July 21
1876 - Princeton takes the team championship in the first IC4A (Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes Association) track and field meet.
1957 - Lionel Herbert wins the PGA championship with a 2-1 final round victory over Dow Finsterwald.
1963 - Jack Nicklaus wins the PGA championship by two strokes over Dave Ragan to become the fourth golfer to win the three major United States titles.
1968 - Arnold Palmer becomes the first PGA golfer to earn $1 million over his career despite losing by one stroke to Julius Boros in the PGA championship.
1974 - Sandra Haynie edges Carol Mann and Beth Stone by one stroke to win the U.S. Women’s Open.
1979 - Spain’s Seve Ballesteros wins the British Open by three strokes over Ben Crenshaw and Jack Nicklaus.
1985 - The greatest money winner in horse racing history, John Henry, is retired. The 10-year-old, who won 39 races in 83 starts, earned $6,597,947 in purses.
1985 - Sandy Lyle wins the British Open by one stroke over Payne Stewart in Sandwich, England.
1989 - Mike Tyson knocks down Carl “The Truth” Williams with a left hook and stops him 93 seconds into the first round of his heavyweight title defense.
1996 - Tom Lehman wins the British Open, two strokes better than Ernie Els and Mark McCumber.
2002 - Ernie Els squanders a three-stroke lead but outlasts Thomas Levet to win a four-man playoff that produces the first sudden-death finish in the 142-year history of the British Open.
2007 - Bernard Hopkins earns another stunning victory in the twilight of his fighting days, ending Winky Wright’s 7 1/2-year unbeaten streak with a unanimous decision in their 170-pound matchup in Las Vegas.
2013 - Phil Mickelson wins the British Open with a spectacular finish to take his first claret jug. Mickelson birdies four of the last six holes for a 5-under 66 to match the best round of the tournament.
2018 - Brittany Lincicome misses the cut at the Barbasol Championship after shooting a 1-under 71, failing in her bid to become the first female golfer since 1945 to make the cut in a PGA Tour event. The eight-time LPGA Tour winner with two major titles was the first woman since Michelle Wie in 2008 to play in a PGA Tour event.
2018 - Jerry Bozzo, 97, extends his record for being the oldest trainer to win a thoroughbred race. Bozzo betters his own mark when Gusty Wind prevails in the fifth race at Gulfstream Park.
2018 - Josef Martinez sets an MLS record with his sixth career hat trick, and Atlanta United rallies to beat D.C. United 3-1.
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