ON THIS DATE

1875: The first Kentucky Derby is run — and won by Aristides, ridden by Oliver Lewis — before a crowd of 10,000at a brand new track called Churchill Downs.

1903: Baseball Hall of Famer James “Cool Papa” Bell — so fast he could turn off the lights and be in bed before the room went dark — is born in Starkville, Mississippi (d. 1991).

1925: Tris Speaker of the Cleveland Indians gets his 3,000th hit.

1945: For the fourth time in four days, every American League game in the country is postponed by rain.

1956: Sugar Ray Leonard is born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

1963: Don Nottebart of the Houston Colt .45s pitches the first no-hitter in team history. 1964: First Tim Horton’s coffee and donut shop opens in Hamilton, Ontario. (Proprietor, Tim Horton, NHL defenseman for 24seasons until his death in a 1974single-car crash at age 44.)

1970: Happy 50th to Derrick Deese, Culver City native and starting right guard on the last 49ers team to win a Super Bowl.

1970: Hank Aaron gets his 3,000th hit, a wholly in appropriate infield single for the Home Run King (then and still).

1975: A 23-1longshot (Master Derby) wins the Preakness.

1979: Dave Kingman of the Cubs hits three home runs and Mike Schmidt of the Phillies hits two, as Philadelphia beats Chicago 23-22 in 10innings at Wrigley Field.

1983: The New York Islanders beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-2to win their fourth consecutive Stanley Cup.

1984: Alan Wiggins of the San Diego Padres (and father of Candice Wiggins) steals five bases in a game, tying a National League record shared by Dan Mcgann (1904), Davey Lopes (1974) and Lonnie Smith (1982).

1992: Betsy King wins her first LPGA Championship by 11strokes, breaking the tournament record of 10set by Patty Sheehan in 1984.

1998: David Wells pitches the 13th perfect game in modern major league history (and does it with a “raging, skull-rattling” hangover.) 2008: Barry Zito becomes the first Giants pitcher to open a season with eight straight losses since 1890when Jesse (not John) Burkett started 0-8.

2011: Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, whose 573home runs ranked No.4on the all-time list when he retired in 1976, died dies at 74of esophageal cancer.

2013: Ken Venturi, native of San Francisco, pride of San Jose State, and winner of the 1964U.S. Open, dies from multiple infections at 82.

2016: Khris Davis hit a game-ending grand slam with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning for his third homer of the night, giving the Oakland Athletics an 8-5victory over the Texas Rangers.