TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1903 First New York Highlanders (Yankees) shutout victory 1-0 over Chicago White Sox.
1916 Boston Braves’ pitcher Tom Hughes scores second no-hitter beating Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0.
1927 Tommy Armour wins golf’s U.S. Open.
1938 St. Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx six times in a row.
1946 Lloyd Mangrum wins golf’s U.S. Open after two playoffs.
1951 Ben Hogan wins golf’s US open for second year in a row.
1953 Despite Johnny Mize’s 2,000th hit, New York Yankees lose, ending 18-game win streak.
1968 Lee Trevino is first to play all four rounds of golf’s U.S. Open under par.
1975 Milwaukee Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Walt Wesley to Los Angeles Lakers for four players.
1977 Ron Guidry’s first complete game, 7-0 over Kansas City Royals.
1978 Cincinnati Reds’ player Tom Seaver no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0.
1979 Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit.
1983 Charlos Vieira completes 191-hour “nonstop” cycling in Leiria, Portugal.
1984 Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-metre hurdles race.
1985 T C Chen, ahead by four strokes in final round of U.S. Open, loses by one stroke to Andy North.
1985 Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11.5 inches) in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1987 Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami opens.
1989 Four golfers shoot a hole-in-one on the same hole at the U.S. Open.
1991 Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row.
1991 Otis Nixon steals National League record six bases in one day.
1995 Salt Lake City, Utah, is selected as host city for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
1996 The Chicago Bulls win their fourth NBA Championship by defeating the Seattle SuperSonics in the best-of-7 series 4 games to 2.
1998 The Detroit Red Wings sweep the Washington Capitals in four games in the 1998 NHL Stanley Cup Finals.
2008 Tiger Woods wins the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego, Calif. This is Woods’ 14th major and third U.S. Open.