On this day in:

• 1893Cowboy Bill Pickett invents bulldogging, the skill of grabbing cattle by the horns and wrestling them to the ground

• 19248th Olympic games open at Paris, France

• 1949Air crash at Turin, 31 killed including Torino soccer team

• 1965 Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record

• 1994Arsenal of England win 34th European Cup Winner's Cup against Parma of Italy 1-0 in Copenhagen

• 2002 Barry Bonds hits his 400th home run as an SF Giant, in a 3-0 win over Cincinnati. Bonds is first player with 400 homers for one team and 100 with another (Pirates)

• 2002English FA Cup Final, Millennium Stadium, Cardiff (73,963): Arsenal beats Chelsea, 2-0 for 8th title

• 2013 Floyd Mayweather defeats Robert Guerrero to retain his WBC Welterweight title

• 2015 Golden State Warrior Stephen Curry is named MVP for the 2014-15 NBA season

• 2015Stuart Bingham wins the 2015 World Snooker Championship