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- JANUARY
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- January 3
- Born David Vine, sports commentator (1936).
- Born Fran Cotton, British rugby international player (1948).
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- January 4
- Born Floyd Patterson, US boxing champion (1935).
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- January 6
- Born Barry John, former Welsh rugby international (1945).
- Born Terry Venables, football manager (1944).
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- January 9
- Born Graham Fletcher, show jumper (1951).
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- January 11
- Born Bryan Robson, former England football captain (1947).
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- January 12
- Born Joe Frazier, heavyweight boxer (1944).
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- January 13
- Born Stephen Hendry, snooker player (1969).
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- January 14
- Baseball hero Joe DiMaggio married Marilyn Monroe (1954).
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- January 15
- First live rugby commentary, on BBC radio by Captain Teddy Wakeham (1927).
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- January 16
- Born Cliff Thorburn, snooker player (1948).
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- January 17
- Born Muhammad Ali, US former boxing champion (1942).
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- January 19
- Born Stefan Edberg, tennis player (1966).
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- January 20
- Basketball first played, at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA (1892).
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- January 21
- First Monte Carlo car rally, won seven days later by French racer Henri Rougier (1911).
- Born Jack Nicklaus, golfer (1940).
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- January 22
- First broadcast of a football match took place, Highbury, London (1927).
- US boxer George Foreman became world heavyweight boxing champion (1973).
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- January 25
- First Winter Olympic Games, Chamonix, France (1924).
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- January 26
- Rugby Union founded in London by 20 clubs (1871).
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- January 27
- World boxing champion Mike Tyson went on trial for alleged rape (1992).
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- FEBRUARY
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- February 4
- US sailing boat, Stars and Stripes, won the America's Cup back from Australia (1987).
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- February 6
- Aeroplane carrying Manchester United soccer team crashed on take-off, killing 7 players (1958).
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- February 9
- Born Sandy Lyle, golfer (1958).
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- February 10
- Born Greg Norman, golfer (1955).
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- February 11
- Born John Surtees, motor and motor-cycle racing champion (1934).
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- February 14
- Born Kevin Keegan, footballer (1951).
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- February 15
- Mohammad Ali lost his world heavyweight boxing title to Leon Sprinks in Las Vegas (1978).
- English Football League matches played on Sunday for the first time (1981).
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- February 16
- Born John McEnroe, US tennis player (1959).
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- February 17
- French skier Jean-Claude Killy won 3 gold medals at the Winter Olympics in Grenoble (1968).
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- February 18
- Born Bobby Robson, football manager (1933).
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- February 19
- Born Hana Mandlikova, Australian tennis champion (1962).
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- February 20
- Born Jimmy Greaves, TV commentator and ex-footballer (1940).
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- February 22
- Born Niki Lauda, motor-racing champion (1949).
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- February 23
- Lawn tennis, then called 'Sphairistike' was patented (1874).
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- February 24
- World land-speed record of 253.96 mph was set by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1932).
- Born Alain Prost, motor-racing champion (1955).
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- February 25
- The rules of cricket were formulated in the 'Star and Garter', Pall Mall (1774).
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- February 26
- First Grand National Steeplechase run at Aintree (1839).
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- February 28
- Born Barry McGuigan, boxer (1961).
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- MARCH
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- March 1
- US heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis retired after successfully defending his title 25 times
- (1949).
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- March 4
- Tennis authorities voted to admit professional players to Wimbledon for the first time (1968).
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- March 8
- US heavyweight boxer Mohammad Ali defeated by Joe Frazier (1971).
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- March 10
- First Cruft's Dog Show, London (1886).
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- March 11
- US tennis player Jennifer Capriati,13, became the youngest finalist in a professional contest (1990).
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- March 15
- First 11-a-side cricket test match played between Australia and England, at Sydney (1876).
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- March 16
- Wanderers beat Royal Engineers 1-0 in the first soccer FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval (1872).
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- March 22
- English Soccer League formed (1888).
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- March 23
- Goal nets, invented by J A Brodie, used for the first time in a FA Cup Final (1891).
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- March 25
- First soccer international between Wales and Scotland, Scotland won 4-0 (1876).
- First gold medal of the modern Olympic Games was presented (1896).
