July 17
1939 鈥� Henry Picard beats Byron Nelson 1-up in 37 holes to win the PGA championship.
1941 鈥� Joe DiMaggio鈥檚 hitting streak of 56 games is stopped by Al Smith and Jim Bagby of the Indians before 67,000 at Cleveland.
1955 鈥� Beverly Hanson beats Louise Suggs by three strokes in a playoff to capture the first LPGA championship.
1966 鈥� Jim Ryun becomes the first American to hold the record in the mile since 1937. With a time of 3:51.3 at Berkeley, Calif., Ryun shatters Michel Jazy鈥檚 mark of 3:53.6 by 2.3 seconds.
1974 鈥� Bob Gibson strikes out Cesar Geronimo of the Reds in the second inning to become the second pitcher in major league history to record 3,000 strikeouts.
1979 鈥� Sebastian Coe breaks the world record in the mile with a time of 3:48.95 in Oslo, Norway. The time is rounded up to 3:49.
1983 鈥� Bobby Hebert passes for 314 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Michigan Panthers to a 24-22 win over the Philadelphia Stars in the first USFL championship game.
1983 鈥� Tom Watson wins his second straight and fifth career British Open title. Watson shoots a 9-under 275 at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England to finish one stroke ahead of Andy Bean and Hale Irwin.
1990 鈥� Minnesota becomes the first team in major league history to pull off two triple plays in one game, but it isn鈥檛 enough to overcome Boston as the Red Sox beat the Twins 1-0.
1994 鈥� Brazil wins a record fourth World Cup soccer title, taking the first shootout in championship game history over Italy.
2005 鈥� Tiger Woods records another ruthless performance at St. Andrews, closing with a 2-under 70 to win the British Open for his 10th career major. He wins by five shots, the largest margin in any major since Woods won by eight at St. Andrews five years ago. He joins Jack Nicklaus as the only players to win the career Grand Slam twice.
2006 鈥� Stacey Nuveman and Lovieanne Jung each homer to power the United States to the World Cup of Softball title with a 5-2 victory over Japan.
2011 鈥� Japan stuns the United States in a riveting Women鈥檚 World Cup final, winning 3-1 on penalty kicks after coming from behind twice in a 2-2 tie. Goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori makes two brilliant saves in the shootout. Japan, making its first appearance in the final of a major tournament, hadn鈥檛 beaten the Americans in their first 25 meetings.
2011 鈥� Darren Clarke gives Northern Ireland another major championship, winning the British Open by three strokes over Americans Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson.
2016 鈥� Henrik Stenson shoots an 8-under 63 to beat Phil Mickelson by three strokes, becoming the first man from Sweden to win the British Open.
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July 18
1896 鈥� James Foulis wins the U.S. Men鈥檚 Open golf championship at Shinnecock Hills, Southampton, N.Y.
1921 鈥� Babe Ruth achieves 139 home runs and becomes the all-time home run leader in Major League Baseball, taking the title from Roger Connor.
1927 鈥� Ty Cobb of the Philadelphia Athletics doubles off the glove of Harry Heilmann for his 4,000th hit.
1951 鈥� Jersey Joe Walcott, at 37, becomes the oldest fighter to win the world heavyweight title with a seventh-round knockout of Ezzard Charles at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.
1970 鈥� San Francisco鈥檚 Willie Mays gets career hit number 3,000 off Montreal鈥檚 Mike Wegener in the second inning.
1975 鈥� The trial of Dave Forbes, the first pro athlete to be indicted for a crime committed during play, ends in a hung jury. Forbes, of the Boston Bruins, was indicted for excessive force used on an opponent. Forbes鈥� victim was Henry Boucha in a game on Jan. 4 against the North Stars at Minnesota. The prosecution decides not to seek a retrial.
1987 鈥� New York鈥檚 Don Mattingly ties Dale Long鈥檚 31-year-old major league record when he homers for the eighth consecutive game in the Yankees鈥� 7-2 loss to the Texas Rangers.
1993 鈥� Greg Norman shoots a 64 on the final day to set a record with a 13-under 267 and wins the British Open. Norman wins by two strokes over defending champion Nick Faldo.
