On this day in:

• 1891 Legendary pitcher Cy Young wins first game played at Cleveland's League Park; Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3

• 1930 Don Bradman scores 236 for Australia v Worcestershire, his first 1st class innings in England

• 1940Summer Olympics (scheduled for Helsinki) are cancelled by the Finnish OC because of WWII

• 1959 Floyd Patterson KOs Englishman Brian London in 11, in his 4th World Heavyweight Boxing title defence

• 1963First one-day cricket competition is played (Gillette Cup), Lancashire beats Leicestershire by 101 at Old Trafford

• 1981 Tennis player Billie Jean King acknowledges a lesbian relationship with Marilyn Barnett - becoming first prominent sportswoman to come out

• 1991West Indian batsman Gordon Greenidge plays his last Test innings, scoring 43 vs Australia in Antigua

• 2000 Barry Bonds is first MLB player to hit a homer into San Francisco Bay (McCovey Cove). He would hit 35 there during his Giants career

• 2017World Snooker Championship: Briton Mark Selby defends title beating John Higgins 18-15, at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield

• 2018Liverpool's Egyptian soccer forward Mohamed Salah becomes the first African to be named England Football Writers' Footballer of the Year.