Aug. 5

1921 — Radio station KDKA and announcer Harold Arlin provide the first broadcast of a major league game as the Pirates beat the Phillies 8-5 at Pittsburgh.

1936 — At the Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his third of four gold medals, winning the 200-meter race in an Olympic-record 20.7 seconds.

1954 — The first election for the Boxing Hall of Fame is held. Twenty-four fighters are elected, with the most noteworthy from the modern era Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis and Henry Armstrong. Fifteen are selected from the pioneer era including John L. Sullivan, Gentleman Jim Corbett and Jack Johnson.

1967 — The Denver Broncos beat the Detroit Lions, 13-7, in a preseason game, for the first AFL victory over an NFL team.

1984 — American Joan Benoit wins the first Olympic marathon for women in 2:24:52, finishing 400 meters ahead of Norway's Grete Waitz.

1991 — Sergei Bubka becomes the first pole vaulter to clear 20 feet outdoors, breaking his own world record by a half-inch at the Galan track meet in Malmo, Sweden.

1992 — The U.S. women's basketball team is upset by the Unified Team 79-73 in the semifinals at the Summer Olympics.

1997 — Michael Johnson wins his third straight 400-meter title at the world championships in Athens, Greece, capturing the gold medal in 44.12 seconds. Sally Barsosio becomes the first Kenyan woman to win a gold medal at either the World Championships or the Olympics, taking the 10,000 meters in a world junior record time of 31:32.92.

1999 — Mark McGwire becomes the 16th member of the 500-home run club, hitting homers 500 and 501 in the St. Louis Cardinals' loss to San Diego.

2001 — Se Ri Pak wins the Women's British Open by two strokes and moves within one victory of the career Grand Slam. Pak finishes with an 11-under of 277 to add to her 1998 U.S. Open and LPGA Championship titles.

2005 — Jason Gore shoots a 12-under 59 in the second round of the Nationwide Tour's Cox Classic in Omaha, Neb. Gore is the third Nationwide player to shoot a 59.

2007 — Tom Glavine earns his 300th victory in an 8-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs.

2007 — Lorena Ochoa wins the Women's British Open — the first women's professional tournament played at venerable St. Andrews — for her first major title.