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New York Yankees pitcher Monte Pearson no-hits Indians, 13-0; Joe DiMaggio hits 3 triples Courtesy photos
August 27
1884 US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears makes it 4 straight US singles titles; beats Howard Taylor 6-0, 1-6, 6-0, 6-2
1890 US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Oliver Campbell beats 2-time defending champion Henry Slocum 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 1894 US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Robert Wrenn beats Irishman Manliff Goodbody 6-8, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4
1897 Roger Bresnahan debuts as Washington Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher)
1901 US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats Beals Wright 6-2, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4 for the first of 7 US singles titles
1902 US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport, RI: Defending champion William Larned beats Englishman R.F. Doherty 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 8-6
1908 Calgary City Rugby Football Club re-organizes as the Tigers
1909 US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats William Clothier 6-1, 6-2, 5-7, 1-6, 6-1 for his 3rd straight & 5th overall US singles title
1910 Using twenty 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park
1911 Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0
1918 Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army
1920 American diver Louis Kuehn leads a US medal sweep in the men’s 3m springboard event at the Antwerp Olympics; teammates Clarence Pinkston & Louis Balbach take the minor medals
1921 J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6)Runner nicknamed the “Flying Finn” Paavo Nurmi
1928 US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Helen Wills defeats fellow American Helen Jacobs 6–2, 6–1 for her 5th of 7 US singles crowns
1938 New York Yankees pitcher Monte Pearson no-hits Indians, 13-0; Joe DiMaggio hits 3 triples
1952 Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2)
1960 Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
1960 Australian swimmer John Devitt controversially wins the 100m freestyle gold medal at the Rome Olympics; recorded same time 55.2 as silver medallist American Lance Larson
1960 British swimmer Anita Lonsbrough sets 200m breaststroke world record 2:49.5 to beat German pair Wiltrud Urselmann & Barbara Göbel for the gold medal at the Rome Olympics
1966 Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak
1974 NY Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat
1975 1st night match at US Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
1975 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
1976 Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open
1977 Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back insidethe-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2
1978 Dutch cyclist Gerrie Knetemann wins UCI Road World C’ship from Francesco Moser of Italy and Dane Jorgen Marcussenin in Nürburg, West Germany
1978 Yankee Catfish Hunter’s 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978
1982 Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock’s mark
1985 Mary Joe Fernández at 14 years 8 days old becomes youngest player to win at the US Tennis Open; beats England’s Sara Gomer 6-1, 6-4 in a 1st round match
1990 Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
1990 Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)
1992 CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
1995 Canadian Open Women’s Golf (du Maurier Classic), Beaconsfield GC: Jenny Lidback wins by 1 stroke from Liselotte Neumann of Sweden
1995 95th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1996 Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Detroit Red Wings to the Tampa Bay Lightning
2004 China’s first ever gold in Olympic Games men’s track and field; Liu Xiang wins 110m hurdles in Athens, equalling Colin Jackson’s 1993 world record time of 12.91 seconds
2004 German kayaker Birgit Fischer wins gold in K-4 500m & silver in K-2 500m in Athens; first woman in any sport to win gold medals at 6 different Olympics, gold 24 years apart, and 1st person to win 2 or more medals in 5 different Games
2004 Timothy Mack vaults an Olympic record 5.95m to win the pole vault gold medal from fellow American Toby Stevenson (5.90m) at the Athens Olympics
2004 Osleidys Menéndez of Cuba throws an Olympic record 71.53m to easily beat German Steffi Nerius for the women’s javelin gold medal at the Athens Games
2004 In a huge upset in the men’s basketball semi final at the Athens Olympics, Argentina beats a star-studded but unsettled US team 89-81; they go on to take gold and US bronze
2004 Australia wins its first ever Olympic men’s field hockey gold medal with a 2-1 win a.e.t. against the Netherlands in Athens
2006 The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, Reserve Vineyards & GC: Eduardo Romero of Argentina wins first of 2 Champions Tour majors with birdie on 1st playoff hole against Lonnie Nielsen
2011 13th Athletics World Championships open at Daegu, South Korea
2011 Australia claims final Tri Nations Rugby Series with 25-20 win over New Zealand in Brisbane; Argentina’s Pumas join competition the following year; series rebranded The Rugby Championship
2015 15th Athletics World Championships: Usain Bolt of Jamaica adds the Mens 200m gold to his 100m win
2017 Former five-weight world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats MMA fighter Conor McGregor in his debut match in the 10th round in Las Vegas
