Aug. 16<\/p>\n
1920 \u2014 Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman is hit in the head with a pitch by New York\u2019s Carl Mays. Chapman suffers a fractured skull and dies the next day. It\u2019s the only field fatality in major league history.<\/p>\n
1924 \u2014 Helen Wills Moody beats Molla Bjurstedt Mallory again, 6-1, 6-3, to win her second straight singles title at the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championships.<\/p>\n
1954 \u2014 The first Sports Illustrated magazine is issued with a 25-cent price tag. The scene on the cover was a game at Milwaukee\u2019s County Stadium. Eddie Mathews of Braves was swinging with Wes Westrum catching and Augie Donatelli umpiring.<\/p>\n
1970 \u2014 Dave Stockton wins the PGA Championship by two strokes over Arnold Palmer and Bob Murphy at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla.<\/p>\n
1976 \u2014 Dave Stockton edges Raymond Floyd and Don January by one stroke to win his second PGA Championship. Stockton hits a par-saving 15-foot putt on the 72nd hole to finish with a 1-over 281 at Congressional Country Club (Blue Course) in Bethesda, Md.<\/p>\n
1989 \u2014 Tom Drees pitches his third no-hitter of the season for Class AAA Vancouver, leading the Canadians over Las Vegas 5-0 in a seven-inning, first game of a doubleheader in the Pacific Coast League. Drees became the first pitcher in the PCL or the major leagues with three no-hitters in a year.<\/p>\n
1992 \u2014 Nick Price holds off a comeback bid by Nick Faldo with a 1-under 70 in the final round and captures his first major title with a three-stroke victory in the PGA national championship.<\/p>\n
1995 \u2014 Ethiopia\u2019s Haile Gebrselassie shatters Kenya\u2019s Moses Kiptanui\u2019s record in the 5,000 by nearly 11 seconds with a time of 12 minutes, 44.39 seconds at the Weltklasse meet in Zurich, Switzerland.<\/p>\n
1998 \u2014 Jeff Gordon drives into the record book, becoming the seventh driver in modern NASCAR history to win four straight races as he comes from far back to take the Pepsi 400.<\/p>\n
2003 \u2014 Cristiano Ronaldo (18) makes his debut for Manchester United and the Premier League in a 4\u20130 home victory over Bolton Wanderers.<\/p>\n
2008 \u2014 In Beijing, Michael Phelps touches the wall a hundredth of a second ahead of Serbia\u2019s Milorad Cavic to win the 100-meter butterfly. The win gives Phelps his seventh gold medal of the Beijing Games, tying Mark Spitz\u2019s performance in the 1972 Munich Games. Usain Bolt of Jamaica runs the 100-meter dash in a stunning world-record time of 9.69 seconds for a blowout win that he starts celebrating a good 10 strides before the finish line.<\/p>\n
2009 \u2014 Usain Bolt shatters the 100-meter world record at the World Championships in Berlin. Bolt finishes with a stunning time of 9.58 seconds, bettering his own record of 9.69 seconds set in last year\u2019s Beijing Olympics.<\/p>\n
2009 \u2014 Y.E. Yang of South Korea becomes the first Asian player to win one of golf\u2019s majors with a three-stroke win over Tiger Woods at the PGA Championship.<\/p>\n
2015 \u2014 Jason Day leads wire-to-wire in the final round at Whistling Straits to close out a record-setting PGA Championship and capture his first major title. The 27-year-old Australian finishes at 20-under 268 to beat Jordan Spieth by three shots. Day becomes the first player to finish at 20 under in a major.<\/p>\n
2015 \u2014 Brooke Henderson wins the Cambia Portland Classic by eight strokes to become the third-youngest champion in LPGA Tour history at 17 years, 11 months, 6 days.<\/p>\n
2018 \u2014 The Davis Cup gets a radical makeover beginning in 2019. The top team event in men\u2019s tennis will be decided with a season-ending, 18-team tournament at a neutral site.<\/p>\n
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