 2016 In a blanket finish American triathlete Gwen Jorgensen takes the Olympic gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Games in 1:56.16; 0.40 ahead of Nicola Spirig Hug of Switzerland, and Great Britain's Vicky Holland by 0:45
- 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics: team sports - China beats Serbia, 3-1 for the women's indoor volleyball gold; in the men's water polo final, Serbia downs Croatia, 11-7 for first Olympic title
- 2017 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Des Moines G & CC: US retains Cup 16½- 11½; down by 5, Europe can only halve the singles 6-6
