August 12 – New Zealand's
John Walker set a new world record in
Gothenburg, Sweden, becoming the first man to break 3:50 for the mile when he clocked 3:49.4.
August 23:
Glenelg kick the all-time record score for a major Australian Rules competition, kicking 49.23 (317) to
Central District's 11.13 (79). It beat the previous record by an amazing 91 points.
September 16 –
Piratessecond basemanRennie Stennett ties
Wilbert Robinson's ML record, set June 10,
1892, by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game. He scored five of his club's runs in a 22–0 massacre of the
Cubs, a major-league record for the biggest score in a
shutout game in the 20th century.
footy July 6 – In what was billed as the "Battle of the Sexes",
Kentucky Derby winner,
Foolish Pleasure went head to head in a match race against the undefeated filly,
Ruffian. In the lead, Ruffian broke a leg and, after an unsuccessful operation to save her, the horse widely believed to have been the greatest thoroughbred filly ever was
humanely put down.