1887 US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears wins 7th straight US singles title; beats Henry Slocum 6-1, 6-3, 6-2
1892 US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport, R.I.: Three straight US singles titles to Oliver Campbell; beats Fred Hovey 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
1904 Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)
1906 Hal Chase becomes 1st NY Yankee to hit three triples in a game
1910 Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11
1912 St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
1913 Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled
1939 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
1939 NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
1941 St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 2-0
1944 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
1945 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)
1954 BC Lions play franchise’s first CFL game in Vancouver; lose to Saskatchewan Roughriders, 17-0
1960 Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
1960 US women’s 4 x 100m medley relay team swims world record 4:41.1 to beat Australia and win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Lynn Burke, Patty Kempner, Carolyn Schuler & Chris von Saltza
1969 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
1972 Japanese breaststroker Nobutaka Taguchi beats American pair Tom Bruce & John Hencken to win the 100m gold medal in world record 1:04.94 at the Munich Olympic Games
1972 Australian teenage swimmer Shane Gould with a world record 4:19.04 for the 400m, wins her second of 3 gold medals at the Munich Olympics
1972 American women’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Shirley Babashoff, Jane Barkman, Jenny Kemp & Sandy Neilson beats East Germany by just 0.36 to win gold at the Munich Olympics; world record 3:55.19
1972 Slalom canoeing is introduced at the Munich Olympics with East Germany winning all 4 events
1981 Bill Shoemaker becomes the first jockey to win a $1 million thoroughbred horse race when John Henry takes the inaugural Arlington Million by a nose over The Bart
1984 Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
1986 Yuriy Sedykh of the Soviet Union sets new world hammer throw record 86.74m (284 ft 6 in) in Stuttgart, Germany
1986 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
1987 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
1987 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman’s record 2.09m (6’10½”), one of the most long-standing records in athletics
1987 Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
1987 Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
1988 Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games
1991 Dan O’Brien sets US decathlon record with 8,812 points
1991 Mike Powell of US sets then long jump record at 29′ 4½” (8.95m)
1992 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
1997 1st WNBA Championship: Houston Comets beat NY Liberty
1997 Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (US Open)

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