Cultural events; sports and games
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People
Sports events
1. Angling –
see appendix below
2. Archery–
see appendix below
3.
Athletics, Sprinting, Running – see appendix below
4.
Badminton – see appendix below
5.
Baseball – see appendix below
6.
Basketball – see appendix below
7.
Billiards – see appendix below
8.
Bobsleighing – see appendix below
9.
Bowls– see appendix below
10. Boxing –
see appendix below
11. Bridge –
see appendix below
12. Canoeing –
see appendix below
13. Chess –
see appendix below
14. Cricket – see appendix below
15. Croquet – see appendix below
16. Curling – see appendix below
17. Cycling –
see appendix below
18. Darts –
see appendix below
19. Fencing –
see appendix below
20. Golf – see appendix below
21. Greyhound racing – see appendix below
22. Hockey and Ice Hockey - see
appendix below
23. Horseracing and Equestrianism – see
appendix below
24. Hurling – see appendix below
25. Judo – see appendix below
26. Lacrosse – see appendix below
27. Motor and Motorcycle racing – see
appendix below
41. Tennis – see appendix below
42. Volleyball – see appendix below
43. Water Polo – see appendix below
44. Weightlifting – see appendix below
45. Wrestling – see appendix below
46. Yachting – see appendix below
19/5/2007, In London, the new Wembley Stadium was officially
opened.
30/9/1991, At the
first World Scrabble Championship, held in London, Peter Morris, representing the
US, won the first prize of US$10,000. He scored 86 for ‘inhaler’.
16/1/1978, Philip Wills,
gliding champion, died.
4/10/1974, The American, David Kunst, completed the first
round the world trip on foot, 14,450 miles, having started in 1970.
6/9/1974. Stuntman Evel Knievel, a 34 year old former salesman,
failed in his attempt to fly a rocket across the Snake River Canyon in Idaho.
He plunged 1,500 feet into the river 30 seconds after take off.
1973, Skateboarding became popular in the USA, after the invention of the
polyurethane wheel.
1972, In Britain, the Sports Council was set up.
11/11/1962, Kendra Slawinski, netball champion, was born.
27/9/1949, Geofftrey Peck, orienteering, was born.
14/6/1934, Arnaud Marquesuzaa, French sports champion,
was born.
2/11/1924. The first crossword appeared in a British newspaper, the Sunday Express. It was bought from an American paper, operated by C W Shepherd,
where crosswords had appeared 11 years earlier.
4/9/1923. Birth of Birmingham politician Lord Howell,
Britain’s first Minister for Sport.
26/3/1921, Gaby Braun, French sports champion, was born.
21/12/1913. The world’s first crossword was published,
in the New York World, compiled by
Liverpool-born Arthur
Wynne. The first British crossword appeared on 2/11/1924.
4/3/1883, John Chalmers, sports administrator, died.
264 BCE, The first accounts of Roman gladiatorial games. They were
banned in 325 AD by Emperor Constantine.
Angling
24/8/1933, Ray W. Scott, Jr., American angler who created
the Bassmaster Classic and other professional fishing tournaments was born, in
Montgomery, Alabama.
1903, In Britain, the National
Federation of Anglers was formed.
Archery
27/3/1974, Simon Terry, archery champion, was born.
22/2/1965, Steve Hallard, archery champion, was born in
Rugby.
22/10/1954, Louise Nettleton, archery champion, was born.
8/10/1954, William Dodd, archery champion, died (born
18/7/1867).
3/1/1948, Alice Lee, archery champion, was born.
1931, FITA (Federacion
Internationale de Tir a l’Arc) was established, the world governing body of
archery.
24/6/1929, Sybil Queenie Newall, archery champion, died.
24/6/1880, Horace Ford, archery champion, died.
1879, The National Archery
Association, USA, was established.
18/7/1867, William Dodd, archery champion, was born (died
8/10/1954).
1861, The British Grand National
Archery Society was established.
1244, The first Dunmow Flitch
archery competition in England was held.
Athletics,
Sprinting, Running
4/2/1995, Godfrey Brown,
runner, died (born 21/2/1915).
11/5/1990, Harry Whittle,
athlete (hurdles), died (born 2/5/1922)
31/12/1989, Ryan Sheckler,
athlete, was born.
5/12/1988, Elizabeth
Gleadle, Canadian athlete, was born.
10/9/1987, Ben Baker,
British athletics (high jump) champion, died (born 15/2/1892)
26/9/1988. The Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson
flew home from the Seoul Olympics in disgrace after being stripped of his 100m
medal after failing a drugs test. He had run the 100m 2 days earlier in a
record time of 9.79 seconds but was found to have taken steroids. Afterwards Ben Johnson
divided his time between his family in Toronto and acting as personal bodyguard
for Libya’s Colonel
Gaddafi.
26/11/1986, Malcolm Nokes, athlete (hammer
throwing) died.
19/1/1985, Thomas Richards, athlete
(marathon), died.
26/12/1984, Terence Johnson, long distance
walker, died.
30/3/1983, Donald Cerrone, athlete, was born.
22/10/1981, David Burghley, athletics, died.
5/2/1981, Geoffrey Dyson, athlete, died (born 22/6/1914).
29/3/1981. The first London
Marathon was run, with 6,700 competitors; the Norwegian, Inge Simonsen,
won.
22/2/1981, Guy Butler, athlete, died (born 25/8/1899).
31/3/1980, The Black American athlete
Jesse Owens
died, aged 67. He won 4 medals at the
1936 ‘Aryan’ Olympics in Germany, enraging Hitler,
who refused to shake Owens’ hand.
29/3/1975, Tommy Green, champion walker,
died (born 30/3/1894).
2/9/1974, Maureen Gardner, athlete
(hurdles), died
12/1/1974, Christopher Mackintosh, athlete
(also rugby, skiing), died.
13/11/1972, Arnold Jackson, athlete, died
(born 5/4/1891).
26/12/1970, Lilian Board, athletics
champion, died (born 13/12/1948).
18/4/1970, Donald Finlay, athlete
(hurdles), died.
2/1/1970, Andrea Holmes, trampoline
champion, was born.
30/11/1969, Catherine McKiernan, athlete,
was born.
28/11/1969, Sonia O’Sullivan, athlete
(running), was born.
8/1/1969, Albert Hill, athlete, died.
13/8/1968, Tony Jarrett, English sprinter, was born.
13/10/1966, John Regis, athlete (sprinting), was born.
10/5/1966, Jonathan Edwards, triple jump athlete, was
born.
28/1/1966, Joseph Binks, athletics champion who set a
record 4 mins 15.8 seconds time for
running a mile in 1902, a time not
beaten until 1921, died.
22/10/1964, Michael Hill, athletics (javelin), was born.
14/8/1964, Geoffrey Parsons, athlete (high jump), was
born.
24/5/1964, Elizabeth McColgan, athlete, was born.
24/11/1962, Andrea Lynch, athlete, was born.
19/2/1962, Stewart Matthews, trampoline champion, was
born.
22/9/1961, Jack Buckner, athlete, was born.
19/4/1961, Jim Fox, athlete (modern pentathlon), was
born.
3/3/1961, Fatima Whitbread, athlete (javelin), was born.
14/11/1960, Judy Simpson, athlete, was born.
14/10/1960, Stephen Cram, athlete, was born.
17/7/1960, Frank O’Mara, athlete (runner) was born.
2/4/1960, Linford Christie, athlete, was born in
Jamaica.
9/9/1959, Susan Cheeseborough, gymnast, was born.
4/12/1958, Tim Hutchings, athletics champion, was born.
28/11/1958, Kriss Akabusi, athletics (hurdles) champion,
was born.
18/11/1958, Shirley Strong, athlete (hurdles), was born.
17/4/1958, Laslo Babits: Canadian javelin thrower was
born (died 2013).
9/11/1957, Peter O’Connor, athlete (long jump), died
(born 18/10/1874).
28/10/1957, Glen Hoddle, athlete, was born.
4/6/1957, John Treacy, marathon runner,
was born.
26/12/1956, Sarah Springman, athlete
(triathlon), was born.
29/9/1956, Sebastian Coe, British international athlete, was born in Chiswick, London.
26/4/1956, Avril Lennox, gymnast, was born.
14/3/1956, Theresa Sanderson, athlete (javelin), was
born.
25/2/1956, Mary Stewart, athlete, was born.
9/10/1955, Steve Ovett, athlete (javelin), was born.
1/5/1955, Donna Hartley, athletics champion, was born.
6/5/1954, Roger Bannister, 25 years old, ran the first mile in under four minutes in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds, on the
Iffley Road track in Oxford. The previous record, 4 minutes 1.3 seconds, had
stood since 1945. In
September 1993 Algerian athlete Noureddine Morceli ran a mile in 3 minutes 44.39 seconds, currently the
world record.
10/5/1953, David Moorcroft, athlete, was
born.
10/4/1953, David Moorcroft, British
athlete, was born in Coventry, England.
5/4/1953, Easter Sunday. Verona Elder, sprinter, was
born.
28/3/1953, James Francis Thorpe, athlete, died.
21/11/1952, Eamonn Coghlan, athlete, was born in Dublin.
25/5/1952, David Jenkins, athlete, was born.
3/5/1952, Allan Wells, athlete, was born.
6/11/1951, Thomas Kiely, athlete, died (born 25/8/1869).
17/9/1951, Susan Reeve, athletics (long jump) was born).
28/10/1949, Barbara Lawton, athletics (high jump)
champion, was born.
19/10/1949, Ian Thompson, marathon runner, was born.
21/8/1949, Geoffrey Capes, athlete (shot put), was born.
4/3/1949, George Larner, Olympic walker, died.
13/12/1948, Lilian Board, athletics champion, was born (died
26/12/1970)
11/10/1947, Alan Pascoe, athletics (hurdles), was born.
11/9/1946, Mike Bull, athletics (pole vault), was born in
Belfast.
22/10/1945, Sheila Sherwood, athlete (long jump), was
born.
27/6/1945, William Sturgess, champion walker, died (born 2/4/1871).
5/1/1944, Marshall Brooks, athletics (high jump) died
(born 30/5/1855).
4/6/1943, Walter George, athlete, died (born 9/9/1858).
21/12/1942. Bob Hayes, athlete, was born.
29/6/1942, Maurice Davin, athlete, was
born.
20/5/1942, Lynn Davies, long jump athlete,
was born.
15/4/1942, Valeriy Brumel, Olympic high
jumper, was born in Razvedki, USSR (died 2003).
4/10/1940, Susan Platt, athlete (javelin),
was born.
10/2/1940, Mary Rand, athlete, was born.
6/7/1939, Mary Peters, athletics
(pentathlon) was born.
19/3/1939, Ron Atkinson, athlete, was born.
26/2/1938, Brian Kilby, marathon runner,
was born m Coventry, UK.
25/2/1938, Herb Elliott, runner, was born
in Subiaco, Western Australia.
26/10/1937, Joyce Smith, marathon runner,
was born.
17/8/1937, Arthur Rowe, athlete (shot put),
was born
16/3/1936, Thelma Hopkins, athlete (high
jump), was born.
29/9/1935, Bruce Tulloh, athlete (runner),
was born.
25/5/1935. US athlete
Jesse Owens
broke 5 world records in one day.
26/11/1934, Suzanne Allday, athletics (shot) champion) was
born.
25/12/1933, Basil Heatley, marathon runner, was born.
7/1/1933, Diane Leather, athlete, was born.
18/6/1932, Stanley Vickers, athlete (walking), was born.
17/6/1932, Derek Ibbotson, athlete, was born.
17/4/1931, Howard Payne, athletics (hammer throwing) was
born (died 1/3/1992).
7/4/1931, Geoffrey Elliott, pole vaulter, was born in
Ilford, London.
31/1/1931, Chris Chataway, athlete, was born.
4/7/1929, Jean Pickering, athlete (long jump), was born.
23/3/1929, Roger Bannister, the first man
to run a mile in under 4 minutes (3 minutes, 59.4 seconds), was born in Harrow,
London.
20/11/1928, John Disley, athlete, was born.
21/8/1928, Christopher Brasher, athletics
champion, was born in Guyana.
16/8/1928, Sheila Lerwill, athlete (high
jump) was born.
11/6/1928, Alan Paterson, athletics (high
jump), was born.
2/6/1922, Denis Horgan, athletics (shot
put), died (born 18/5/1871).
2/5/1922, Harry Whittle, athlete (hurdles),
was born (died 11/5/1990)
24/10/1918, James Peters, marathon runner,
was born.
18/7/1917, Lou Boudreau, athlete, was born.
31/3/1915, Wyndham Halswelle, athlete, died
(born 30/5/1882).
11/1/1915, Cyril Holmes, athlete, was born.
22/6/1914, Geoffrey Dyson, athlete, was
born (died 5/2/1981).
19/9/1910, Nellie Halstead, athlete, was
born.
28/10/1907, Thomas Hampson, athlete, was
born (died 4/9/1965).
13/3/1907, John Holden, marathon runner,
was born.
15/9/1905, Patrick O’Callaghan, athlete
(hammer throwing) was born (died 1/12/1991).
25/3/1905, Robert Howland, athletics (shot
put), was born (died 7/3/1986).
16/12/1903, Harold Whitlock, champion
walker, was born (died 27/12/1985).
2/8/1902, Ernie Harper, marathon runner,
was born.
16/1/1902, Eric Liddell, Scottish athlete,
was born (died 1945)
29/8/1900, Samuel Ferris, marathon runner,
was born (died 21/3/1980).
23/11/1894, Ture Persson, Swedish sprinter,
was born.
30/3/1894, Tommy Green, champion walker,
was born (died 29/3/1975).
