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1913 — Twenty-year-old novice Francis Ouimet beats Britain’s Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in an 18-hole playoff to win the U.S. Open.

1924 — Grover Cleveland Alexander wins his three hundredth recreation because the Chicago Cubs defeat the New York Giants 7-3 in 12 innings.

1939 — Joe Louis knocks out Bob Pastor within the eleventh spherical at Briggs Stadium in Detroit to retain the world heavyweight title.

1973 — Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in straight units to win the Battle of the Sexes and the $100,000 winner-take-all purse at Houston’s Astrodome.

1980 — Spectacular Bid wins the Woodward Stakes on the planet’s richest walkover. Before a crowd of 23,000 spectators, the 4-year-old covers the 1¼ miles at Belmont Park in 2:02.4. It’s the final race of his profession and he finishes the yr undefeated in 9 races and is known as American Horse of the Year. There had not been a walkover in a serious U.S. stakes race since Coaltown gained the Edward Burke Handicap on April 23, 1949.

1982 — The NFL Players Association publicizes a strike on the completion of the Green Bay-New York Giants Monday Night recreation.

1987 — Chicago’s Walter Payton breaks Jim Brown’s NFL file together with his 107th speeding landing because the Bears beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20-3.

1988 — Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving, sooner or later after hitting his head on the diving board within the preliminary spherical. Louganis, who wanted 5 stitches, is stable all through the 11-dive program. His 730.80 factors wins the gold, beating China’s Tan Liangde. Tan, who finishes with 704.88 factors, additionally completed second to Louganis within the 1984 Olympic Games.

1992 — Raymond Floyd makes PGA Tour historical past, turning into the primary participant to win tournaments on the common and Senior PGA excursions in the identical yr. Floyd birdies 5 of his final seven holes to win the GTE North Classic after successful the Doral-Ryder Open in March on the common tour.

2003 — Rashaun Woods of Oklahoma State, catches seven landing passes to set an NCAA Division I-A file within the Cowboys’ 52-6 win over SMU. Woods breaks the mark of six set by San Diego State’s Tim Delaney in a 1969 recreation in opposition to New Mexico State. Woods finishes with 13 catches for 232 yards.

2007 — Floyd Landis loses his costly and explosive case when two of three arbitrators uphold the outcomes of a take a look at that confirmed the 2006 Tour de France champion used artificial testosterone to gas his spectacular comeback victory. Landis forfeits his Tour title.

2009 — The first recreation on the Cowboys Stadium units an NFL regular-season attendance file with a crowd of 105,121, and most of them go residence dissatisfied after the Giants win 33-31.

2009 — Minnesota Vikings QB Brett Favre units an NFL file together with his 271st straight begin in a 27-13 win over the Detroit Lions. Defensive finish Jim Marshall had the earlier mark for consecutive begins, 270 video games in a row for Minnesota from 1961-1979.

2013 — Alex Rodriquez units new MLB file with 24 Grand Slam residence runs for the New York Yankees.

2015 — The United States beats Europe with the largest comeback in Solheim Cup historical past. Paula Creamer beats Germany’s Sandra Gal 4 and three to finish the 14 1/2-13 1/2 victory. Europe had a four-point lead coming into the 12 singles matches, which the United States win 8 1/2 to three 1/2 in these matches.

2018 — The World Anti-Doping Agency reinstates Russia, ending an almost three-year suspension brought on by state-sponsored doping.

2021 — Salvador Perez, Kansas City Royals, hits his forty sixth residence run to interrupt Hall of Famers Johnny Bench’s MLB file for many residence runs in a season by a catcher.

2022 — Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge breaks his personal world file for the marathon in 2 hours 1 minute 9 seconds in Berlin (earlier file 2:01:39).

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