S&H Farm Supply "On This Day In History" presented by CRD Construction, Sunrise Family Restaurant, Freedom Bank, & Post Game Pizza

       August 20th

• 1888- Longest US men's single tennis tournament match Palmer Presbrey                          defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80 game 1st-round contest
• 1900- Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games
• 1912 - Washington Senators' pitcher Carl Cushion no-hits Cleveland                                    Naps, 2-0 in six innings.
• 1915- White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleve in exchange for Robert                                Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, & $31,500
• 1919- Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit,                                ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)
• 1920- Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow Indian players                                 to attend Ray Chapman's funeral in Cleveland
• 1920 - Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200m dash wearing borrowed shoes.
• 1920 - Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football Association.
• 1921 35th U.S. Women's National Championship: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory                                  beats Mary Browne (4-6, 6-4, 6-2)
• 1922 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris
• 1930 Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval
• 1931 45th U.S. Women's National Championship: Helen Wills Moody                                   beats Eileen Bennett Whittingstall (6-4, 6-1)
• 1934 Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match
• 1938 Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & last grand slam
• 1944 26th PGA Championship: Bob Hamilton at Manito G & CC Spokane Wash
• 1945 Robert Hamilton wins PGA golf tournament
• 1945 - Brooklyn Dodgers' Tommy Brown becomes youngest home run hitter (age 17).
• 1947 Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
• 1948 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
• 1949 - 78,382 watch the Chicago White Sox play the Cleveland Indians at                     Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1957 - Chicago White Sox' Bob Keegan no-hits Washington Senators 6-0.
• 1958 - Dale Long becomes first major league lefty catcher in 52 years.
• 1958 - Detroit Tigers' Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0.
• 1961 - Philadelphia Phillies set dubious record of 23 straight losses.
• 1964 Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 v India in only Test Cricket innings
• 1964 Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders
• 1965 Eddie Mathews & Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig                           hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team
• 1967 Western Open Women's Golf, Pekin CC: Kathy Whitworth wins by                                    7 strokes from Sandra Haynie
• 1974 - Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph).
• 1978 Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open
• 1980 - New York Yankees' Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker,                                 second straight day.
• 1982 - Don Lever becomes the first captain of the New Jersey Devils.
• 1985 - First National League pitcher to strike out 200+ in first two                                     seasons (Dwight Goodin).
• 1988 - Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21).
• 1989 Howard Johnson joins Barry Bonds & Willie Mays hitting 30                                        HRs & steal 30 bases
• 1990 - George Steinbrenner steps down as New York Yankees owner.
• 1990 - New York Yankees' player Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15                                   home runs (approx 132 at bat).
• 1991 Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29)
• 1993 Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)
• 1994 Vuyani Bungu, the South African junior featherweight, wins the                                       IBF World Boxing Title
• 1995 Kerrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
• 1999 7th Athletics World Championships open at Seville, Spain
• 2000 PGA Championship: Tiger Woods becomes first since Ben Hogan                                     in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year; wins playoff with Bob May
• 2004 Ethiopian runners Kenenisa Bekele (27:05.10 OR) and Sileshi                                   Sihine go 1-2 in the 10,000m at the Athens Olympics
• 2004 American swimmer Michael Phelps wraps up the 100/200m butterfly                                 double at the Athens Olympics when he wins the 100m (51.25 OR) ahead                                   of team mate Ian Croker
• 2006 PGA Championship, Medinah CC: Tiger Woods wins his 3rd PGA                            C'ship by 5 strokes from Shaun Micheel
• 2008 - Jamaica's Usain Bolt wins the 200m sprint at the Beijing Olympic                           Games in new world record time of 19.30 seconds.
• 2009 - At the Athletics World Championships in Berlin, Germany, Usain Bolt                            of Jamaica sets a new world record in the 200m dash with a time of 19.19 seconds.
• 2012 South Africa become the top-ranked test cricket nation after defeating England
• 2016 German canoeist Sebastian Brendel teams with Jan Vandrey to win the C-2               1,000m at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; wraps up C-1 / C-2 1,000m double
• 2016 The Hungarian crew wins canoe sprint K-4 500m at the Rio de Janeiro                      Olympics; Danuta Kozák becomes the only female to win K1, K2 and K4                                 at the same Olympics
• 2016 Canoeists Max Rendschmidt and Marcus Gross part of winning German                      crew in K-4 100m at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; wrap up K-2 / K-4 1,000m double
• 2016 Star British runner Mo Farah wins the men's 5,000m in 13:03.30 at the                            Rio de Janeiro Olympics; wraps up 5k/10k double which he also completed                                in London 2012
• 2016 Controversial South African middle distance runner Caster Semenya                                retains her Olympic women's 800m title in a time of 1:55.28 in the final                                      in Rio de Janeiro
• 2016 4 women's high jump competitors tie at clearing winning height 1.97m                              at the Rio Olympics; all then fail at 2.00m; Ruth Beitia of Spain wins the                                gold based on having no misses prior to bar being raised to 2.00m
• 2016 Chinese diver Chen Aisen does the Olympic 10m platform double in                             Rio de Janeiro; having already won the synchronised event, he wins the                            individual gold by a comfortable margin
• 2016 South Korean golfer Inbee Park wins the inaugural Olympic women's                        individual gold with a final score of 16 under par in Rio de Janeiro; Lydia Ko                      (New Zealand) 11 under par; Shanshan Feng (China) 10 under par
• 2016 In a blanket finish American triathlete Gwen Jorgensen takes the Olympic                     gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Games in 1:56.16; 0.40 ahead of Nicola                              Spirig Hug of Switzerland, and Great Britain's Vicky Holland by 0:45
• 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics: team sports - China beats Serbia, 3-1 for the                           women's indoor volleyball gold; in the men's water polo final, Serbia downs                   Croatia, 11-7 for first Olympic title