1923 — The United States wins its fourth consecutive Davis Cup by beating Australia 4 matches to at least one.
1946 — Patty Berg wins the U.S. Women’s Open golf title by beating Betty Jameson in the remaining spherical.
1971 — John Newcombe turns into the first high-seeded man to lose in the first spherical of the U.S. Open when he loses to Jan Kodes, 2-6, 7-6, 7-6, 6-3.
1972 — American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer beats Russian champion Boris Spassky 12.5-8.5 in Reykjavik, Iceland; most publicized world title match ever performed; Fischer 1st American to win title.
1973 — George Foreman knocks out Jose Roman at 2:00 of the first spherical in Tokyo to retain the heavyweight title.
1977 — Renee Richards, the 43-12 months-previous transsexual who fought for greater than a 12 months for the proper to play in the ladies’s singles of a significant tennis championship, is crushed in the first spherical by Virginia Wade, 6-1, 6-4. Tracy Austin, at the age of 14 years, eight months, 20 days, turns into the youngest participant to play in the U.S. Open, defeating Heidi Eisterlehner, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, in the first spherical. Austin’s mark is damaged in 1979 by 14-12 months-previous Kathy Horvath.
1984 — Willie Totten of Mississippi Valley State passes for a Division I-AA record 536 yards and 9 touchdowns in a 86-0 rout of Kentucky State. Jerry Rice catches 17 passes for 294 yards and 5 touchdowns and breaks his personal Division I-AA record for receiving yards.
1987 — Fifteen-year-previous Michael Chang beats Paul McNamee, 6-3, 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, to develop into the youngest man to win a match at the U.S. Open.
1989 — Chris Evert turns into the first 100-match winner in 108 years of U.S. tennis championships. Evert, taking part in her remaining U.S. Open, beat Patricia Tarabini 6-2, 6-4.
1993 — Goran Ivanisevic and Daniel Nestor play the longest tie-break in the historical past of the U.S. Open (38 factors). Ivanisevic wins the first-spherical match 6-4, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (18).
1998 — Mark McGwire breaks Hack Wilson’s 68-12 months-previous National League record for house runs in a season, hitting his 56th and 57th in the St. Louis Cardinals’ victory over the Florida Marlins.
2004 — Sexual assault cost towards LA Lakers star Kobe Bryant is dropped by the Eagle County District Attorney’s places of work in Colorado after the sufferer decides to not take part.
2007 — Appalachian State 34, No. 5 Michigan 32. Julian Rauch’s 24-yard subject objective with 26 seconds left places the Mountaineers forward of the Wolverines and Corey Lynch blocks a subject objective in the remaining seconds to seal one in all faculty football’s greatest upsets.
2012 — Eureka (Ill.) College quarterback Sam Durley passes for 736 yards in a 62-55 victory over Knox to interrupt the NCAA single-recreation passing record. Durley completes 34 of 52 passes and throws for 5 touchdowns, together with two in the remaining two minutes as the Red Devils shut the Division III recreation with 17 unanswered factors.
2014 — Kei Nishikori outlasts Milos Raonic in a 5-set marathon that ends a 2:26 a.m., tying the newest end in U.S. Open historical past.
2015 — Indiana’s Tamika Catchings scores 13 factors, and the Fever beat the Connecticut Sun 81-51 to succeed in the playoffs for a WNBA-record eleventh straight season.
2019 — Justin Verlander, Houston Astros, strikes out 14 batters as he throws his third profession no-hitter in a 2-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays.
2021 — Cristiano Ronaldo breaks the world record for goals scores in men’s international football together with his one hundred and tenth and 111th goals for Portugal in a 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over the Republic of Ireland.