August 13
1906 Cub’s Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) by Dodgers in 3rd inning 1908 Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team
1910 Dodgers & Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball & 1 hit by pitch
1917 Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves 1919 American thoroughbred racehorse Man o’ War’s only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga) 1920 US Open Men’s Golf, Inverness GC: Isle of Jersey native Ted Ray pars the 18th, giving him a 1-stroke win over runners-up Harry Vardon, Jock Hutchison, Leo Diegel & Jack Burke Sr
1931 Cincinnati Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6 1932 Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins game 1-0 in 10 tying
1933 PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Blue Mound CC: Gene Sarazen defeats Willie Goggin, 5 & 4 for 3rd of his 3 PGA C’ship titles; 6th of his 7 majors
1933 Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist
1936 Nida Senff and Rie Mastenbroek make it a Dutch 1-2 in the women’s 100m backstroke final at the Berlin Olympics 1936 Rie Mastenbroek of the Netherlands swims an Olympic record 1:05.9 to win the women’s 100m freestyle at the Berlin Olympics, beating Jeannette Campbell of Argentina by 0:05
1936 Americans Dorothy Poynton-Hil and Velma Dunn take the gold and silver medals in the 10m platform diving at the Berlin Olympics
1939 Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A’s
1948 Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game
1948 The United States successfully defends its Olympic basketball title with a 65-21 win over France at the London Games
1948 Hungarian boxer László Papp wins the first of 3 consecutive Olympic gold medals; beats British middleweight Johnny Wright on points at the London Games
1948 José Beyaert of France wins the cycling road race at the London Olympics; Belgium takes gold in the teams section beating Great Britain & France
1948 Johan Gren scores twice as Sweden beats Yugoslavia 3-1 to win the football gold medal at the London Olympics 1948 3 Finnish gymnasts dead heat for the gold medal in the pommel horse section at London Olympics; Paavo Aaltonen, Veikko Huhtanen & Heikki Savolainen all awarded gold 1958 Indians’ right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut, hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2
1963 Dave DeBusschere pitches a shutout against the Cleveland Indians
1969 Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A’s, 8-0
1975 Viv Richards out for 291 v England at Cricket, at the Oval
1981 American swimmer Mary T. Meagher breaks her own world women’s 200 m butterfly record (2:05.96) in Brown Deer, Wisconsin
1988 Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games 1988 US beats Jamaica 5-1 in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Kemper Lakes GC: Payne Stewart wins first of 3 major titles by 1 from Andy Bean, Mike Reid & Curtis Strange
1991 Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60)
1991 Test Cricket debut of Mike Whitney for Australia versus England at Old Trafford
1993 Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24MLB Outfielder Rickey Henderson
1993 4th Athletics World Championships open at Stuttgart, Germany
1995 PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Riviera CC: Steve Elkington of Australia wins his first major title in a playoff with Scotsman Colin Montgomerie
1997 Boston Red Sox trade Mike Stanley back to the NY Yankees
1997 San Diego Padres trade Rickey Henderson to Anaheim Angels
2000 Canadian Open Women’s Golf (du Maurier Classic), Royal Ottawa GC: Meg Mallon wins by 1 from Rosie Jones 2004 28th Olympic Games opens at Athens, Greece
2006 Cleveland Indians first baseman Travis Hafner ties Don Mattingley’s MLB mark of 6 grand slams in a season when he homers off Kansas City’s Luke Hudson2006 Canadian Open Women’s Golf, London Hunt CC: Christie Kerr wins by 1 shot from Angela Stanford
2008 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins 3 gold medals, all in world record time, in the one day at the Beijing Olympics; 200m I/M (1:54.23), 200m butterfly (1.52.03) and 4 x 200m freestyle relay (6:58.56)Swimmer
2008 Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice wraps up the medley double at the Beijing Olympics when she swims world record 2:08.45 to win the 200m I/M gold medal
2008 Italian swimmer Federica Pellegrini sets new world record 1:54.82 to claim 200m freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Olympics; runner-up Sara Isakovi is Slovenia’s first Olympic swim medal winner 2012 Nadzeya Ostapchuk of
2012 Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus is stripped of her shotput gold medal after failing a drugs test
2016 American swimmer Michael Phelps ends his career at the Rio Olympics as part of the winning 4x100 medley relay, his record 23rd gold medal
2016 British super-star Mo Farah wins 1st leg of 5,000/10,000m double (repeat of London 2012) in 27:05.17 in the 10k at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Kenya’s Paul Tanui wins silver just 0.47 behind
2016 Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson wins blue ribband women’s 100m gold in 10.71 at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; American Tori Bowie second in
10.83 and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica 3rd 10.86
2016 Great Britain sets a world record of 3:14.051 to comfortably beat the United States in the women’s cycling team pursuit at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
