2000 Randy Johnson gets his 3,000th strikeout and 300th of the season
1999 Pedro Martinez gets his 21st win and strikes out 17 NYY – most ever in NYY history in a game
1996 Montreal beats Chicago 10-3 – Expos tie MLB record by using 9 pitchers
1989 Deion Sanders plays his 1st game for Atlanta and returns a punt 68 yards for a TD
1980 Bill Gullickson of Expos sets a rookie record by striking out 18 batters
1977 Wilbur Woods hits 3 straight batters in the 1st inning
1974 Lou Brock breaks the stolen base record for a season with his 105th
1972 The US loses to Russia in Olympic basketball – highly disputed game 51-50
1969 KC uses a record 27 players in a game – lose 11-4
1965 Philadelphia’s Ferguson Jenkins makes his MLB debut – gets the win in relief – will win 284 in his career
1964 Brooks Robinson hits into a triple play – will end career with MLB record 4 times doing it
1960 Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins the marathon at the Rome Olympics running barefoot
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