1868 - First baseball game played in enclosed field in San Francisco, at 25th & Folsom.
1941 - Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns professional.
1956 - USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy and loses his medal, it sinks in the ocean.
1960 - Minneapolis-St. Paul baseball club takes the name of the Twins.
1961 - Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball.
1963 - Cincinnati Reds 2nd Baseman Pete Rose wins NL Rookie of the Year.
1979 - International Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after a 21 year absence.
1982 - Howard Cosell calls his last fight after being disgusted by the Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch.
1995 - Miami Dolphins Quarterback Dan Marino sets NFL record with his 343rd touchdown pass.
1996 - Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4.
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