TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1899 — Louisville Colonels’ Henry Dowling is struck out five times in a game.
1905 — Philadelphia Athletics’ Rube Waddell no-hits
Saint Louis Browns, 2-0, in five innings.
1912 — New York Yankees’ Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game.
1960 — Chicago Bears beat New York Giants, 16-7, in Toronto.
1960 — Milwaukee Braves’ Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0.
1964 — Philadelphia Phillies triple-play the New York Mets.
1964 — Ralph Boston of the U.S. sets long jump record at 27 feet 3.25 inches.
1981 — Robin Leamy of U.S. swims record 7.98 km/h for 50 metres.
1987 — U.S. beats Cuba in Pan Am baseball.
2004 — Vijay Singh wins the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.
2007 — NBA referee Tim Donaghy surrenders to police and pleads guilty to charges brought up by the FBI investigation that he placed bets on games that he refereed.
2008 — In Beijing, an Olympic torch used in the relay to China sells for more than US$42,000. A torch from the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games (the very first torch relay) sells for almost $25,000.
2008 — At the Beijing Olympics, American Michael Phelps wins his sixth gold and sets his sixth world record in the 200 metres individual medley. American Ryan Lochte wins gold in the Olympic men’s 200-metre backstroke in a world-record 1:53.94.
2010 — Germany’s Martin Kaymer wins his first major golf title in the 92nd U.S. PGA Championship, earning $1.35 million.