TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1869 First international boat race (Thames River) (Oxford beats Harvard).
1894 Philadelphia Phillies get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4.
1918 Samuel Riddle buys Man O’ War race horse for $5,000.
1920 Ray Chapman, hit in the head by New York Yankees’ Carl Mays’ pitch, dies.
1933 Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight baseball game.
1938 Henry Armstrong wins his third concurrent boxing championship.
1944 New York Yankees’ Johnny Lindell ties record with four consecutive doubles in a game.
1948 Philadelphia Phillies commit 8 errors in a game.
1963 Jim Hickman becomes the first New York Mets player to hit for the cycle.
1963 Baltimore Orioles’ Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief.
1969 New York Jets beat New York Giants 37-14 in their first meeting (pre season).
1972 Philadelphia Phillies’ Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game.
1973 At Shea Stadium, 42-year old New York Mets’ outfielder, Willie Mays, hits his 660th and final home run of his career. 1984 Pete Rose returns to Cincinnati Reds as player-manager, and gets two hits.
1985 Dave Kingman hits his 400th home run.
1988 Butch Reynolds of U.S.A. sets the 400m record (43.29) in Zurich, Switzerland.
1999 Baltimore Orioles’ pitcher Jesse Orosco sets a major league mark pitching in his 1,072nd game.
2008 Michael Phelps wins his record eighth gold medal of the Beijing Games, in the 4x100 medley relay, in record time of 3:29.34. Phelps now holds the record for most gold medals at an Olympics event.