15/2/1892, Ben Baker, British athletics
(high jump) champion, was born (died 10/9/1987)
5/4/1891, Arnold Jackson, athlete, was
born (died 13/11/1972).
11/5/1890, William Applegarth, athletics
champion, was born (died 5/12/1958).
25/8/1899, Guy Butler, athlete, was born
(died 22/2/1981).
2/4/1888, Daniel F Ahearne, athletics
triple jump champion, was born.
1887,
The first English Cross Country Running Championships were held.
1886,
The first Amateur Athletics Championships, UK, were held.
18/8/1885, Timothy Ahearne, athletics
triple jump champion, was born in Limerick, Ireland.
1884,
The Gaelic Athletic Association was formed.
1883,
The Scotland Amateur Athletics Association was established.
1/11/1883, Philip Baker, athletics
champion, was born (died 9/10/1982).
30/5/1882, Wyndham Halswelle, athlete, was
born (died 31/5/1915).
1880,
The Midlands Counties Athletics Association, England, was established.
1880,
In Britain, the Amateur Athletics Association (AAA) was established to organise
amateur athletics for men in England and Wales. In 1922 the Women’s Amateur
Athletics Association was established, after the AAA refused to allow women’s
clubs to affiliate. The two bodies merged in 1991.
1879,
The Northern Counties Athletics Association, England, was established.
12/12/1879, Alfred Shrub, athlete (runner),
was born (died 23/4/1964).
3/10/1879, Thomas Nicolson, athlete (hammer
throwing), was born (died 18/4/1951).
20/7/1877, Patrick Leahy, athlete, was
born.
27/4/1876, Cornelius Leahy, athlete, was
born.
18/10/1874, Peter O’Connor, athlete (long
jump), was born (died 9/11/1957).
18/5/1871, Denis Horgan, athletics (shot
put), was born (died 2/6/1922).
2/4/1871, William Sturgess, champion
walker, was born (died 27/6/1945).
25/8/1869, Thomas Kiely, athlete, was born
(died 6/11/1951).
4/2/1863, Lenox Tindall, athlete, was born
(died 10/6/1940).
30/6/1859. The great tightrope walker,
Charles
Blondin, crossed Niagara
Falls in eight minutes. He traversed
a rope 1100 feet long, 160 feet above the water. This was the first crossing of Niagara on a
tightrope.
9/9/1958, Walter George, athlete, was born
(died 4/6/1943).
30/5/1855, Marshall Brooks, athletics (high
jump) was born (died 5/1/1944).
Badminton
27/10/1988, Frank Devlin, badminton champion, died (born
16/1/1900).
1977, The World Championship
Badminton Contest was inaugurated.
7/11/1964, Helen Troke, badminton champion, was born.
2/9/1961, Gillian Clark, badminton player, was born.
28/3/1961, Stephen Baddeley, British badminton player,
was born.
1957, The Uber Cup, a badminton
contest for women, was first held.
9/1/1952, Margaret Beck, badminton player, was born.
20/6/1950, Gillian Gilks, badminton champion, was born.
23/6/1951, Raymond Stevens, badminton champion, was born.
1949, The Thomas Cup, badminton
contest, was frst held
5/4/1949, Mike Tredgett, badminton champion, was born.
10/3/1939, Robert McCoig, badminton champion, was born.
23/2/1930, Iris Rogers, badminton champion, was born.
5/10/1919, Frank Peard, badminton champion, was born.
12/1/1911, Thelma Kingsbury, badminton champion, was
born.
25/1/1909, Leone Kingsbury, badminton champion, was born.
6/9/1907, Donald Hume, badminton champion, was born
(died 3/5/1986)
2/6/1906, Betty Uber, badminton champion, was born (died
30/4/1983).
1900, The All England Badminton
Championship was first held.
16/1/1900, Frank Devlin, badminton champion, was born
(died 27/10/1988).
1893, The Badminton Association was formed in England.
14/6/1881, George Thomas, badminton champion, was born
(died 23/7/1972).
Baseball
1990, The average salary of a
basketball player in the Major League was US$ 890,944.
7/3/1983, Taylor Tankersley, US baseball player, was
born.
12/4/1972, Paul Lo Duca, US baseball player, was born.
10/4/1962, The Dodger Stadium, major league baseball’s modern
showpiece, opened in Los Angeles, USA.
2/8/1960, The Continental League,
proposed as a third major league for baseball,
came to an end after CL President Branch Rickey and co-founder William Shea
concluded a meeting in Chicago with representatives of the National League and
American League.
26/5/1959, Ed Walsh, US baseball player,
died.
16/8/1948, George Herman Ruth, US professional baseball
player, died aged 53.
16/3/1944, Rick Renick: US baseball player, was born.
25/2/1940, Ron Santo, baseball player,was born in Seattle, Washington (died 2010)
29/4/1936, The first professional baseball game in Japan.
Nagoya defeated Dai Tokyo 8-5.
10/7/1935, Paul Hines, US baseball player, died aged 80.
26/9/1933, Roy Wright, US baseball player, was born.
21/3/1925, Merle Keagle, US baseball player, was born.
25/11/1914, Joe Di Maggio, US baseball player who married
Marilyn Monroe, was born.
10/9/1905, Pete Browning, American baseball player, died
aged 44.
13/10/1903, The first US baseball World Series was won by Boston Red Sox.
1868, The first
all-professional baseball club, the Cincinnati
Red Stockings, was founded.
1845, The first baseball code of rules was drawn up in the USA, by the
Knickerbocker Club of New York.
1843, The Washington
Baseball Club was founded in New York State. The game was becoming popular
in the New York area.
1839, Abner Doubleday invented the
game of baseball, at Cooperstown, New York State, USA.
Basketball
30/9/1989, Jordan Taylor,
US basketball player, was born.
18/9/1989, Serge Ibaka,
basketball player, was born.
7/2/1978, Timothy Floyd Fuller, Missouri
University basketball coach, was born.
2/10/1971, Aaron Williams, US basketball player, was
born.
23/1/1966, Haywoode Workman, US basketball player, was
born.
9/2/1956, Philip Jackson Ford Jr, basketball player, was
born.
11/10/1955, Norm Nixon, US basketball player, was born.
1953, First women’s basketball
championships held.
6/12/1952, Chuck Baker, US basketball player, was born.
1950, First men’s basketball
championships held.
1936, Basketball became an official Oympic sport,
at the Games in Berlin.
7/1/1927. The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team was founded.
1897, The first world basketball
championships were held in the USA.
1894, The international rules of basketball were drawn
up.
20/1/1892, The
game of basketball, devised by
Canadian doctor James
Naismith in 1891, was first played at the YMCA in Springfield,
Massachusetts.
Billiards
11/6/1964, Henry Stevenson, billiards champion, died.
16/10/1953, Tom Reece, billiards champion, died (born
12/8/1873).
6/6/1952, William Peall, billiards champion, died (born
31/12/1854).
11/8/1951, Melbourne Inman, billiards champion, died.
5/10/1943, Thomas Newman, billiards champion, died.
24/4/1910, Sidney Lee, billiards champion, was born (died
10/11/1988).
25/1/1886, William Smith, billiards champion, was born
(died 2/6/1982).
12/8/1873, Tom Reece, billiards champion, was born (died
16/10/1953).
1870, The World Professional
Billiards Championship was first oeganised.
31/12/1854, William Peall, billiards champion, was born
(died 6/6/1952).
13/10/1854, William Mitchell, billiards champion, was
born.
1576, Mary Queen of Scots, imprisoned,
complained of being deprived of her billiards table.
Bobsleighing
7/11/1951, Francis McEvoy, bobsleigh champion, died.
1884, Bobsleigh; the Cresta Run
was built at St Moritz.
Bowls
1969, The first women’s bowling
World Championships were held.
1966, The first men’s bowling
World Championships were held.
27/11/1966, Richard Corsie, bowls champion, was born.
11/6/1955, Tony Allcock, bowls player, was born
19/12/1938, Janet Ackland, bowls player, was born.
26/4/1938, William Wood, bowls champion, was born.
8/6/1937, Norma Shaw, bowls champion, was born.
9/9/1928, Mavis Steele, bowls champion, was born.
1907, The Waterloo Handicap
bowling tournament was first held, at the Waterloo Hotel, Blackpool, England.
18/7/1895, Percy Baker, bowls champion, was born (died
3/1/1990)
5200 BCE, A form of bowling was
being played in ancient Egypt.
Boxing
23/7/1991, Peter Kane, boxer,
died.
2/6/1991, Ashley
Williams, Welsh amateur boxer, was born.
22/4/1991, Jackie Berg, boxer,
died (born 28/6/1909).
3/3/1984, John Monaghan, boxer,
died (born 21/8/1920).
18/7/1983, Donald Cockell, boxer,
died (born 22/9/1928).
27/3/1983, Robert Guerrero, US boxer, was born.
28/11/1976, Leonard Harvey, boxer, died (born 11/7/1907).
20/11/1971, Joe McAvoy, boxer, died (born 20/11/1908).
15/3/1971, John Brown, boxer, died (born 29/11/1909)
20/10/1970, Ted Lewis, boxer, died (born 24/10/1894).
8/11/1969, Henry Mallin, boxer, was born (died
8/11/1969).
24/8/1968, James Toney, US boxer, was born.
8/8/1966, Christopher Eubank, boxer, was born in
Dulwich, London.
17/5/1966, Tuesday (+7,679) Randolph Turpin, boxer, died.
25/7/1965, Frederick Mills, boxer, died (born 26/6/1919).
5/2/1965, Jeff Harding, Australian boxer, was born.
16/11/1961, Frank Bruno, boxer, was born in Hammersmith,
London.
28/2/1961, Barry McGuigan, world
featherweight boxing champion, was born.
22/4/1960, Lloyd
Honeyghan, boxer, was born in Jamaica.
20/7/1956, Charles Magri, boxer,
was born in Tunis, Tunisia.
12/1/1956, Nelson
Tarleton, boxer, died (born 14/1/1906)
10/5/1955, Tommy Burns, Canadian
boxer, died aged 73.
5/11/1953, Dennis Andries, boxer,
was born in Georgetown, Guyana.
17/8/1951, Alan Minter, boxer,
was born.
27/5/1951, John Conteh, boxer,
was born in Liverpool.
22/9/1950, John Stracey, boxer,
was born.
1/3/1949, Joe Louis retired as world heavyweight boxing
champion.
13/2/1949, Thomas Palmer, boxer, died (born 19/1/1876).
18/7/1948, James Watt, boxer, was born.
12/1/1947, Joe Frazier, heavyweight boxing champion in
the 1970s, was born.
10/6/1946, Jack Johnson, US boxer, died aged 68.
28/6/1945, Kenneth Buchanan, boxer, was born in
Edinburgh.
5/3/1943, Billy Backus, American boxer, was born.
18/12/1942, Cassius Clay, champion boxer,
was born in Kentucky.
13/10/1942, Walter McGowan, boxer, was born.
7/5/1938, John Caldwell, boxer, was born.
28/2/1938, Terence Spinks, boxer, was born.
15/10/1935, Richard McTaggart, boxer, was born.
10/10/1935, David Charnley, boxer, was born.
22/9/1928, Donald Cockell, boxer, was born in Battersea,
London (died 18/7/1983).
8/8/1928, Peter Keenan, boxer, was born in Glasgow.
18/8/1925, Terry Allen, British boxer, was born (died
8/4/1987).
30/1/1925, Jim Driscoll, boxer, died (born 15/12/1880).
1921, The World Boxing
Association was founded in the USA. Originally known as the National Boxing
Association, it changed its name in 1862 as the sport became more
international.
18/1/1921, Bruce Woodcock, boxer, was born.
17/1/1921, Austin Rice, US boxer, died aged 48.
3/5/1921, Sugar Ray Robinson, African-American boxer,
was born (died 1989)
26/11/1920, Richard Turpin, boxer, was born (died
7/7/1990).
21/8/1920, John Monaghan, boxer, was born (died
3/3/1984).
26/6/1919, Frederick Mills, boxer, was born (died
25/7/1965).
2/9/1911, John Peterson, boxer, was born (died
22/11/1990).
1909, The first Lonsdale Belt was presented by the 5th
Earl of Lonsdale.
29/11/1909, John Brown, boxer, was born (died 15/3/1971)
28/6/1909, Jackie Berg, boxer, was born (died 22/4/1991).
20/11/1908, Joe McAvoy, boxer, was born (died 20/11/1971).
11/7/1907, Leonard Harvey, boxer, was born (died
28/11/1976).
14/1/1906, Nelson Tarleton, boxer, was born (died
12/1/1956)
2/11/1900, "Terrible Terry" McGovern successfully
defended his title as featherweight boxing champion against challenger Joe
Bernstein in a bout at Louisville.
2/11/1895, Jack Dempsey, boxer, died (born 15/12/1862)
24/10/1894, Ted Lewis, boxer, was born (died 20/10/1970).
1/6/1892, Henry Mallin, boxer, was born (died
8/11/1969).
12/5/1892, William James Wilde, boxer, was born (died
10/1/1969).
31/8/1889, William Wells, boxer, was born (died
11/6/1967)
15/12/1880, Jim Driscoll, boxer, was born (died
30/1/1925).
19/1/1876, Thomas Palmer, boxer, was born (died
13/2/1949).
26/3/1866, Jack McAuliffe, boxer, was born (died
5/11/1937).
15/12/1862, Jack Dempsey, boxer, was born in Kildare,
Ireland (died 2/11/1895).
1866, The Queensberry Rules were introduced, making boxing safer and better
prganised.
26/5/1863, Robert Fitzsimmons, boxer, was born (died
22/10/1917).
9/3/1863, John Gully, English boxer, died (born
21/8/1783).
