July 24
1908 鈥 John Hayes wins the Olympic marathon in a record of 2 hours, 55 minutes, 18.4 seconds. Italian Dorando Pietri is the first athlete to enter the stadium, but collapses several times before being disqualified when officials help him across the line.
1931 鈥 Paavo Nurmi sets the world record at 2 miles in a meet at Helsinki, Finland, with a time of 8:59.6.
1960 鈥 Jay Hebert beats Jim Ferrier by one stroke to win the PGA golf tournament.
1967 鈥 Don January wins a playoff by two strokes over Don Massengale to win the PGA championship.
1970 鈥 The International Lawn Tennis Association institutes the nine-point tiebreaker rule.
1976 鈥 John Naber of the United States becomes the first swimmer to break the 2-minute barrier in the 200-meter backstroke at the Olympics in Montreal.
1976 鈥 Mac Wilkins of the United States sets an Olympic record in the discus with a toss of 224 feet in Montreal.
1977 鈥 Hollis Stacy wins the U.S. Women鈥檚 Open golf championship by two strokes over Nancy Lopez.
1979 鈥 Boston Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR.
1998 鈥 Tour de France riders, angered by the drug scandal that has dominated the event, protest by delaying the start of racing for two hours. Armin Meier, a member of the Festina team who was kicked off the tour the previous week, admits to a French radio station that he used a banned drug.
2005 鈥 Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France. All of the titles are stripped in 2012 for doping.
2008 鈥 Nancy Lieberman makes a one-game appearance for the Detroit Shock after the 50-year-old Hall-of-Famer signed a seven-day contract earlier in the day. Lieberman, finishes with two assists and two turnovers, surpassing her own record as the oldest player in WNBA history. Lieberman held the record playing at age 39 in 1997 while playing for the Phoenix Mercury.
2009 鈥 Ron Hornaday Jr. holds off a late challenge from Mike Skinner to win the AAA Insurance 200, making him the first driver in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series to win four consecutive races.
2010 鈥 Fourteen-year-old Jim Liu of Smithtown, N.Y., beats Justin Thomas of Goshen, Ky., 4 and 2 to become the youngest U.S. Junior Amateur champion. Liu, who turns 15 next month, is more than six months younger than Tiger Woods when he won the first of his three consecutive U.S. Junior Amateur titles in 1991.
2011 鈥 Cadel Evans wins the Tour de France, becoming the first Australian champion in cycling鈥檚 greatest race.
2014 鈥 Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice receives a two-game suspension from the NFL following his offseason arrest for domestic violence. The six-year veteran was arrested following a Feb. 15 altercation in Atlantic City, New Jersey, with then-fiancee Janay Palmer.
2016 鈥 Chris Froome celebrates his third Tour de France title in four years. The British rider finishes safely at the back of the main pack during the final stage, arm-in-arm with his teammates during the mostly ceremonial final stage ending on the Champs-Elysees. Froome, who also won the Tour in 2013 and 2015, becomes the first rider to defend the title since Miguel Indurain won the last of his five straight in 1995. Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven consecutive titles for doping.
2019 鈥 19-year-old Hungarian swimmer Kristof Milak breaks Michael Phelps鈥 10-year-old 200m butterfly record in a time of 1:50.73, 0.78s faster than Phelps.
2020 鈥 The Toronto Blue Jays name Sahlen Field in Buffalo, N.Y. as their temporary home field for the season.
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July 25
1902 鈥 Jim Jeffries knocks out Bob Fitzsimmons in the eighth round to retain the world heavyweight title.
1941 鈥 Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox wins his 300th and last game, beating the Cleveland Indians 10-6.
1956 鈥 Swaps sets an American record in a 1 5/8-mile race at Hollywood Park. Swaps runs the course in 2:38 1-5.
1956 鈥 Jack Burke Jr. defeats Ted Kroll 3 and 2 in the final round to win the PGA championship.
