This Day in Sports History — September 20

Here are just some of the notable sports moments that happened on September 20:

1913 — American Francis Ouimet beat Harry Vardon and Ted Ray of Britain in a playoff to win the US Open golf championship at Brookline, Massachusetts. (More info.)

1924 — Grover Cleveland Alexander of the Chicago Cubs beat the New York Giants, 7-3 in 12 innings, to notch his 300th career win. (More info.)

1933 — Playing as the Pirates, the franchise later known as the Pittsburgh Steelers played its first NFL game, losing 23-2 to the New York Giants. (More info.)

1958 — Knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm of the Baltimore Orioles no-hit the New York Yankees, 1-0, at Memorial Stadium. (More info.)

1973 — Billy Jean King, 29, beat 55-year-old Bobby Riggs, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, in a ‘Battle of the Sexes’ match at the Astrodome in Houston. (More info.)

1982 — The NFL players’ union announced the first in-season strike in the history of the league. (More info.)

1987 — Chicago’s Walter Payton broke Jim Brown’s NFL record by scoring his 107th rushing touchdown, as the Bears beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 20-3. (More info.)

1998 — Cal Ripken Jr. asked out of the Baltimore Orioles’ lineup in the final game of the season at Camden Yards, thereby ending his record streak of consecutive games played at 2,632. (More info.)

2009 — An NFL record-setting crowd of 105,121 watched the New York Giants beat the Dallas Cowboys, 33-31, in the first game at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Tex . (More info.)

2009 — Brett Favre of the Minnesota Vikings set an NFL record with his 271st straight start. (More info.)