8/4/1831, James Mace, boxer, was born (died 30/11/1910).
21/8/1783, John Gully, English boxer, was born (died
9/3/1863).
16/8/1743, The earliest prize-ring
code of boxing drawn up in England by champion fighter Jack Boughton. From 1740, public
boxing matches became popular in Britain.
8/12/1734, James Figg, champion boxer, died in London.
1704, Jack Broughton was born. He drew
up the Queensberry Rules. He died in
1789.
1695, James Figg, early British boxing
champion, was born in Oxfordshire (died 8/12/1734).
Bridge
1925, Contract Bridge was
devised on a steamer en route from Los Angeles to Havana. From the 1930s it
replaced Auction Bridge as the most popular form of the game.
1894, Bridge (successor to Whist) was first played in
England at the Portland Club.
Canoeing
19/11/1966, Ivan Lawler, canoeing champion, was born.
12/1/1962, Ronald Rhodes, canoeing champion, died (born
31/10/1937)
5/6/1960, Richard Fox, canoeing champion, was born.
31/10/1937, Ronald Rhodes, canoeing champion, was born
(died 12/1/1962)
1865, John MacGregor built his own
canoe and sailed it for 1,000 miles across the rivers and lakes of North
America. The books and lectures he authored from this helped found canoeing as
a sport and in 1866 the Canoe Club was founded at the Star and Garter Hotel,
Richmond, London, UK.
Chess
17/1/2008, Bobby Fisher, American world chess
champion, died aged 64.
2/1/2005, Arnold S Denker, US chess player (born
20/2/1914) died.
7/1/1995, Harry Golombek, chess player, died (born
1/3/1911).
25/12/1993, Death of US (Russian-born,
8/2/1940) chess champion, Boris Kogan.
21/10/1993, Gary Kasparov defeated Nigel Short
in the chess championships.
19/12/1987, Gary Kasparov took the world chess title,
defeating fellow Russian Anatoly Karpov.
10/5/1974, Anatoly Karpov defeated Boris Spassky to become world chess champion.
17/6/1969, Boris Spassky became world chess champion when he beat Tigran Petrosian.
1/6/1965, Nigel Short, chess
champion, was born.
30/3/1958, Gilles Andruet, French
chess player, was born.
23/4/1955, Anthony Miles, British
chess player, was born.
23/5/1951, Anatoly Karpov, Russian world chess champion
in 1975, was born.
3/6/1944, Richard Verber, US chess master, was born.
7/10/1933, Jonathan Penrose, chess champion, was born.
28/3/1931, Anatoly Lein, Soviet-American chess player,
was born (died 2018)
1924, The World Chess League was founded at The Hague.
1/3/1911, Harry Golombek, chess player, was born (died
7/1/1995).
16/2/1906, Vera Menchick, chess champion, was born (died
26/6/1944).
1886, The first official world
chess championships.
1561, Ruy Lopez wrote the first manual
of chess instruction.
Cricket
20/4/1995, Robert Wyatt, cricketer, died (born 2/5/1901).
30/3/1995, Tony Lock,
cricketer, died.
27/12/1994, Peter May,
cricketer, died (born 31/12/1929).
16/6/1993, Lindsay Hassett,
Australian cricketer, died.
28/5/1993, Charles Barnett,
cricketer, died.
24/7/1991, Frederick Brown,
cricketer, died (born 16/12/1910).
7/3/1987, Indian
batsman Sunil Gavaskar became the first to scored 10,000 runs in Test Cricket.
23/7/1985, John Wardle, cricketer, died (born 8/1/1923).
15/6/1985, Percy Fender, cricketer, died (born 22/8/1892).
20/4/1982, Andrew Sandham, cricketer, died.
14/3/1981, Ken Barrington, cricketer, died (born 24/11/1930).
5/2/1979, Edward Paynter, cricketer, died (born 5/11/1901).
22/11/1978, Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer, died (born 24/11/1894).
18/10/1978, Frank Woolley, cricketer, died (born 28/5/1887)
5/9/1976, Arthur Gilligan, cricketer, died (born 23/12/1894).
5/9/1974, Rawl Lewis, West Indian cricketer, was born in Grenada
8/7/1973, Wilfred Rhodes, cricketer, died (born 29/10/1876).
5/1/1971, International One Day Cricket began when England played Australia
in Melbourne.
14/2/1970, Herbert Strudwick, cricketer,
died.
20/11/1969, Sir George Oswald, cricketer,
died (born 31/7/1902).
12/12/1968, Walter Robins, cricketer, died
(born 3/6/1906)
26/12/1967, Sidney Barnes, cricketer, died
(born 19/4/1873)
26/11/1967, Ridley Jacobs, West Indian
cricketer, was born.
1/1/1967, Maurice Leyland, cricketer, died
(born 20/7/1900).
22/5/1966, Thomas Goddard, cricketer, died.
5/1/1966, George Duckworth, cricketer, was
born.
31/8/1965, Willie Watson, New Zealand
cricketer, was born.
8/8/1965, Angus Fraser, cricketer, was
born.
28/1/1965, Alfred Freeman, cricketer,
died(born 17/5/1888).
21/12/1963, Leeds Rugby Club, the first with undersoil
heating, used it during a game with Dewsbury.
13/9/1963, Robin Smith,
cricketer, was born.
2/5/1963, Jack Crawford, cricketer, died (born 1/12/1886).
22/2/1963, Devon Malcolm,
cricketer, was born.
7/2/1963, Arthur Carr,
cricketer, died (born 21/5/1893).
30/1/1963, Pelham Warner,
cricketer, died (born 2/10/1873).
2/10/1961, Reginald
Spooner, cricketer, died (born 21/10/1880).
26/1/1961, Morris Nichols, cricketer, died (born 6/10/1900).
1/9/1959, Carole Hodges,
cricketer, was born.
11/7/1959, Charles Parker,
cricketer, died.
4/7/1959, Janette Brittin,
cricketer, was born.
9/9/1958, Charles
Macartney, Australian cricketer, died aged 72
26/6/1958, George Gunn,
cricketer, died (born 13/6/1879).
18/6/1958, Douglas Jardine,
cricketer, died (born 23/10/1900).
26/3/1958, Philip Mead,
cricketer, died (born 9/3/1887).
20/10/1957, Chris Cowdrey,
English cricketer, was born.
8/4/1957, Frank Chester,
cricketer, died.
1/5/1957, Rick Darling,
Australian cricketer, was born.
7/9/1956, Charles Fry,
cricketer, died (born 25/4/1872).
18/5/1956, Maurice Tate,
cricketer, died (born 30/5/1895).
23/12/1955, Leonard Braund,
cricketer, died (born 18/10/1875).
24/11/1955, Ian Botham,
cricketer, was born.
11/5/1955, Gilbert Jessop,
English cricketer, died aged 80.
20/6/1954, Allan Lamb,
cricketer, was born.
10/5/1954, George Hirst,
cricketer, died (born 7/9/1871).
23/7/1953, Graham Gooch,
cricketer, was born.
1/4/1953, Aftab Baloch,
Pakistan cricketer, was born in Karachi, Pakistan
12/12/1952, Charles
Kortright, cricketer, died.
23/1/1952, Omar Henry,
South African cricketer, was born in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
24/2/1951, Derek Randall,
cricketer, was born.
29/1/1951, Andy Roberts,
cricketer, was born.
30/5/1949, Robert Williams,
cricketer, was born.
24/2/1949, John Lever,
cricketer, was born.
22/12/1948, Chris Old,
cricketer, was born.
12/9/1948, Max Walker,
Australian cricket player, was born.
1947, Cricket matches in England attracted 2 million paying
spectators. This figure dropped to 500,000 by 1970.
9/3/1947, Stanley Jackson,
cricketer, died (born 21/11/1870).
6/10/1946, Anthony Grieg,
cricketer, was born.
8/6/1945, Derek Underwood,
cricketer, was born.
20/5/1944, Keith Fletcher,
cricketer, was born.
17/4/1944, John Hearne,
cricketer, died (born 3/5/1867).
31/7/1943, Hedley Verity,
cricketer, died (born 18/5/1905).
12/7/1943, Bruce Taylor,
New Zealand cricketer, was born.
15/6/1943, Cecil Parker,
cricketer, died (born 18/2/1886)
23/7/1942, Andrew Ducat,
cricketer, died (born 16/2/1886).
23/10/1941, Colin Milburn,
cricketer, was born (died 28/2/1990).
17/7/1941, Robert Taylor,
cricketer, was born.
1/12/1940, Michael Denness,
cricketer, was born.
30/3/1940, Norman Gifford,
cricketer, was born.
19/7/1939, Thomas Hayward,
cricketer, died.
11/6/1939, Rachel Heyhoe
Flint, cricketer, was born.
9/6/1937, Sven Conrad
Stayers, Guyanese cricketer, was born in Georgetown, Guyana (died
2005)
29/7/1934, Alfred Scott,
West Indian cricketer, was born.
30/6/1933, Michael Smith,
cricketer, was born.
2/4/1933, Ranjitsinhji
Vibhaji, Indian cricket batsman, died.
16/2/1933, England
won the Ashes against Australia using a controversial ‘bodyline’ bowling
technique, aiming the cricket ball at the batsman’s legs and body, making the game more dangerous.
24/12/1932, Colin Cowdrey,
cricketer, was born.
24/11/1932, Frederick
Titmus, cricketer, was born.
25/6/1932, The first England – India test cricket match
began at Lords, London. England won by 158 runs.
8/6/1932, Raymond
Illingworth, cricketer, was born.
24/3/1932, George Harris,
cricketer, died (born 3/2/1851).
21/10/1931, James Parks,
cricketer, was born.
4/7/1931, Peter
Richardson, cricketer, was born.
6/2/1931, Frederick
Trueman, cricketer, was born.
19/12/1930, John Douglas,
cricketer, died (born 3/9/1882).
27/11/1930, John Tyldesley,
cricketer, died (born 22/11/1873).
24/11/1930, Ken Barrington,
cricketer, was born (died 14/3/1981).
6/6/1930, Frank Tyson,
cricketer, was born.
31/12/1929, Peter May,
cricketer, was born (died 27/12/1994).
17/11/1929, Arthur Lilley,
cricketer, died (born 28/11/1866).
1/8/1929, Syd Gregory,
Australian cricketer, died.
5/7/1929, Tony Lock,
cricketer, was born (died 30/3/1995).
6/3/1929, David Sheppard,
cricketer, was born.
16/6/1927, Thomas Graveney,
cricketer, was born.
4/6.1926, Frederick
Spofforth, Australian cricketer, died.
7/11/1925, Mary Duggan, cricketer, was born (died 10/3/1973).
12/8/1924, Derek
Shackleton, cricketer, was born.
3/12/1923, Trevor Bailey,
English cricket champion, was born.
8/1/1923, John Wardle,
cricketer, was born (died 23/7/1985).
9/2/1922, James Laker,
cricketer, was born (died 23/4/1986).
5/4/1921, Leslie Jackson,
cricketer, was born.
18/8/1920, Thomas Evans,
cricketer, was born in Finchley, London.
7/3/1920, Willie Watson,
cricketer, was born.
20/8/1919, Gregor
MacGregor, cricketer, died (born
31/8/1869).
4/7/1918, Alec Bedser,
cricketer, was born.
26/3/1916, William Edrich,
cricketer, was born (died 24/4/1986).
23/10/1915, William Gilbert
Grace, cricketer, died this day.
4/4/1915, Easter
Sunday. Andrew
Stoddart, cricketer, died.
25/7/1914, 66 year
old WG Grace
batted for the last time in a competitive match, scoring 69 not out.
16/6/1914, Stewart
Griffith, cricketer, was born (died 7/4/1993).
13/5/1914, Reginald Foster,
cricketer, died (born 16/4/1878).
24/10/1913, Mary Hide,
cricketer, was born.
5/7/1913, Alfred
Lyttelton, cricketer, died (born 7/2/1857).
3/7/1911, Joseph
Hardstaff, cricketer, was born (died 1/1/1990).
20/5/1911, Edward Grace,
cricketer, died (born 28/11/1841).
2/4/1911, Myrtle Maclagan,
cricketer, was born (died 11/3/1993).
16/12/1910, Frederick Brown,
cricketer, was born (died 24/7/1991).
8/8/1909, William Voce,
cricketer, was born (died 6/6/1984).
25/7/1908, William Bowes,
cricketer, was born (died 5/9/1987).
1907, The International
Cricket Council was established (then known as the Imperial Cricket Conference).
16/1/1907, Alfred Shaw,
cricketer, died.
3/6/1906, Walter Robins,
cricketer, was born (died 12/12/1968)
18/5/1905, Hedley Verity,
cricketer, was born (died 31/7/1943).
27/8/1903, Donald George
Bradman, Australian cricketer, was born.
19/6/1903, Walter Hammond,
cricketer, was born (died 1/7/1965).
19/5/1903, Arthur
Shrewsbury, cricketer, died (born 11/4/1856).
31/7/1902, Sir George
Oswald, cricketer, was born (died 29/11/1969).
11/1/1902, John Briggs,
cricketer, died (born 3/10/1862).
1/12/1901, George Lohmann,
cricketer, died (born 2/6/1865).
5/11/1901, Edward Paynter,
cricketer, was born (died 5/2/1979).
2/5/1901, Robert Wyatt, cricketer, was born (died 20/4/1995).
23/10/1900, Douglas Jardine,
cricketer, was born (died 18/6/1958).
6/10/1900, Morris Nichols, cricketer, was born (died 26/1/1961).
20/7/1900, Maurice Leyland,
cricketer, was born (died 1/1/1967).
30/5/1895, Maurice Tate,
cricketer, was born (died 18/5/1956).