1976 鈥 In Montreal, Edwin Moses of the United States sets an Olympic record in the 400 hurdles with a time of 47.63.
1982 鈥 Janet Anderson wins the U.S. Women鈥檚 Open golf title, her first tournament victory.
1999 鈥 86th Tour de France: Lance Armstrong wins 1st of 7 consecutive Tour de France titles but is later disqualified for drug cheating.
2004 鈥 Copa Am茅rica Final, Estadio Nacional, Lima: Brazil beats Argentina, 4-2 on penalties; 2-2 after extra time.
2007 鈥 Michael Rasmussen, the leader of the Tour de France, is removed from the race by his Rabobank team after winning the 16th stage. Rasmussen is sent home for violating (the team鈥檚) internal rules. The Danish cyclist missed random drug tests May 8 and June 28, saying he was in Mexico.
2010 鈥 Alberto Contador wins the Tour de France for the third time in four years. Contador holds off a next-to-last day challenge from Andy Schleck of Luxembourg, his runner-up for a second consecutive year.
2010 鈥 Jamie McMurray鈥檚 victory in the Brickyard 400 gives owner Chip Ganassi the first team triple crown in American auto racing: winning the Daytona 500, Indianapolis 500 and the Brickyard 400 in the same year. McMurray won the season-opening Daytona 500 in February, and Ganassi IndyCar series driver Dario Franchitti won the Indy 500 in May.
2011 鈥 The NFL Players Association executive board and 32 team reps vote unanimously to approve the terms of a deal to the end the 4陆-month lockout. The final pact is for 10 years, without an opt-out clause.
2011 鈥 Taylor Hoagland hits a two-run home run, Valerie Arioto and Megan Langenfeld have RBI singles and the United States beats rival Japan 6-4 to win its fifth straight World Cup of Softball championship.
2012 鈥 Triple jumper Voula Papachristou is kicked off Greece鈥檚 Olympic team by the Hellenic Olympic Committee for her comments on Twitter mocking African immigrants and expressing support for a far-right political party.
2015 鈥 Maya Moore scores a record 30 points to lead the West to a 117-112 victory over the East in the WNBA All-Star Game. The league鈥檚 reigning MVP scores eight straight points in the final 2 minutes to turn a one-point deficit into a 113-106 advantage.
2021 鈥 USA鈥檚 men鈥檚 basketball lose to France 83-76 ending their 25-game Olympic winning streak.
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July 26
1859 鈥 The first intercollegiate Regatta is held in Worcester, Mass., with Harvard beating Yale and Brown.
1928 鈥 Gene Tunney beats Tom Heeney on a technical knockout in the 11th round at Yankee Stadium to retain the world heavyweight title.
1952 鈥 Bob Mathias wins his second Olympic decathlon in Helsinki, Finland.
1955 鈥 Doug Ford defeats Cary Middlecoff 4 and 3 in the final round to capture the PGA title.
1981 鈥 Pat Bradley shoots a record 279 total to win the U.S. Women鈥檚 Open. Kathy Whitworth, who finishes third, becomes the first million-dollar golfer in LPGA history.
1987 鈥 Stephen Roche of Ireland wins the Tour de France by 40 seconds over Spain鈥檚 Pedro Delgado. Jeannie Longo of France wins the women鈥檚 race, finishing 2:52 ahead of Italy鈥檚 Maria Canins.
1992 鈥 Miguel Indurain of Spain, the holder of the yellow jersey as overall leader for the final nine days, rides in the pack to clinch his second straight victory in the Tour de France.
1996 鈥 American swimmer Amy Van Dyken wins the 50-meter freestyle to become Atlanta鈥檚 first quadruple gold medalist and the first U.S. woman to win four in a single Olympics.
1998 鈥 Three spectators are killed 鈥 the first fan deaths at a major race in the United States in more than a decade 鈥 and six are injured by flying debris from a one-car crash at the U.S. 500 at Michigan Speedway.
