- 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 by 158 runs in Paris; cricket's only appearance at an Olympic Games
Event of Interest
1912 Washington Senators future Baseball HOF pitcher Walter Johnson wins AL-record 15th straight, beating Cleveland Naps, 4-2; in nightcap Carl Cushion no-hits Naps, 2-0 in 6 innings
Walter Johnson
- 1915 Chicago White Sox obtain 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson from Cleveland for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer & $31,500; Jackson involved in 'Black Sox Scandal' 1919
- 1919 Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for .505 average)
Event of Interest
1920 American Professional Football Association forms; Jim Thorpe installed as president; later to become the National Football League (NFL)
Jim Thorpe
Event of Interest
1930 A week before his 22nd birthday Australian cricket's batting genius Don Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test win over England at The Oval in London
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 Australian cricket opening batsman Bill Ponsford is dismissed for 266 in his final Test match against England at The Oval; out for 22 in 2nd innings
Baseball Record
1938 NY Yankees future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & final grand slam in 11-3 win over Philadelphia A's at Shribe Park
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 17-year-old Dodgers utility Tommy Brown becomes youngest player to hit a MLB home run in Brooklyn's 11-1 rout of Pittsburgh Pirates at Ebbets Field
- 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 Philadelphia Phillies beat Milwaukee Braves, 7-4 at County Stadium; end losing streak with dubious MLB record of 23 straight loses
- 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 and Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth and 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
Event of Interest
1985 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
Dwight Gooden
- 1985 Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
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 teammate 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
