August 22nd .....
- 1851 - Yacht America wins first Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup).
- 1885 5th U.S. Men's National Championship: Richard Sears beats Godfrey M. Brinley (6-3, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3)
- 1898 18th U.S. Men's National Championship: Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight F. Davis (3-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-1)
- 1917 - Pittsburgh Pirates play fourth straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee sets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Brooklyn Dodgers.
- 1927 Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
- 1930 Australia regain Ashes on 6th day of 5th Cricket Test
- 1934 - Boston Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits two home runs to beat Chicago White Sox 3-2 in 12.
- 1946 Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it
- 1946 Mikko Hietanen wins Oslo marathon (2:24:55)
- 1947 - First college team to beat an NFL team (All Stars-16, Chicago Bears-0).
- 1950 Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competitor in a US national tennis competition
- 1951 - Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany, before audience of 75,052.
- 1957 Floyd Patterson KOs Pete Rademacher in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1958 - Toronto Argonauts' Boyd Carter and Dave Mann combine for record 131-yard punt return.
- 1959 - Cincinnati Reds' Frank Robinson hits three consecutive home runs.
- 1960 - Gil Hodges sets National League righty home run record with number 352.
- 1965 - San Francisco Giants' pitcher Juan Marachal hits Los Angeles Dodgers' catcher John Roseboro on the head with his bat causing a 14-minute brawl.
- 1971 Pam Barnett wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open
- 1972 Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee for its racist policies.
- 1975 McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens
- 1976 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
- 1980 Bill Veeck agrees to sell Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale
- 1982 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
- 1984 - Evelyn Ashford of US ties world women's mark for 100m, 10.76 seconds.
- 1984 - New York Mets' pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes the 11th rookie to strikeout 200.
- 1985 30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11
- 1989 - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter.
- 1991 Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100m backstroke (1:00.31)
- 1993 Hiromi Kobayash wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic
- 1994 DNA testing links O.J. Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman
- 2004 Athens Olympic marathon is run on same route as 1896 Games, start at site of the Battle of Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens: Mizuki Noguchi of Japan wins women's gold in 2:26:20
- 2004 American sprinter Justin Gatlin wins the coveted Olympic 100m gold medal in Athens in 9.85 ahead of Francis Obikwelu of Portugal & American Maurice Greene
- 2004 After winning the doubles tennis gold medal at the Athens Olympics, Chile's Nicolás Massú wins the men's singles gold 6–3, 3–6, 2–6, 6–3, 6–4 over American Mardy Fish
- 2004 The rowing program at the Athens Olympics ends with the United States winning the men's eights, and Romania taking the gold in the women's eights
- 2004 Justine Henin of Belgium wins the women's singles tennis gold medal at the Athens Olympics 6-3, 6-3 over Amélie Mauresmo of France
- 2007 - The Texas Rangers score thirty runs in one game, setting the modern (post-1900) Major League Baseball record for most runs by one team in a single game, in a 30-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
- 2008 - Usain Bolt captures a third gold medal and a third world record at the Beijing Olympic Games, as Jamaica wins the men's 4x100m relay gold in world record of 37.10 seconds.
- 2008 The Jamaican team led by Usain Bolt smashes the world 4 x 100m relay record in the final at the Beijing Olympics; disqualified in 2017 as Nesta Carter tests positive for prohibited substance
- 2008 Ethiopian distance runner Tirunesh Dibaba wraps up the women's 5,000/10,000m double at the Beijing Olympics when she takes gold in the 5k in an Olympic record 15:41.40
- 2008 American decathlete Brian Clay wins 4 of the 10 events and finishes 2nd in 2 others to dominate field and take the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
- 2008 Russia wins the women's 4 × 100 m relay ahead of Belgium & Nigeria at the Beijing Olympics; disqualified in 2016 when reanalysis of Yulia Chermoshanskaya’s samples result in positive test for prohibited substances
- 2008 Steven Hooker wins the men's pole vault with 5.96m at the Beijing Olympics; Australia's first gold medal in men's athletics since 1968
- 2008 Maurren Higa Maggi wins the women's long jump with a leap of 7.04m at the Beijing Olympics; Brazil's first ever gold medal in any women's individual event
- 2008 Anne-Caroline Chausson of France and Māris Štrombergs of Latvia win the inaugural gold medals in BMX, winning the women's and men's events respectively at the Beijing Olympics
- 2015 15th Athletics World Championships open at Beijing, China
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