23/12/1894, Arthur Gilligan,
cricketer, was born (died 5/9/1976).
24/11/1894, Herbert
Sutcliffe, cricketer, was born (died 22/1/1978).
21/5/1893, Arthur Carr,
cricketer, was born (died 7/2/1963).
22/8/1892, Percy Fender,
cricketer, was born (died 15/6/1985).
19/2/1891, John White,
cricketer, was born (died 2/5/1961).
11/2/1891, John Hearne,
cricketer, was born (died 14/9/1965).
24/1/1891, Alexander
Kennedy, cricketer, was born (died 15/11/1959).
6/1/1891, Ted McDonald,
Australian cricketer was born in Launceston, Australia (died 1937).
1890, Headingley Ground,
Leeds, was opened. It is the County Ground of Yorkshire County Cricket
Club, and has bene used for Test Matches since 1899. Leeds Rugby League Club
also plays there.
12/5/1890, In the
UK, the first ever official County
Championship cricket match began in Bristol. Yorkshire beat Gloucestershire by eight
wickets.
5/2/1889, Elias Hendren,
cricketer, was born (died 4/10/1962).
1888, Glamorgan County Cricket Club was founded
17/5/1888, Alfred Freeman,
cricketer, was born (died 28/1/1965).
28/5/1887, Frank Woolley,
cricketer, was born (died 18/10/1978)
9/3/1887, Philip Mead,
cricketer, was born (died 26/3/1958).
1886, Warwickshire Cricket Club bought the land for the ground at
Edgbaston, Birmingham. The first
Test match was played there in 1902, and it is now a regular Test venue.
1/12/1886, Jack Crawford, cricketer, was born (died 2/5/1963).
25/11/1886, Percy Holmes,
cricketer, was born (died 3/9/1971).
18/2/1886, Cecil Parker,
cricketer, was born (died 15/6/1943)
16/2/1886, Andrew Ducat
cricketer, was born (died 23/7/1942).
5/4/1884, John Wisden,
cricketer and compiler of Wisden record books, died in London.
30/1/1883. ‘The Ashes’ were created when after a cricket match in Sydney a bail was
burnt and the ashes given to the England side, who had won.
1882, Durham County Cricket Club was founded.
16/12/1882, John Hobbs,
cricketer, was born (died 21/12/1963).
3/9/1882, John Douglas,
cricketer, was born (died 19/12/1930).
8/4/1882, Warwickshire
County Cricket Club was formed at a meeting in the Queen’s Hotel,
Coventry.
21/10/1880, Reginald
Spooner, cricketer, was born (died 2/10/1961).
6/9/1880, The first cricket Test match played in Britain, between England and Australia, took
place at The Oval.
13/6/1879, George Gunn,
cricketer, was born (died 29/6/1958).
30/5/1879, Colin Blythe,
cricketer, was born (died 8/11/1917).
25/3/1879, Leicestershire
County Cricket Club was formed in Leicester.
31/7/1878, Northamptonshire Cricket Club was founded.
16/4/1878, Reginald Foster, cricketer, was born (died
13/5/1914).
13/10/1877, Bernard Bosanquet, cricketer,
was born (died 12/10/1936).
15/3/1877, The first cricket Test Match, in Melbourne
between Australia and England, was won by Australia.
29/10/1876, Wilfred Rhodes,
cricketer, was born (died 8/7/1973).
14/1/1876, Essex County Cricket Club was founded at a meeting at The Shire Hall, Chelmsford.
18/10/1875, Leonard Braund, cricketer, was born (died 23/12/1955).
18/8/1875, Somerset County
Cricket Club was founded.
19/5/1874, Gilbert Jessop,
cricketer, was born (died 11/5/1955).
22/11/1873, John Tyldesley,
cricketer, was born (died 27/11/1930).
2/10/1873, Pelham Warner,
cricketer, was born (died 30/1/1963).
19/4/1873, Sidney Barnes,
cricketer, was born (died 26/12/1967)
25/4/1872, Charles Fry,
cricketer, was born (died 7/9/1956).
1871, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club was
founded.
1/12/1871, Archibald
MacLaren, cricketer, was born (died 17/11/1944).
7/9/1871, George Hirst,
cricketer, was born (died 10/5/1954).
21/11/1870, Stanley Jackson,
cricketer, was born (died 9/3/1947).
4/11/1870, Derbyshire County Cricket Club was
founded at a meeting in the Guildhall, Derby.
11/8/1870, Thomas Richardson, cricketer, was born (died
2/7/1912).
1/5/1870, Fuller Pilch, cricketer, died (born 17/3/1804)
31/8/1869, Gregor MacGregor, cricketer, was born (died 20/8/1919).
25/3/1868, William Lockwood, cricketer, was born (died
26/4/1932).
3/5/1867, John Hearne, cricketer, was born (died
17/4/1044).
28/11/1866, Arthur Lilley, cricketer, was
born (died 17/11/1929).
2/6/1865, George Lohmann, cricketer, was born (died
1/12/1901).
3/3/1865. Worcestershire County Cricket Club was founded
at a meeting at the Stag Hotel, Worcester.
2/2/1864, Middlesex County Cricket Club was founded at a
meeting at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate.
12/1/1864, Lancashire County Cricket Club was founded in
Manchester.
12/8/1863, Hampshire
County Cricket Club was founded in Southampton.
11/4/1863, Andrew Stoddart,
cricketer, was born (died 4/4/1915).
8/1/1863, Yorkshire
County Cricket Club was founded at a meeting at the Adelphi Hotel,
Sheffield.
3/10/1862, John Briggs,
cricketer, was born (died 11/1/1902).
1/11/1861, Alfred Mynn,
cricketer, died
16/8/1860, Martin Hawke,
cricketer, was born (died 10/10/1938).
1/3/1859, A second Kent County
Cricket Club was founded at Maidstone.
24/9/1858, Allan Steel,
cricketer, was born (died 15/6/1914).
30/11/1857, Bobby Abel,
cricketer, was born (died 10/12/1936).
12/2/1857, Robert Peel,
cricketer, was born (died 12/8/1941).
7/2/1857, Alfred
Lyttelton, cricketer, was born (died 5/7/1913).
25/8/1856, William Clarke, cricketer, died (born
24/12/1798)
11/4/1856, Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer, was born (died
19/5/1903).
21/10/1851, George Ulyett, cricketer, was
born (died 18/6/1898).
3/2/1851, George Harris, cricketer, was born (died
24/3/1932).
18/7/1848, Cricketer W G Grace
was born at Downend near Bristol.
10/2/1847, Albert Hornby, cricketer, was born (died
17/12/1925).
22/8/1845, Surrey County Cricket Club was founded at a meeting at The Horns, Kennington. Its ground was The
Oval, south London.
6/8/1842, The first
Kent County Cricket
Club was formed.
28/11/1841, Edward Grace, cricketer, was born (died 20/5/1911).
1/3/1839, Sussex County
Cricket Club, the oldest,
was founded.
1838, Trent Bridge cricket
ground, Nottingham, opened. In 1837
cricketer William Clarke had married the widow who ran the Trent
Bridge Inn, Nottingham, and they developed the ground together.
5/9/1826. John Wisden, original compiler of Wisden’s
Cricketing Almanac, was born in Brighton, Sussex.
22/6/1814. The first cricket match
was played at the present Lords Cricket Ground, between the Marylebone Cricket
Club and Hertfordshire. The original Marylebone Cricket Club first played at
White Conduit Fields before moving to a better ground at Dorset Square, located
by an employee of the Club, Thomas Lord. Dorset Square, or Lord’s Old
Ground, was utilised 1787-1810, before a move to their next venue, known as
Lord’s Middle Ground. In 1813 this ground was taken for the Regents Canal, and
the Club moved to their present venue in St Johns Wood, then a pleasant rural
area.
17/3/1804, Fuller Pilch, cricketer, was born (died
1/5/1870).
24/12/1798, William Clarke, cricketer, was born (died
25/8/1856).
1744, The first formal code of rules for cricket was drawn up.
1477, An early form of cricket, called ‘hands-in-hands-out’, was banned
by King
Edward IV of England because it interfered with archery practice.
Croquet
9/6/1986, Humphrey Hicks,
croquet champion, died (born 20/5/1904).
26/8/1969, Robert Fulford,
croquet champion, was born.
22/1/1965, Dorothy Steel,
croquet champion, died (born 21/4/1884).
29/7/1959, Lilias Gower, croquet champion, died.
22/11/1931, John Solomon,
croquet champion, was born.
20/5/1904, Humphrey Hicks,
croquet champion, was born (died 9/6/1986).
21/4/1884, Dorothy Steel,
croquet champion, was born (died 22/1/1965).
1870, The All-England Croquet
Club was established at Wimbledon, London.
1857, First set of rules for croquet drawn up.
Curling
1979, The first women’s World Curling Championship was held.
1959, The first men’s World Curling Championship was held.
19/12/1920, The first US indoor curling rink opened, at
Brookline, Massachusetts.
1838, The Royal Caledonian Curling Club, the central international body
for Curl8ing, was established in Edinburgh. It was originally known as the
Grand Caledonian Curling Club.
1831, The Orchard Lake Curling
Club, Michigan, USA, was established.
1820, Curling was introduced to the USA.
1811, The earliest book on
Curling, An Account of the Game of
Curling, was written by John Ramsay, a Scottish Minister and member of
the Duddingstone Curling Society
1807, Curling was introduced to Canada. The
Montreal Curling Club was established.
1510, The first curling club was
established at Kilsyth, near Glasgow, Scotland.
Cycling
22/6/1992, Reginald Harris, cycling champion, died.
3/9/1974, Rebecca Bailey, champion cyclist, was born in Christchurch, New Zealand
12/2/1971, Bill
Bailey, cycling champion, died (born 6/4/1888).
15/12/1968, Colin Sturgess, champion cyclist, was born.
13/7/1967, Thomas
Simpson, champion cyclist, died (born 30/11/1937).
11/9/1965, Douglas
Graeme Obree, champion cyclist, was born.
19/1/1964, Firmin
Lambot, Belgian racing cyclist, died aged 77.
24/3/1962, Amanda
Jones, champion cyclist, was born.
20/11/1961, Shaun Wallace, champion cyclist, was born.
9/4/1961, Yvonne
McGregor, cycling champion, was born.
20/11/1959, Stephen Roche, champion cyclist, was born.
19/5/1958, Tony
Doyle, champion cyclist, was born.
1951, The Milk Race, now called the Tour of Britain, was first
held. Launched in 1951 and supported by the Daily
Express newspaper, it wa sponsored by the Milk Marketing Board from 1958.
24/11/1948, Ian Hallam,
cycling champion, was born in Nottingham.
7/4/1942, John Atkins,
British cyclo-cross champion, was born.
28/4/1941, Lucien Aimar, French sports cyclist, was born.
5/2/1940, Peter Barry Hoban, cycling champion, was born.
27/1/1940, Hugh Porter, champion cyclist, was born.
30/11/1937, Thomas Simpson, champion cyclist, was born
(died 13/7/1967).
4/6/1934, Seamus Elliott, champion cyclist, was born in
Dublin.
3/11/1930, Brian Robinson, champion cyclist, was born.
27/1/1930, Lewis Meredith, champion cyclist, died (born
2/7/1882).
19/11/1929, Sean Kelly, cycling champion, was born in
Waterford, Ireland.
1927, The World Professional
Road Race Championship was first held at the Neuburgring, Germany.
19/7/1925, Italian cyclist Ottavio Bottecchia won the Tour
de France for the second straight year.
18/10/1923, Eileen Sheridan, champion cyclist, was born.
25/1/1907, Rene Pottier, French racing cyclist, died aged
27.
1/7/1903, The first Tour de
France cycle race began. It was sponsored by Henri Desgrange,
the proprietor of a French newspaper, L’Auto,
to poach readers from a rival publication, Le
Velo, which already staged what were till then the biggest cycle races in
France, Bordeaux to Paris and Paris to Brest. The Tour de France, announced in
January 1903, was to be 2,500 km long, taking 19 days to complete. Just 21 of
the 60 entrants completed the race, competing for prize money totalling 20,000
Francs.
6/4/1888, Bill Bailey,
cycling champion, was born (died 12/2/1971).
2/7/1882, Lewis Meredith,
champion cyclist, was born (died 27/1/1930).
Darts
1978, The Embassy World Darts Championship was inaugurated. Held
since 1986 at the Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green, Surrey, UK.
22/3/1950, John Thomas
Wilson, darts champion, was born.
21/7/1945, John Lowe,
darts champion, was born.
1928, The News of the World
inaugurated an annual Darts Championship. This lasted until 1990, when the
newspaper withdrew its support.
1896, Brian Gamlin, of Bury, Lancashire, designed
the numbering of the current darts board.
Fencing
28/6/1987, Emrys Lloyd,
champion fencer, died (born 8/9/1908).
24/12/1975, Roger Tredgold,
fencing champion, died.
30/9/1948, Edward Bourne,
fencing champion, was born.
15/2/1940, Janet
Wardell-Yerburgh, fencing champion, was born.
30/6/1931, Allan Jay,
fencing champion, was born.
8/9/1908, Emrys Lloyd,
champion fencer, was born (died 28/6/1987).
15/2/1880, Robert Montgomerie,
fencing champion, was born (died 28/4/1939).
14/4/1867, Edgar Seligman,
fencing champion, was born (died 27/9/1958).
1848, The London Fencing Club was established.
1190 BCE, Records of fencing matches
in Luxor, Upper Egypt.
Golf
21/7/1978, Henry Longhurst, golfing champion, died (born
18/3/1909).
16/9/1977, Charlotte Leitch, golfer, died (born
13/4/1891)
31/5/1975, Peter Alliss, British golfer, died (born
8/1/1897)
19/7/1972, Harold Weetman, golfer, died.
