1876 \u2014 Princeton takes the team championship in the first IC4A (Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes Association) track and field meet.<\/p>\n
1957 \u2014 Lionel Herbert wins the PGA championship with a 2-1 final round victory over Dow Finsterwald.<\/p>\n
1957 \u2014 1st black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson).<\/p>\n
1963 \u2014 Jack Nicklaus wins the PGA championship by two strokes over Dave Ragan to become the fourth golfer to win the three major United States titles.<\/p>\n
1968 \u2014 Arnold Palmer becomes the first PGA golfer to earn $1 million over his career despite losing by one stroke to Julius Boros in the PGA championship.<\/p>\n
1973 \u2014 Hank Aaron hits home run number 700 off of Phillies Pitcher Ken Brett.<\/p>\n
1974 \u2014 Sandra Haynie edges Carol Mann and Beth Stone by one stroke to win the U.S. Women\u2019s Open championship.<\/p>\n
1979 \u2014 Spain\u2019s Seve Ballesteros captures the British Open by three strokes over Ben Crenshaw and Jack Nicklaus.<\/p>\n
1985 \u2014 John Henry, the greatest money winner in horse racing history, is retired. The 10-year-old won 39 races in 83 starts and earned $6,597,947 in total purses.<\/p>\n
1985 \u2014 Sandy Lyle wins the British Open by one stroke over Payne Stewart.<\/p>\n
1989 \u2014 Mike Tyson knocks down Carl \u201cThe Truth\u201d Williams 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.<\/p>\n
1996 \u2014 Tom Lehman shoots a final-round 73 for a 72-hole total of 13-under 271 to win the British Open, two strokes better than Ernie Els and Mark McCumber.<\/p>\n
1996 \u2014 Wayne Gretzky signs a 2 year deal with NY Rangers.<\/p>\n
2002 \u2014 Ernie Els squanders a three-stroke lead but outlasts Thomas Levet of France to win a four-man playoff that produces the first sudden-death finish in the 142-year history of the British Open.<\/p>\n
2007 \u2014 Bernard Hopkins, in the twilight of his fighting days, ends Winky Wright\u2019s 7 1\/2-year unbeaten streak with a unanimous decision in their 170-pound bout in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
2009 \u2014 China\u2019s Guo Jingjing easily wins her fifth straight world championship in 3-meter springboard. She captured her first springboard world title in 2001, and hasn\u2019t lost since in the every-other-year competition.<\/p>\n
2013 \u2014 Phil Mickelson wins his first British Open title with a spectacular finish. He birdies four of the last six holes for a 5-under 66 to match the best round of the tournament.<\/p>\n
2013 \u2014 Britain\u2019s Chris Froome wins the 100th Tour de France, having dominated rivals over three weeks. He rides into Paris wearing the yellow jersey he took in Stage 8 in the Pyrenees and never relinquished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1876 \u2014 Princeton takes the team championship in the first IC4A (Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes Association) track…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1750,10583,15249,15169,15237,15248,15205,1608,15217,1484,15176,15197,15183,15250,1531,531,1482,1525,15227,2833,16125,15222,8714,10786],"class_list":["post-40040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pga-championship","tag-arnold-palmer","tag-ben-crenshaw","tag-bernard-hopkins","tag-beth-stone","tag-carol-mann","tag-christopher-froome","tag-dave-ragan","tag-ernie-els","tag-hank-aaron","tag-jack-nicklaus","tag-ken-brett","tag-lionel-herbert","tag-mark-mccumber","tag-mike-tyson","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-pga-championship","tag-phil-mickelson","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-sandra-haynie","tag-sandy-lyle","tag-sportlight-july-21","tag-thomas-levet","tag-tom-lehman","tag-wayne-gretzky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}