Today I consider myself
the luckiest man
on the face of the earth
- Lou Gehrig
July 4, 1939
- 1884 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears beats Howard Taylor 6-0, 1-6, 6-0, 6-2
- 1890 10th U.S. Men's National Championship: Oliver Campbell beats Henry Slocum (6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1)
- 1894 14th U.S. Men's National Championship: Robert Wrenn beats Manliff Goodbody (6-8, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4)
- 1897 Roger Bresnahan debuts as Washington Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher)
- 1901 21st U.S. Men's National Championship: William Larned beats Beals Wright (6-2, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4)
- 1902 22nd U.S. Men's National Championship: William Larned beats R.F. Doherty 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 8-6
- 1908 Calgary City Rugby Football Club re-organizes as the Tigers
- 1909 29th U.S. Men's National Championship: William Larned beats William Clothier (6-1, 6-2, 5-7, 1-6, 6-1)
- 1910 Using twenty 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park
- 1911 - Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0.
- 1921 - J E Clair of Acme Packing Company of Green Bay granted an APFA franchise (Green Bay Packers).
- 1928 42nd U.S. Women's National Championship: Helen Wills beats Helen Jacobs (6-2, 6-1)
- 1937 - Brooklyn Dodgers' Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inning game.
- 1938 - New York Yankees' Monte Pearson no-hits Cleveland Indians 13-0, Joe DiMaggio hits three triples.
- 1939 - The first televised major league baseball games were shown. The event was a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- 1947 - Don Bankhead became the first black pitcher in major league baseball.
- 1952 Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2)
- 1960 Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
- 1961 - The International Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto opened. The project had been approved on September 11, 1943.
- 1966 Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak
- 1967 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open
- 1972 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
- 1974 - New York Mets' Benny Ayala hits a home run in his first at bat.
- 1975 1st night match at US Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
- 1975 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
- 1976 Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open
- 1977 - Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off New York Yankees' pitcher Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Texas Rangers won 8-2.
- 1978 - Cincinnati Reds' Joe Morgan is first to hit 200 home runs and have 500 stolen bases.
- 1978 - New York Yankees' Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 for the month.
- 1982 - Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season; breaks Lou Brock's mark
- 1985 Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years 8 days old is youngest to win a US Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round)
- 1989 89th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton
- 1989 Tina Barrett wins LPGA Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Golf Open
- 1990 Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
- 1990 Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)
- 1992 CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
- 1995 Canadian Open Golf (du Maurier Classic), Beaconsfield GC: Jenny Lidback wins by 1 from Liselotte Neumann of Sweden
- 1995 95th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
- 1996 Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Detroit Red Wings to the Tampa Bay Lightning
- 1998 - In east Bohemia, Buffalo Sabres goalie Dominik Hasek was fined $30 for speeding when he ran his Ferrari off the road and hit a tree.
- 2004 China's first ever gold in Olympic Games men's track and field; Liu Xiang wins 110m hurdles in Athens, equalling Colin Jackson's 1993 world record time of 12.91 seconds
- 2004 German kayaker Birgit Fischer wins gold in K-4 500m & silver in K-2 500m in Athens; first woman in any sport to win gold medals at 6 different Olympics, gold 24 years apart, and 1st person to win 2 or more medals in 5 different Games
- 2004 Timothy Mack vaults an Olympic record 5.95m to win the pole vault gold medal from fellow American Toby Stevenson (5.90m) at the Athens Olympics
- 2004 Osleidys Menéndez of Cuba throws an Olympic record 71.53m to easily beat German Steffi Nerius for the women's javelin gold medal at the Athens Games
- 2004 In a huge upset in the men's basketball semi final at the Athens Olympics, Argentina beats a star-studded but unsettled US team 89-81; they go on to take gold and US bronze
- 2004 Australia wins its first ever Olympic men's field hockey gold medal with a 2-1 win a.e.t. against the Netherlands in Athens
- 2005 - Jeff Kent of the Los Angeles Dodgers becomes the first major league player to hit 300 homers as a second baseman.
- 2011 13th Athletics World Championships open at Daegu, South Korea
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- 2015 15th Athletics World Championships: Usain Bolt of Jamaica adds the Mens 200m gold to his 100m win
- 2017 Former five-weight world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats MMA fighter Conor McGregor in his debut match in the 10th round in Las Vegas
- 2017 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Ottawa Hunt GC: Park Sung-hyun of South Korea wins by 2 from Mirim Lee
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