8/8/1970, Johnny Goodman, US golfer, died aged 60.
15/1/1964, George Duncan, golfer, died (born 16/9/1883).
5/10/1963, Laura Davies, golf champion, was born.
10/2/1963, John Taylor, golfer, died.
8/8/1962, Archie Compston, golfer, died.
18/7/1957, Nick Faldo, golf champion, was born.
6/1/1957, Nancy Lopez, US
golfer, was born.
26/8/1954, Howard Clark, English
golfer, was born.
28/10/1953, Mark
James, golf champion, was born.
24/8/1953, Samuel
Torrance, golfer, was born.
27/11/1950, James
Braid, golfer, died (born 6/2/1870)
29/4/1949, Mary McKenna, golfing
champion, was born.
3/5/1948, Peter
Oosterhuis, golfer, was born.
24/11/1946, Vivien
Saunders, champion golfer, was born.
3/6/1945, Brian W Barnes, golfer, was born.
18/2/1945, Judy Rankin, US
golfer, was born.
7/7/1944, Tony Jacklin, British golf champion, was born
in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.
26/8/1943, Edward Ray, golfing champion, died (born
28/3/1877).
9/11/1942, Tom Weiskopf, US golfer, was born.
5/3/1942, Harold Hilton, golf champion, died (born
12/1/1869).
2/12/1940, John Ball, golf player, died (born 24/12/1861)
29/4/1939, Mary McKenna, golfing champion, was born.
7/4/1937, Angela Bonallack, golfer, was born.
20/3/1937, Harry Vardon, golfer, died (born 9/5/1870).
11/4/1936, Isabella Robertson, golf champion, was born.
1934, The US Masters golf tournament was first held.
31/12/1934, Michael Bonallack, golfer, was born.
28/7/1932, Horace Hutchinson, golfer, died (born
16/5/1859).
2/2/1930, Bernard Hunt, golf champion, was born.
1927, Entrepreneur Samuel Ryder
donated the Ryder Cup, the tournament
for which is now played alternately in the USA and the UK.
26/4/1927, Philomena Garvey, golfer, was born.
24/5/1925, William Park, golfer, died.
15/2/1925, Eric Brown, golfer, was born.
21/12/1924, Christy O’Connor, golf champion, was born.
4/3/1917, Pamela Barton, golfer, was born.
1916, The US Professional Golfers Association tournament was first held.
29/7/1916, Max Faulkner, golf player, was born.
2/9/1915, Percy Lucas, golf champion, was born.
9/10/1913, Harry Bradshaw, golfer, was born.
18/3/1909, Henry Longhurst, golfing champion, was born
(died 21/7/1978).
24/5/1908, Tom Morris, golfer, died (born 17/6/1821).
1901, Sunningdale
Old Golf Course opened. The more difficult New Golf Course opened in
1922.
17/11/1901, Joyce Wethered, champion golfer, was born.
8/1/1897, Peter Alliss, British golfer, was born (died
31/5/1975).
1895, The US Open golf tournament was first held.
13/4/1891, Charlotte Leitch, golfer, was born (died
16/9/1977)
1889, Royal
Birkdale Golf Club was founded, as Birkdale Golf Club; the Royal was
added in 1951.
19/1/1887, Abraham Mitchell, golfer, was born (died
1947).
16/9/1883, George Duncan, golfer, was born (died
15/1/1964).
28/3/1877, Edward Ray, golfing champion, was born (died
26/8/1943).
7/9/1876, Bernard Darwin, golfer, was born (died
18/10/1961).
25/12/1875, Tom Morris, golfer, died
9/5/1870, Harry Vardon, golfer, was born (died
20/3/1937).
6/2/1870, James Braid, golfer, was born (died
27/11/1950)
1869, Royal
Liverpool Golf Club was founded, gaining its Royal in 1871.
12/1/1869, Harold Hilton, golf champion, was born (died
5/3/1942).
24/12/1861, John Ball, golf player, was born (died
2/12/1940).
17/10/1860. The first professional golf tournament, the British Open, was held at
Prestwick, Scotland. It was won by Willie Park.
16/5/1859, Horace
Hutchinson, golfer, was born (died 28/7/1932).
17/6/1821, Tom Morris, golfer,
was born (died 24/5/1908).
1791, The
Burntisland Golf Club was founded.
1787, The
Glasgow Golf Club was founded.
1786, The Crail Golfing
Society was founded.
1780, The
Royal Aberdeen Golf Club was founded.
1774, The Royal
Musselburgh Golf Club was founded.
1766, The Royal
Blackheath Golf Club was formed.
1761, Bruntsfield
Links Golf Club was formed.
14/5/1754, The Royal and
Ancient (St Andrews) Golf Club was founded. The first game was
played here this day.
1744, The Honourable
Company of Edinburgh Golfers (Muirfield) was founded.
1735, The Royal Burgess
Golfing Society of Edinburgh was founded.
6/3/1457, King James II of Scotland banned
golf, because it distracted men from archery training. There was a constant
threat of invasion from England, The ban was reiterated in 1471 and 1491, and
was not formally lifted until 1744.
Greyhound racing
2013, Annual attendance at Britain’s dog racing tracks had fallen to 2 million. In
1960 it was 16 million, down to 4 million in 1993 and 3 million in 2006. The
number of tracks in Britain has fallen from 64 in 1960 to 25 in
2013. In 1961 dog racing tracks lost their betting monopoly when UK Parliament
allowed betting shops to open, for the first time since the 19th
century. The rise of TV and the Internet also eroded attendance.
16/8/2008, The
dog racing track at Walthamstow, London, held its last meeting. This
left Wimbledon as the last dog racing track in the London area.
15/3/1995, Harlow greyhound racing
stadium, Essex, UK, opened.
1984, (see 1928) The Greyhound Derby was moved
from White City to Wimbledon and the Grand National was moved to Hall Green,
Birmingham.
1931, Walthamstow greyhound racing stadium
opened,
1930, Dagenham greyhound racing stadium opened.
1928, West Ham greyhound racing stadium opened.
10/12/1927, As greyhound
racing grew in popularity, London’s third racecourse opened, at Wembley, to join those at Haringey and White City. Harringey stadium closed in 1987 to make way for a
Sainsbury superstore.
20/6/1927, Greyhound racing
began at London’s White City Stadium.
This was the first time the Greyhound
Derby and Grand National (using
hurdles) were run. See 1984.
1926, Oxford greyhound racing
track opened.
24/7/1926. The first greyhound racing
track was opened by Brigadier Critchley, at Belle Vue in Manchester.
1919, A circular greyhound track
was opened in California, USA.
7/10/1876, The first
greyhound race with an artificial hare, the Hendon Cup, was run at
the Welsh Harp, Hendon, London.
1857, The Waterloo Cup was a now a competition of 64 dogs, competing in a
knock-out tournament over three days.
1836, The Waterloo Cup was first held, on farmland at Great Altcar, near
Southport, Lancashire, UK.
1776, The first rules of
greyhound racing were drawn up.
Hockey and Ice Hockey
3/5/1988, Carl Erhardt, ice hockey player,
died (born 13/2/1897).
9/11/1985, John Conroy, hockey player, died
(born 27/11/1928).
20/10/1985, Harry Wragg, champion jockey,
died.
21/3/1982, Marjorie Pollard, hockey and
cricket champion, died (born 3/8/1899).
8/9/1981, Terence Mansergh, hockey
champion, died.
27/5/1973, Jack Bennett, hockey player,
died.
5/9/1967, Janet Sixsmith, champion hockey
player, was born.
19/11/1963, John Potter, hockey champion,
was born.
9/1/1963, Karen Brown, hockey champion,
was born.
13/7/1959, Richard Leman, hockey champion,
was born.
13/4/1959, Stephen Martin, hockey champion,
was born.
24/2/1959, Stanley Shoveller, hockey
champion, died (born 2/9/1881).
20/4/1958, Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian
hockey champion, was, born in Moscow, Russia.
21/5/1955, Paul Barber, English hockey
player, was born.
24/9/1854, Ian Taylor, hockey champion, was
born.
30/9/1952, Norman Hughes, hockey champion,
was born.
6/3/1952, William MacLean, hockey
champion, was born.
18/7/1943, Herbert Leo Price, hockey
champion, died (born 21/6/1899).
26/10/1932, Chinadorai Deshmutu, Indian hockey player, was born.
24/9/1932, Howard Davis, hockey champion,
was born.
9/6/1930, Harry Cahill, hockey champion,
was born.
27/11/1928, John Conroy, hockey player, was
born (died 9/11/1985).
16/11/1928, Dick Gamble, ice hockey player,
was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada (died 2018)
21/4/1928, Jack Evans, Welsh-Canadian
ice hockey player, was born.
23/12/1927, John Cockett, hockey player, was
born.
1920, Ice Hockey was first included in the Olympics.
In 1924 it was moved to the Winter Olympics.
1916, The National Hockey League was first
played.
1914, The British Ice Hockey Association was
founded.
14/9/1906, George McVeagh, Irish hockey, tennis, cricket
and squash player, was born (died 5/6/1968)
1903, A small English ice hockey
league was formed.
3/8/1899, Marjorie Pollard, hockey and cricket champion,
was born (died 21/3/1982).
21/6/1899, Herbert Leo Price, hockey champion, was born
(died 18/7/1943).
13/2/1897, Carl Erhardt, ice hockey player, was born
(died 3/5/1988).
25/1/1895,
Wales lost 3 – 0 to Ireland in the first ever hockey international, held
at Rhyl in Wales.
1886, In Britain, the National
Hockey Association was formed.
4/10/1884, Cyril Wilkinson, hockey champion, was born
(died 16/12/1970).
1883, The rules for hockey were
formally codified.
2/9/1881, Stanley Shoveller, hockey champion, was born
(died 24/2/1959).
1879, The rules for ice hockey
were drawn up by WF Robertson and RF Smith at Montreal, Canada.
1875, The Men’s Hockey
Association was formed.
1850s, Ice Hockey was first
played, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The rules of the game were drawn up ay
McGill University, Montreal.
Horseracing and
Equestrianism
20/12/1993, Charles Smirke, champion jockey,
died (born 23/9/1906).
9/5/1992, William Nevett, horse racing
champion, died (born 26/3/1906).
9/10/1991, Bryan Marshall, horse racing
champion, died (born 29/2/1916).
30/10/1989, Seamus Hayes, show jumping
champion, died.
11/4/1989, Douglas Smith, champion jockey,
died (born 21/11/1917).
16/8/1986, Ryan Price, champion jockey,
died.
1984, The Breeders Cup, end of season horse race
in the USA, was first held.
1/6/1983, Caroline Bradley, equestrian
showjumping, died (born 14/4/1946).
8/11/1981, Tim Brookshaw, champion jockey,
died (born 25/3/1929).
12/7/1981, Frederick Rimell, champion
jockey, died.
22/1/1981, Thomas Weston, champion jockey,
died.
20/6/1980, Patrick Prendergast, champion
jockey, died (born 5/8/1909).
6/1/1979, Charles Elliott, horse racing
champion, died.
2/4/1977, Red Rum
became the first horse ever to win three Grand Nationals.
12/5/1972, Eric Ephraim Smith, champion jockey, died.
161/1969, Norman Williamson, champion jockey, was born.
19/12/1968, John Jarvis, horse racing champion, died (born
28/12/1887).
28/11/1967. Horseracing was suspended in Britain because of an
outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease.
1965, The World Equestrian
Championships for women were first held. In 1978 the women’s and men’s
Championships were merged.
17/9/1964, Karen Dixon, equestrian champion, was born.
20/5/1964, Joseph :Lawson, horse racing champion, died.
18/1/1964, Richard Dunwoody, champion horse racer, was
born.
1962, The British Showjumping
Derby was first held.
7/8/1961, Walter Swinburn, champion jockey, was born.
1960, The first showjumping
meeting at Hickstead, Sussex, UK,
was held.
4/9/1960, Henry Persse, champion jockey, died.
17/3/1960, Michael Whitaker, show-jumping champion, was
born.
22/6/1959, Michael Kiname, horse racing champion, was
born.
12/12/1958, William Higgs, horse racing champion, died
(born 8/2/1880).
13/6/1958, Peter Scudamore, champion jockey, was born.
5/2/1958, Joe Childs, jockey, died.
1957, The European Equestrian
Championships were first held.
9/6/1955, Stephen Smith Eccles, champion jockey, was
born.
1/2/1955, Virginia Leng, equestrian champion, was born.
22/2/1954, Ian Stark, equestrian champion, was born.
1953, The World Equestrian
Championships for men were first held.
7/11/1953, Lucinda Green, equestrian champion, was born.
9/6/1953, Frederick Darling, horse racer, died (born
15/5/1884)
1/6/1953. Gordon Richards became the first jockey to be knighted.
13/12/1952, John Francombe, champion jockey, was born.
13/4/1952, Easter Sunday. John O’Neill, equestrian
champion, was born.
18/3/1952, Patrick Eddery, horse racing champion, was
born in Galway, Ireland.
20/8/1950, Ann Moore, equestrian champion, was born.
3/2/1950, Michael Dickinson, horse racer, was born.
1949, The Horse of the Year event was first presented by the British Show
Jumping Association, at Harringey Arena. It moved to the Empire Pool at Wembley
in 1959.
1949, The first annual Badminton
thtree-day eventing competition.
27/1/1949, Graham Thorner, champion jockey, was born.
13/6/1948, Sandy Barclay, jockey, was born.
4/6/1948, Robert Champion, horse racing, was born
3/4/1948, Mary Gordon-Watson, equestrian champion, was
born.
29/2/1948, Dermot Weld, champion jockey, was born.
