On this day in:

• 19084th modern Olympic games opens in London

• 1920Sweden takes the figure skating double at the Antwerp Olympics when Gillis Grafström wins his first of 3 consecutive men's gold medals; Magda Julin earlier wins the women's singles event

• 1924Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-1

• 1947 Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through out US

• 1956 Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing

• 1983 Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson