- 1881 1st US men's single tennis championships (Newport, Rhode Island)
- 1891 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Oliver Campbell beats Clarence Hobart 2-6, 7-5, 7-9, 6-1, 6-2; second of 3 straight titles
- 1894 Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases
- 1900 Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
- 1904 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier 10-8, 6-4, 9-7 for his lone major singles title
- 1905 25th US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Beals Wright beats defending champion Holcombe Ward 6-2, 6-1, 11-9 for his lone major singles title
- 1909 A J Reach Co patents cork-centered baseball
- 1909 Swedish runner Thure Johansson runs world record marathon (2:40:34.2) in Stockholm
- 1913 Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven, Netherlands
- 1915 Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
- 1918 Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
World Record
1924 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2)
Paavo Nurmi
Baseball Record
1950 Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs & a single in a game vs Braves
Gil Hodges
- 1954 Cincinnati 1st baseman Ted Kluszewski hits 2 HRs in a 9-3 loss v Phillies; 1st Redleg to ever hit 40 MLB HRs, en route to season total 49
- 1959 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2)
- 1960 US sweeps the medals in the shot put at the Rome Olympics; Bill Nieder wins gold with 19.68m ahead of countrymen Parry O'Brien and Dallas Long
- 1966 Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
- 1968 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
- 1968 Gary Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over
- 1970 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0)
- 1971 Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
- 1972 Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4)
Olympic Gold
1972 Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut wins balance beam & floor exercise gold medals at the Munich Olympics; follows gold in the teams all-round
Olga Korbut
- 1972 American super swimmer Mark Spitz wraps up the Olympic butterfly double with a world record 54.27 in the 100m in Munich, having already won the 200m in world record time 2:00.70
- 1972 American 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of John Kinsella, Fred Tyler, Steve Genter & Mark Spitz swim a world record 7:35.78 to beat West Germany for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
- 1972 Australian swimmer Gail Neall with a world record 5:02.97 wins the 400m individual medley gold medal at the Munich Olympics
- 1979 In the battle of American teenage tennis prodigies, 16 year old Tracy Austin beats 14 year old Andrea Jaeger 6-2, 6-2 in the 2nd round at US Open
- 1980 80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
- 1981 Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, v England at Lord's
- 1984 Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1985 Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
- 1987 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385)
- 1990 Baseball outfielders Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr. become the 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), the pair hit back-to-back singles in the first inning and both scored
- 1991 Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3
- 1993 Minnesota Twins beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 22 innings
Event of Interest
1994 Pentium computer beats world chess champ Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov
Event of Interest
1999 Dino Ciccarelli retires from the NHL
Dino Ciccarelli
Event of Interest
2003 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Reserve Vineyards & GC: Tom Watson wins his third of 6 Champions Tour majors by 1 stroke from Jim Ahern & Tom Kite
Tom Watson
- 2019 Minnesota Twins smash 6 HRs in 10-7 loss to the Tigers in Detroit; break MLB record by hitting 268th home run of the season
