July 22
1921 — Jim Barnes wins the U.S. Men’s Open golf champion by edging Walter Hagen, Leo Diegel, Jock Hutchinson and Fred McLeod.
1962 — Gary Player of South Africa ends up being the very first non-resident of the United States to win the PGA champion.
1963 — Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson in 2 minutes, 10 seconds of the preliminary to maintain the world heavyweight title. Liston took the title from Patterson with a first-round knockout in Chicago on Sept. 25, 1962.
1973 — Sue Berning wins the U.S. Women’s Open golf champion for the 3rd time with a five-stroke success over Gloria Ahret.
1984 — Kathy Whitworth ends up being the all-time winner in expert golf competitions by winning the Rochester Open. Whitworth, with 85 profession wins, passes Sam Snead’s overall of 84 PGA competition success.
1984 — Seve Ballesteros wins the British Open with a four-round 276, breaking the course record set by Ken Nagle in 1960 by 2 strokes. Tom Watson and Bernhard Langer end up 2 strokes behind.
1990 — Nick Faldo wins his 2nd British Open crown in 4 years, beating Payne Stewart and Mark McNulty by 5 strokes.
1996 — Naim Suleymanoglu of Turkey ends up being very first weightlifter in Olympic history to win 3 gold medals. Suleymanoglu wins the 141-pound department by raising 413¼ pounds.
1994 — Former NFL running back, broadcaster and star O.J. Simpson pleads “Absolutely 100% Not Guilty” of murder.
1998 — Jackie Joyner-Kersee ends her dazzling heptathlon profession with a success at the Goodwill Games. It’s her 4th successive Goodwill title. Earlier, the 4×400-meter relay world record of 2:54.29, set by the 1993 U.S. World Championship group, comes crashing down. Michael Johnson, the anchor on that 1993 group, anchors this United States 4×400 group, which ends up in a 2 minutes, 54.20 seconds.
2001 — David Duval shoots a 4-under 67 at Royal Lytham & St. Annes to win the British Open title, his very first significant champion. He surfaces at 10-under 274 for a three-stroke success over Sweden’s Niclas Fasth.
2005 — Yelena Isinbayeva clears the 5-meter mark at the Crystal Palace Grand Prix in London for her latest world record. The Olympic champ quickly clears 16 feet, 4¾ inches on her very first effort, hardly pushing the bar.
2007 — Padraig Harrington makes it through a disastrous surface in guideline and a tense putt for bogey on the last hole of a playoff to win the British Open over Sergio Garcia.
2008 — Candace Parker ratings 21 points and DeLisha Milton-Jones includes 19 prior to both are ejected after a scuffle in the last minute as the Los Angeles Sparks beat the Detroit Shock 84-81 at Auburn Hills, Mich. The WNBA video game turns awful in the last seconds as an accident in between Parker and Detroit’s Plenette Pierson develops into a pushing match that has gamers and coaches from both groups leaving the bench.
2012 — Bradley Wiggins ends up being the very first British bicyclist to win the Tour de France by safeguarding the yellow jersey throughout the last processional trip into Paris. Fellow Briton and Sky colleague Christopher Froome ends up 2nd, 3 minutes, 21 seconds behind.
2012 — Ernie Els wins his 4th significant champion in an impressive surface, rallying to beat Adam Scott in the British Open when the Aussie bogeys the last 4 holes. Els, who begins the last round 6 shots behind, rounds off a perfect back 9 with a 15-foot birdie putt for a 2-under 68. Scott was 4 shots ahead with 4 holes to play.
2018 — Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird plays in a record 500th WNBA video game.
