TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY

1970 — Jockey Willie Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033rd win.

1975 — Spain’s Manuel Orantes wins US Open, beating Jimmy Connors in three sets.

1978 — Washington Bullets beat Seattle SuperSonics for NBA championship, 4 games to 3.

1980 — 50:1 long shot Temperance Hill wins Belmont Stakes.

1980 — Tommy John wins his 200th, 3-0 on a 2-hitter.

1980 — John McEnroe beats Björn Borg for US Open.

1981 — Björn Borg wins his 6th French Open singles (defeats Ivan Lendl).

1982 — New York Mets draft Dwight Gooden, Roger McDowell and Randy Myers.

1982 — Los Angeles Dodgers’ first baseman Steve Garvey becomes only the fifth player in major league history to play in 1,000 consecutive games.

1983 — Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies strikes out Lonnie Smith for his 3,522nd career strikeout to pass Nolan Ryan as the all-time strikeout leader. 1989 — 23-year-old Olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires.

1989 — Atlanta Fulton County Committee approves US$210 million stadium for the Atlanta Falcons.

1989 — Wayne Gretzky wins his 9th NHL Hart Trophy (Most Valuable Player) in 10 years.

1997 — The Detroit Red Wings win their first Stanley Cup championship in 42 years, defeating the Philadelphia Flyers in four games. Red Wings goaltender Mike Vernon is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff Most Valuable Player.

2004 — Tampa Bay Lightning defeats Calgary Flames in 2004 NHL Stanley Cup Finals.

2008 — Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic wins the French Open tennis championship, defeating Dinara Safina of Russia, 6-4, 6-3. Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay and Luis Home of Peru defeat Canada’s Daniel Nestor and Serbia’s Nenad Zimonjic 6-2, 6-3, winning the men’s doubles championship.

2009 — Roger Federer beats Robin Soderling in straight sets (6-1, 7-6 (1), 6-4) to win his first French Open tennis tournament in Paris.

Hamilton’s Dave Andreychuk, captain of the Tampa Bay Lightning, holds the Stanley Cup high after the Lightning defeated the Calgary Flames, 2-1, in Game 7, 14 years ago today.

GETTY IMAGES Zola Budd, the bare-footed runner, and world record holder in the 5,000 metres who famously collided with Mary Decker of the U.S. in the Olympic 3,000 metres, causing Decker to fall and Budd to fade, retired from racing 29 years ago today.