1995 鈥� Britain鈥檚 Jonathan Edwards breaks the 10-year-old world triple jump record, leaping 59 feet in the Salamanca Provincial meet. Edwards tops the previous mark of 58-11陆 set in 1985 by Willie Banks of the United States.
1999 鈥� Jean Van de Velde鈥檚 triple bogey on the 72nd hole sets the stage for Paul Lawrie to become the first Scotsman to win the British Open in his native land since Tommy Armour in 1931. Lawrie, 10 strokes behind when the final round began, wins the four-hole playoff over Van de Velde and Justin Leonard, making birdies on the last two holes to complete the biggest comeback in a major.
1999 鈥� David Cone dazzles the Montreal Expos, throwing the 14th perfect game in modern history to lead the New York Yankees to a 6-0 victory.
2005 鈥� In Oklahoma City, the United States loses a tournament title game for the first time since 1997, falling 3-1 to Japan in the championship of the inaugural World Cup of Softball. The Americans, which lost to Canada earlier in this tournament, lost to Australia 1-0 in the championship game of the 1997 Superball, held in Ohio.
2010 鈥� Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa shoots a 1-under 71 for a seven-stroke victory at 16-under 272 in the British Open on the Old Course at St. Andrews. Lee Westwood of England finishes second.
2021 鈥� Colin Morikawa wins the Open Championship 15-under par at Royal St. George鈥檚 by two strokes over Jordan Speith. It was Morikawa鈥檚 second major championship win following his 2020 The Masters win.
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July 19
1877 鈥� Spencer Gore beats William Marshall in 48 minutes (6-1, 6-2, 6-4) in the first men鈥檚 singles tennis championship at the All England Club, Wimbledon.
1909 鈥� Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball pulls off the first unassisted triple play in modern major league history.
1910 鈥� Cy Young wins his 500th career game as the Cleveland Indians beat the Washington Senators 5-4 in 11 innings.
1922 鈥� Johnny Weissmuller is the first swimmer to break the 1 minute barrier for the 100 meter freestyle; 58.6s.
1936 鈥� Future Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller makes his MLB debut.
1957 鈥� Don Bowden is the first American to break the four-minute mile with a 3:58.7 time at Stockton, Calif.
1980 鈥� The Summer Olympics open in Moscow without the United States and 64 other boycotting countries.
1986 鈥� Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title.
1987 鈥� Nick Faldo of England wins the British Open by one shot when American Paul Azinger bogeys four times on the back nine.
1990 鈥� Pete Rose, baseball鈥檚 all-time hits leader, is sentenced to five months in prison and an additional three months in a halfway house for cheating on his taxes.
1997 鈥� Daniel Komen of Kenya shatters the 8-minute barrier for the 2-mile run and sets a world record of 7:58.61 at the Hechtel Night of track in Belgium. Haile Gebrselassie had set the world record of 8:01.08 on May 31.
2008 鈥� In the WNBA鈥檚 first outdoor game, the Indiana Fever overcomes the heat and humidity in New York to beat the Liberty 71-55. Arthur Ashe Stadium, home of the U.S. Open, had a basketball court laid on top of the tennis court.
2009 鈥� Tom Watson squanders a chance to become golf鈥檚 oldest major champion. The 59-year-old misses an 8-foot putt on the 72nd hole of the British Open, then loses a four-hole playoff by six shots to Stewart Cink.
2009 鈥� Eighty-one-year-old Hershel McGriff becomes the oldest driver to take part in a national NASCAR series race, finishing 13th in a Camping World West Series event at Portland International Raceway.
2014 鈥� Shoni Schimmel, a rookie who doesn鈥檛 start for her own team, puts on a record-breaking performance 鈥� scoring 29 points to help the East beat the West 125-124 in the first WNBA All-Star game to go to overtime. Tamika Catchings makes a layup with 6.9 seconds to go to give the East the lead and then knocks the ball away from Skylar Diggins on the defensive end to seal the victory.
2020 鈥� World Formula 1 drivers champion Lewis Hamilton wins a record 8th Hungarian Grand Prix.
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July 20
1858 鈥� Fans are charged for the first time to see a baseball game. Approximately 1,500 fans pay 50 cents to see the New York All-Stars beat Brooklyn 22-18 at Fashion Race Course on Long Island.