2017 Canadian Open Women’s Golf, Ottawa Hunt GC: Park Sung-hyun of South Korea wins by 2 from Mirim Lee
2018 Reigning French Open tennis champion Simona Halep becomes first top-seeded woman to lose in 1st round of the U.S. Open; loses to Kaia Kanepi 6-2, 6-4; first match at newly renovated Louis Armstrong Stadium
2019 Race car driver Jessi Combs dies while setting new fastest women’s land speed record of 522.783 mph at Alvord Desert, Oregon (posthumously awarded 2020)
August 28
1886 US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears beats R. Livingston Beeckman 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4 for his 6th consecutive US singles title
1888 US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Henry Slocum beats Howard Taylor 6-4, 6-1, 6-0
1893 US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport, R.I.: Robert Wrenn beats Fred Hovey 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4; first of his 4 US singles titles
1907 US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats Robert LeRoy 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 for his third US singles title
1918 Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on umpire Tom Connolly
1920 American swimmer Norman Ross wins his 2nd of 3 gold medals at the Antwerp Olympics; beats teammate Ludwig Langer in the men’s 400m freestyle; also wins 1,500m and 4 x 200m freestyle relay
1920 Ethelda Bleibtrey leads an American medal sweep of the Antwerp Olympics women’s 300m freestyle with a world record swim of 4:34.0
1921 Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games
1922 1st Walker Cup: US beats England 8-4
1926 Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)
1941 8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203)
1942 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)
1949 38th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1951 Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000
1951 Pirates snap NY Giants 16 game winning streak
1956 Australia clings on for a draw in 5th Test at The Oval, London; England retain cricket Ashes with Jim Laker’s 46 wickets a record series haul
1960 White Sox Ted Kluzewski’s 3-run HR is disallowed as umpire called time
1967 Boston signs 1st freeagent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus
1970 Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970
1972 American 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of David Edgar, John Murphy, John Heidenreich & Mark Spitz swim a world record 3:26.42 to beat Soviet Union for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
1972 Australian teenage swimmer Shane Gould sets a world record 2:23.07 to beat German Kornelia Ender in the 200m individual medley at the Munich Olympics; her first of 3 gold medals at the Games
1972 Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut becomes media darling at the Munich Olympics; wins gold in the teams all-round ; follows with 2 gold and a silver
1972 North Korean shooter Ri Ho-jun wins the 50m rifle prone event at the Munich Olympics; his nation’s first ever Olympic gold medal
1977 NY Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men & beats Texas Rangers 1-0
1977 Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year
1977 NY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland Ore, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship
1987 Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams & Willie McCovey with 522 HRs
1987 2nd Athletics World Championships open at Rome, Italy
1988 88th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks
1989 Frank Viola & Mets outduel Orel Hershiser & Dodgers 1-0
1990 Cub’s Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively
1991 Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martínez both perfect game pitcher
1992 Brewers beat Blue Jays 22-2 with AL record 31 hits in 9 innings
1992 Test cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo
1994 Canadian Open Women’s Golf (du Maurier Classic), Ottawa Hunt GC: Martha Nause wins by 1 from Michelle Mcgann
1994 94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1995 Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson
2004 British athlete Kelly Holmes wraps up the 800/1,500m double at the Athens Olympics taking out the 1.5k in 3:57.90
2004 Moroccan super star athlete Hicham El Guerrouj wraps up the 1,500/5,000m double at the Athens Olympics taking the 5k gold in 13:14.39
2004 A huge upset at the Athens Olympic Stadium in the men’s 4×100m relay; Great Britain 38.07 edges the United States 38.08 to take the gold medal
2004 Led by San Antonio Spurs shooting guard Manu Ginóbili Argentina beats Italy 84-69 for the Olympic basketball gold medal in Athens; star-studded US team takes bronze
2004 The diving competition at the Athens Olympics concludes with the Chinese contingent dominant, winning 6 of the 8 gold medals
2004 The US women’s basketball team goes through the Athens Olympics undefeated to take out it’s 5th Olympic gold medal, beating Australia 74-63 in the final
2004 Carlos Tevez scores the winner as Argentina beats Paraguay 1-0, maintaining an undefeated record to win the men’s football gold medal at the Athens Olympics
2005 The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, Reserve Vineyards & GC: Loren Roberts wins first of 4 Champions Tour majors with bogey on 2nd playoff hole against Dana Quigley
2011 Canadian Open Women’s Golf, Hillsdale CC: Brittany Lincicome wins by 1 stroke from Michelle Wie and Stacy Lewis
2016 Canadian Open Women’s Golf, Priddis Green CC: Ariya Jutanugam of Thailand wins by 4 from Kim Sei-young of South Korea