2005 鈥 Greg Maddux records his 3,000th career strikeout against San Francisco, striking out Omar Vizquel in the third inning of a 3-2, 11-inning victory for the Giants.
2009 鈥 Alberto Contador wins the Tour de France for a second time. Andy Schleck of Luxembourg, Contador鈥檚 biggest rival among title contenders in the mountains, finishes second.
2013 鈥 He Chong wins his record-tying third consecutive world title in the men鈥檚 3-meter springboard at Barcelona, Spain, giving China its seventh gold medal in eight diving events. His victories in 2009, 2011, and 2013, matches Phillip Boggs鈥 record of three titles from 1973-78.
2015 鈥 Christina Jones and Bill May of the U.S. win the first gold medal in new mixed duet technical synchronized swimming at the world championships in Kazan, Russia. The mixed duet is new to the world championships.
2015 鈥 Kyle Busch鈥檚 incredible comeback continues with a weekend sweep at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He wins the Brickyard 400 a day after winning the second-tier Xfinity Series race. Busch, who missed the first 11 races of the season with a broken right leg and broken left foot, wins the fourth of the last five Sprint Cup Series races, including three straight.
2020 鈥 Italian soccer team Juventus wins its 9th straight Serie A title in a 2-0 victory over Sampdoria.
2021 鈥 Hidilyn Diaz becomes the first athlete from the Philippines to win an Olympic gold medal in the 55kg class of weightlifting at the Tokyo Games.
2024 鈥 XXXIII Summer Olympic Games officially open in Paris.
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July 27
1920 鈥 Resolute defeats Shamrock IV of Britain to defend the America鈥檚 Cup title for the United States.
1937 鈥 The United States wins the Davis Cup by beating Britain four matches to one.
1954 鈥 Chick Harbart beats Walter Burkemo 4 and 3 in the final round to win the PGA championship.
1969 鈥 Betsy Rawls wins the LPGA championship by four strokes over Sue Berning and Carol Mann.
1973 鈥 The Miami Dolphins beat the College All-Stars 14-3 in Chicago.
1986 鈥 Greg Lemond becomes the first American to win the Tour de France. LeMond鈥檚 teammate, Bernard Hinault of France, finishes second.
1986 鈥 Pat Bradley sinks a 12-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to defeat hard-charging Japanese veteran Ayako Okamoto in the LPGA-du Maurier tournament. Bradley birdied five of the first six holes and finishes at 6-under 66 for a 72-hole total of 276.
1986 鈥 Speedskater Bonnie Blair sets a U.S. Olympic Festival record for total medals won with 16 and total golds with 10 by taking two titles.
1986 鈥 Bobby Hillin Jr. becomes the youngest winner in the history of NASCAR stock car racing, surviving the Talladega 500 at Alabama International Motor Speedway. Hillin, 22, takes the lead from Tim Richmond eight laps from the end of the 188-lap event.
1987 鈥 The Salt Lake Trappers, an independent team in the Pioneer League, have their record 29-game winning streak snapped with a 7-5 loss to Billings.
1992 鈥 Patty Sheehan shoots a 1-over 72 for a two-stroke victory over Juli Inkster in their 18-hole playoff in the U.S. Women鈥檚 Open.
1993 鈥 Reggie Lewis, the 27-year-old Boston Celtics star who collapsed during a playoff game on April 29 from a heart ailment, dies after a light workout at the team鈥檚 practice facility at Brandeis University.
1996 鈥 Canada鈥檚 Donovan Bailey sets the world record to win the 100 meters in 9.84 seconds at the Summer Olympics. The Atlanta Games are later marred by the Centennial Olympic Park bombing that kills Alice Hawthorne, wounds 111 others.
1999 鈥 Tony Hawk is the first skateboarder to land a 鈥900鈥.