7/1/1948, Jane Bullen, equestrian events champion, was
born.
6/6/1947, Marion Mould, equestrian champion, was born.
14/5/1946, Robert Davies, horse racing, was born.
14/4/1946, Caroline Bradley, equestrian showjumping, was
born (died 1/6/1983).
14/3/1946, Alison Dawes, show jumper, was born.
15/11/1945, Thomas Stack, champion jockey, was born.
29/5/1945, Martin Pipe, champion jockey, was born.
12/12/1945, Frederick Fox, champion jockey, died (born
2/1888).
14/8/1944, Robyn Smith Astaire, US jockey, was born in San Francisco,
California.
28/5/1943, Elizabeth Edgar, show jumping champion, was
born.
28/2/1943, Ron Barry, champion jockey, was born in
Limerick, Ireland.
3/8/1941, Joshua Gifford, champion jockey, was born.
2/2/1941, Terence Biddlecombe, champion jockey, was
born.
31/8/1940, Paul Kelleway, horse racing champion, was born
in London.
18/3/1940, Kathy Hutchinson, race horse trainer, was
born.
1/3/1940, David Broome, show jumping champion, was born.
21/12/1939, Greville Starkey, champion jockey, was born.
29/12/1938, Robert Harvey Smith, champion jockey (show
jumping), was born.
4/12/1938, Richard Meade, equestrian champion, was born.
4/8/1937, Elizabeth Ann Drummond, equestrian champion,
was born.
10/6/1937, Edward Harty, horse racing champion, died.
10/4/1937, Stanley Mellor, horse racing champion, was
born.
21/12/1935, Geoff Lewis, horse racing champion, was born.
25/10/1934, Joseph Mercer, horse racing champion, was
born.
14/10/1934, George Bowman, equestrian champion, was born.
8/9/1932, Alan Oliver, equestrian champion, was born.
25/3/1929, Tim Brookshaw, champion jockey, was born (died
8/11/1981).
22/11/1928, Patricia Smythe, show jumping champion, was
born.
15/11/1928, Emmanuel Mercer, horse racing champion, was
born (died 26/9/1959).
1926, Chepstow racecourse
opened.
20/9/1926, Frederick Winter, champion jockey, was born.
27/3/1925, Double Chase won the 84th Grand National horse
race at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England.
24/3/1922. Only 3 of the 32 horses in the Grand National finished
the race.
21/2/1922, John Porter, champion jockey, died (born
2/3/1838).
31/10/1920, Richard Francis, champion jockey, was born.
7/4/1920, Arthur Stephenson, champion jockey, was born
(died 3/12/1992).
7/1/1920, Aubrey Brabazon, horse racing, was born.
14/9/1919, Tim Molony, horse racing champion, was born
(died 14/12/1989).
21/11/1917, Douglas Smith, champion jockey, was born (died
11/4/1989).
13/7/1917, Thomas Cannon, champion jockey, died (born
23/4/1846).
30/11/1916, William Carr, jockey, was born (died
19/10/1985).
29/2/1916, Bryan Marshall, horse racing champion, was
born (died 9/10/1991).
20/2/1916, Eddie Arcaro, American jockey, was born in
Cincinnati (died 1997)
16/3/1915, Britain’s Jockey Club
decided that the War should not stop horse racing.
9/1/1914, Derek Allhusen, equestrian
sportsman, was born.
2/8/1913, Frank Weldon, equestrian
champion, was born (died 21/9/1993).
13/1/1913, Frenchy Nicholson, horse racing
champion, was born.
8/11/1910, Fulke Walwyn, champion jockey,
was born (died 18/2/1991).
24/3/1910, Noel Murless, horse racing
champion, was born (died 9/5/1987).
5/8/1909, Patrick Prendergast, champion
jockey, was born (died 20/6/1980).
23/9/1906, Charles Smirke, champion jockey,
was born (died 20/12/1993).
26/3/1906, William Nevett, horse racing
champion, was born (died 9/5/1992).
5/5/1904, Gordon Richards, champion
jockey, was born (died 10/11/1986).
1903, In Britain, the Jockey Club took action
against the doping of horses.
29/7/1902, John Watson champion jockey,
died.
18/8/1898, Matthew Dawson, jockey, died
(born 9/1/1820)
3/6/1896, King Edward VII (then Prince of
Wales) won the Derby on a horse called Persimmon.
28/12/1887, John Jarvis, horse racing
champion, was born (died 19/12/1968).
11/10/1887, George Fordham, horse racing
champion, died.
16/4/1887, Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, horse
racing, was born (died17/3/1983).
8/11/1886, Frederick Archer, horseracing
jockey, died.
8/11/1884, Steven Donoghue, horse racing
champion, was born (died 23/3/1945).
15/5/1884, Frederick Darling, horse racer,
was born (died 9/6/1953)
8/2/1880, William Higgs, horse racing
champion, was born (died 12/12/1958).
21/5/1873, Herbert Cannon, champion jockey,
was born (died 1/6/1962).
4/10/1871, John Scott, champion jockey,
died (born 39/11/1794).
15/3/1862, Alexander Taylor, champion
jockey, was born (died 28/1/1943).
21/3/1860, John Day, jockey, died (born
1793).
1859, Bangor on Dee racecourse opened.
1857, The Longchamps horseracing track opened in
the Bois de Bolougne, Paris.
31/12/1851, Richard Marsh, horse racing
champion, was born (died 20/5/1933).
26/9/1848, William Scott, champion jockey,
was born.
23/4/1846, Thomas Cannon, champion jockey,
was born (died 13/7/1917).
26/2/1839. The Grand National
at Aintree, Liverpool, was first run.
2/3/1838, John Porter, champion jockey, was born (died
21/2/1922).
29/4/1835, Bill Arnull, champion horseracing jockey, died
(born 1785).
5/8/1832, Frank Buckle, horse racing champion, died
(born 1766).
9/1/1820, Matthew Dawson, jockey, was born (died
18/8/1898).
1814, The 1,000
Guineas Flat Race for 3 year old fillies, 1.6 km, was first run at Newmarket. The most recent of the
Classical Races, it was the first to be run every year.
1809, The 2,000
Guineas Flat Race, 1.6 km, for three-year-old colts and fillies
(usually only entered by colts) was first run at Newmarket.
8/1/1807, Sam Chifney, jockey, died
30/11/1794, John Scott, champion jockey, was born (died
4/10/1871).
4/5/1780. The first
Derby horse race was run, at Epsom.
24/9/1776. The oldest of the classic horse races, the St Leger, was first run at Doncaster.
1752, The Jockey Club, to have a ,meeting place,
leased a plot of land in Newmarket and built the ‘Coffee Room’ there. The
Jockey Club gradually acquired all the training and racing land at Newmarket,
and became accepted as the regulatory body for all flat racing in the UK. In
1990 the Jockey Club yielded control to the newly formed British Horseracing Board, amid concerns that the Jockey Club was
too aristocratic and elitist.
17/8/1711. Ascot became
‘Royal’ after the attendance of Queen
Anne at the horse races.
11/8/1711, The first Royal
Ascot horse race took place, attended by Queen Anne.
1636, Newmarket horse race
course was established.
9/2/1540. The first recorded
horse-racing meeting in Britain took place on Roodeye Field (now
Roodee), Chester.
1174, The first recorded horse races in England.
Hurling
22/8/1954, Jimmy Murphy, hurling champion, was born.
1879, The Irish Hurling Union
was founded.
Judo
18/6/1966, Sharon Rendle, judo champion, was born.
27/9/1958, Neil Adams, judo player, was born.
5/10/1946, Brian Jacks, judo champion, was born.
15/4/1930, Charles Palmer, judo champion, was born.
1860, Dr Jigoro Kano was born in
Settsu Province, Japan; he originated the sport of Judo in its modern form.
Lacrosse
1969, The first World Lacrosse
Championship for women was held.
1967, The first World Lacrosse
Championship for men was held.
1839, The Montreal Lacrosse Club
was founded. The original sport was of indigenous Amerindian origin.
Motor and Motorcycle
racing
20/5/1994, William Kitchen, speedway
champion, died.
1/5/1994, Formula One driver Ayrton Senna
(born 1960) died in a crash in Italy.
22/10/1993, Innes Ireland, motor racing
champion, died (born 12/6/1930).
10/6/1993, Scott McLaughlin, racing driver,
was born.
10/4/1989, Michael Dunlop, Northern Irish
motorcycle racer, was born.
4/2/1979, Giorgio Pantano, Italian racing
car driver, was born.
12/7/1969, William Ivy, motor cycle racing
champion, died (born 27/8/1942).
5/8/1968, Collin McRae, rally driver, was
born.
4/11/1966, Gary Havelock, speedway
champion, was born.
1/7/1965, Carl Fogarty, motorcycle racing
champion, was born.
24/9/1963, Peter Craven, speedway driver,
died (born 21/6/1934).
4/11/1962, The first Mexican Grand
Prix was won by Jim
Clark and Trevor Taylor.
28/9/1962, Fred Merkel, US motorcycle
racing champion, was born in Stockton, California
12/4/1962, Ronald Flockhart, motor racing
champion, died (born 16/6/1923).
11/1/1962, Steven Hislop, motorcycle
racing, was born.
15/10/1960, Simon Wigg, speedway champion,
was born.
17/9/1960, Damon Hill, motor racing
champion, was born.
1/6/1959, Martin Brundle, motor racing
champion, was born.
31/5/1959, Andrea de Cesaris, Italian
racing driver, was born.
6/8/1958, US athlete Glenn Davis
broke his own world record by 0.3 seconds (49.2 seconds) in the 400m hurdles in
Budapest, Hungary.
3/8/1958, Peter Collins, motor racing
champion, died (born 8/11/1931).
28/8/1954, Charlie Collier, motorcycle
racer, was born.
24/3/1954, Peter Collins, motorcycle
speedway champion, was born.
8/8;/1953, Nigel Mansell, motor racing
champion, was born.
10/6/1953, Victor Elford, motor racing
champion, was born.
29/9/1952, John Cobb, racing driver, died.
4/5/1949, John Force, racing driver, was
born in Bell Gardens, California
27/7/1948, Woolf Barnato, motor racing champion, died.
4/5/1946, John Watson, motor racing champion, was born.
25/2/1944, Francois Cevert, racing driver, was born in
Paris, France (died 1973)
27/8/1942, William Ivy, motor cycle racing champion, was
born (died 12/7/1969).
5/8/1939, Roger Clark, rally driver, was born.
25/6/1939, Richard Seaman, motor racing champion, died.
17/10/1938, Evel Kneivel, US stunt motorcyclist, was born in Butte,
Montana.
17/1/1938, David Bickers. Moto Cross champion, was born
17/9/1937, Nigel Boocock, speedway champion, was born
30/8/1935, Thomas Farndon, speedway champion, died.
21/6/1934, Peter Craven, speedway driver, was born (died
24/9/1963).
11/11/1933, Samuel Miller, motorcycle racing champion, was
born.
8/11/1931, Peter Collins, motor racing champion, was born
(died 3/8/1958).
12/6/1930, Innes Ireland, motor racing champion, was born
(died 22/10/1993).
17/9/1929, Stirling Moss, motor racing champion, was
born.
10/4/1929, Michael Hawthorn, motor racing champion, was
born (died 27/1/1959).
7/11/1928, Bob McIntyre, motorcycle racer, was born.
7/6/1928, Ken (Robert) McKinlay, speedway champion, was
born.
3/3/1927, John Parry Thomas, motor car racer, died.
12/3/1926, Freddie Williams, speedway champion, was born.
16/6/1923, Ronald Flockhart, motor racing champion, was
born (died 12/4/1962).
12/5/1922, Roy Salvadori, motor racing champion, was
born.
12/4/1917, Robert Manzon, French racing driver was born
(died 2015).
12/11/1914, Peter Whitehead, English racing car driver,
was born (died 1958).
21/2/1913, Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver, was born
(died 1997)
11/6/1911, Thomas Price, speedway champion, was born.
1907, The Isle of Man TT (Tourist Trophy) motorcycle race was first held.
The race, held on ordinary roads, can be dangerous, especially the mountain
climb to Snaefell. By 1992 the TT Race had claimed 160 lives. The British
Parliament had in 1904 refused to permit car racing on ordinary roads by
temporarily banning other traffic byt the Tynwald, the Manx Parliament, did
agree to this, and car racing was held there until 1953.
1/8/1900, Raymond Mays, motor racing champion, was born.
3/7/1898, Donald Healey, rally driver, was born (died
15/1/1988).
28/6/1897, George Eyston, motor racing champion, was born
(died 11/6/1979).
26/7/1896, Henry Birkin, motor racing champion, was born
(died 22/7/1933).
22/9/1896, Henry Seagrave, motor racing champion, was
born (died 13/6/1930).
27/9/1895, Woolf Barnato, motor racing champion, was born
(died 27/7/1948).
Polo
16/9/1957, Gerald Balding, polo champion, died.
23/6/1946, Julian Hipwood, polo champion, was born.
12/11/1908, John Watson, polo champion, died.
24/8/1903, Gerald Balding, polo champion, was born (died
16/9/1957)
16/10/1872, Walter Buckmaster, polo player, was born (died
30/10/1942).
1871, The first recorded game of
polo in Britain. The name derives from a Tibetan word for ‘willow stick’ and
was already popular across Asia from Persia and India to China and Japan. Hurlingham Polo Club, in Fulham, London, was
started in 1875.
Rackets
24/6/1984, David Milford, rackets champion, died.
21/12/1981, Cyril Simpson, rackets champion, died (born
10/2/1899).
7/11/1981, James Dear, rackets champion, died (born
17/3/1910).
12/7/1950, William Boone, rackets champion, was born.
