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Today in sports history
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1890 : Cy Young made his major league debut and pitched a three-hitter as the Cleveland Spiders defeated the Chicago Colts. He ended his career with a record 511 victories.
1926 : American swimmer Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to cross the English Channel, completing the swim in 14 hours, 31 minutes and surpassing the men’s record by nearly two hours.
1936 : New Zealand’s Jack Lovelock won Olympic gold in the 1,500 meters at the Berlin Games and set a world record.
1946 : Ohio State guard Bill Willis signed with the Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference, becoming one of the Black pioneers who reintegrated major professional football after World War II.
1948 : Seventeen-year-old Bob Mathias won the Olympic decathlon in London only four months after taking up the event, becoming the youngest Olympic track and field champion in history.
1952 : St. Louis Browns pitcher Satchel Paige threw a 12-inning shutout and defeated the Detroit Tigers at age 46.
1966 : Muhammad Ali retained the world heavyweight championship with a third-round victory over Brian London at Earls Court in London.
1972 : Gary Player captured the PGA Championship , winning the tournament by two strokes for the second PGA title of his career.
1972 : Atlanta Braves star Hank Aaron hit his 660th career home run, surpassing Babe Ruth’s record of 659 homers with one franchise, then homered again in the 10th inning to beat Cincinnati.
1973 : Roberto Clemente and Warren Spahn were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Clemente became the first Latin American player enshrined, while Spahn entered with the most career victories by a left-handed pitcher.
1978 : John Mahaffey overcame a seven-stroke final-round deficit and defeated Tom Watson and Jerry Pate on the second sudden-death hole to win the PGA Championship at Oakmont.
1984 : Carl Lewis won the Olympic long jump in Los Angeles, capturing the second of the four gold medals he earned at those games.
1988 : José Canseco became just the 11th player in major league history to record a 30-home run, 30-stolen base season.
1988 : Goose Gossage recorded the 300th save of his career, becoming only the second pitcher in major league history to reach the milestone.
1992 : Kevin Young won the Olympic 400-meter hurdles in a world-record 46.78 seconds in Barcelona, becoming the first man to break 47 seconds in the event.
1999 : San Diego Padres star Tony Gwynn collected his 3,000th career hit with a first-inning single against the Montreal Expos and finished with four hits in a 12-10 victory.
2011 : Deion Sanders, Marshall Faulk, Shannon Sharpe, Richard Dent, Chris Hanburger, Les Richter and contributor Ed Sabol were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2016 : Brett Favre, Tony Dungy, Marvin Harrison, Orlando Pace, Kevin Greene, Ken Stabler, Dick Stanfel and Edward DeBartolo Jr. were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2021 : Shaunae Miller-Uibo won her second consecutive Olympic 400-meter championship, while bronze medalist Allyson Felix earned her 10th Olympic medal and became the most decorated woman in Olympic track and field history.
2022 : Tony Boselli, Cliff Branch, LeRoy Butler, Art McNally, Sam Mills, Richard Seymour, Dick Vermeil and Bryant Young were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2024 : American Cole Hocker surged past Josh Kerr and Jakob Ingebrigtsen to win the Olympic 1,500 meters in an Olympic-record 3:27.65 in Paris.
2024 : Gabby Thomas won the Olympic women’s 200 meters in 21.83 seconds, earning her first individual Olympic gold medal.
— USA TODAY Network
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