2002 鈥 John Ruiz retains the WBA heavyweight title he won from Evander Holyfield, this time getting off the canvas three times 鈥 all after low blows 鈥 and lasting long enough for Kirk Johnson to be disqualified.
2005 鈥 Grant Hackett bumps off one of swimmimg鈥檚 most enduring world records, eclipsing Ian Thorpe鈥檚 mark in the 800-meter freestyle. The 6-foot-6 Hackett claims his second gold and third medal of the World Swimming Championships with a time of 7:38.65, breaking the mark set four years earlier by his countryman Thorpe.
2006 鈥 Floyd Landis鈥 stunning Tour de France victory just four days earlier is thrown into question when he tests positive for high levels of testosterone during the race.
2008 鈥 Carlos Sastre wins the Tour de France in one of the closest finishes in the 105-year-old race. The third Spaniard in a row to win cycling鈥檚 premier event, Sastre holds his 65-second lead over Cadel Evans of Australia. As in the last two years, this year鈥檚 Tour is plagued by doping.
2013 鈥 Candace Parker scores a record 23 points to lead the West to a 102-98 win over the East and earn MVP honors in the WNBA All-Star game.
2013 鈥 Hunter Mahan withdraws from the RBC Canadian Open after his wife went into labor. Mahan, the tournament leader at 13 under after 36 holes, had yet to tee off for the third round.
2014 鈥 Italy鈥檚 Vincenzo Nibali wins the Tour de France, becoming the first Italian to win cycling鈥檚 greatest race in 16 years. Nibali is the sixth rider to win all three Grand Tours 鈥 France, Italy and Spain鈥 and is the first Italian to win the Tour de France since Marco Pantani in 1998.
2014 鈥 Martina Hingis leads Washington to its fourth straight World TeamTennis title and fifth in six years, beating Olga Govortsova 5-2 in singles in the Kastles鈥 25-13 victory over the Springfield Lasers.
2015 鈥 The Arizona Cardinals hire Jen Welter to coach inside linebackers through their upcoming training camp and preseason. The Cardinals say Welter is believed to be the first woman to hold a coaching position of any kind in the NFL.
2019 鈥 Israel qualifies for their first European Baseball Championship.
2021 鈥 Four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles withdraws from the women鈥檚 team final at the Tokyo Games citing needs to focus on her mental health.
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July 28
1913 鈥 The United States wins its first Davis Cup since 1902 by beating Britain three matches to two.
1928 鈥 The Summer Olympics open in Amsterdam and the Olympic flame is lit for the first time.
1929 鈥 The Chicago Cardinals become the first NFL team to train out of state, holding camp in Michigan.
1972 鈥 The American Basketball Association announces that San Diego will receive a franchise and the NBA鈥檚 Buffalo Braves relocate to San Diego and are renamed the San Diego Clippers.
1972 鈥 The Dallas Cowboys beat the College All-Stars in Chicago 20-7.
1984 鈥 The Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles with a record 140 nations competing. The Soviet Union and 13 Communist allies, including Cuba and East Germany, boycott the games.
1987 鈥 Laura Davies shoots a 1-under 71 to defeat Ayako Okamoto and JoAnne Carner in an 18-hole playoff to win the U.S. Women鈥檚 Open.
1987 鈥 Angel Cordero Jr. becomes the fourth U.S. jockey to win 6,000 races when he rides Lost Kitty to victory at Monmouth Park, N.J.
1991 鈥 Dennis Martinez pitches a perfect game for the Montreal Expos, who beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-0.
1992 鈥 American Mike Barrowman sets a world record in winning the 200-meter breaststroke, and Russian Evgueni Sadovyi becomes the Summer Olympics鈥 first triple gold medalist, also smashing a world record in the men鈥檚 400-meter freestyle.
1994 鈥 On the night baseball players set an Aug. 12 strike date, Kenny Rogers of the Texas Rangers pitches a perfect game for a 4-0 victory over California.
