Today’s highlights in sports history:
2021 Tour de France: Sign-holding spectators cause biggest pile-up in Tour history during first stage, spectators crack down and are arrested.
On this date:
1910 – Hazel Hotchkiss wins the singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles at the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association Championships for the second consecutive year. Hotchkiss defeats Louise Hammond 6-4, 6-2 to win the singles title.
1925 – Jim Barnes wins the British Open at Prestwick Golf Club in South Ayrshire, Scotland, beating Ted Ray and Archie Compston by one stroke.
1959 – Ingmar Johansson knocks out Floyd Patterson in the third round at Yankee Stadium to win the world heavyweight title.
1976 – Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki faces American boxer Muhammad Ali at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo.
1990 – 14-year-old Jennifer Capriati defeats Helen Keressi 6-3, 6-1 in the first round to become the youngest ever Wimbledon winner.
1991 — NBA Draft: UNLV power forward Larry Johnson is selected first overall by the Charlotte Hornets.
1992 — UEFA European Championship Final, Gothenburg, Sweden, Ullevi: Denmark beats Germany 2-0 in a major upset.
1993 — NHL Draft: Victoriaville Tigres (QMJHL) centre Alexandre Daigle is selected first overall by the Ottawa Senators.
1995 – The U.S. Supreme Court upholds Vernonia, Oregon’s random drug testing program. The 6-3 decision allows public high school officials to require student-athletes to submit to random urine testing as a condition of participation in interscholastic sports.
1996 — NBA Draft: Georgetown University guard Allen Iverson is selected first overall by the Philadelphia 76ers.
1999 — NHL Draft: Long Beach Ice Dogs (IHL) center Patrick Stephan is selected first overall by the Atlanta Thrashers.
1998 – Jamaica becomes the first Caribbean country to win a World Cup soccer match since Cuba defeated Romania in 1938. Theodore Whitmore scores in the 40th and 54th minutes as Jamaica defeats Japan, 2–1.
2002 — On one of the most unusual days at the All England Club, Wimbledon is in a tailspin as seven-time champion Pete Sampras, 1992 champion Andre Agassi and No. 2 seed Marat Safin all lose. For the first time in the Open Era, five of the top eight men’s singles seeds are eliminated before the third round.
2002 — NBA Draft: Shanghai Sharks (China) center Yao Ming is selected first overall by the Houston Rockets.
2003 — NBA Draft: St. Vincent & St. Mary High School (Akron, Ohio) small forward LeBron James is selected first overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers.
2005 – Justin Gatlin wins the 200 meters, cementing his status as the fastest man in America and becoming the first man in 20 years to win a sprint at the USA Track and Field Championships. The day after winning the 100 meters, Gatlin won the 200 meters in 20.04 seconds. The last man to win both races at a US Championship was Kirk Baptiste in 1985.
2008 – There were second-round upsets at Wimbledon, with former champion Maria Sharapova and two-time runner-up Andy Roddick eliminated.
2008 — NBA Draft: Memphis point guard Derrick Rose is selected first overall by the Chicago Bulls.
2011 – World No. 1 Yani Tseng wins the LPGA Championship by 10 strokes, becoming, at age 22, the youngest player to win four LPGA Tour major titles.
2012 – Major college football finally gets a playoff: the College Presidents Committee approves the BCS Commissioner’s plan to begin a four-team playoff in the 2014 season.
2013 – Seven-time champion Roger Federer loses in the second round of Wimbledon to world No. 116 Sergei Stakhovsky, his first Grand Slam loss in 10 years.
2014 — The United States reaches consecutive World Cup knockout stages for the first time. Germany beats the US 1-0 to win Group G, but Portugal beats Ghana 2-1 in a simultaneous match to keep the US in second place.
2014 — NBA Draft: University of Kansas small forward Andrew Wiggins is selected first overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers.
2015 — NHL Draft: Erie Otters (OHL) centre Connor McDavid is selected first overall by the Edmonton Oilers.
2017 – Helmsman Peter Burling and Emirates Team New Zealand win the America’s Cup, beating software tycoon Larry Ellison’s two-time champion Oracle Team USA, winning race nine and taking the 35th America’s Cup match 7-1. At 26, Burling becomes the youngest helmsman to win sailing’s highest prize in the competition, which began in 1851.
2012 — Stanley Cup Final, Amalie Arena, Tampa, Florida: The Colorado Avalanche defeat the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-1, to win the series, 4-2. It’s the Avalanche’s third championship in franchise history.
