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THIS DATE IN SPORTS • JUNE 4

1966 Ameroid, ridden by Bill Boland, wins the Belmont Stakes by 2½ lengths over Buffle. Kauai King, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, finishes fourth.

1974 NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks.

1984 1960 champion Arnold Palmer fails to qualify for the US Open Golf Championship for the first time in 32 years.

1987 Danny Harris defeats Edwin Moses in the 400 hurdles at a meet in Madrid, ending the longest winning streak in track and field. Moses, had won 122 consecutive races dating to Aug. 26, 1977.

1988 West Germany’s Steffi Graf beats 17yearold Natalia Zvereva of the Soviet Union in 32 minutes with a 60, 60 victory to win the French Open for the second straight year.

1990 Penn State is voted into the Big Ten. The school becomes the 11th member of the league and first addition to the Midwestbased conference since Michigan State in 1949.

1994 Haile Gebrselassie becomes the first Ethiopian to set a world track record with a time of 12:56.96 in the men’s 5,000 meters at Hengelo, Netherlands.

1998 Harut Karapetyan of the LA Galaxy scores three goals in five minutes for the fastest hat trick in MLS history in an 81 rout of the Dallas Burn. The sevengoal margin sets an MLS record.

2005 Justine HeninHardenne beats a rattled and fumbling Mary Pierce 61, 61 to win the French Open, capping a comeback from a blood virus with her fourth Grand Slam title and her second at Roland Garros.

2005 Eddie Castro sets a North American record for most wins by a jockey in one day at one track, winning nine races on the 13race card at Miami’s Calder Race Course.

2008 The Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup for the fourth time in 11 seasons with a 32 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 6 .

2009 Randy Johnson earns his 300th win, becoming the 24th major league pitcher to reach the milestone by leading San Francisco to a 51 victory over the Washington Nationals in the first game of a doubleheader.

2011 Li Na becomes the first Chinese — man or woman — to win a Grand Slam singles title. She beats Francesca Schiavone 64, 76 (0) in the French Open final.

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