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- March 26
- Annual rowing regatta established at Henley-on-Thames (1839).
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- March 27
- England and Scotland played their first rugby international, Scotland won (1871).
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- March 28
- Both Oxford and Cambridge boats sank in the University Boat Race (1912).
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- March 31
- Racehorse Red Rum set a record for the Grand National Steeplechase (1973).
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- APRIL
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- April 6
- First modern Olympic Games began in Athens (1896).
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- April 13
- Luton Town player Joe Payne scored a record 10 goals in one match against Bristol Rovers (1936).
- Sveriano Ballesteros, Spanish golfer, became the youngest winner of the US Maters Tournament
- (1980).
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- April 14
- First Monaco Grand Prix held in Monte Carlo (1929).
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- April 19
- Bobby Charlton played his first international soccer match for England (1958).
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- April 20
- First Badminton Horse Trials, held at Badminton, England (1949).
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- April 22
- Robin Knox Johnston completed his solo voyage around the world, after 312 days at sea (1969).
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- April 24
- George Stevenson became the first boxer to die in a prize-ring contest, London (1741).
- Joshua Slocum set off to sail solo around the world; his voyage took 3 years to complete (1895).
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- April 28
- First Soccer FA Cup Final held at Wembley Stadium (1923).
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- MAY
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- May 1
- Died Ayrton Senna, Brazilian motor-racing driver, after crashing during the Italian Grand Prix.
- (1994).
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- May 2
- Steve Davis won the World Snooker Championship, beating Cliff Thorburn (1983).
- Steve Davis won the World Snooker Championship for the 5th time, beating Terry Griffiths (1988).
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- May 3
- Born Henry Cooper, English world champion heavyweight boxer (1934).
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- May 4
- First Derby run at Epsom, won by Diomed (1780).
- Born John Watson, British grand prix racing champion (1946).
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- May 6
- First under 4 minute mile (3:59.4 ) run by Roger Banister, Oxford (1954).
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- May 7
- First Isle of Man TT motorcycle race (1907).
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- May 8
- Born Jack Charlton, soccer player and manager (1935).
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- May 13
- Born Joe Louis, 'The Brown Bomber', American heavyweight boxing champion (1914).
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- May 14
- 1,000th and last appearance of soccer player Bobby Moore (1977).
- First soccer player to miss a penalty during an FA Cup Final, Liverpool's John Aldridge (1988).
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- May 17
- Born Sugar Ray Leonard, American world champion boxer, at 3 weights (1956).
- Nigel Mansell became the first motor racing driver to win the opening 5 races of the season (1992).
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- May 18
- Born Graham Dilley, English cricket player (1959).
- Motor racing driver Graham Hill won his record 5th Monaco Grand Prix (1969).
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- May 20
- Bobby Moore made his first appearance for England, against Peru in Lima (1962).
- Golfer Ian Woosnam fined £5,000 for attempting to evade Customs duty (1988).
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- May 21
- FIFA Soccer Federation founded in Paris (1904).
- Cassius Clay knocked out Henry Cooper, London (1966).
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- May 22
- Born George Best, Irish soccer player (1946).
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- May 23
- Born Anatoli Karpov, Russian world chess champion for 10 years (1951).
- England's Nigel Benn beat South Africa's Sugar Boy Malinga, Birmingham, England (1992).
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- May 24
- Born Adrian Moorhouse, British Olympic swimmer champion (1964).
- Born Eric Cantona, French soccer player (1966).
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- May 25
- American athlete Jesse Owens set 5 world records and equalled a sixth, in just 45 minutes, (1935).
- Muhammad Ali fought in front of just 2,434 spectators, the smallest attendance ever (1965).
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- May 26
- First 24 hour Le Mans race, won by French drivers Lagache and Leonard (1923).
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- May 27
- Born Duncan Goodhew, English Olympic swimmer (1957).
- Born Paul Gascoigne, soccer player (1967).
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- May 29
- Ian Botham banned from cricket for 2 months for smoking cannabis (1986).
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- JUNE
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- June 6
- Born Bjorn Borg, Swedish tennis player (1956).
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- June 10
- Oxford won the first ever Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race (1829).
- Died Jack Johnson, American world heavyweight boxing champion (1946).
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- June 11
- Died Billy 'Bombardier' Wells, British heavyweight boxing champion (1967).
