Events in Sport on August 26

1912 Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends

1912 32nd U.S. Men's National Championship: Maurice McLoughlin beats Wallace F. Johnson (3-6, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2)
1913 33rd U.S. Men's National Championship: Maurice McLoughlin beats R. Norris Williams (6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 6-1)
1933 Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km)
1938 Montreal Maroons dropped from NHL
1939 1st major league baseball telecast on W2XBS- Cincinnati Reds defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
1940 RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk
1947 1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a HR on 1st at bat)
1950 39th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (4-1)
1955 1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)
1956 Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Denver Golf Open
1956 Yankees announce purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from KC
1962 Minnesota Twins Jack Kralick no-hits KC A's, 1-0
1963 W I beat England 2-1 in series, 1st holders of Wisden Cricket Trophy
1966 Balt Orioles Roznovsky & B Powell are 4th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1971 Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game

1971 Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth one million dollars, the first million dollar contract in NHL history

1972 Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros

1973 David Eisenhower writes his last sports column
1973 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1973 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, CA, beating a field of 1,500 runners

1979 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic

1985 Balt Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs California Angels

1986 Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38)
1991 Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0
1995 Lara completes 7th Test Cricket century, 179 at The Oval
2004 Félix Sánchez wins the men's 400m hurdles 47.63 in Athens; the Dominican Republic's first ever Olympic gold medal
2004 An American 1-2-3 in the 200m medals at the Athens Olympics; Shawn Crawford gold in 19.79 ahead of Bernard Williams & Justin Gatlin
2004 Germany wins its first ever Olympic women's field hockey gold medal with a 2-1 win against the Netherlands in Athens
2004 Lindsay Tarpley and Mary Wambach score as the US beats Brazil 2-1, maintaining an undefeated record to win the women's football gold medal at the Athens Olympics
2004 Hamish Carter of New Zealand wins the men's gold medal ahead of team mate Bevan Docherty, whilst Kate Allen of Austria takes out the women's Triathlon at the Athens Olympics

2012 15 year-old New Zealand golfer, Lydia Ko, becomes the youngest LPGA Tour event winner and the first amateur winner since 1969

2012 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Vancouver GC: New Zealand amateur Lydia Ko wins by 3 from Inbee Park

2014 Burger King agrees to purchase Canadian donut chain Tim Hortons for $11.4 billion

2016 San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick kneels in protest during the US national anthem at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium while playing against the San Diego Chargers, objecting to racial injustice and police brutality in the US
2017 Women's Rugby World Cup: New Zealand Black Ferns defeat England 41-32 in the final in Belfast