Aug. 23
Today in sports history
Today is Aug. 23. On this date in:
1906: The Chicago White Sox defeated the Washington Senators 4-1 for their 19th consecutive victory, setting a new American League winning-streak record.
1936: Seventeen-year-old Bob Feller struck out 15 St. Louis Browns in his first major league start, pitching a six-hitter as Cleveland won 4-1.
1942: In a wartime charity exhibition at Yankee Stadium, Babe Ruth returned in pinstripes and homered off fellow legend Walter Johnson before nearly 70,000 fans, helping raise funds for the Army-Navy Relief Fund.
1964: Lorenzo Bandini earned his first and only Formula One victory, winning the inaugural World Championship Austrian Grand Prix for Ferrari on the bumpy Zeltweg airfield circuit.
1987: Brazil stunned the United States 120-115 to win the Pan American Games men's basketball gold medal in Indianapolis. Oscar Schmidt scored 46 points as the Americans suffered a rare home-court international defeat.
1989: Rick Dempsey homered in the 22nd inning to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a 1-0 victory over the Montreal Expos in a game that lasted 6 hours, 14 minutes.
1996: Morocco’s Salah Hissou ran 26 minutes, 38.08 seconds in Brussels to break Haile Gebrselassie’s world record in the men’s 10,000 meters.
1998: San Francisco’s Barry Bonds hit his 400th home run and became the first major league player with 400 homers and 400 stolen bases.
2001: Arizona’s Randy Johnson became the first pitcher in major league history to record at least 300 strikeouts in four consecutive seasons.
2008: Argentina defeated Nigeria 1-0 on Ángel Di María’s goal to win its second consecutive Olympic men’s soccer championship. Lionel Messi and Javier Mascherano were among the players who earned gold medals.
2008: Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele won the Olympic 5,000 meters in an Olympic-record 12:57.82, completing the first men’s Olympic 5,000-10,000 double since Miruts Yifter in 1980.
2008: LaShawn Merritt, Angelo Taylor, David Neville and Jeremy Wariner won the Olympic men’s 4x400-meter relay for the United States in 2:55.39, the second-fastest time in history.
2014: The Cleveland Cavaliers completed a blockbuster three-team trade to acquire All-Star forward Kevin Love from Minnesota, pairing him with LeBron James and Kyrie Irving and reshaping the NBA championship landscape.
2015: Usain Bolt defeated Justin Gatlin in 9.79 seconds to win the 100-meter world championship in Beijing.
2015: Davis Love III won the Wyndham Championship at age 51, becoming the third-oldest winner in PGA Tour history and claiming the tournament for the third time.
2020: Luka Dončić totaled 43 points, 17 rebounds and 13 assists and hit a step-back 3-pointer at the overtime buzzer, lifting Dallas past the Los Angeles Clippers 135-133 in Game 4 of their first-round playoff series.
2020: Sophia Popov won the AIG Women's Open – then the Women’s British Open – for her first LPGA Tour title, completing one of women’s golf’s biggest major-championship upsets. She entered the tournament as the world’s 304th-ranked women’s golfer.
2020: Bayern Munich defeated Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in Lisbon to win its sixth European Cup and complete a perfect 11-victory Champions League campaign.
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