1893 US National Championship Women’s Tennis: Aline Terry wins her lone major title; beats Augusta Schultz 6-1, 6-3
1894 The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin
1900 US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Myrtle McAteer beats Edith Parker 6-2, 6-2, 6-0 for her lone major singles title
1906 US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Helen Homans beats Maud Barger-Wallach 6-4, 6-3 for her lone major singles title
1915 Yanks get record 16 walks & 3 wild pitches beat A’s Bruno Hass, 15-0
1917 Ernie Shore enters game after Boston Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth is ejected for throwing punch at umpire; retires all 26 batters he faces to win 4-0 vs Washington Senators; ruled combined no-hitter
1917 US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Two-time defending champion Molla Bjurstedt beats Marion Vanderhoef 4-6, 6-0, 6-2
1928 Commencement of West Indies cricket’s first ever Test match; England go on to win by an innings and 58 runs at Lord’s
1932 St Louis Browns beat NY Yankees, 14-10; Lou Gehrig’s 1,103rd consecutive game in a Yankees uniform, equaling Joe Sewell’s record with one team (Cleveland Indians)
1950 New York Yankees (6) & Detroit Tigers (5) hit record 11 HRs at Briggs Stadium; Tigers win, 10-9
1961 Philadelphia Phillies overcome 9 run deficit; trailing 11-2 after 7 innings, score 4 in 8th and 6 in 9th to beat Pirates, 12-11 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
1963 NY Mets Jimmy Piersall hits his 100th HR, he circles bases backwards
1968 74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium
1971 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Rick Wise no-hits Reds, and hits 2 HR’s and 3 RBI in 4-0 win at Cincinnati
1972 US President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
1972 Bernice Gera becomes first female umpire in US pro baseball, Geneva Senators and Auburn Twins in Geneva, New York
1973 Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched
1974 LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Pleasant Valley CC: 1965 champion Sandra Haynie wins by 2 shots from JoAnn Carner
1975 US Open Men’s Golf, Medinah CC: Lou Graham defeats John Mahaffey by 2 strokes in an 18-hole Monday playoff to win his only major championship
1979 West Indies beat England by 92 runs to win Cricket World Cup
1979 Cricket World Cup, Lord’s, London: Man of the match Vivian Richards scores 138 no as defending champions the West Indies beat England by 92 runs; Joel Garner 5/38
1980 West German wins European soccer title (2-1 against Belgium)
1981 Longest game in Professional Baseball: Pawtucket Red Sox finally beat Rochester Red Wings 3-2 in 33 innings (game began 18th April)
1985 Laffit Pincay Jr.becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million
1985 Senior Tournament Players Championship Men’s Golf, Canterbury GC: Defending champion Arnold Palmer wins his final major by 11 shots from Miller Barber, Lee Elder, Gene Littler & Charles Owens
1986 Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly (52.84)
1988 Charlotte Hornets & Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft
1991 Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race
1994 Replay shows Oakland Athletics’s Bobby Witt beat Kansas City’s Greg Gagne to 1st in 6th but umpire Gary Cedarstrom calls him safe, ruining Witt’s perfect game
1996 WLAF World Bowl 4, Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh: Scottish Claymores beats Frankfurt Galaxy, 32-27
2007 WLAF World Bowl 15, Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt: Hamburg Sea Devils beat Frankfurt Galaxy, 37-28
2008 Félix Hernández of the Seattle Mariners hits a grand slam home run against New York Mets, 1st pitcher since Steve Dunning in 1971
2013 India defeats England to win the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy in cricket
2016 NBA Draft: LSU point guard Ben Simmons first pick by Philadelphia 76ers
2017 NHL Draft: Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL) center Nico Hischier first pick by New Jersey Devils
2018 Indian chess prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa becomes the second-youngest grandmaster at 12 years, 10 months, 13 days
2019 Ashleigh Barty becomes first Australian female in 42 years (since Evonne Goolagong Cawley) to attain world #1 tennis ranking when she beats Julia Görges 6-3, 7-5 at the Birmingham Classic
2019 Women’s PGA Championship, Hazeltine National GC: Australian Hannah Green leads wire-to-wire to win her first LPGA event by 1 stroke ahead of Park Sung-hyun
2021 1st ICC World Test Championship final, Southampton: New Zealand dismisses India for meagre 170; completes tricky chase of 139 on 6th day to win inaugural cricket title
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