July 12<\/p>\n
1901 \u2014 Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox wins his 300th game with a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia A\u2019s.<\/p>\n
1930 \u2014 Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Open. Jones, who also won the British Open, the American Amateur and the British Amateur, becomes the only golfer to take all four events in the same year.<\/p>\n
1954 \u2014 The Major League Baseball Players Association is founded.<\/p>\n
1964 \u2014 Mickey Wright wins the U.S. Women\u2019s Open for the fourth time by defeating Ruth Jessen by two strokes in a playoff.<\/p>\n
1970 \u2014 Jack Nicklaus wins his second British Open, beating Doug Sanders by one stroke in an 18-hole playoff at the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland. It\u2019s the first playoff at The Open since 1963 and the first at 18 holes.<\/p>\n
1975 \u2014 Tom Watson wins an 18-hole playoff by one stroke over Jack Newton to win the British Open at Carnoustie Golf Links in Scotland.<\/p>\n
1980 \u2014 Mary Decker has her fourth record-setting performance of the year, setting an American mark in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:01.17 at an international meet at Stuttgart.<\/p>\n
1995 \u2014 Noureddine Morceli of Algeria shatters his world record for 1,500 meters at the Nikaia Grand Prix in Nice, France, with a time of 3:27.37. It is the second world record for Morceli in 10 days.<\/p>\n
1996 \u2014 Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract with the Chicago Bulls, for 1 year for $30.1 million.<\/p>\n
1996 \u2014 Kirby Puckett, MLB centerfielder, retires after 12 seasons from Minnesota Twins, due to loss of vision in one eye.<\/p>\n
1998 \u2014 France wins soccer\u2019s World Cup, beating heavily favored Brazil 3-0 in the championship match.<\/p>\n
1999 \u2014 The U.S. men\u2019s basketball team wins its sixth straight World University Games gold medal and 40th straight game \u2014 both records \u2014 by routing Yugoslavia 79-65 in the final.<\/p>\n
2012 \u2014 Every country competing at the London Games includes female athletes for the first time in Olympic history after Saudi Arabia agreed to send two women to compete in judo and track and field.<\/p>\n
2014 \u2014 Mario Goetze volleys in the winning goal in extra time to give Germany its fourth World Cup title with a 1-0 victory over Argentina. The win is Germany\u2019s first as a united country. West Germany won the World Cup in 1954, 1974 and 1990.<\/p>\n
2015 \u2014 Novak Djokovic gets the better of Roger Federer at Wimbledon, beating him in four sets to win his third Wimbledon title and ninth Grand Slam championship.<\/p>\n
2015 \u2014 South Korea\u2019s In Gee Chun birdies four of the last seven holes to rally for a one-stroke victory at the U.S. Women\u2019s Open. The 20-year old Chun shoots a 4-under 66 in the final round and finished at 8 under, becoming the first player to win her U.S. Open debut since Birdie Kim in 2005.<\/p>\n
2017 \u2014 Sam Querrey stuns top-seeded Andy Murray in five sets in the Wimbledon quarterfinals, 3-6, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n
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