ON THIS DATE

1945: Tigers pitcher Les Mueller goes 19 2/3 innings but gets no decision. Nobody gets a decision; the game ends 1-1 after 24 innings.

1963: Jack Nicklaus wins the PGA championship, joining Ben Hogan, Gene Sarazen and Byron Nelson as the only golfers to win the three U.S. majors.

1965: Mike Bordick, former A’s infielder, turns 55 today. (Really? Bordy??)

1967: Baseball Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx dies at 57 after choking on food, a fate suffered by his wife a year earlier.

1968: Arnold Palmer loses the PGA championship by one shot, but second-place money makes him the first to surpass $1 million in career winnings. N(ow THAT is a consolation prize.)

1968: Happy birthday, Brandi Chastain, one of the truly good people in sports.

1970: Bob Kalsu, the last NFL player until Pat Tillman to be killed in war, dies in Vietnam at 25

1970: San Diego’s Clay Kirby, with a nohitter through eight innings, is lifted for a pinch hitter by manager Preston Gomez. San Diego loses the no-hitter and the game. (Padres history in a nutshell.)

1973: Hank Aaron of Atlanta hits his 700th home run.

1975: Joe Torre of the New York Mets grounds into four double plays, turning Felx Millan’s four singles into eight outs.

1979: David Carr turns 41 today, but not in sack years.

1979: Seve Ballesteros wins the British Open by three strokes over Ben Crenshaw and Jack Nicklaus. (That was a good one.)

1985:The greatest money winner in horse racing history, John Henry, is retired after 10 years in which he won 39 of 83 races and $6.6.million in purses.

1989: Mike Tyson knocks down Carl “The Truth” Williams with a left hook and stops him 93 seconds into the first round of his heavyweight title defense. (Pay Per View!)

2002: Ernie Els squanders a three-stroke lead but outlasts Thomas Levet to win a four-man playoff that produces the first sudden-death finish in the 142-year history of the British Open.

2013: Phil Mickelson birdies four of the last six holes to win his first British Open.