1882 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Defending champion William Renshaw beats twin brother Ernest Renshaw 6-1, 2-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 1885 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Defending champion Maud Watson defeats Blanche Bingley 6–1, 7–5 Tennis Player Blanche Bingley 1886 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Blanche Bingley defeats 2-time defending champion Maud Watson 6–3, 6-3 1893 Arthur Shrewsbury is the first to score 1,000 runs in Test cricket 1893 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Joshua Pim wins his first of two straight Wimbledon titles beating defending champion Wilfred Baddeley 3-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2 1894 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Joshua Pim retains his titlebeating2-timechampion Wilfred Baddeley 10-8, 6-2, 8-6 1894 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Blanche Bingley-Hillyard beats Edith Austin 6-1 6-1 for her 3rd of 6 Wimbledon singles titles 1900 NY Giant Christy Mathewson begins career losing to Bkln Superbas 1902 Orioles forfeit to St Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL 1912 International Amateur Athletic Federation forms in Stockholm, Sweden (now known as World Athletics) 1918 Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings 1919 Yanks 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play 1922 Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year 1924 St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 1925 Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits 1926 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4) 1927 21st Tour de France: Nicolas Frantz of Luxembourg claims first of 2 consecutive titles by 1h 48’ 21” from Belgian Maurice De Waele 1934 Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland 1936 NY Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell begins MLB record 24 game winning streak, beating Pittsburgh Pirates, 6-0 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh 1939 PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Pomonok CC: 1938 Masters champion Henry Picard wins his 2nd major title defeating Byron Nelson with a birdie at the 37th hole 1941 NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland 1954 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers) 1955 1st LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Orchard Ridge CC: Beverly Hanson wins by 3 shots from Louise Suggs 1960 47th Tour de France won by Gastone Nencini of Italy a single off Bennie Daniels, his 1st and only MLB hit 1963 Telstar soccer team forms in Ijmuiden 1966 American athlete Jim Ryun sets World mile record (3:51.3) in Berkeley, California 1974 Bob Gibson becomes second pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters (Cesar Geronimo) 1976 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal: 25 African teams (later rising to 33 nations) boycott the games due to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South Africa 1976 Walter Alston becomes thefifthMLBmanagertowin 2,000 games as Los Angeles Dodgers defeat visiting Chicago Cubs, 5-2 1978 NY Yankee manager Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson fight in dug out after Jacksonrefusestobunt,causing Martin to suspend him 1979 50th MLB All-Star Game: NL wins 7-6 at Kingdome, Seattle; MVP: Dave Parker (Pittsburgh Pirates) 1979 David Gower 200* in England score of 5-633 v India at Edgbaston 1979 Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo 1500mRunnerSebastianCoe British Golf Open 1983 British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: Defending champion Tom Watson wins his 5th Open Championship, 1 stroke clear ofAndyBeanandHaleIrwin; Watson’s 2nd consecutive Open win and 3rd in last 4 1987NewYorkYankeesDon Mattingly is 2nd to hit HRs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8) 1988FlorenceGriffithJoyner of the USA sets 100 m woman’s record (10.49) 1990 Minnesota Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red Sox 1-0 1990NYYankeeDeionSanders hits an inside park homer 1993 Graeme Obree breaks the world hour cycling record, riding 51.596km on Old Faithful at the Hamar velodrome in Norway [1] 1994 British Open Men’s Golf, Turnberry: Nick Price of Zimbabwe claims the second of his 3 major titles and only Claret Jug; wins by 1 stroke from Jesper Parnevik of Sweden 1994 FIFA World Cup Final, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA: Brazil beats Italy 3-2 on penalties; 0-0 after extra time 2005 13th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Annika Sörenstam win 2005 British Open Golf, St. Andrews: Tiger Woods wins his 10th major title wire-towire by 5 shots from Scotsman Colin Montgomerie 2005 Canadian Open Women’s Golf, Glen Arbour GC: South Korean Meena Lee wins by 1 from Australian Katherine Hull 2011 British Open Men’s Golf, Royal St George’s GC: Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland claims his only major title; wins by 3 strokes from American pair Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson. 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final, Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt, Germany: Japan beats US, 3-1 on penalties; 2-2 after extra time 2013 21st ESPY Awards: LeBron James, Serena Williams win 2016BritishOpenMen’sGolf, Royal Troon GC: Sweden’s Henrik Stenson becomes first Scandinavian man to win a major title; shoots final round 63 for record 20-under par 264; wins by 3 from Phil Mickelson 2018 89th MLB All-Star Game:ALwins8-6atNationals Park, Washington, D.C., the teams score a record 10 home runs accounting for 13 of the 14 total runs; MVP: Alex Bregman (Houston Astros) 2018 Australian basketball center Liz Cambage scores 53 points as the Dallas Wings beat the NY Liberty 104-87 to set new WNBA single game scoring record 2018 Bloomberg estimates NFL made $14 billion in revenue in 2017, distributing a record $8.1 billion to the league’s 32 teams, $255m each 2022 150th British Open Men’s Golf, St. Andrews: Cameron Smith of Australia wins his first major title by 1 stroke from American CameronYoungwithIrishfavourite Rory McIlroy another stroke back in third place 2024 Cavan Sullivan of the Philadelphia Union becomes the youngest player in a Major League Soccer match and the youngest to debut in any major North American professional sports league at 14 years and 293 days old in a 5-1winovertheNewEngland Revolution at Subaru Park in Chester, Pennsylvania