Today’s highlights in sports history:
In 1929, the Chicago Cardinals held a training camp in Michigan, becoming the first NFL team to train outside the state.
On this date:
1913 – The United States beat Great Britain 3-2 to win their first Davis Cup title since 1902.
1928 – The Summer Olympics open in Amsterdam and the Olympic flame is lit for the first time.
1972 – The American Basketball Association announces that San Diego will be awarded a franchise and that the NBA’s Buffalo Braves will relocate to San Diego and be renamed the San Diego Clippers.
1972 – The Dallas Cowboys beat the College All-Stars 20-7 in Chicago.
1984 – The Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles with a record 140 nations participating. The Soviet Union and 13 of its communist allies, including Cuba and East Germany, boycott the games.
1987 – Laura Davis shoots 1-under 71 to defeat Ayako Okamoto and Joan Kerner in an 18-hole playoff to win the U.S. Women’s Open.
1987 – Ángel Cordero Jr. becomes the fourth American jockey to achieve 6,000 race victories when he rides Lost Kitty at Monmouth Park in New Jersey.
1991 – Montreal Expos pitcher Dennis Martinez pitches a perfect game to defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 2-0.
1992 – American Mike Barrowman wins the 200-meter breaststroke in a world record time, while Russia’s Evgeny Sadovy becomes the first swimmer to win a triple gold medal at a Summer Olympics and also breaks the world record in the men’s 400-meter freestyle.
1994 — On the night baseball players called a strike on Aug. 12, Kenny Rogers of the Texas Rangers pitched a perfect game, leading the team to a 4-0 victory over California.
2000 – Standout American gymnast Blaine Wilson wins five consecutive gold medals in St. Louis, becoming the first gymnast to do so since George Wheeler did it from 1937 to 1941.
2009 – At the World Championships in Rome, Germany’s Paul Biedermann set a world record in the 200 m freestyle, handing Michael Phelps his first individual defeat in four years. Phelps lost by a length, his first international loss since losing to Ian Crocker in the 100 m butterfly final at the 2005 World Championships.
2011 – Ryan Lochte celebrates setting the first world record since high-tech body suits were banned a year and a half ago, beating Michael Phelps in the 200-meter individual medley at the World Championships in Shanghai.
2013 – Breck Shea scores a goal less than a minute after coming on as a second-half substitute to lead the United States to a 1–0 victory over Panama in the Gold Cup final. It is the United States’ fifth Gold Cup victory but their first since 2007.
2016 – Mirim Lee shoots 10-under 62 to tie the Women’s British Open record and take a three-stroke lead in a major championship at tree-lined Woburn (England) Golf Club.
2016 – At the Web.com Tour’s Ellie Mae Classic in Hayward, California, Stefan Jaeger shot a 12-under 58, the lowest score on a major tour. The German finished with a 10-foot birdie putt.
2019 – 22-year-old Egan Bernal becomes the first Colombian and Latin American cyclist to win the Tour de France.
