ON THIS DATE

1864: The first Travers Stakes at Saratoga is won by Kentucky, a horse that scores 20 consecutive victories. (Good name for a horse.)

1906: The Chicago White Sox begin a 19-game winning streak, an AL record matched by the 1947 Yankees, broken by the 2002 A’s and now held by Cleveland, which won 22 in a row in 2017.

1907: Walter Johnson makes his MLB debut. The first hit is a bunt single by Ty Cobb.

1967: The New Orleans Saints play their first exhibition game and lose 77-16 to the Los Angeles Rams.

1979: New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson is killed in a plane crash practicing takeoffs and landings near his Ohio home.

1996: Down to her final long jump attempt and fighting an injured hamstring, Jackie Joyner-kersee leaps out of sixth place and ends her Olympic career with a bronze medal.

2005: In the largest trade in NBA history, Antoine Walker is dealt from Boston to Miami in a transaction involving five teams and 13 players.

2007: The White Sox and Yankees both score eight runs in the second inning, only the second time in MLB history that both teams scored eight or more in an inning. (loses some luster discovering that the other time was three years earlier; Texas 10, Detroit 8 in the fifth inning on May 8, 2004.)

2009: Catriona Matthew wins the Women’s British Open for her first major title, beating Karrie Webb by three strokes just 10 weeks after giving birth.

2012: With Andre Iguodala’s 3-pointer, the U.S. breaks the Olympic record of 138 points en route to a 156-73 romp over Nigeria.

2012: Gabby Douglas wins gold in the all-around, the third straight time an American has won the biggest prize in Olympic gymnastics.

2012: Michael Phelps becomes the first male swimmer to win the same individual event at three straight Olympics, taking the 200 IM for his 20th career medal — and 16th gold.