August 23rd ...
- 1883 - Philadelphia Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks and passballs count as errors prior to 1888).
- 1897 17th U.S. Men's National Championship: Robert Wrenn beats Wilberforce Eaves (4-6, 8-6, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2)
- 1906 Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Washington Senators
- 1907 - Pittsburgh Pirates' pitcher Howie Camnitz no-hits New York Giants, 1-0 in five-inning game.
- 1926 40th U.S. Women's National Championship: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (4-6, 6-4, 9-7)
- 1930 44th U.S. Women's National Championship: Betty Nuthall Shoemaker beats Anna McCune Harper (6-1, 6-4)
- 1933 - First televised boxing match, between Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri in London, England, broadcast by the BBC's experimental TV service.
- 1942 Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NY-Wash game (raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief
- 1946 13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380)
- 1950 Jack Holden wins marathon (2:32:12)
- 1950 - Federal Republic of Germany and Japan re-admitted to International Amateur Athletic Federation.
- 1953 - Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443 feet, 3.5 inches).
- 1953 Braves' Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan
- 1953 Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
- 1953 Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3")
- 1955 Betty Jameson wins LPGA White Mountain Golf Open
- 1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
- 1964 Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament
- 1964 - Saint Louis Cardinals are 11 games back in National League, and go on to win the World Series.
- 1968 - New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 innings due to 1 AM curfew.
- 1969 - Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno, Czechoslovakia (first American to win cycling race title since 1912).
- 1969 France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
- 1970 Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
- 1970 Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
- 1972 Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, & Alex Johnson) to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers
- 1974 Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan v England at The Cricket Oval
- 1981 Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
- 1982 Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter
- 1985 - Paul Hornung awarded US$1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
- 1985 - Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin, Germany.
- 1988 Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem
- 1989 - Los Angeles Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings.
- 1991 3rd Athletics World Championships open at Tokyo, Japan
- 1992 Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
- 1992 Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to record 40 saves in 4 different seasons
- 1993 Fred McGriff & David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game
- 2003 9th Athletics World Championships open at Saint-Denis, France
- 2004 Outstanding British athlete Kelly Holmes wins 1st leg of her 800/1,500m double at the Athens Olympics taking the gold medal in 1:56.38
- 2004 An American sweep in the 400m medals at the Athens Olympics; Jeremy Wariner gold in 44.00 ahead of Otis Harris and Derrick Brew
- 2004 Winning pitcher Lisa Fernadez (4-0) leads the US to the softball gold medal at the Athens Olympics, beating Australia 5-1
- 2008 The star-studded American women's basketball team led by the likes of Lisa Leslie, Sue Bird & Diana Taurasi win the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics with a convincing 92-65 win over Australia
- 2008 Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele wraps up the 5,000/10,000m double at the Beijing Olympics when he takes gold in the 5k in an Olympic record 12:57.82
- 2008 Australian diver Matthew Mitcham wins the men's 10m platform gold medal with final dive at the Beijing Olympics; prevents Chinese from winning every diving event; achieves highest score for an individual dive in Olympic history (112.10)
- 2008 Midfielder Ángel Di María scores a 58th minute winner as Argentina beats Nigeria 1-0 to take the men's football gold medal at the Beijing Olympics; 89,102 at the National Stadium
- 2009 - Eric Bruntlett of the Philadelphia Phillies completes only the second ever game-ending unassisted triple play in Major League Baseball, giving his team a 9-7 victory over the New York Mets.
- 2010 - Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki defeats Russia's Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 6-2 at the WTA tour Rogers Cup in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, earning US$350,000 for the victory.
- 2015 English Indycar driver Justin Wilson suffers a head injury during a race crash at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania
- 2015 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Vancouver GC: Lydia Ko of New Zealand wins in a playoff with Stacy Lewis for her third success in the event
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