July is packed with big sports moments that feel like the headline acts at a summer festival. From baseball’s All-Star Game to Wimbledon and the Tour de France, fans get non-stop action.
Here are standout moments that happened on July 16 through the years:
1883 — William Renshaw wins his third straight Wimbledon title.
1888 — Ernest Renshaw claims his lone Wimbledon crown.
1902 — John McGraw becomes manager of the New York Giants.
1909 — Tigers and Senators play 18 scoreless innings, the longest scoreless game in AL history.
1924 — George Kelly homers in six straight games.
1938 — Paul Runyan wins the PGA Championship by a huge margin.
1941 — Joe DiMaggio’s hitting streak reaches 56 games.
1944 — Dodgers snap a 16-game losing streak.
1947 — Bobo Newsom earns his 200th MLB win.
1947 — Rocky Graziano stops Tony Zale to win the world middleweight title.
1950 — Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 to win the World Cup.
1955 — Juan Manuel Fangio wins his third F1 title.
1961 — Ralph Boston sets a long jump mark of 27 ft 2 in.
1961 — Jacques Anquetil wins his second Tour de France overall title.
1967 — Kathy Whitworth wins the LPGA Championship.
1969 — Rod Carew steals home for the seventh time that season.
1987 — Don Mattingly hits his fourth grand slam of the year.
1988 — Carl Lewis runs 100 m in 9.78.
1988 — Florence “Flo-Jo” Griffith-Joyner clocks a 10.49 100 m world record.
1989 — Betsy King wins the first of back-to-back U.S. Women’s Opens.
1993 — Darren Lewis sets an outfield record with 267 errorless games.
1995 — J.C. Snead wins the Senior Players Championship—his only major.
1995 — Annika Sörenstam wins her first of 10 LPGA majors.
2000 — Raymond Floyd wins his fourth and final Champions Tour major.
2003 — Lance Armstrong and Serena Williams take ESPY athlete honors.
2006 — Bobby Wadkins wins his only Senior Players major.
2017 — Scott McCarron wins the Senior Players Championship.
2017 — Roger Federer claims an eighth Wimbledon crown.
2023 — Carlos Alcaraz ends Novak Djokovic’s 34-match Wimbledon streak.
2024 — American League beats National League 5-3; Jarren Duran is All-Star MVP.
Sports in July bring the thrills. It’s like a summer tour you don’t want to miss.
