Winning is the name of the game. The more you win, the less you get fired.- Bep Guidolin, Boston Bruins coach
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- 1934 - First football all star game-Chicago Bears tie collegians 0-0 in Chicago.
- 1935 - First national skeet championship (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA).
- 1935 - Chicago White Sox player Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleveland Indians, 5-0.
- 1938 5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250)
- 1947 NY Giants set season record for HRs by a club 183 (en route to 221)
- 1950 - Brooklyn Dodgers' Gil Hodges hits four home runs and a single in a game versus Boston Braves.
- 1954 Cincinnati 1st baseman Ted Kluszewski hits 2 HRs in a 9-3 loss v Phillies; 1st Redleg to ever hit 40 MLB HRs, en route to season total 49
- 1959 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2)
- 1966 Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
- 1968 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
- 1968 Garfield Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over.
- 1970 - US defeats German Federal Republic for tennis' Davis Cup.
- 1971 Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
- 1972 Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4)
- 1972 - Olga Korbut, USSR, wins Olympic gold medal in gymnastics.
- 1972 American super swimmer Mark Spitz wraps up the Olympic butterfly double with a world record 54.27 in the 100m in Munich, having already won the 200m in world record time 2:00.70
- 1972 American 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of John Kinsella, Fred Tyler, Steve Genter & Mark Spitz swim a world record 7:35.78 to beat West Germany for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
- 1972 Australian swimmer Gail Neall with a world record 5:02.97 wins the 400m individual medley gold medal at the Munich Olympics
- 1973 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)
- 1979 16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at US Open Tennis
- 1979 Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green
- 1980 80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
- 1981 Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, v England at Lord's
- 1983 - Edwin Moses of USA sets the 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz.
- 1984 - Pinklin Thomas defeats Tim Witherspoon for the WBC heavyweight title.
- 1985 - Prakas sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Illinois.
- 1985 Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
- 1987 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385)
- 1990 Ken Griffey Sr & Jr are 1st father & son to play on same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners
- 1991 Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3
- 1993 Minnesota Twins beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 22 innings
- 1994 Pentium computer beats world chess champ Garry Kasparov
- 1996 - The Big 12 Conference is inaugurated with a football game between Kansas State University and Texas Tech University in Manhattan, Kansas.
- 1997 Don Mattingly's #23 is retired by NY Yankees
- 1997 Scott Hoch wins Greater Milwaukee Golf Open with a 268
- 1999 Dino Ciccarelli retires from the NHL
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