2016 The dominant Great Britain men’s crew wins the eight at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; US scores a comfortable win over GB in the women’s eight
2017 PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Quail Hollow GC: Justin Thomas wins his first major by 2 shots from Francesco Molinari, Patrick Reed & Louis Oosthuizen
August 14
1903 James J. Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1917 Leeuwen soccer team forms
1919 White Sox Happy Felsch ties record of 4 outfield assists in a game
1919 Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play 1920 VII Summer Olympic
1920 VII Summer Olympic Games open in Antwerp, Belgium; first time Olympic Oath voiced, doves released to symbolise peace, and Olympic Flag flown
1932 X Summer Olympic Games close in Los Angeles, USA
1932 Dodger John Quinn, 49, is oldest pitcher to win a major league game
1936 United States beats Canada, 19-8 in poor conditions outdoors to win the gold medal in the inaugural men’s basketball competition at the Olympics Games in Berlin
1936 American swimmers Adolph Kiefer and Al Vande Veghe quinella the 100m backstroke at the Berlin Olympics
1936 The Berlin Olympics rowing competition concludes with Germany winning 5 of 7 gold medals, although the United States wins the coveted eights gold
1937 Detroit Tigers score 36 runs in double header vs St Louis Browns
1939 1st night games at Comiskey Park (White Sox 5, Browns 2)
1948 XIV Olympic Games close at London, Great Britain
1948 England all out for 52 v Australia at Cricket Oval
1953 20th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 24, All-Stars 10 (93,818)
1959 26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000)
1959 AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver & Houston
1960 Australian driver Jack Brabham clinches his second consecutive F1 World Drivers Championship by winning the Portuguese Grand Prix at Boavsta
1961 Philadelphia Phillies lose 17th straight game
1964 Bo Belinsky is suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer
1969 NY Mets fall 9½ games back, later to win pennant from American Corey Pavin 1994 British Open Women’s Golf, Woburn, Duke’s Course: Liselotte Neumann wins by 3 strokes from fellow Swede Annika Sörenstam; first LPGA sanctioned Open
1999 New Zealand win their 3rd Tri Nations Rugby Series as South Africa edges Australia, 10-9 in Cape Town; All Blacks’ only defeat comes in final round dead rubber, 28-7 against Wallabies in Sydney 2004 The Australian women’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Alice Mills, Lisbeth Lenton, Petria Thomas & Jodie Henry smash the world record to take gold in 3:35.94 at the Athens Olympics
2008 Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitajima repeats his Athens Olympics 100/200m breaststroke double at the Beijing Games winning the 200m in Olympic record 2:07.64
2008 Australian women’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of Stephanie Rice, Bronte Barratt, Kylie Palmer & Linda Mackenzie swims world record 7:44.31 to beat China and take the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
2008 A popular Chinese 1-2 in the 200m butterfly at the Beijing Olympics with Liu Zige swimming world record 2:04.18 to beat teammate Jiao Liuyang 2008 French swimmer Alain Bernard wins the coveted 100m freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Olympics beating Eamon O’Sullivan of Australia by 0.11
2010 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games opens in Singapore 2011 PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Atlanta Athletic Club: Keegan Bradley wins first major title by 1 stroke in 3-hole aggregate playoff with fellow American Jason Dufner 2016 Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt wins coveted 100m Olympic 100m gold medal in 9.81 at Rio de Janeiro Olympics - first man to win the event 3 times
2016 South African athlete Wayde van Niekerk sets world record 43.03 to win the men’s 400m gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Kirani James (Grenada) silver, American LaShawn Merritt bronze 2016 Kenya’s Jemima Sumgong wins women’s marathon gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2:24:04; Eunice Kirwa (Bahrain) takes silver, and Mare Dibaba (Ethiopia) bronze 2016 An all-British final in the men’s cycling sprint with Jason Kenny beating teammate Callum Skinner at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
2016 Justin Rose of Great Britain finishes with a score of 16 under par to win the inaugural men’s individual golf gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Rose is 2 strokes ahead of Henrik Stenson (Sweden) and 3 from American Matt Kuchar
2016 Great Britain’s Andy Murray wins the men’s tennis singles gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics 7–5, 4–6, 6–2, 7–5 over Juan Martín del Potro of Argentina
2016 US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Scioto CC: Gene Sauers wins by 1 stroke ahead of Miguel Ángel Jiménez and Billy Mayfair 2019 French woman Stephanie
2019 French woman Stephanie Frappart is the first woman to referee a major match in a European men’s tournament - UEFA Super Cup Chelsea vs Liverpool in Istanbul
2019 Pakistan PM Imran Khan strongly criticizes India for revoking Kashmir’s special status and putting it under lockdown in address in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir