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Held in Prague, Czechoslovakia from 10 to 18 September 1949 the FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship was the first edition of the tournament.

Ernie Banks hit his 400th home run off Curt Simmons in the third inning as the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-3 at Wrigley Field.

Masanori Murakami was the first Japanese player to play for a Major League Baseball team, the San Francisco Giants, he was sent over to the USA by the Nankai Hawks.

On August 31, 1969, the eve of his 46th birthday, Rocky Marciano was a passenger in a small private plane that crashed and killed him.

Willie Mays set a MLB record for most home runs in a month when he hit his 17th home run in August 1965.

With over 98,000 in attendance at Soldier Field the Chicago Bears beat the College All-Stars 37-13

The first Little League World Series (National Little League Tournament) is won by the Maynard Midgets over Lock Haven All Stars in the final game.

Babe Ruth hit his 600th home run in third inning over the bleacher roof and onto a car parked on Grand Boulevard.

The Giants's board of directors voted 8-1 to approve the move to San Francisco along with the Brooklyn Dodgers heading to Los Angeles, it was the end of a New York dominated era of baseball.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Aug. 18, 1964, that it revoked the South African Olympic and National Games Association’s invitation to the Summer Olympics in Tokyo due the organization’s lack of opposition to its country’s aparthei