23/6/1950, Harry Foster, rackets champion, died (born
30/10/1873)
20/12/1948, Eustace Miles, rackets and tennis player, died
(born 22/9/1868).
29/6/1947, William Surtees, rackets champion, was born.
20/1/1927, Geoffrey Atkins, British rackets player, was
born.
10/5/1918, John Thompson, rackets champion, was born.
17/3/1910, James Dear, rackets champion, was born (died
7/11/1981).
10/2/1899, Cyril Simpson, rackets champion, was born
(died 21/12/1981).
2/8/1885, Clarence Bruce, rackets player, was born (died
4/10/1957).
30/10/1873, Harry Foster, rackets champion, was born (died
23/6/1950)
22/9/1868, Eustace Miles, rackets and tennis player, was
born (died 20/12/1948).
Rowing
29/1/1995, Richard Burnell, champion rower, died (born
26/7/1917).
18/3/1984, The Oxford and
Cambridge boat race was run on a Sunday for the first time. The day
before, the race had been abandoned because the Cambridge boat had been damaged
in a collision.
1/11/1983, Edward Phelps, rowing champion, died (born
17/6/1908).
25/3/1978, In the Oxford-Cambridge boat
race, the Cambridge boat sank.
3/12/1977, Jack Beresford, rower, died.
29/5/1976, John Badcock, Olympic rower, died.
1974, The women’s World Rowing
Championship was first held.
21/12/1972, Hugh Edwards, Olympic rower, died (born
17/11/1906).
19/7/1969, John Fairfax became the first person to row
the Atlantic when he arrived at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after 180 days at
sea.
8/5/1969, Jonathan Searle, champion rower, was born.
21/7/1968, Ernest Barry, rower, died.
1962, The men’s World Rowing
Championship was first held.
23/3/1962, Steven Redgrave, champion rower, was born.
3/4/1962, Peter Haining, champion rower, was born.
29/9/1959, Julius Beresford, rower, died (born
29/6/1868).
26/3/1951, Cambridge won the Boat
Race. The race had been rerun after Oxford’s boat sank on 24/3/1951.
12/12/1949, Chris Baillieu, British rowing champion, was
born.
8/7/1935, Guy Nickalls, rowing champion, died.
5/11/1929, Christopher Davidge, rower, was born.
28/3/1925, In the Boat Race,
the Oxford boat sank.
26/7/1917, Richard Burnell, champion rower, was born
(died 29/1/1995).
28/3/1912, In the Boat Race,
both Oxford’s and Cambridge’s boats sank. The race was re-run.
17/6/1908, Edward Phelps, rowing champion, was born (died
1/11/1983).
17/11/1906, Hugh Edwards, Olympic rower, was born (died
21/12/1972).
24/3/1877, The only dead-heat in the history of the
Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race took place.
29/6/1868, Julius Beresford, rower, was born (died 29/9/1959).
1860, The Thames Rowing Club was
founded.
1856, The Oxford-Cambridge boat
race became an annual event.
14/6/1839. The first Henley
regatta, on the Thames, took place. See 26/3/1839.
26/3/1839, The annual Henley
rowing regatta was inaugurated. The first regatta was held on
14/6/1839.
1834, The Castle Garden Boat Club event, USA, was first
held.
10/6/1829. The first Oxford and
Cambridge boat race took place, 2 ¼ miles from Hambledon Lock to
Henley Bridge. It was won easily by Oxford.
1817, The English Leander Cup was first held.
1/8/1715, Doggett’s Coat and
badge race first run on the Thames.
Rugby
17/10/1994, Augustus
Risman, rugby player, died (born 21/3/1911).
29/9/1993, Alfred Ellaby, rugby
player, died (born 24/11/1902).
28/3/1992, Norman Bruce, rugby
player, died (born 24/8/1932).
19/7/1991, Marten Hodgson, rugby
player, died (born 26/3/1909).
8/12/1990, John Currie, rugby
player, died (born 3/5/1932).
9/3/1988, Ronald
Cove-Smith, rugby player, died (born 26/11/1899)
5/7/1987, Ernest Ward, rugby
player, died (born 30/7/1920).
16/9/1986, James Brough, rugby
player, died (born 5/11/1903).
16/1/1985, Matt Holloway, New Zealand
rugby player, was born.
10/1/1983, Carwyn James, rugby
player, died.
16/11/1982, Ivor
Jones, rugby player, died.
2/3/1981, Phil
MacPherson, rugby player, died (born 14/12/1903).
24/10/1979, James
Farrell, rugby player, died (born 7/8/1903).
30/1/1878, Reginald
Skrimshire, rugby player, was born (died 20/9/1963).
14/9/1977, James Sullivan, rugby
player, died (born 2/12/1903).
14/8/1976, David
Valentine, rugby player, died (born 12/9/1926).
22/3/1973, William
Llewellyn, rugby player, died (born 1/1/1878).
4/1/1973, John Samuel
Tucker, rugby player, died (born 1/6/1895).
14/11/1972, Alfred
Shrub, athlete (runner), died (born 12/12/1879).
1/11/1972, Cecil Kershaw, rugby
player, died (born 3/2/1895).
18/9/1972, Ian Smith, rugby
player, was born.
9/4/1972, Jonathan
Parkin, rugby player, died.
8/7/1971, Neil Jenkins, rugby
player, was born.
5/8/1970, George Stephenson, rugby player, died (born
22/12/1901).
14/9/1969, Denis Betts, rugby
player, was born.
10/4/1969, Johnny
Bannerman, rugby player, died (born 1/9/1901).
15/10/1968, Craig
Chalmers, rugby player, was born in Galashiels, Scotland.
13/11/1967, George
Beamish, rugby player, was born.
26/4/1967, William Davies, rugby
player, died (born 21/6/1890).
29/12/1966, Martin
Offiah, rugby player, was born.
17/10/1966, Shaun
Edwards, rugby player, was born in Wigan.
12/12/1965, Will
Carling, rugby player, was born.
10/11/1965, Robert
Jones, rugby player, was born.
7/7/1965, Jeremy Guscott, rugby
player, was born in Bath.
4/12/1964, Scott Hastings, rugby
player, was born.
21/3/1964, Ieuan Evans, rugby
player, was born Carmarthenshire, Wales.
26/11/1963, Joe
Lydon, rugby player, was born.
30/10/1963, Brendan
Mullin, rugby player, was born.
24/8/1963, Jonathan Webb, rugby
player, was born.
11/7/1963, Dean Richards, rugby
player, was born.
19/6/1963, Rory Underwood, rugby
player, was born.
18/2/1963, Rob Andrew, English
rugby player, was born.
22/11/1962, Stuart
Barnes, rugby player, was born.
21/10/1962, David
Campese, Australian rugby player, was born.
15/3/1962, John Hall, rugby
player, was born.
12/9/1959, Donal Lenihan, rugby
player, was born.
25/3/1959, John Jeffrey, rugby
player, was born.
27/1/1959, William Batten, rugby
player, died (born 26/5/1889).
16/9/1958, Hugo MacNeill, rugby
player, was born in Dublin, Ireland.
26/2/1958, Paul Ackford, rugby
player, was born.
27/11/1957, Adrian
Stoop, rugby player, died (born 27/3/1883).
20/8/1957, Jim and Finlay
Carter, twins, rugby players, were born.
23/6/1957, Robert Norster, rugby
player, was born.
10/3/1957, Terence Holmes, rugby
player, was born.
27/4/1956, Jeffrey Probyn, rugby
player, was born.
6/1/1956, Clive Woodward, rugby
player, was born.
4/10/1955, John
Rutherford, rugby player, was born.
3/5/1955, Colin Deans, rugby
player, was born.
5/12/1954, Keith
Robertson, rugby player, was born.
25/7/1954, George
Fairbairn, rugby player, was born.
3/3/1954, Oliver
Campbell, rugby player, was born in Dublin.
7/10/1953, Albert Jenkins, rugby
player, died (born 11/3/1895).
5/10/1953, Roy Laidlaw, rugby player, was born.
2/9/1953, Maurice
Colclough, rugby player, was born.
29/11/1952, William
Hare, rugby player, was born.
9/3/1952, William
Beaumont, English rugby player, was born.
12/2/1952, James Renwick, rugby
player, was born.
23/9/1951, Jeffrey Squire, rugby
player, was born.
16/9/1951, Andrew Irvine, rugby
player, was born.
12/6/1951, Geoffrey
Enstone, rugby player., was born.
11/5/1951, Michael Slemen, rugby
player, was born.
19/3/1951, John Jones, rugby
player, died.
1/2/1951, Douglas Clark, rugby
player, died (born 2/5/1891).
14/12/1950, Philip
Orr, rugby player, was born.
8/10/1950, Michael Teague, rugby
player, was born.
25/11/1949, Anthony
Neary, rugby player, was born.
11/9/1949, Roger Uttley, rugby
player, was born.
12/2/1949, Fergus Slattery, rugby
player, was born.
26/11/1948, Peter
Wheeler, rugby player, was born.
24/10/1948, Philip
Bennett, rugby player, was born.
5/6/1948, Claude
Spanghero, French rugby player, was born.
18/5/1948, Keith Jarrett, rugby
player, was born.
21/7/1947, Gareth Edwards, rugby
player, was born in Swansea.
3/1/1947, Fran Cotton, rugby
player, was born.
30/10/1946, John
Atkinson, British rugby league player, was born.
20/9/1945, Alexander
Purves, rugby player, was born.
12/7/1945, John Taylor, rugby
player, was born.
3/12/1943, Colin Dixon, rugby
player, was born in Cardiff.
3/12/1942, Michael Gibson, rugby
player, was born.
12/9/1942, William Delme
Thomas, rugby player, was born.
14/4/1942, Ian
MacLauchlan, rugby player, was born.
12/7/1941, Alan Hardisty, rugby
player, was born.
17/3/1940, James Telfer, rugby
player, was born.
20/6/1939, Derek Rogers, rugby
player, was born.
22/4/1939, Alexander
Murphy, rugby player, was born.
24/3/1939, Erith Nicholls, rugby
player, died (born 15/7/1874).
7/1/1939, Thomas Kiernan, rugby
player, was born in Cork, Ireland.
21/8/1938, Michael Weston, rugby
player, was born.
7/8/1938, Dewi Bebb, Welsh
rugby player, was born.
29/8/1936, Kenneth
Scotland, rugby player, was born.
7/5/1936, Anthony
O’Reilly, rugby player, was born.
7/1/1935, William
Mulcahy, rugby player, was born.
7/7/1934, David Rollo, rugby
player, was born.
20/1/1934, Cecil Pedlow, rugby
player, was born.
12/1/1934, Michael
Sullivan, rugby player, was born.
1/8/1933, Michael
Campbell-Lamerton, rugby player, was born in Malta.
24/9/1933, Terence Davies, rugby
player, was born.
15/10/1932, Vince
Karalius, rugby player, was born.
9/12/1932, David Marques, rugby
player, was born.
24/8/1932, Norman Bruce, rugby
player, was born (died 28/3/1992).
5/6/1932, Ronald Dawson, rugby
player, was born in Dublin.
3/5/1932, John Currie, rugby
player, was born (died 8/12/1990).
27/2/1932, Richard
Owen(s), rugby player, died(born 17/11/1876).
25/11/1931, Richard
Jeeps, rugby player, was born.
11/4/1931, Lewis Jones, rugby
player, was born.
21/11/1930, Brinley
Meredith, rugby player, was born.
20/11/1930, John
Whiteley, rugby player, was born.
22/9/1930, Peter Jackson, rugby
player, was born.
14/7/1930, Rhys Williams, rugby
player, was born (died 27/1/1993).
7/4/1930, Clifford
Morgan, rugby player, was born.
31/1/1930, Roslyn
Reynolds, English rugby player, was born.
9/8/1929, Jeff
Butterfield, rugby player, was born.
17/6/1927, Alan Prescott, rugby
player, was born.
26/11/1926, Karl
Mullen, rugby player, was born.
12/9/1926, David
Valentine, rugby player, was born (died 14/8/1976).
20/8/1926, William Trew, rugby
player, died.
25/9/1925, John
Kendall-Carpenter, rugby player, was born (died 23/5/1990).
18/4/1923, Douglas Elliot, rugby
player, was born.
22/2/1923, Bleddyn
Williams, rugby player, was born.
30/12/1921, Kenneth
Jones, rugby player, was born.
1/2/1921, Eric Evans, rugby
player, was born (died 12/1/1991).
30/7/1920, Ernest Ward, rugby
player, was born (died 9/7/1987).
22/5/1919, Desmond
O’Brien, rugby player, was born.
19/3/1919, Joseph Egan, rugby
player, was born in Wigan.
23/9/1916, Kenneth Gee, rugby
player, was born (died 17/4/1989).
17/2/1916, Alexander
Obolensky, rugby player, was born (died 29/3/1940).
5/9/1915, David
Bedell-Sivright, rugby player, died (born 8/12/1880)
5/5/1915, Ronald Poulton, rugby
player, died (born 12/9/1889).
20/11/1912, Wilfred
Wooller, rugby player, was born.
21/3/1911, Augustus Risman, rugby
player, was born (died 17/10/1994).
15/3/1910, Stanley
Brogden, rugby player, was born.
2/10/1909. The first Rugby match at Twickenham was
played – Harlequins versus Richmond.
26/3/1909, Martin Hodgson, rugby
player, was born (died 19/7/1991).
7/6/1907, Sir Carl
Douglas Aarvold, rugby union player, was born (died 17/3/1991).
26/7/1904, Eugene Davy, rugby
player, was born in Dublin.
14/12/1903, Phil
MacPherson, rugby player, was born (died 2/3/1981).