- Born Jackie Stewart, Scottish world champion Formula One racing driver (1939).
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- June 12
- Born Pat Jennings, Irish soccer player (1945).
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- June 13
- First women's golf championship, won by Lady Margaret Scot, Royal Lytham, England (1893).
- Born Peter Scudamore, English champion jockey (1958).
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- June 14
- Born Steffi Graf, German tennis champion (1969).
- First Henley Regatta on the Thames, England (1839).
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- June 15
- Born Johnny Herbert, English Grand Prix racing driver (1964).
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- June 16
- Bryan Robson scored after 27 seconds to record the fastest goal in a World Cup competition (1982).
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- June 19
- First official baseball game, at Elysian Fields, New Jersey (1846).
- Born Jeremy Bates, English tennis player (1962).
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- June 20
- Born Allan Lamb, English cricketer (1954).
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- June 21
- Brazil beat Italy 4:1 in the World Cup Soccer Final (1970).
- Tony Jacklin became the first Englishman for 50 years to win the US Open (1970).
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- June 22
- First cricket match at Lords, between Marylebone and Hertfordshire, London (1814).
- Wimbledon umpire Dorothy Cavis-Brown fell asleep during a tennis match on Court (1964).
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- June 23
- First cricket match between England and the West Indies, the Oval (1928).
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- June 24
- Born Jack Dempsey, American heavyweight boxing champion (1895).
- Born Juan Fangio, 5 times world motor racing champion (1911).
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- June 25
- First cricket match between England and India, Lords (1932).
- Argentina beat Holland 3:1 to win the World Soccer Cup Final in Argentina (1978).
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- June 26
- Ingemar Johansson became the first world champion heavyweight boxer from Sweden (1959).
- Nick Faldo won the French Open Golf title (1988).
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- June 28
- Mike Tyson knocked out Michael Spinks in 91 seconds to retain his world heavyweight title (1988).
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- June 29
- Brazil beat Sweden 5:2 to win the Soccer World Cup (1958).
- Argentina beat West Germany 3:1 to win the Soccer World Cup (1986).
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- June 30
- Born Mike Tyson, American world champion boxer (1966).
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- JULY
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- July 3
- William Tiden became the first American tennis player to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon
- (1920).
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- July 5
- Bjorn Borg won the Wimbledon Singles Championship for a record 5th consecutive time (1980).
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- July 7
- 17 years old Boris Becker became the youngest men's Wimbledon Singles Champion (1985).
- Martina Navratilova won a record 9th Wimbledon Singles Championship (1990).
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- July 8
- John Sullivan beat Jake Kilrain over 75 rounds in the last heavyweight world title contest fought
- bare-fist, Mississippi, USA (1889).
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- July 9
- First Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship, at its original Worple Road site (1877).
- International Olympic Committee lifted a 21 years boycott on South Africa (1991).
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- July 10
- Gordon Richards rode his last mount, the 21,834th in a career spanning 34 years, Sandown (1954).
- David Broome became the first Briton to win the World Show Jumping Championship (1970).
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- July 12
- Australian cricket batsman Don Bradman scored a record 334 runs against England at Leeds (1930).
- Nigel Mansell won the British Formula 1 Grand Prix at Silverstone, England (1992).
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- July 13
- First World Soccer Cup, held in Uruguay; the hosts beat the 13 other competing countries (1930).
- Nigel Mansell became the most successful English driver by winning his 17th Formula 1 Grand Prix
- (1991).
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- July 16
- Born Margaret Court, Australian tennis champion (1942).
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- July 17
- Sterling Moss won his first Formula 1 race, The British Grand Prix (1955).
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- July 18
- Born Nick Faldo, English golfer (1957).
- Graham Hill announced his retirement from motor racing (1975).
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- July 19
- First men's final at Wimbledon, won by Spencer Gore (1877).
- First Tour de France cycle race, won by Maurice Garin (1903).
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- July 20
- Professional soccer legalised in Britain (1885).
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- July 22
- Born Jimmy Hill, English soccer player and commentator (1928).
- Nigel Short became Britain's youngest Grand Chess Master after winning a tournament at Esbjerk
- (1984).
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- July 23
- Born Graham Gooch, English cricketer (1953).
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- July 26
- First women's cricket match, between Hambledon and Bramley, in Guildford, England (1745).
- Cyclist Steve Roche became the first Irishman to win the Tour de France (1987).
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- July 27
- English cricketer Jim Laker took nineteen wickets against Australia in the fourth Test at Manchester
- (1956).
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- July 29
- 14th Olympic Games opened in London, the first in 12 years due to World War II (1948).
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- July 30
- Uruguay beat Argentina by four goals to two in the final of the first World Cup (1930).
- England won the Soccer World Cup, beating West Germany 4-2, London (1966).
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- AUGUST
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- August 1
- First European Cup Winners' Cup football match was (1960).
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- August 3
- Born Osvaldo Ardiles, former Argentinian international footballer (1953).
- Died Peter Collins, British racing driver, killed in an accident at the German Grand Prix (1958).
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- August 4
- Steve Cram set a new world record for the 2,000 metres of 4 minutes, 51.39 seconds in Hungary
- (1985).
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- August 5
- First time penalty kicks used in a tie-breaker in a first-class English football match (1970).
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- August 7
- First horse racing meeting at Ascot, England, established by Queen Anne (1711).
- First motor racing Grand Prix, Brooklands, England (1926).
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- August 10
- Champion English jockey Sir Gordon Richards retired after 4,870 wins (1954).
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- August 11
- Geoff Boycott scored his 100th century during the Test against Australia, at Headingley, Leeds
- (1977).
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- August 12
- US schooner America won a race around the Isle of Wight, England (1851).
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- August 13
- Born Ben Hogan, legendary US golfer (1912).
- American golfer Jack Nicklaus won the US masters for a record sixth time (1986).
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- August 14
- Australian Jack Brabham won the Portugese Grand Prix to become the world motor racing champion
- (1960).
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- August 15
- In Zurich, English athlete Sebastian Coe set his third world record in just six weeks (1979).
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- August 16
- The 103-year-old Football League collapsed when the 22 first division clubs handed in their notice of
- resignation (1991).
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- August 17
- Born Nelson Piquet, former Brazilian formula one driver (1952).
- Born Robin Cousins, English ice-skater and Olympic gold medal winner in 1980 (1957).
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- August 18
- Somerset County Cricket Club was formed (1875).
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- August 19
- Born Willy Shoemaker, champion US jockey (1931).
- Sebastian Coe ran the mile in a new world record of 3 minutes and 48.53 seconds in Switzerland
- (1981).
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- August 20
- British sprinter Eric Liddel refused to run in the 100m at the Olympics because it fell on a Sunday
- (1924).
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- August 23
- English cricketer Len Hutton scored a record 364 runs in 13 hours and 20 minutes (1938).
- Born Geoff Capes, English strongman (1949).
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- August 24
- Born Sam Torrance, Scottish golfer (1953).
- Seventeen-year-old Jimmy Greaves made his football debut for Chelsea (1957).
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- August 25
- XVIIth Olympic Games opened in Rome (1960).
- Carl Lewis set a new world record in the 100 metres to become the fastest human being in history
- (1991).
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- August 26
- Died Sir Francis Chichester, English solo round-the-world yachtsman (1972).
- South African athlete Zola Budd set a new world record of 14 minutes 48.07 seconds in the 5,000
- metres (1985).
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- August 27
- Born Derek Warwick, English Grand Prix driver (1954).
- Born Gerhard Berger, Austrian Grand Prix driver (1959).
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- August 28
- Born Emlyn Hughes, former Liverpool, Wolves and England football captain (1947).
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- August 29
- Born James Hunt, former English world champion racing driver (1947).
- Australia defeated England at cricket for the first time (1882).
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- August 30
- Born Victor Seixas, former American lawn tennis champion (1923).
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- August 31
- Born Clive Lloyd, cricketer and former captain of the West Indies (1944).
- Died Rocky Marciano, legendary US world champion boxer, killed in an air crash (1969).
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- SEPTEMBER
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- September 1
- Born Rocky Marciano, legendary US world champion boxer (1923).
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- September 2
- Born Jimmy Connors, US tennis player (1952).
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- September 3
- Born Geoff Arnold, Sussex cricketer (1944).
