1804 - Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England)
1920 - First US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey)
1924 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn
1927 - Althea Gibson, Silver SC, 1st black tennis champion in a major event is born
1946 - Rollie Fingers, relief pitcher (Oakland Athletics, MVP/Cy Young-1981) is born
1950 - Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win Middleweight boxing title
1967 - Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1
1968 - NY Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings &
beats Tigers 6-5; he played right field in 2nd game & homered
1983 - Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark
1986 - A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run
1996 - 96th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
2001 - Ken Tyrrell, former race driver and founder of Tyrrell Racing (b. 1924) dies
2008 - Kevin Duckworth, American basketball player (b. 1964) died in Gleneden Beach,
Oregon at the age of 44 of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with congestive heart failure.
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