1864 British Open Men’s Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Sr. wins third title; beats fellow Scot Andrew Strath by 2 strokes
1869 British Open Men’s Golf, Prestwick GC: At just 18 years of age, Tom Morris Jr. retains his title; beats fellow Scot Bob Kirk by 11 strokes
1885 5th America’s Cup: Puritan (NY Yacht Club) beats Genesta (Royal Yacht Squadron, Isle of Wight, UK) by 1:38 for 2-0 series win
1887 British Open Men’s Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park Jr wins first of 2 Open titles by 1 stroke from fellow Scot Bob Martin
1892 Amsterdam swimming club renamed ”The Y”
1906 Kaarlo Nieminen wins 1st Finnish marathon
1922 US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Germantown CC, Philadelphia: Bill Tilden wins third straight US singles title; beats fellow American Bill Johnston 4-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4
1926 St Louis Cards beat Phillies 23-3
1930 Phillies trailing 10-5, score 5 in 9th, then Pirates score 4 in top of 10th, so Phillies score 5 in bottom of 10th to win 15-14
1931 St Louis Cards repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over Phillies
1939 NY Yankees clinch their 11th & 4th successive pennant
1950 Cleveland Browns (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, beat Philadelphia 35-10)
1951 US National League umpire Frank Dascoli clears the Dodgers bench, ejecting 15 players
1953 AL approves St Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles
1955 Bauer & Berra homer in 9th beating Red Sox 5-4 taking over 1st
1957 LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers
1962 Brian Kilby wins marathon: (2:23:18.8)
1965 Boston Red Sox Dave Morehead no-hits Cleveland Indians, 2-0
1967 Anni Pede runs female world record marathon (3:07:26)
1975 Pittsburgh second baseman Rennie Stennett is second to hit 7-for-7 in a 9-inning MLB game as Pirates rout Chicago Cubs, 22-0 at Wrigley Field
1978 New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox, 3-2; at Yankee Stadium; Blue Bombers 6th win over arch rivals in 2 weeks
1979 Ryder Cup Golf, The Greenbrier: US wins, 17-11; new Team Europe replaces Great Britain & Ireland as official opposition to the United States
1979 Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium
1987 Calif’s Bob Boone catches record 1,919th major league game
1988 Cincinnati Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats LA Dodgers, 1-0
1988 Javed Miandad completes 211, his 5th Test Cricket double, v Australia
1997 ABL MVP Nikki McCray signs with WNBA
2007 Solheim Cup Women’s Golf, Halmstad GK, Sweden: US retains Cup 16-12; after trailing by a point US dominates singles 8½-3½
2007 Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, Moscow, Russia: Svetlana Kuznetsova beats Francesca Schiavonea of Italy 4-6, 7-6, 7-5 to give Russia an unassailable 3-0 lead (ends, 4-0)
2012 NHL locks out its players after the expiry of the collective bargaining agreement
2012 British Open Women’s Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: Jiyai Shin wins her second Open title, 9 strokes ahead of fellow South Korean Inbee Park
2017 New Zealand All Blacks rugby union team hands South Africa their biggest test match defeat in history; beat Springboks, 57-0 in Rugby Championship round in Albany, NZ
2018 Cycling land speed record broken for men and women by Denise Mueller-Korenek riding 183.932 mph (296.010 km/h) Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
2018 Evian Championship Women’s Golf, Evian Resort GC: At age 40, American Angela Stanford wins her first major title by 1 stroke from Amy Olson, Austin Ernst, Mo Martin & Kim Sei-young
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