1817 Karl Drais von Sauerbronn demonstrates bicycle course
1921 Indians (9) & Yankees (7) combine for an AL record 16 doubles
1927 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth half way to his MLB record of 60 home runs; smacks #30 of Joe Shaute in 9th inning in New York’s 7-0 win over Cleveland Indians at Dunn Field
1928 1st televised tennis match
1931 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St Louis, help cause many ground ruled doubles, 11 in 1st game & 21 in 2nd game for 32
1932 Hedley Verity establishes a first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm
1934 Willy de Supervise swims world record 400m (5:16.0)
1945 Chicago Cubs beat Boston, 6-1 to halt Braves outfielder Tommy Holmes’ modern-day record NL hitting streak at 37 games
1946 Vance Dinges hits only Phillie pinch hit inside-the-park HR
1949 16th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-7 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
1949 Baseball owners agree to erect warning paths before each fence
1949 LA Rams sign Norm Van Brocklin
1950 ILTF re-admit Germany and Japan in Davis Cup, Poland & Hungary withdraws
1951 NY Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleveland Indians, 8-0
1954 Major League Baseball Players Association founded
1955 22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at County Stad, Milw
1959 NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during Yankee-Red Sox game
1966 37th All-Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 10 inninngs, at Busch Memorial Stadium, St Louis
1969 British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes GC: Tony Jacklin wins the first of his 2 major titles, 2 strokes ahead of Bob Charles of New Zealand; first Briton to win The Open since 1951
1987 Canadian Open Women’s Golf (du Maurier Classic), Islesmere GC: Jody Rosenthal wins by 2 from Ayako Okamoto of Japan
1987 Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief
1988 59th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
1988 All star MVP: Terry Steinbach (Oakland A’s)
1988 Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Bogg’s had an affair with her
1989 NY Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA)
1990 Chicago White Sox Melido Perez no-hits Yankees 8-0 in a rain shortened 6 inning game at Yankee Stadium (7th no-hitter of 1990)
1992 US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Saucon Valley CC: Larry Laoretti wins by 4 strokes ahead of Jim Colbert for his lone professional victory
1994 65th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-8 at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh
1994 All star MVP: Fred McGriff (Atlanta Braves)
1997 Cubs play in their 5,000th consecutive game without being no-hit
1997 Pirates Francisco Cordova & Ricardo Rincon no-hit Astros 3-0 in 10 inn
1998 Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, TPC of Michigan: Gil Morgan wins his 3rd Champions Tour major title by 3 strokes from Hale Irwin
2005 76th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Comerica Park, Detroit
2009 US Open Women’s Golf, Saucon Valley CC: Eun-Hee Ji of South Korea wins her lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of American runner-up Candie Kung
2011 82nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Chase Field, Phoenix
2015 US Open Women’s Golf, Lancaster CC: Chun In-gee of South Korea wins her first major title by 1 stroke from compatriot Amy Yang
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