1958 鈥� The PGA championship calls for medal play for the first time and Dow Finsterwald beats Billy Casper.
1963 鈥� Mary Mills wins the U.S. Women鈥檚 Open golf championship by three strokes over Sandra Palmer and Louise Suggs.
1974 鈥� Carl Rosen鈥檚 Chris Evert beats Miss Musket by 50 lengths in the winner-take-all match race at Hollywood Park.
1975 鈥� Sandra Palmer wins the U.S. Women鈥檚 Open golf championship by four strokes over Nancy Lopez, Joanne Carner and Sandra Post.
1976 鈥� Hank Aaron hits his 755th and last home run.
1980 鈥� Tom Watson wins the British Open by four strokes over Lee Trevino. Watson shoots a 13-under 271 at Muirfield Golf Links at Gullane, Scotland. Watson becomes the fourth American to win three Open titles, joining Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones and Jack Nicklaus.
1997 鈥� Justin Leonard closes with a 65 to win the British Open at 12-under 272 at Royal Troon. Leonard, whose closing round is one of the best in major championship history, takes the lead from Jesper Parnevik with a birdie on No. 17.
2002 鈥� Tiger Woods, trying to win the third leg of the Grand Slam, shoots his worst round (81) as a professional, knocking himself out of contention.
2008 鈥� Padraig Harrington is the first European in more than a century to win golf鈥檚 oldest championship two years in a row. Harrington pulls away from mistake-prone Greg Norman and holds off a late charge by Ian Poulter for a four-shot victory in the British Open.
2009 鈥� Lauren Lappin homers to start a three-run rally in the third inning, and the United States beats Australia 3-1 in the World Cup of Softball championship game at Oklahoma City.
2013 鈥� China鈥檚 Wu Minxia and Shi Tingmao wins the first diving gold medal at the world championships in Barcelona, Spain. Wu earns a record sixth world title in the women鈥檚 3-meter synchronized springboard.
2014 鈥� Rory McIlroy completes a wire-to-wire victory in the British Open to capture the third leg of the career Grand Slam. McIlroy closes with a 1-under 71 for a two-shot victory over Sergio Garcia and Rickie Fowler. McIlroy, winner of the 2011 U.S. Open and the 2012 PGA Championship, joins Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only players with three different majors at age 25 or younger.
2015 鈥� Zach Johnson rolls in a 30-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole and outlasts Louis Oosthuizen and Marc Leishman in a three-man playoff to win the British Open. Jordan Spieth, looking to win his third straight major, falls one shot short of joining the playoff.
2020 鈥� Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the first man to score 50 goals in Serie A, La Liga and the Premier League.
2021 鈥� The Milwaukee Bucks defeat the Phoenix Suns 105-95 in game six of the NBA Finals to win their second NBA Championship. It was the fourth win in a row after falling behind 2-0 in the series. The Bucks鈥� F Giannis Antetokounmpo was named NBA Finals Most Valuable Player.
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July 21
1876 鈥� Princeton takes the team championship in the first IC4A (Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes Association) track and field meet.
1957 鈥� Lionel Herbert wins the PGA championship with a 2-1 final round victory over Dow Finsterwald.
1957 鈥� 1st black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson).
1963 鈥� Jack Nicklaus wins the PGA championship by two strokes over Dave Ragan to become the fourth golfer to win the three major United States titles.
1968 鈥� Arnold Palmer becomes the first PGA golfer to earn $1 million over his career despite losing by one stroke to Julius Boros in the PGA championship.
1973 鈥� Hank Aaron hits home run number 700 off of Phillies Pitcher Ken Brett.
1974 鈥� Sandra Haynie edges Carol Mann and Beth Stone by one stroke to win the U.S. Women鈥檚 Open championship.
1979 鈥� Spain鈥檚 Seve Ballesteros captures the British Open by three strokes over Ben Crenshaw and Jack Nicklaus.
1985 鈥� John Henry, the greatest money winner in horse racing history, is retired. The 10-year-old won 39 races in 83 starts and earned $6,597,947 in total purses.
1985 鈥� Sandy Lyle wins the British Open by one stroke over Payne Stewart.
