On This Day

At the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California in extra time Brazil won the FIFA World Cup 3–2 on penalties.

Former NFL football and MLB baseball player Deion Sanders Sr. ("Primetime") hit an inside the park home run as a member of the New York Yankees team.

21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal, African teams boycott as a protest to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South Africa.

At Wimbledon Roger Federer beat Marin Cilic in three straight sets for a record 8th Wimbledon men's title.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215 pts to set her third world heptathlon record in three years.

NHL superstar Wayne Gretzky married American actress Janet Jones at St. Joseph's Basilica in Edmonton.

President Ronald Reagan sits in as sportscaster for the first inning at the 1989 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

Driver Danica Patrick became the first female winner in IndyCar history, winning the Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Motegi.

How Vonetta Flowers did make history at the 2002 Winter Olympics?

True or false: Each colour of the Olympic rings represents a particular continent