August 16th
- 1743 Champion of England titleholder Jack Broughton publishes 'Rules of the Ring' - earliest boxing code
- 1870 - Fred Goldsmith demonstrates that curve ball thrown in baseball isn't an optical illusion.
- 1883 Dutch soccer club Dordrecht is established (KNVB Cup 1914, 32)
- 1915 - Kansas City Packers' pitcher Alex Main no-hits Buffalo Blues (Federal League), 5-0.
- 1920 - Ray Chapman, of the Cleveland Indians, is hit in the head by New York Yankees' Carl Mays' pitch.
- 1924 38th U.S. Women's National Championship: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (6-1, 6-3)
- 1927 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth)
- 1936 - Games of the XI Olympiad close in Berlin.
- 1954 - Sports Illustrated publishes its first issue.
- 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open
- 1965 - AFL awards its first expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins).
- 1967 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured & leaves
- 1970 PGA Championship, Southern Hills CC: Dave Stockton wins 1st of 2 PGA C'ships by 2 shots from Bob Murphy and Arnold Palmer
- 1976 - Saint Louis Cardinals beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo).
- 1977 - New York Yankees blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th.
- 1981 - Highest score in World Cup soccer match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0).
- 1981 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
- 1981 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 100m butterfly (57.93)
- 1984 - Largest harness racing purse (US$2,161,000 - Nihilator wins US$1,080,500).
- 1987 - New York Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9.
- 1989 - Roger Kingdom of USA sets the 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich, Switzerland.
- 1992 Canadian Open Golf (du Maurier Classic), St. Charles CC: American Sherri Steinhauer wins first of 2 majors (British Open 2006) by 3 from Judy Dickinson
- 1997 For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia)
- 1997 The South African soccer team, Bafana Bafana wins against the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at First National Bank stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 1998 PGA Championship, Sahalee CC: Vijay Singh of Fiji wins by 2 shots from American Steve Stricker
- 2002 - The Major League Players' Association announces a voting result of 57-0 to set an August 30 strike date.
- 2003 Cristiano Ronaldo (18) makes his debut for Manchester United and the Premier League in a 4–0 home victory over Bolton Wanderers
- 2006 - Home plate umpire Bruce Froemming is honored during an on-field ceremony at Fenway Park for working his 5000th major league game of his 36-year career, second only to Bill Klem who arbitrated 5,374 games from 1905-40.
- 2008 - At the Beijing Olympics, Jamaica's Usain Bolt wins the men's 100 metres in world record time of 9.69 seconds. American Michael Phelps equals Mark Spitz's 36-year record of winning seven golds in one Olympic games, winning the 100m butterfly. Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, wins the women's 200 backstroke, in a world record time. Britain's Rebecca Adlington also breaks a world record to take gold in the women's 800 freestyle.
- 2009 - At the Athletics World Championships in Berlin, Germany, Usain Bolt of Jamaica sets a new world record in the 100m dash with a time of 9.58 seconds.
- 2015 PGA Championship, Whistling Straits GC: Australian Jason Day wins setting major championship record of 20-under-par; beats Jordan Spieth by 3
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