1916 - Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown final baseball game
1923 - NY Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Phila A's, 2-0
1941 - NY Yankees, win earliest AL pennent (full season)
1949 - Tom Watson, KC Mo, golfer (British Open 1975, 77, 80, 82, 83) is born
1950 - Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural
Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
1972 - US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals
1983 - Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship
1986 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) dies aged 75
1988 - Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season NFL game
1993 - Mats Wilander defeats Mikael Pernfors 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-6 (8-6),
6-4 in 4 hrs 1 min US Open Tennis match concluding at 2:26 AM
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