| 9/2/1998 | German Georg Hackl wins his third olympic gold at the Nagano Winter Olympics |
| 9/2/1997 | Scotty Bowman becomes the first NHL coach to complete 1.000 wins |
| 9/2/1996 | Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey smashes the 50m indoors record with 5.56 |
| 9/2/1995 | Russian sprinter Irina Privalova sets new world records in 50 and 60m indoors races with 5.92 and 6.92 respectively in Madrid |
| 9/2/1992 | Magic Johnson's come back to NBA action. The West beats the East and Johnson is voted MVP |
| 9/2/1964 | 21-year-old Arthur Ashe, one of the best tennis players of all time, becomes the first black on US Davis Cup tennis team |
| 9/2/1923 | Aeroflot is founded, two years after the 1921 revolution in Russia, and five months later, on July 15, 1923, it will commence operations. The company will use a “Winged Hammer and Sickle” as a logo, which will remain after the dissolution of the USSR and the company will be considered the de facto national airline of Russia. |
| 9/2/1900 | Dwight Davis comes up with a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup |
| 9/2/1895 | First intercollegiate basketball game. Minnesota State School of Agriculture beat Hamilton College 9-3 |
| 9/2/1895 | William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education instructor in Massachusetts and friend of James Naismith, invents volleyball, originally known as mintonette |
| 9/2/1857 | Dionisios Solomos, the Greek poet who, in 1823, completed the national anthem, dies |
| 9/2/1540 | First recorded horse race in England (Chester's Roodee) |