2000 鈥 Blaine Wilson, America鈥檚 pre-eminent gymnast, wins his fifth straight championship in St. Louis. He becomes the first gymnast to win five straight national titles since George Wheeler did it from 1937-41.
2009 鈥 Germany鈥檚 Paul Biedermann hands Michael Phelps his first major individual loss in four years, setting a world record in the 200-meter freestyle at the world championships in Rome. Phelps, a body length behind, loses for the first time in a major international meet since Ian Crocker beat him in the 100 butterfly final at the 2005 worlds.
2011 鈥 Ryan Lochte celebrates the first world record set since high-tech bodysuits were banned 1 1/2 years ago. Lochte edges Michael Phelps in 200-meter individual medley at the world championships at Shanghai.
2013 鈥 Brek Shea scores less than a minute after entering the game as a second-half substitute, giving the United States a 1-0 victory over Panama in the Gold Cup final. It鈥檚 the fifth Gold Cup title for the Americans but their first since 2007.
2016 鈥 Mirim Lee shoots a 10-under 62 to match the Women鈥檚 British Open record and take a three-stroke lead in the major championship at tree-lined Woburn (England) Golf Club.
2016 鈥 Stephan Jaeger shoots a 12-under 58 in the Web.com Tour鈥檚 Ellie Mae Classic in Hayward, Calif., for the lowest score in major tour play. The German finishes with a 10-foot birdie putt.
2019 鈥 22-year-old Egan Bernal becomes the first Colombian and Latin American cyclist to win the Tour de France.
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July 29
1751 鈥 The first International World Title Prize Fight takes place in Harlston, England. The champion, Jack Slack of England, beats the challenger, M. Petit of France, in 25 minutes.
1934 鈥 Paul Runyan beats Craig Wood on the 38th hole to win the PGA Championship at Park Country Club in Williamsville, N.Y.
1956 鈥 Cathy Cornelius wins a playoff over Barbara McIntyre to win the U.S. Women鈥檚 Open.
1957 鈥 At the Polo Grounds in New York, Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson at 1:52 of the 10th round to retain the heavyweight title.
1960 鈥 The first American Football League preseason game is played in Buffalo, N.Y. The Boston Patriots, led by quarterback Butch Songin, beat the Bills 28-7 before 16,474 fans at War Memorial Stadium .
1979 鈥 Amy Alcott shoots a 7-under 285 to beat Nancy Lopez in the Peter Jackson Classic, later named The du Maurier Classic. The du Maurier is one of the LPGA Tour鈥檚 major championships from 1979-2000.
1986 鈥 The U.S. Football League wins and loses in its lawsuit against the NFL. The jury finds the NFL violated antitrust laws, as the USFL claimed, but awards the USFL only $1 in damages.
1989 鈥 Cuba鈥檚 Javier Sotomayor becomes the first person to high jump 8 feet, breaking his world record at the Caribbean Championship in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He surpasses his mark of 7-11陆.
1990 鈥 Beth Daniel shoots a 66 to overcome a 5-shot deficit and win the LPGA Championship 鈥 her first major title in 12 years on the tour. Daniel beats Rosie Jones by one stroke and pockets $150,000, the largest in LPGA Tour history.
1992 鈥 The U.S. 400-meter freestyle relay team wins the gold medal, with Matt Biondi and Tom Jager becoming the first U.S. male swimmers to win golds in three Olympics.
1996 鈥 Michael Johnson sweeps to victory in an Olympic 400-meter record 43.49 seconds, while Carl Lewis leaps into history in Atlanta. Lewis鈥 long jump of 27 feet, 10戮 inches earns him his ninth gold medal, equaling the American mark held by swimmer Mark Spitz.
2001 鈥 Copa Am茅rica Final, Estadio El Camp铆n, Bogot谩: Defender Iv谩n C贸rdoba scores winner as home team Columbia edge Mexico, 1-0.
