July 301870 — Monmouth Park opens with a five-day meet.1930 — Host Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer’s first World Cup in Montevideo.1932 — The 10th modern Olympic Games open in Los Angeles.1961 — Jerry Barber edges Don January by one stroke in a playoff to win the PGA title at Olympia Fields in Illinois.1966 — England beats West Germany 4-2 at London’s Wembley Stadium to capture soccer’s World Cup.1968 — Washington’s Ron Hansen pulls off an unassisted triple play in a 10-1 loss to the Cleveland Indians.1971 — In the NFL Chicago All-Star Game, the Baltimore Colts beat the All-Stars 24-17.1976 — Bruce Jenner sets the world record in the Olympic decathlon with 8,618 points, breaking Nikolai Avilov’s mark by 164 points.1980 — Houston pitcher J.R. Richard suffers a stroke during a workout at the Astrodome.1984 — Michael Gross of West Germany sets a world record in the 200-meter freestyle with a time of 1:47.44 at a meet in Munich.
1996 — The American softball team wins the gold medal, beating China 3-1 behind a controversial two-run homer from Dot Richardson in the first Olympic competition in that sport.2009 — Seven more world records on the fifth night of the world swimming championships in Rome are set, pushing the total to 29 and moving past last summer’s Beijing Olympics. Ryan Lochte gets things rolling by breaking Phelps’ mark in the 200-meter individual medley. The Chinese women finish it off, eclipsing the 800 freestyle relay mark by more than two seconds, with the Americans also breaking the previous record but only getting silver.
