August 28th ...
We didn't want to weaken the rest of the league.
- Frank Lane, Milwaukee Brewers executive, on why he didn't
make any off-season trades
- 1878 - The Manifesto on the All-Round Development of Russian Lawn Tennis is adopted in Saint Petersburg, on completion of the All-Russian Tennis Fair.
- 1884 - Mickey Welsh strikes-out first nine men he faces.
- 1886 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears beats R. Livingston Beeckman 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4
- 1888 8th U.S. Men's National Championship: Henry Slocum beats Howard Taylor (6-4, 6-1, 6-0)
- 1893 13th U.S. Men's National Championship: Robert Wrenn beats Fred Hovey (6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4)
- 1907 27th U.S. Men's National Championship: William Larned beats Robert LeRoy (6-2, 6-2, 6-4)
- 1908 14th US Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass
- 1918 Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on umpire Tom Connolly
- 1921 Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games
- 1922 - Walker Cup golf tournament is established.
- 1942 - Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2).
- 1942 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)
- 1949 38th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
- 1951 - Pittsburgh Pirates snap New York Giants 16-game win streak.
- 1951 Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000
- 1955 - First NFL preseason sudden death football, Los Angeles Rams beats New York Giants 23-17.
- 1955 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
- 1956 England retain cricket Ashes, Jim Laker 46 wickets in the series
- 1960 - Chicago White Sox' player Ted Kluzewski's three-run home run is disallowed as umpire called time.
- 1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic
- 1967 Boston signs 1st free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus
- 1970 - Philadelphia Phillies' Larry Bowa steals home for second time in 1970.
- 1972 American 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of David Edgar, John Murphy, John Heidenreich & Mark Spitz swim a world record 3:26.42 to beat Soviet Union for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
- 1972 Australian teenage swimmer Shane Gould sets a world record 2:23.07 to beat German Kornelia Ender in the 200m individual medley at the Munich Olympics; her first of 3 gold medals at the Games
- 1972 Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut becomes media darling at the Munich Olympics; wins gold in the teams all-round ; follows with 2 gold and a silver
- 1972 North Korean shooter Ri Ho-jun wins the 50m rifle prone event at the Munich Olympics; his nation's first ever Olympic gold medal
- 1976 - New York Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup.
- 1977 Bonnie Lauer wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
- 1977 NY Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men & beats Texas Rangers 1-0
- 1977 Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year
- 1977 - New York Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland Oregon, winning their second North American Soccer League championship.
- 1977 - New York Yankees' pitcher Ron Guidry faces just 28 men and beats Texas Rangers 1-0.
- 1978 - Donald Vesco rides 21-foot long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph.
- 1981 - Sebastian Coe of United Kingdom sets 1-mile record of 3:47.33.
- 1987 Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams & Willie McCovey with 522 HRs
- 1987 2nd Athletics World Championships open at Rome, Italy
- 1988 88th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks
- 1988 Patty Jordan wins LPGA Ocean State Golf Open
- 1988 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
- 1989 Frank Viola & Mets outduel Orel Hershiser & Dodgers 1-0
- 1990 Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively
- 1991 Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martínez both perfect game pitcher
- 1992 Test cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo
- 1994 Canadian Open Golf (du Maurier Classic), Ottawa Hunt GC: Martha Nause wins by 1 from Michelle Mcgann
- 1994 94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
- 1995 Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson
- 2004 British athlete Kelly Holmes wraps up the 800/1,500m double at the Athens Olympics taking out the 1.5k in 3:57.90
- 2004 Moroccan super star athlete Hicham El Guerrouj wraps up the 1,500/5,000m double at the Athens Olympics taking the 5k gold in 13:14.39
- 2004 A huge upset at the Athens Olympic Stadium in the men's 4×100m relay; Great Britain 38.07 edges the United States 38.08 to take the gold medal
- 2004 Led by San Antonio Spurs shooting guard Manu Ginóbili Argentina beats Italy 84-69 for the Olympic basketball gold medal in Athens; star-studded US team takes bronze
- 2004 The diving competition at the Athens Olympics concludes with the Chinese contingent dominant, winning 6 of the 8 gold medals
- 2004 The US women's basketball team goes through the Athens Olympics undefeated to take out it's 5th Olympic gold medal, beating Australia 74-63 in the final
- 2004 Carlos Tevez scores the winner as Argentina beats Paraguay 1-0, maintaining an undefeated record to win the men's football gold medal at the Athens Olympics
- 2011 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Hillsdale CC: Brittany Lincicome wins by 1 from Michelle Wie and Stacy Lewis
- 2016 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Priddis Green CC: Ariya Jutanugam of Thailand wins by 4 from Kim Sei-young of South Korea
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