- 1869 - First international boat race (Thames River) (Oxford beats Harvard).
- 1894 - Philadelphia Phillies get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4.
- 1904 - Boston Red Sox' pitcher Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 6-0.
- 1918 - Samuel Riddle buys Man O' War race horse for $5,000.
- 1920 - Ray Chapman, hit in the head by New York Yankees' Carl Mays' pitch, dies.
- 1933 - Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight baseball game.
- 1938 - Henry Armstrong won his third concurrent boxing championship.
- 1944 - New York Yankees' Johnny Lindell ties record with four consecutive doubles in a game.
- 1948 - Philadelphia Phillies commit 8 errors in a game.
- 1950 Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) & Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park HRs
- 1951 18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180)
- 1952 Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship
- 1957 Baseball player Richie Ashburn fouls and hits fan Alice Roth twice in the same game at bat playing for the Philadelphia Phillies, 1st hit breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher
- 1958 Bonnie Hoffman wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open
- 1963 - Jim Hickman becomes the first New York Mets player to hit for the cycle.
- 1963 - Baltimore Orioles' Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief.
- 1964 Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 v Aust at the Oval
- 1966 Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time HR list
- 1969 - New York Jets beat New York Giants 37-14 in their first meeting (pre season).
- 1972 - Philadelphia Phillies' Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game.
- 1973 - At Shea Stadium, 42-year old New York Mets' outfielder, Willie Mays, hits his 660th and final home run of his career.
- 1975 Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
- 1980 George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401
- 1982 LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)
- 1984 - Pete Rose returns to Cincinnati Reds as player-manager (gets two hits).
- 1985 - Dave Kingman hits his 400th home run.
- 1986 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
- 1986 Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones & pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen & outfielder Dave Henderson
- 1987 Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame
- 1988 - Butch Reynolds of USA sets the 400m record (43.29) in Zurich, Switzerland.
- 1989 32nd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 12½-11½
- 1989 Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game)
- 1991 Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league HR since 1983
- 1992 Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0
- 1997 PGA Championship, Winged Foot GC: Davis Love III wins his only major title by 5 strokes from Justin Leonard
- 1999 - Baltimore Orioles' pitcher Jesse Orosco sets a major league mark pitching in his 1,072nd game.
- 2003 PGA Championship, Oak Hill CC: Shaun Micheel wins by 2 strokes from Chad Campbell
- 2008 - Michael Phelps wins his record eighth gold medal of the Beijing Games, in the 4x100 medley relay, in record time of 3:29.34. Phelps now holds the record for most gold medals at an Olympics event.
- 2013 14th Athletics World Championships: Usain Bolt wins 200m
- 2015 2012 Olympic 1500m champion from Turkey Asli Cakir Alptekin is stripped of her gold medal for doping by the IAAF
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