HISTORY ON THIS DATE

1910 — Hazel Hotchkiss won the singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles at the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championships for the second consecutive year. Hotchkiss beat Louise Hammond 6-4, 6-2 for the singles title.

1925 — Jim Barnes won golf’s British Open with a one-stroke victory over Ted Ray and Archie Compston at Prestwick Golf Club in South Ayrshire, Scotland.

1959 — Ingemar Johansson knocked out Floyd Patterson in the third round at Yankee Stadium to win the world heavyweight title.

1990 — Jennifer Capriati, 14, defeated Helen Kelesi 6-3, 6-1 in the first round to become the youngest winner of a match in Wimbledon history.

1991 — The Charlotte Hornets selected UNLV forward Larry Johnson with the NBA draft’s first pick at Madison Square Garden. Johnson went on to win NBA Rookie of the Year honors after averaging 19.2 points and 11.0 rebounds per game.

1995 — The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a random drug-testing program in Vernonia, Oregon. The 6-to-3 decision allowed public high school officials to require student/ athletes to submit to random urinalysis as a condition of being allowed to play interscholastic sports.

1998 — Jamaica became the first Caribbean nation to win a World Cup soccer match since Cuba beat Romania in 1938. Theodore Whitmore scored in the 40th and 54th minutes as the Jamaicans beat Japan 2-1.

2002 — In one of the most extraordinary days at the All England Club, seven-time champion Pete Sampras, 1992 winner Andre Agassi and No. 2-seeded Marat Safin all lost — throwing the Wimbledon tournament wide open. For the first time in the Open era, five of the top eight seeded men’s players were eliminated before the third round.

2005 — Justin Gatlin cemented his status as America’s fastest human by winning the 200 meters, becoming the first man in 20 years to sweep the sprints at the U.S. track and field championships. A day after winning the 100, Gatlin won the 200 in 20.04 seconds.

The last man to win both races at the U.S. meet was Kirk Baptiste in 1985.

2008 — Two stunning second-round upsets happened at Wimbledon as former champion Maria Sharapova and two-time runner-up Andy Roddick were ousted.

2011 — Top-ranked Yani Tseng won the LPGA Championship by 10 strokes and, at 22, became the youngest player to win four LPGA Tour majors.

2012 — Major college football finally got a playoff. A committee of university presidents approved the Bowl Championship Series commissioners’ plan for a fourteam playoff to start in 2014.

2013 — Seven-time champion Roger Federer was stunned by 116th-ranked Sergiy Stakhovsky in the second round of Wimbledon, his earliest loss in a major tournament in 10 years.

2014 — The United States reached the knockout stage of consecutive World Cups for the first time. Germany beat the

U.S. 1-0 to win Group G, but the Americans held onto second place when Portugal defeated Ghana 2-1 in a game played simultaneously.

2017 — Helmsman Peter

Burling and Emirates Team New Zealand won the America’s Cup with a resounding romp against software tycoon Larry Ellison’s two-time defending champion Oracle Team USA. They won Race 9 to clinch the 35th America’s

Cup match at 7-1. Burling, at 26, is the youngest helmsman to win sailing’s greatest prize in a competition that dates to 1851.