1858 Fee 1st charged to seeabaseballgame(50cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18) 1896 Wimbledon Men's Tennis:HaroldMahonybeats 3-time champion Wilfred Baddeley 6-2, 6-8, 5-7, 8-6, 6-3 1906 Brooklyn Superbas pitcher Mal Eason no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 2-0 at Robison Field, St. Louis 1911 Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0 1912 Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game 1916 NY Giants trade future Baseball HOF pitcher Christy Mathewson to Cincinnati Reds 1920 Dutch soccer club Sportclub Heerenveen is formed; initially known as Athleta; KNVB Cup Champions 2008–09 1923 Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2 1924 18th Tour de France won by Ottavio Bottecchia of Italy 1932 An injured Babe Ruth entertains the touring Australian cricketers in his private box at Yankee Stadium as his NY Yankees beat Chicago White Sox, 7-2; 'The Babe' meets 'The Don' (Don Bradman) 1938 IOC awards Helsinki, Finland 1940 Summer Olympic Games after Tokyo, Japan withdraws (Second Sino-Japanese War) 1941 Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17 1942 Barbados dismiss Trinidadfor16in69minutes, Derek Sealy taking 8-8; West Indian cricket domestic first class record 1944 Browns Nelson Potter is 1st pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs 1947 Tour de France: French rider Jean Robic takes lead on final stage to win overall classification; Pierre Brambilla of Italy mountains champion 1952 Emile Zatopek runs OlympicRecord10K(29:17.0) 1954 American tennis champion Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in a horse riding accident ending a brilliant career at just 19 1956YankeepitcherWhitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs 1957 44th Tour de France: French cyclist Jacques Anquetil wins first of 5 general classification titles 1958 Detroit Tigers future Baseball HOF pitcher Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0 1958 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Llanerch CC: Dow Finsterwald wins 1st PGA C'ship held in current stroke play format; wins by 2 from Billy Casper 1963 US Open Women's Golf, Kenwood CC: Mary Mills wins her first of 3 major titles by 3 strokes ahead of runners-upLouiseSuggsand Sandra Haynie 1965 NY Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam 1969 56th Tour de France: Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx wins general, points, mountains, team classification titles 1970 Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks 1973 Chic's Wilbur Wood starts and loses both games of a doubleheader with NY Yankees, 12-2, & 7-0 1975 62nd Tour de France won by Bernard Thevenet of France 1975 US Open Women's Golf, Atlantic City CC: Sandra Palmer wins her second major title by 4 strokes from JoAnne Carner, Sandra Post and Nancy Lopez 1976 Hank Aaron hits 755th and last home run off Angels Dick Drago 1980 67th Tour de France won by Joop Zoetemelk of N1980 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Tom Watson wins his 3rd of 5 Open titles, by 4 strokes from fellow American Lee Trevino 1984 Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m 1986 British Open Men's Golf, Turnberry: Australian Greg Norman wins his first major championship at evenpar, 5 strokes clear of runnerup Gordon J. Brand 1987 Don Mattingly ties 1st base fielding record with 22 put-outs 1991 Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant 1994FormerNFLrunning
Hank Aaron, shown above signing an autograph, hit his 755th and last home run off Angels Dick Drago in 1976.
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