1989 鈥� Mike Tyson knocks down Carl 鈥淭he Truth鈥� Williams with a left hook and stops him 93 seconds into the first round of his heavyweight title defense. It is the fifth shortest heavyweight title fight in history.
1996 鈥� Tom Lehman shoots a final-round 73 for a 72-hole total of 13-under 271 to win the British Open, two strokes better than Ernie Els and Mark McCumber.
1996 鈥� Wayne Gretzky signs a 2 year deal with NY Rangers.
2002 鈥� Ernie Els squanders a three-stroke lead but outlasts Thomas Levet of France to win a four-man playoff that produces the first sudden-death finish in the 142-year history of the British Open.
2007 鈥� Bernard Hopkins, in the twilight of his fighting days, ends Winky Wright鈥檚 7 1/2-year unbeaten streak with a unanimous decision in their 170-pound bout in Las Vegas.
2009 鈥� China鈥檚 Guo Jingjing easily wins her fifth straight world championship in 3-meter springboard. She captured her first springboard world title in 2001, and hasn鈥檛 lost since in the every-other-year competition.
2013 鈥� Phil Mickelson wins his first British Open title with a spectacular finish. He birdies four of the last six holes for a 5-under 66 to match the best round of the tournament.
2013 鈥� Britain鈥檚 Chris Froome wins the 100th Tour de France, having dominated rivals over three weeks. He rides into Paris wearing the yellow jersey he took in Stage 8 in the Pyrenees and never relinquished.
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July 22
1921 鈥� Jim Barnes wins the U.S. Men鈥檚 Open golf championship by edging Walter Hagen, Leo Diegel, Jock Hutchinson and Fred McLeod.
1962 鈥� Gary Player of South Africa becomes the first non-resident of the United States to win the PGA championship.
1963 鈥� Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson in 2 minutes, 10 seconds of the first round to retain the world heavyweight title. Liston took the title from Patterson with a first-round knockout in Chicago on Sept. 25, 1962.
1973 鈥� Sue Berning wins the U.S. Women鈥檚 Open golf championship for the third time with a five-stroke victory over Gloria Ahret.
1984 鈥� Kathy Whitworth becomes the all-time winner in professional golf tournaments by winning the Rochester Open. Whitworth, with 85 career wins, passes Sam Snead鈥檚 total of 84 PGA tournament victories.
1984 鈥� Seve Ballesteros wins the British Open with a four-round 276, breaking the course record set by Ken Nagle in 1960 by two strokes. Tom Watson and Bernhard Langer finish two strokes behind.
1990 鈥� Nick Faldo wins his second British Open crown in four years, defeating Payne Stewart and Mark McNulty by five strokes.
1996 鈥� Naim Suleymanoglu of Turkey becomes first weightlifter in Olympic history to win three gold medals. Suleymanoglu wins the 141-pound division by hoisting 413录 pounds.
1994 鈥� Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson pleads 鈥淎bsolutely 100% Not Guilty鈥� of murder.
1998 鈥� Jackie Joyner-Kersee ends her brilliant heptathlon career with a victory at the Goodwill Games. It鈥檚 her fourth consecutive Goodwill title. Earlier, the 4×400-meter relay world record of 2:54.29, set by the 1993 U.S. World Championship team, comes crashing down. Michael Johnson, the anchor on that 1993 team, anchors this United States 4×400 team, which finishes in a 2 minutes, 54.20 seconds.
2001 鈥� David Duval shoots a 4-under 67 at Royal Lytham & St. Annes to win the British Open title, his first major championship. He finishes at 10-under 274 for a three-stroke victory over Sweden鈥檚 Niclas Fasth.
2005 鈥� Yelena Isinbayeva clears the 5-meter mark at the Crystal Palace Grand Prix in London for her latest world record. The Olympic champion easily clears 16 feet, 4戮 inches on her first attempt, barely nudging the bar.
2007 鈥� Padraig Harrington survives a calamitous finish in regulation and a tense putt for bogey on the final hole of a playoff to win the British Open over Sergio Garcia.
