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1897 鈥� British Open Men鈥檚 Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: English amateur Harold Hilton wins 2nd Open title by 1 stroke from Scot James Braid.
1900 鈥� The second modern Olympic games open in Paris.
1919 鈥� Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox wins a game on the mound and at the plate as he hits his first career grand slam to beat the St. Louis Browns 6-4.
1941 鈥� Ten days after his Preakness victory, Whirlaway races against older horses for the first time and defeats four rivals in the Henry of Navarre Purse at Belmont Park in New York.
1950 鈥� Heavily favored Hill Prince, ridden by Bill Boland, wins the Preakness Stakes by five lengths over Middleground.
1964 鈥� Buster Mathis beats future world heavyweight champion Joe Frazer on points at trials in Flushing, NY to qualify for US Olympic boxing team; Mathis injures thumb, replaced by Frazier who wins gold medal.
1967 鈥� Damascus, ridden by Willie Shoemaker, wins the Preakness Stakes by 2录 lengths over In Reality.
1972 鈥� Bee Bee Bee, a 19-1 long shot ridden by Eldon Nelson, wins the Preakness Stakes by 1陆 lengths over No Le Hace.
1972 鈥� Indiana鈥檚 Roger Brown scores 32 points to lead the Pacers to 108-105 to win over the New York Nets and the ABA championship.
1978 鈥� Affirmed, ridden by Steve Cauthen, continues the battle with Alydar and wins the Preakness Stakes by a neck.
1983 鈥� American heavyweight boxer Larry Holmes beats countryman Tim Witherspoon by split decision to retain his WBC title at the Dunes Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas.
1985 鈥� Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 for heavyweight boxing title.
1990 鈥� Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf鈥檚 66-match winning streak and takes the German Open with a 6-4, 6-3 victory. Graf鈥檚 streak is the second longest in the modern era of tennis. Martina Navratilova won 74 straight matches in 1984.
1990 鈥� The 18th triple dead heat in modern thoroughbred history takes place in the ninth race at Arlington International Racecourse. All Worked Up, Marshua鈥檚 Affair and Survival are timed in 1:24 4-5 over seven furlongs.
1991 鈥� Chicago Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA鈥檚 MVP.
1992 鈥� 36th European Cup: Barcelona beats Sampdoria 1-0 at London.
1998 鈥� 6th UEFA Champions League Final: Real Madrid beats Juventus 1-0 at Amsterdam.
2000 鈥� English FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London (78,217): Chelsea beats Aston Villa, 1-0; Roberto Di Matteo scores 73鈥� winner.
2005 鈥� Nextel Cup rookie Kyle Busch becomes the youngest winner in Craftsman Truck Series history, holding off Terry Cook and Ted Musgrave in a three-lap closing sprint at the Quaker Steak & Lube 200.
2006 鈥� Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro breaks down at the start of the Preakness, galloping a few hundred yards while his eight rivals pass him. Bernardini wins the $1 million race, beating Sweetnorthernsaint by 5 1-4 lengths.
2007 鈥� Roger Federer ends Rafael Nadal鈥檚 81-match winning streak on clay with a 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 win in the final of the Hamburg Masters. It鈥檚 Federer鈥檚 first clay-court title in two years.
2015 鈥� NASCAR 2016 Hall of Fame inductees: Bobby Isaac, Terry Labonte and Jerry Cook.
2017 鈥� Cloud Computing, ridden by Javier Castellano, runs down Classic Empire in the final strides to win the Preakness by a head. The 13-1 long shot runs 1 3/16 miles in 1:55.98 and pays $28.80 to win. Derby winner Always Dreaming and Classic Empire duel throughout most of the race before Classic Empire jumps in front midway on the far turn.
2018 鈥� Sweden beats Switzerland 3-2 in a shootout for the gold medal at the world ice hockey championship in Copenhagen, Denmark.
2018 鈥� The Tradition Senior Men鈥檚 Golf, Greystone G &CC: Spaniard Miguel 脕ngel Jim茅nez wins by 3 from American trio Joe Durant, Steve Stricker & Gene Sauers.
2018 鈥� The Vegas Golden Knights punch their ticket to the Stanley Cup Final beating the Winnipeg Jets 2-1 on the road to win the Western Conference finals 4-1. The Golden Knights become the second expansion team in the NHL, NBA, NFL or MLB since 1960 to reach a championship series in their first season. The other team was the 1967-68 St. Louis Blues.
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