1901 — Major League Baseball games were canceled due to the funeral of President William McKinley.
1925 — Bill Tilden won the US national tennis
championship for the sixth consecutive year, beating William Johnston in
five sets at the West Side Tennis Club in New York.
1947 — Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers was named the Rookie of Year.
1949 — Ralph Kiner of the Pittsburgh Pirates became
the first National League player to hit 50 or more home runs twice when
he connected off Kirby Higbe of the New York Giants at Forbes Field.
1959 — Jack Nicklaus won the US Amateur Golf Championship at Broadmoor Golf Club in Colorado Springs, Colo.
1986 — Joe Cowley of the Chicago White Sox no-hit the California Angels, 7-1, at Anaheim Stadium.
1988 — US diver Greg Louganis hit his head while
performing a springboard dive at the Summer Olympics in Seoul. Eight
days later, Louganis won both the springboard and 10-meter platform gold
medals, just as he had in Los Angeles in 1984.
1989 — An appeals court ruling restored the
America’s Cup to the United States after the New York Supreme Court had
given the sailing trophy to New Zealand, who had protested the
Americans’ use of a catamaran during the competition.
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