2008 鈥� Candace Parker scores 21 points and DeLisha Milton-Jones adds 19 before both are ejected after a scuffle in the final minute as the Los Angeles Sparks beat the Detroit Shock 84-81 at Auburn Hills, Mich. The WNBA game turns ugly in the final seconds as a collision between Parker and Detroit鈥檚 Plenette Pierson turns into a shoving match that has players and coaches from both teams leaving the bench.
2012 鈥� Bradley Wiggins becomes the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France by protecting the yellow jersey during the final processional ride into Paris. Fellow Briton and Sky teammate Christopher Froome finishes second, 3 minutes, 21 seconds behind.
2012 鈥� Ernie Els wins his fourth major championship in an astonishing finish, rallying to beat Adam Scott in the British Open when the Aussie bogeys the last four holes. Els, who starts the final round six shots behind, finishes off a flawless back nine with a 15-foot birdie putt for a 2-under 68. Scott was four shots ahead with four holes to play.
2018 鈥� Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird plays in a record 500th WNBA game.
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July 23
1907 鈥� Australasia beats British Isles 3-2 to win the Davis Cup held at Wimbledon. Australasia wins its first David Cup and ends the four-year reign of the British Isles.
1921 鈥� At the annual Harvard-Yale vs. Cambridge-Oxford meet at Harvard Stadium, Harvard鈥檚 Edward Gourdin becomes the first to long jump 25 feet. Harvard lists Gourdin鈥檚 jump as 25 feet, 3 inches, but the official listing in U.S. Track and Field is 25-2.
1960 鈥� Betsy Rawls becomes the first woman to win the U.S. Women鈥檚 Open golf title four times.
1966 鈥� John Pennel pole vaults 17 feet, 6 1/4 inches for the world record in a meet at Los Angeles. It鈥檚 the eighth of nine world records he set in the event in his career and his first since 1963.
1976 鈥� The last NFL All-Star game is held and is shortened when thunderstorms hit Chicago. The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the All-Stars 24-0.
1978 鈥� Hollis Stacy wins the U.S. Women鈥檚 Open golf championship for the second straight year.
1989 鈥� Mark Calcavecchia wins the British Open, edging Greg Norman and Wayne Grady in a three-man playoff. Calcavecchia, the first American to win the Open in five years, birdies three of the four holes in the playoff.
1989 鈥� Greg Lemond wins his second Tour de France with the closest finish ever, edging Laurent Fignon by 8 seconds. Lemond starts the day 50 seconds behind Fignon and wins the final stage, a 15-mile race against the clock from Versailles to Paris, in 26:57. Fignon finishes the stage 58 seconds slower.
1995 鈥� John Daly wins the British Open at St. Andrews by four strokes in a four-hole playoff with Italy鈥檚 Costantino Rocca. Rocca forces the playoff by sinking a 65-foot putt on the 18th hole.
1995 鈥� Miguel Indurain of Spain wins his record fifth consecutive Tour de France. Indurain joins Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault as the other five-time winners.
2000 鈥� Tiger Woods, at 24, becomes the youngest player to win the career Grand Slam with a record-breaking performance in the British Open on the Old Course at St. Andrews. Woods closes with a 3-under 69 for a 19-under 269 total, the lowest score in relation to par at a major championship.
2000 鈥� 87th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified).
2006 鈥� Tiger Woods, one month after missing the cut for the first time in a major, becomes the first player since Tom Watson in 1982-83 to win consecutive British Open titles.
2006 鈥� Floyd Landis, pedaling with an injured hip, cruises to victory in the Tour de France, keeping cycling鈥檚 most prestigious title in American hands for the eighth straight year.
2009 鈥� Mark Buehrle pitches the 18th perfect game in major league history, a 5-0 win over Tampa Bay.
2012 鈥� Penn State is all but leveled by penalties handed down by the NCAA for its handling of the allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The NCAA imposes an unprecedented $60 million fine, a four-year ban from postseason play and a cut in the number of football scholarships it can award.
2017 鈥� British cyclist Chris Froome wins his fourth Tour de France.
2019 鈥� Nike鈥檚 Jordan Brand signs 2019 NBA #1 draft pick Zion Williamson to richest multiyear sponsorship deal for a rookie in history; estimated 7 years for $75 million.
2021 鈥� The Opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games takes place after a one-year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 鈥� The Cleveland Indians announce the team will be re-named the Guardians.
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