1991 Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)
1990 Greg Lemond wins his 3rd Tour de France (90:43:20 avg 23.3 mph)
1990 Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,878.56
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,870.49
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,852.23
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,821.53
1989 Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1
1988 Lowest batting avg for NL champion (Tony Gwynn .313)
1987 Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42
1987 Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)
1987 Dow Jones Avg soared 664.7; 2nd biggest one-day gain in history
1987 Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time
1986 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
1986 Bobby Rahal is 1st to avg over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500
1985 Dow Jones industrial avg closes above 1300 for 1st time
1984 New York Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg
1983 Dutch July avg temp is 20.1 degrees C; warmest July since 1852
1983 Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1,200 for 1st time
1980 George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good
1980 Kansas City Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400
1972 Indians set a team record for lowest team batting avg .234
1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
1968 Carl Yastrzemski .3005 avg wins his 2nd straight batting crown
1968 Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return avg (3 punts)
1967 Stanley Coen, cricket (2 Tests for S Af, hs 41 not out, avg 50), dies
1960 Roger Wijesuriya, cricketer, bowling avg 294 in 4 Tests for Sri Lanka
1958 Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (avg went from .230 to .322)
1956 Al Simmons, outfielder (A's)/lifetime batting avg of .334, dies at 54
1950 Cleveland Browns' Marion Motley sets record for highest avg gain in a game with 17.1 (10 attempts), Cleveland 45, Pittsburgh 7
1950 Robbie McIntosh, drummer, Avg White Band-Show your Hand
1946 Desmond Lewis, WI cricket batsman/keeper, avg 86.33 in 3 Tests
1941 Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting avg
1941 Ted Williams raises his batting avg over .400 for 1st time in 1941
1927 Eddie Leadbeater, cricketer, England leg-spinner with an avg of 109
1927 John Warr, England, cricket bowler, avg 281, /president, MCC
1925 Ian Smith, cricket leg-spinner, South Africa 1947-58 avg 64.08
1925 Eric Dempster, cricketer, NZ slow bowl of mid-50's, bowling avg 109.5
1922 Rogers Hornsby's 3-for-5 ups avg to .401
1919 Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)
1918 Ranga Sohoni, Indian cricketer, pace bowler of late 40's avg 101
1910 Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won
1903 Mickey Cochrane, baseball hall of fame catcher, .320 avg
1902 Al Simmons, Milwaukee, outfielder, A's, /lifetime batting avg of .334
1895 America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH
1884 Dow Jones published it's 1st stock avg
1855 Hottest July in Stockholm since at least 1756 (21.4 degrees C avg)
1852 Hottest July in Netherlands since at least 1783 (68.4 degrees F (20.2 degrees C) avg)
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