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- September 4
- Born Tom Watson, US golfer, five-times winner of the British Open (1949).
- Born Michael Stean, British chess grandmaster (1953).
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- September 6
- First cricket test match in England, played between England and Australia at the Oval, London
- (1880).
- Born J R C Young, former England rugby international (1937).
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- September 7
- Jackie Stuart became World Motor Racing Champion for the 3rd consecutive year (1973).
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- September 8
- Born Geoff Miller, Essex cricketer who also has over 30 test caps for England (1952).
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- September 9
- Born John Curry, British ice-skater (1949).
- Czech tennis player Martina Navratilova, aged 18, defected to the West (1975).
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- September 10
- Born Arnold Palmer, US golfer who was sport's first millionaire (1929).
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- September 11
- Born Franz Beckenbauer, former German international footballer (1945).
- Born Barry Sheene, former British motor cycling champion (1950).
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- September 13
- First baseball club founded, the Knickerbocker Club, New York (1845).
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- September 14
- First penalty kick taken in an English League soccer match (1891).
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- September 15
- Born Graham Taylor, former manager of England's soccer team (1944).
- Tony Jacklin's European golf team won the Ryder Cup from the USA (1985).
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- September 17
- Born Sir Francis Chichester, English solo round-the-world yachtsman (1901).
- Born Stirling Moss, English grand prix driver (1929).
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- September 21
- Republic of Ireland beat England 2-0 at Goodison Park, England's first defeat by a foreign soccer
- team (1949).
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- September 26
- Alan Bond's Australia II won the America Cup, the first non-USA winner for 132 years (1983).
- Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson stripped of his 100m Olympic gold medal after failing a drugs test
- (1988).
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- OCTOBER
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- October 2
- First rugby match played at Twickenham, between Harlequins and Richmond (1909).
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- October 3
- First women's cricket match, between Hampshire and Surrey, England (1811).
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- October 8
- Born Ray Reardon, snooker champion (1932).
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- October 9
- Born Steve Ovett, athlete (1955).
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- October 11
- Born Bobby Charlton, footballer (1937).
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- October 18
- Born Martina Navratilova, tennis champion (1956).
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- October 21
- Niki Lauda became Motor Racing World Champion for the 3rd time (1984).
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- October 23
- Former British champion jockey Lester Piggot sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for tax evasion
- (1987).
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- October 24
- First soccer club formed, by a group of Cambridge University Old Boys, England (1857).
- Heavyweight boxer Frank Bruno knocked out Joe Bugner, London (1987).
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- October 26
- English Football Association was formed (1863).
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- NOVEMBER
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- November 5
- Born Lester Piggott, jockey (1935).
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- November 7
- Sugar Ray Lewis knocked out Donnty Londe, completing his collection of world titles at 5 weights
- (1988).
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- November 14
- Soccer player Bobby Moore made his 108th and final international appearance for England (1973).
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- November 16
- Born Frank Bruno, English heavyweight boxer (1961).
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- November 22
- Mike Tyson, became the youngest ever heavyweight boxing champion (1986).
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- November 30
- First international soccer match, Scotland against England, was a draw 0-0 (1872).
- Born Gary Lineker, English soccer player (1960).
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- DECEMBER
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- December 3
- Boxer James Kelly fought Johnathan Smith in a contest lasting 6.25 hours, Australia (1885).
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- December 6
- Born Keke Rosberg, Finnish motor-racing champion (1948).
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- December 8
- Englishman Tom King beat John Heenan to become the first world heavyweight champion (1863).
- Heavyweight boxer Georges Carpenter knocked out his opponent in the first round (1913).
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- December 14
- First open table tennis tournament, London (1901).
- Born Stan Smith, US tennis champion (1946).
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- December 18
- Born Mohammed Ali, US boxer (1942).
- Stanley Barrett became the first man to break the sound barrier on land, achieving 739.6 mph (1979).
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- December 21
- Born Chris Evert, US tennis champion (1954).
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- December 26
- American Galveston Jack became the first black boxer to win the world heavyweight title (1908).
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- December 28
- Highest cricket innings score of 1,107 runs hit by Victoria against New South Wales (1926).
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- December 29
- Born Harvey Smith, show-jumper (1938).
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- December 30
- Born Gordon Banks, footballer (1937).
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