2008 鈥 Disgraced ex-NBA official Tim Donaghy admits he brought shame on his profession as a federal judge sentenced him to 15 months behind bars for a gambling scandal.
2012 鈥 Kimberly Rhode wins the Olympic gold medal in women鈥檚 skeet shooting, becoming the first American to take an individual-sport medal in five consecutive Olympics.
2012 鈥 Dana Vollmer of the U.S. sets a world record to win the 100-meter butterfly at the London Olympics. Vollmer hits the wall in 55.98 seconds to shave 0.08 off the mark set by Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden at the 2009 world championships in Rome.
2015 鈥 Russia鈥檚 Natalya Ishchenko wins a record 18th career synchronized swimming gold medal at the world championships at Kazan, Russia.
2021 鈥 Sunisa Lee wins the women鈥檚 all-around gymnastics gold medal in Tokyo.
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July 30
1870 鈥 Monmouth Park opens with a five-day meet.
1930 鈥 Host Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer鈥檚 first World Cup in Montevideo.
1932 鈥 The 10th modern Olympic Games open in Los Angeles.
1961 鈥 Jerry Barber edges Don January by one stroke in a playoff to win the PGA title at Olympia Fields in Illinois.
1966 鈥 England beats West Germany 4-2 at London鈥檚 Wembley Stadium to capture soccer鈥檚 World Cup.
1968 鈥 Washington鈥檚 Ron Hansen pulls off an unassisted triple play in a 10-1 loss to the Cleveland Indians.
1971 鈥 In the NFL Chicago All-Star Game, the Baltimore Colts beat the All-Stars 24-17.
1976 鈥 Bruce Jenner sets the world record in the Olympic decathlon with 8,618 points, breaking Nikolai Avilov鈥檚 mark by 164 points.
1980 鈥 Houston pitcher J.R. Richard suffers a stroke during a workout at the Astrodome.
1984 鈥 Michael Gross of West Germany sets a world record in the 200-meter freestyle with a time of 1:47.44 at a meet in Munich.
1996 鈥 The American softball team wins the gold medal, beating China 3-1 behind a controversial two-run homer from Dot Richardson in the first Olympic competition in that sport.
2009 鈥 Seven more world records on the fifth night of the world swimming championships in Rome are set, pushing the total to 29 and moving past last summer鈥檚 Beijing Olympics. Ryan Lochte gets things rolling by breaking Phelps鈥 mark in the 200-meter individual medley. The Chinese women finish it off, eclipsing the 800 freestyle relay mark by more than two seconds, with the Americans also breaking the previous record but only getting silver.
2012 鈥 In London, Missy Franklin, a 17-year-old from Colorado, wins the women鈥檚 100-meter backstroke. Franklin has a brief 13-minute break after taking the final qualifying spot in the 200 freestyle semifinals before she had to get back into the water for the backstroke final. Ruta Meilutyte, 15, becomes the first Lithuanian to win an Olympic swimming medal by holding off a late charge from world champion Rebecca Soni of the U.S. in the 100 breaststroke.
2013 鈥 Katie Ledecky crushes the world record in the 1,500 freestyle for her second gold medal at the world swimming championships in Barcelona, Spain. The 16-year-old American finishes with a time of 15:36.53 to beat the previous mark by more than 6 seconds 鈥 Kate Ziegler鈥檚 15:42.54 in 2007.
2015 鈥 North Korea wins its first gold medal at the world aquatics championships through 16-year-old Kim Kuk Hyang in women鈥檚 10-meter diving. In her first international competition, Kim produces a stunning final dive, earning two perfect 10 scores from the seven judges, for a total of 397.05 points. On the next dive, the leader up to that point, world champion Si Yajie of China, makes an error to drop to fourth.
2021 鈥 South African swimmer Tatjana Shoemaker sets a new women鈥檚 200m breaststroke world record of 2:18.95 at the Tokyo Olympics.
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