Highlights of today’s sports history:
In 1968, Arnold Palmer became the first PGA golfer to earn $1 million in his career despite losing by one stroke to Julius Boros in the PGA Championship.
To this date :
1876 — Princeton wins the team championship at the first IC4A (Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes Association) track and field meet.
1957 — Lionel Herbert wins the PGA Championship with a 2-1 final victory over Dow Finsterwald.
1957 — 1st black man to win a major tennis tournament in the United States (Althea Gibson).
1963 — Jack Nicklaus wins the PGA Championship by two shots over Dave Ragan, becoming the fourth golfer to win all three U.S. major titles.
1973 — Hank Aaron hits his 700th home run off Phillies pitcher Ken Brett.
1974 — Sandra Haynie beats Carol Mann and Beth Stone by one shot to win the U.S. Women’s Open championship.
1979 — Spaniard Seve Ballesteros wins the British Open by three shots over Ben Crenshaw and Jack Nicklaus.
1985 — John Henry, the biggest winner in horse racing history, retires. The 10-year-old horse won 39 races in 83 starts and earned $6,597,947 in total purses.
1985 — Sandy Lyle wins the British Open by one stroke over Payne Stewart.
1989 — Mike Tyson knocks Carl “The Truth” Williams to the mat with a left hook and stops him 93 seconds into the first round of his heavyweight title defense. It is the fifth shortest heavyweight title fight in history.
1996 — Tom Lehman shoots a final-round 73 for a 72-hole total of 13-under 271 to win the British Open, two shots ahead of Ernie Els and Mark McCumber.
1996 — Wayne Gretzky signs a 2-year contract with the New York Rangers.
2002 — Ernie Els squanders a three-shot lead but outclasses Frenchman Thomas Levet to win a four-man play-off that produces the first sudden-death finish in the 142-year history of the British Open.
2007 — Bernard Hopkins, in the twilight of his fighting career, ends Winky Wright’s 7 1/2-year undefeated streak with a unanimous decision in their 170-pound bout in Las Vegas.
2009 — China’s Guo Jingjing wins her fifth consecutive world title on 3-meter springboard. She won her first world title on springboard in 2001 and has not lost since in the biennial competition.
2013 — Phil Mickelson wins his first Open title with a spectacular finish. He birdies the last six holes for a 5-under-par 66, the tournament’s best round.
2013 — Britain’s Chris Froome wins the 100th Tour de France, after dominating his rivals for three weeks. He arrives in Paris wearing the yellow jersey he took on stage eight in the Pyrenees and has never relinquished.
