1931 -- Paavo Nurmi sets the world record at 2 miles in a meet at Helsinki, Finland, with a time of 8:59.6.

1960 -- Jay Hebert beats Jim Ferrier by one stroke to win the PGA golf tournament.

1967 -- Don January wins a playoff by two strokes over Don Massengale to win the PGA championship.

1970 -- The International Lawn Tennis Association institutes the nine-point tiebreaker rule.

1976 -- John Naber of the United States becomes the first swimmer to break the 2-minute barrier in the 200-meter backstroke at the Olympics in Montreal.

1976 -- Mac Wilkins of the United States sets an Olympic record in the discus with a toss of 224 feet in Montreal.

1977 -- Hollis Stacy wins the U.S. Women's Open golf championship by two strokes over Nancy Lopez.

1998 -- Tour de France riders, angered by the drug scandal that has dominated the event, protest by delaying the start of racing for two hours. Armin Meier, a member of the Festina team who was kicked off the tour the previous week, admits to a French radio station that he used a banned drug.

2005 -- Lance Armstrong closes out his amazing career with a seventh consecutive Tour de France victory.