August 16

1920 — Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman is hit in the head with a pitch by New York’s Carl Mays. Chapman suffers a fractured skull and dies the next day. It is the only fatal accident in Major League history.

1924 — Helen Wills Moody defeats Molla Bjurstedt Mallory again, 6-1, 6-3, to win her second consecutive singles title at the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championships.

1954 — The first Sports Illustrated magazine is published with a 25-cent price tag. The scene on the cover was a game at Milwaukee’s County Stadium. Eddie Mathews of the Braves batted with Wes Westrum catching and Augie Donatelli umpiring.

1970 — Dave Stockton wins the PGA Championship by two strokes over Arnold Palmer and Bob Murphy at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

1976 — Dave Stockton defeats Raymond Floyd and Don January by one stroke to win his second PGA Championship. Stockton hits a par-saving 15-foot putt on the 72nd hole for a 1-over 281 at Congressional Country Club (Blue Course) in Bethesda, Maryland.

1989 — Tom Drees throws his third no-hitter of the season for Class AAA Vancouver, leading the Canadians 5-0 to Las Vegas in a seven-inning, first game of a Pacific Coast League doubleheader. Drees becomes the first pitcher in the PCL or major leagues to throw three no-hitters in a year.

1992 — Nick Price fends off a comeback attempt by Nick Faldo with a 1-under 70 in the final round to clinch his first major title with a three-stroke victory at the PGA National Championship.

1995 — Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia shatters Moses Kiptanui of Kenya’s 5,000 meters record by almost 11 seconds, clocking a time of 12 minutes, 44.39 seconds at the Weltklasse meet in Zurich, Switzerland.

1998 — Jeff Gordon enters the record book, becoming the seventh driver in modern NASCAR history to win four races in a row. He comes from way back to win the Pepsi 400.

2003 — Cristiano Ronaldo (18) makes his Manchester United and Premier League debut in a 4-0 home win over Bolton Wanderers.

2008 — In Beijing, Michael Phelps hits the wall one-hundredth of a second ahead of Serbia’s Milorad Cavic to win the 100-meter butterfly. With this victory, Phelps wins his seventh gold medal at the Beijing Games, equaling Mark Spitz’s feat at the 1972 Munich Games. Usain Bolt of Jamaica runs the 100 meters in an astonishing world record time of 9.69 seconds, giving him a great victory that he begins to celebrate 10 steps before the finish line.

2009 — Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100 meters at the World Championships in Berlin. Bolt finishes in an astonishing time of 9.58 seconds, bettering his own record of 9.69 seconds from the previous year’s Olympic Games in Beijing.

2009 — South Korea’s YE Yang becomes the first Asian player to win one of golf’s major tournaments, winning by three strokes over Tiger Woods at the PGA Championship.

2015 — Jason Day leads from start to finish in the final round at Whistling Straits to close out a record-breaking PGA Championship and capture his first major title. The 27-year-old Australian finishes at 20-under 268, beating Jordan Spieth by three strokes. Day becomes the first player to finish at 20 under in a major tournament.

2015 — Brooke Henderson wins the Cambia Portland Classic by eight strokes to become the third-youngest champion in LPGA Tour history at 17 years, 11 months and 6 days.

2018 — The Davis Cup will undergo a radical makeover from 2019 onwards. The premier team event in men’s tennis will be decided with an 18-team season-ending tournament on a neutral site.

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