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ON THIS DATE
June 20
1966 – John Bushofsky resigns as head football coach at Chartiers-Houston High School and is replaced by Don Clendaniel.
1980 – Roberto Duran wins a 15-round decision over Sugar Ray Leonard in Montreal to win the world welterweight crown. Despite entering with a 71-1 record, Duran is given only one-fifth of the purse to fight Leonard.
1983 – Larry Nelson shoots 4-under-par 67 – which includes a spectacular 62-foot putt to take the lead – for the rain-delayed final 18 holes and wins the U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club. Nelson finishes one stroke ahead of Tom Watson.
1991 – Bill Loar, assistant girls basketball coach at Trinity High School, is named the Hillers’ head coach. Loar takes over after Dave Johns resigned after 16 seasons.
1994 – Ernie Els of South Africa becomes the first foreign winner of the U.S. Open since 1981, beating Loren Roberts on the 20th hole of a playoff at Oakmont Country Club.
2012 – The Pittsburgh Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin becomes only the ninth NHL player to win the Arty Ross Trophy (leading scorer), Hart Memorial Trophy (league MVP) and Ted Lindsay Award (NHLPA’s most outstanding player) in the same season. Malkin scored 50 goals and had 59 assists.
2013 – Ryan Krull is hired as the head football coach at Carmichaels High School.
2015 – Max Scherzer pitches a no-hitter, losing his perfect game with two outs in the ninth inning when he hit a batter in the Washington Nationals’ 6-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.