July 1, 1910 – The White Sox lose 2-0 to the St. Louis Browns in the first game ever at White Sox Park – later renamed Comiskey Park. The game was attended by 23,521 Chicagoans who couldn’t get Cubs tickets.

July 2, 1994 – Colombian soccer player Andres Escobar is shot to death in Medillin just 10 days after he had accidentally scored a goal against his own team in World Cup competition. It was later discovered that Escobar was trying to shoot at a would-be attacker, but accidentally shot himself in the face.

July 3, 1954 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, making a miraculous recovery from cancer, wins the women’s U.S. Open by a record 12 shots. Zaharias had been suffering from prostate cancer.

July 4, 1900 – A crowd of 10,000 at West Side Grounds watching a Chicago-Philadelphia game celebrates Independence Day by firing pistols into the air. 9,978 continued celebrating after the bullets fell back to the ground.

July 5, 1994 – Boxer James “Buster” Douglas comes out of a diabetic coma. Douglas is thought to have gotten diabetes from eating Sugar Ray Leonard.

July 6, 1887 – Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard, 6-2, 6-0, to win the fourth Wimbledon women’s singles title. One-hundred and seven years later, rapper and women’s tennis history buff Snoop Dogg penned an ode to Dod’s victory, titled “Lodi Dodi,” on his debut album, “Doggystyle.”

July 7, 1924 – Harold Abrahams of Great Britain wins the Olympic 100-meters in Paris, a feat that will be recounted in the 1981 Oscar-winning film “Chariots of Fire.” Abrahams attributed his victory to his regimen of slow-motion training.