June 14<\/p>\n
1922 \u2014 Gene Sarazen edges Bobby Jones and John Black to win the U.S. Open tournament.<\/p>\n
1934 \u2014 Max Baer stops Primo Carnera in 11th round in New York to win the world heavyweight title.<\/p>\n
1952 \u2014 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2).<\/p>\n
1952 \u2014 Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club in Dallas to win the U.S. Open over Ed Oliver by four strokes.<\/p>\n
1958 \u2014 Tommy Bolt beats Gary Player by four strokes to win the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n
1958 \u2014 Britain beats the United States 4-3 at Wimbledon to win the Wrightman Cup, the first win for Britain since 1930.<\/p>\n
1981 \u2014 Donna Caponi Young wins the LPGA championship by one stroke over Jerilyn Britz and Pat Meyers.<\/p>\n
1987 \u2014 The Los Angeles Lakers win their 10th NBA championship with a 106-93 victory over the Boston Celtics in Game 6 at the Forum.<\/p>\n
1990 \u2014 Vinnie Johnson scores 15 points in the fourth quarter, including a 15-footer with seven-tenths of a second left, to give the Detroit Pistons a 92-90 win and the NBA title over Portland in five games.<\/p>\n
1991 \u2014 Leroy Burrell sets a world record in the U.S. Championships in New York with a 9.90-second clocking in the men\u2019s 100-meter dash. Carl Lewis, who held the record at 9.92 since the 1988 Olympics, finishes second.<\/p>\n
1992 \u2014 NBA Finals: Chicago Bulls beat Port Trail Blazers, 97-93 in Game 6 for back-to-back titles; MVP: Michael Jordan for second straight year.<\/p>\n
1994 \u2014 The New York Rangers hold off the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 in Game 7 for their first Stanley Cup in 54 years. MVP Brian Leetch, Adam Graves and Mark Messier score goals and Mike Richter makes 28 saves for New York.<\/p>\n
1995 \u2014 The Houston Rockets complete the unlikeliest of NBA championship repeats, sweeping the Orlando Magic with a 113-101 victory. MVP Hakeem Olajuwon finishes with 35 points and 15 rebounds.<\/p>\n
1998 \u2014 Michael Jordan scores 45 points, stealing the ball from Karl Malone and hitting a jumper with 5.2 seconds left to give Chicago an 87-86 win and a 4-2 series victory over Utah for a sixth NBA title.<\/p>\n
2005 \u2014 Asafa Powell breaks the world record in the 100 meters with a 9.77 clocking at Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece. Powell shaves one hundredth of a second off Tim Montgomery\u2019s record of 9.78 set in Paris in 2002 \u2014 a mark that would later be wiped out because of doping charges.<\/p>\n
2005 \u2014 Michelle Wie becomes the first female player to qualify for an adult male U.S. Golf Association championship, tying for first place in a 36-hole U.S. Amateur Public Links sectional qualifying tournament at Belle Vernon, Pa.<\/p>\n
2007 \u2014 The San Antonio Spurs, who bounced over from the ABA in 1976, move in among the NBA\u2019s greatest franchises with an 83-82 victory for a sweep of Cleveland. With their fourth championship since 1999, the Spurs join the Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls as the only teams in NBA history to win four titles.<\/p>\n
2009 \u2014 The Los Angeles Lakers win their 15th championship, beating the Orlando Magic 99-86 in Game 5 of the NBA finals. Kobe Bryant, the MVP, scores 30 points in winning his fourth title, the first without Shaquille O\u2019Neal. It\u2019s the 10th championship for coach Phil Jackson, moving him past Boston\u2019s Red Auerbach for the most all-time.<\/p>\n
2015 \u2014 Inbee Park shoots a final round 68 to finish at 19-under par to win the KPMG Women\u2019s PGA Championship for the third consecutive year and retake the No. 1 ranking in women\u2019s golf. Park of South Korea finishes the season\u2019s second major five strokes ahead of 22-year-old compatriot Sei Young Kim.<\/p>\n
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