August 21st
- 1878 Edward Pooley completes record 8 stumpings in a cricket match
- 1883 Providence shuts out Phillies 28-0
- 1887 - Mighty (Dan) Casey strikes out in a game with the New York Giants
- 1899 19th U.S. Men's National Championship: Malcolm Whitman beats J. Parmly Paret (6-1, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5)
- 1900 20th U.S. Men's National Championship: Malcolm Whitman beats William Larned (6-4, 1-6, 6-2, 6-2).
- 1901 - Joe McGinnity is suspended from the National League for punching and spitting on an umpire.
- 1914 20th US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 290 at Midlothian CC Ill
- 1915 11th Australasian Championships: Gordon Lowe beats Horace Rice (4-6, 6-1, 6-1, 6-4)
- 1920 3rd PGA Championship: Jock Hutchison at Flossmoor CC Flossmoor Ill
- 1922 - Curly Lambeau and Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise.
- 1925 BV Emmen soccer team forms
- 1926 - Chicago White Sox player Ted Lyons no hits Boston Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway Park.
- 1931 - Babe Ruth hits his 600th home run (New York Yankees beat Saint Louis Browns 11-7).
- 1933 - Babe Ruth's homer leads American League to a 4-2 win in first All-Star Game.
- 1936 Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did not get good fielding, Sox suspend him
- 1947 1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win
- 1948 Indians 47-inning scoreless streak broken by White Sox Aaron Robinson
- 1949 - New York Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies on a forfeit, due to fan's throwing debris.
- 1953 Baseball player reps Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiation
- 1966 LPGA Western Open Golf, Rainbow Springs CC; Mickey Wright wins her 13th and final major title by 1 from Margie Masters & Jo Ann Prentice
- 1967 Ken Harrelson becomes baseball's 1st free agent
- 1975 - Rick and Paul Reuschel become first brothers to pitch a combined shut out.
- 1976 - Al Bumbry hits the 17th inside-the-park home run in Baltimore Orioles' history.
- 1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
- 1977 Donna Patterson Brice sets high speed water skiing rec (111.11 mph)
- 1979 Mets win a protested game against Astros, 5-0
- 1982 - Milwaukee Brewers' reliever Rollie Fingers becomes the first player in major league history to record 300 career saves as Milwaukee defeats the Seattle Mariners, 3-2.
- 1982 - Rollie Fingers (Milwaukee Brewers) becomes first pitcher to get save #300.
- 1983 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
- 1985 - Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71.
- 1986 - Boston Red Sox player Spike Owens scores six runs (first time in 40 years) in a 24-5 rout of the Cleveland Indians.
- 1987 - "Mack Lobell" sets harness racing's trotting mile (1:52).
- 1988 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
- 2004 The archery competition concludes at the Athens Olympics with South Korea dominant with 3 of 4 gold medals; venue is the Panathenaic Stadium, in which the 1896 games were held
- 2004 Belarusian sprinter Yulia Nestsiarenka runs 10.93 to beat American Lauryn Williams and win the 100m gold medal at the Athens Olympics
- 2004 Nicolás Massú & Fernando González win the men's doubles tennis at the Athens Olympics beating German pair Nicolas Kiefer & Rainer Schüttler in 5 sets; it's Chile's first Olympic gold medal
- 2004 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 6th gold medal of the Athens Olympics even though he doesn't swim the final of men's 4 x 100m medley relay; US wins in world record 3:30.68
- 2004 The Australian women's 4 x 100m medley relay team of Giaan Rooney, Leisel Jones, Petria Thomas & Jodie Henry smashes the world record to take gold in 3:57.32 at the Athens Olympics
- 2008 After winning the event in Athens, Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown makes it consecutive 200m Olympic titles beating American Allyson Felix by 0.19 in Beijing
- 2008 Dutch swimmer and cancer survivor Maarten van der Weijden wins inaugural men's open water marathon (10k) in 1:51:51.6 at the Beijing Olympics
- 2008 American pair Misty May-Treanor & Kerry Walsh dominate China's Tian Jiathe & Wang Jie 21-18, 21-18 in the beach volleyball final to repeat of their gold medal from Athens; don't lose a set in the competition
- 2008 An American sweep of the 400m medals at the Beijing Olympics; LeShawn Merritt wins gold in 43.75 ahead of Jeremy Wariner and David Neville
- 2008 Japan edges the United States 3-1 for the gold medal in the final of the women's softball tournament at the Beijing Olympics
- 2008 Daniëlle de Bruijn scores a match winning 7 goals as the Netherlands upset the United States 9-8 to take the women's water polo gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
- 2008 Striker Carli Lloyd scores an extra time winner as the United States beat Brazil 1-0 to take the women's football gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
- 2016 Kevin Durant scores 30 as the US retains the Olympic men's basketball title with a comfortable 96-66 win over Serbia at the Rio de Janeiro Games
- 2016 Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge wins the Olympic men's marathon gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Games in a time of 2:08.44; Feyisa Lilesa (Ethiopia) second in 2:09:54, and Galen Rupp (US) third in 2:10:05
- 2016 Brazil takes 3rd Olympic men's indoor volleyball gold medal at the Rio Games with 25–22, 28–26, 26–24 win over Italy
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