2/12/1903, James Sullivan, rugby
player, was born (died 14/9/1977).
5/11/1903, James Brough, rugby
player, was born (died 16/9/1986).
7/8/1903, James Farrell, rugby
player, was born (died 24/10/1979).
22/12/1902, Joseph
Thompson, rugby player, was born.
24/11/1902, Alfred
Ellaby, rugby player, was born (died 29/9/1993).
19/9/1902, Herbert
Waddell, rugby player, was born (died 5/1/1988)
22/12/1901, George
Stephenson, rugby player, was born (died 5/8/1970).
1/9/1901, Johnny
Bannerman, rugby player, was born (died 10/4/1969).
4/11/1900, The German Rugby Federation (Deutscher
Rugby-Verband) was founded at Kassel.
26/11/1899, Ronald
Cove-Smith, rugby player, was born (died 9/3/1988).
10/3/1898, William Wavell
Wakefield, rugby player, was born (died 12/8/1983).
1897, The
Challenge Cup Final was first held. It was staged at Wembley, London,
from 1929.
29/8/1895. The Rugby League
was formed at a meeting at the George Hotel in Huddersfield.
1/6/1895, John Samuel Tucker, rugby player, was born
(died 4/1/1973).
11/3/1895, Albert Jenkins, rugby player, was born (died
7/10/1953).
3/2/1895, Cecil Kershaw, rugby player, was born (died
1/11/1972).
7/10/1891, Cyril Lowe, rugby player, was born (died
6/2/1983).
19/5/1891, Harold Wagstaff, rugby player, was born (died
19/7/1939).
2/5/1891, Douglas Clark, rugby player, was born (died
1/2/1951).
21/6/1890, William Davies, rugby player, was born (died
26/4/1967).
8/1/1890, Charles Pillman, rugby player, was born (died
13/11/1955).
12/9/1889, Ronald Poulton, rugby player, was born (died
5/5/1915).
26/5/1889, William Batten, rugby player, was born (died
27/1/1959).
2/2/1888, Kenneth MacLeod, rugby player (also cricket,
athletics) was born (died 7/3/1967).
1883, The Five Nations Tournament began., originally as Four Nations (the fifth nation, France, joined in 1910).
27/3/1883, Adrian Stoop, rugby player, was born (died
27/11/1957).
8/12/1880, David Bedell-Sivright, rugby player, was born
(died 5/9/1915)
22/10/1878, The first rugby match to be played under floodlights was held at
Broughton, Lancashire; they played Swinton.
1/1/1878, William Llewellyn, rugby player,
was born (died 22/3/1973).
1876, Cardiff Rugby Union Club was formed.
17/11/1876, Richard Owen(s), rugby player,
was born (died 27/2/1932).
15/7/1874, Erith Nicholls, rugby player,
was born (died 24/3/1939).
27/3/1871. The first
international rugby match was played between Scotland and England at
Edinburgh; Scotland won.
2/3/1871, Billy Bancroft, Welsh rugby player, was born
(died 3/3/1959)
26/1/1871. The Rugby Football Union was founded in
London, England, by 20 clubs.
1865, Bath Rugby Union Club was formed.
10/10/1864, Arthur Gould, rugby player, was
born (died 2/1/1919).
22/10/1860, Henry Vassal, rugby player, was
born (died 5/1/1926).
Shooting
5/9/1966, Antony Ringer,
shooting champion, was born.
20/12/1947, Malcolm Cooper,
Olympic shooter, was born.
2/1/1947, Lanny Bassham,
US sports shooter, was born
17/7/1937, Andrew Tucker,
shooting champion, was born.
28/9/1925, Robert Braithwaite,
champion shooter, was born
16/9/1887, Arthur Fulton,
shooting champion, was born (died 26/1/1972).
20/6/1887. Queen Victoria met Annie Oakley, the famous
American markswoman who could slice a playing card in two at 30 paces sideways
on.
Skating, figure skating, ice
skating, roller skating
2/1/1995, Graham Sharpe, champion figure skater, died
(born 19/12/1917).
15/4/1994, John Curry, figure skater, died (born
9/9/1949).
23/7/1993, Megan Taylor, figure skating champion, died.
21/8/1980, Jennifer Nicks, champion figure skater, died.
22/3/1972, Elvis Stojk, Canadian ice-skater, was born.
9/7/1971, Thomas Richardson, figure skating champion,
died (born 16/1/1887).
2/12/1967, Phyllis Johnson, figure skating
champion, died.
27/7/1958, Christopher Dean, ice skater, was born.
7/10/1957, Jayne Torvill, figure skating champion, was
born.
17/8/1957, Robin Cousins, figure skating champion, was
born.
13/12/1953, Ethel Muckelt, figure skating champion, died
(born 30/5/1885)..
9/9/1949, John Curry, figure skater, was born (died
15/4/1994).
27/9/1947, Bernard Ford, ice skater, was born.
14/2/1947, John Page, figure skating champion, died.
16/2/1946, Edgar Syers, ice skater, died (born
18/3/1863).
28/1/1941, Doreen Denny, ice dancer, was born.
26/8/1933, Terence Monaghan, speed skating champion, was
born.
1/11/1931, Jean Westwood, ice dancing, was born.
22/4/1929, John Nicks, champion figure skater, was born.
7/7/1926, John Cronshey, speed skater, was born.
15/11/1921, James Johnson, figure skating
champion, died.
28/11/1920, Cecelia Colledge, figure skating champion, was
born.
19/12/1917, Graham Sharpe, champion figure skater, was
born (died 2/1 /1995).
9/9/1917, Florence Syers, ice skater, died.
27/7/1907, Molly Phillips, figure skater, was born (died
15/12/1994).
8/5/1889, Arthur Cumming, figure skater, was born (died
8/5/1914).
16/1/1887, Thomas Richardson, figure skating champion,
was born (died 7/1/1971).
30/5/1885, Ethel Muckelt, figure skating champion, was
born (died 13/12/1953)..
2/8/1875, Britain’s first
roller skating rink opened, in Belgravia, London.
18/3/1863, Edgar Syers, ice skater, was born
(died16/2/1946).
22/4/1760. The first pair of roller skates were seen.
1742, The world’s first skating
club was formed in Edinburgh.
Skiing
2/6/1974, Arnold Lunn, champion skier,
died.
8/2/1971, Andrus Veerpalu, Estonian
cross-country skier, was born.
6/7/1949, Georgina Hathorn, champion
skier, was born.
13/8/1944, Davina Galica, skiing champion,
was born.
18/3/1939, Henry Lunn, champion skier, died
(born 30/7/1859).
18/3/1915, Evelyn Pinching, champion skier,
was born.
15/11/1914, Peter Lunn, skiing champion, was
born.
2/12/1913, Esme Mackinnon, skiing champion,
was born.
1879, First large-scale skiing
competition, at Huseby Hill, Oslo, Norway.
30/7/1859, Henry Lunn, champion skier, was born (died
18/3/1939).
1843, Start of skiing as a civilian sport, at Tromso, Norway.
1767, First recorded (military)
skiing races, in Norway.
Water
Skiing
3/3/1963, Steve Moore, water skiing champion, was born.
3/11/1962, Andrew Mapple, water skiing champion, was
born.,
14/5/1960, Elizabeth Hobbs, water skiing champion, was
born.
14/4/1958, Michael Hazelwood, water skiing champion, was
born.
Snooker
10/7/1978, Joe Davis, snooker player, died (born
15/4/1901).
5/12/1975, Ronald O’Sullivan, snooker champion, was born.
13/1/1969, Stephen Hendry, snooker champion, was born.
24/2/1968, Allison Fisher, snooker champion, was born.
11/5/1964, John Parrott, snooker champion, was born.
1963, The World Amateur Snooker
Championships were first held.
2/5/1962, James White, snooker champion, was born.
22/8/1957, Steve Davis, snooker player, was born.
18/3/1949, Alex Higgins, snooker champion, was born.
16/10/1947, Terence Griffiths, snooker champion, was born.
3/3/1946, John Virgo, English snooker player, was born.
18/9/1935, John Spencer, snooker champion, was born.
8/10/1932, Ray Reardon, snooker champion, was born.
1927, The World Professional
Snooker Championships were first held.
12/12/1923, John Pulman, snooker champion, was born.
1920s, Snooker became popular,
after Joe
Davis introduced new techniques of play.
14/2/1913, Fred Davis, snooker champion, was born.
2/2/1907, Walter Donaldson, snooker champion, was born
(died 24/5/1973).
15/4/1901, Joe Davis, snooker player, was born (died
10/7/1978).
1884, The first set of rules for
the game of snooker were drawn up,
in India.
The game itself dates from the Devonshire Regiment’s HQ in India in 1875.
Softball
1966, The World Softball
Championship for men began.
1965, The World Softball
Championship for women began
Squash
12/5/1971, Peter Marshall, squash champion,
was born.
15/8/1963, Lisa Opie, squash champion, was
born.
4/7/1943, Victor Cazelet, squash player,
died (born 27/12/1879).
27/12/1897, Victor Cazelet, squash player,
was born (died 4/7/1943).
4/4/1892, Tom Jameson, squash champion,
was born (died 6/2/1965)
Swimming
20/1/1990, Misaki
Yamaguchi, Japanese Olympic swimmer, was born.
29/9/1968, Paul Radmilovic,
swimming champion, died (born 5/3/1886).
1973, The Swimming World Championships were first held.
21/5/1969, Martin Harris,
swimming champion, was born.
22/1/1967, Nicholas
Gillingham, champion swimmer, was born.
30/3/1965, John Hatfield,
champion swimmer, died (born 15/8/1893).
19/2/1965, Andrew Jameson,
swimming champion, was born.
25/5/1964, Adrian
Moorhouse, champion swimmer, was born.
1/11/1962, Sharron Davies,
champion swimmer, was born in Plymouth, UK.
29/11/1960, Andrew Astbury,
English champion swimmer, was born.
19/7/1960, Philip Hubble,
champion swimmer, was born.
22/3/1959, Chris Snode,
diving champion, was born.
27/5/1957, Duncan Goodhew,
swimmer, was born.
28/12/1953, Brian Brinkley,
champion swimmer, was born.
10/2/1950, Mark Spitz, champion US swimmer,
was born in Modesto, California.
8/9/1947, Linda Ludgrove, swimming
champion, was born.
3/4/1944, Robert McGregor, champion
swimmer, was born.
17/3/1944, Diana Wilkinson, swimming
champion, was born.
10/8/1941, Anita Lonsbrough, champion
swimmer, was born.
12/1/1941, Chet Jastremski, US champion
swimmer, was born.
19/11/1940, Elizabeth Ferris, champion
diver, was born.
5/3/1939, Judith Grinham, champion
swimmer, was born.
30/71938, Rob Derbyshire, champion
swimmer, died (born 29/11/1878).
26/5/1932, John Wardrop, champion swimmer,
was born.
8/10/1928, John Brockway, champion swimmer,
was born.
5/6/1922, Jack Hale, champion swimmer, was
born in Hull.
30/1/1911, Jack Besford, swimmer, was born.
1908, An international
regulatory organisation for the sport of swimming was established.
15/8/1893, John Hatfield, champion swimmer, was born (died
30/3/1965).
5/3/1886, Paul Radmilovic, swimming champion, was born
(died 29/9/1968).
17/3/1885, Henry Taylor, champion swimmer, was born (died
28/2/1951).
24/7/1883, Matthew Webb, swimming champion, died.
29/11/1878, Rob Derbyshire, champion swimmer, was born
(died 30/7/1938).
24/2/1872, John Jarvis, champion swimmer, was born (died
9/5/1933).
28/5/1742. The first indoor
swimming pool in England opened in London. The entrance fee was one guinea.
Table Tennis (Ping Pong)
20/7/1955, Desmond Douglas, table tennis
champion, was born.
1933, The Corbillon Cup was donated by Marcel
Corbillon, President of the French Table Tennis Association, for the
women’s tournament.
14/4/1933, Diana Rowe, table tennis champion,
was born.
1926, The International Table Tennis Federation
was established. The Swaythling Cup was donated by Lady Swaythling, for the men’s
tournament.
20/11/1922, John Leach, table tennis
champion, was born.
30/4/1901, The game of ping pong
was created by James
Gibb.
Tennis
2/2/1995, Frederick Perry, tennis
champion, died (born 18/5/1909).
19/6/1992, Kathleen Godfree, tennis player,
died (born 7/5/1896).
7/7/1990, Martina
Navratilova beat Zina Garrison to win a record 9th Wimbledon
women’s singles.
30/6/1990, Petra Krejsova,:
Czech tennis player, was born.
19/9/1988, Thiemo de
Bakker, Dutch tennis player, was born.
10/11/1987, David Warburg,
real tennis champion, died.
22/6/1985, Patricia Ward,
tennis player, died (born 27/2/1929).
8/11/1983, Betty Nuthall,
tennis champion, died (born 23/5/1911).
4/7/1982, The men’s finals of Wimbledon were scheduled
for a Sunday for the first time. Jimmy Connors beat his fellow-American John McEnroe.
9/3/1982, Mirjana Lucic,
Croatian tennis player, was born.
10/3/1980, Julien
Jeanpierre, French tennis player, was born.
3/6/1971, Edgar Baerlin,
tennis player, died (born 13/12/1879).
22/2/1970, Penelope Dora
Boothby, tennis champion, died.
14/6/1969, Steffi Graf, tennis champion, was born.
1968, Tennis
tournaments were opened to professional players – ending the amateur game.
3/1/1968, Kent Carlsson, Swedish
tennis champion, was born.
15/9/1965, Dyan
Castillejo-Garcia, professional tennis player, was born.
16/6/1964, Julian Snow, real
tennis champion, was born.
13/5/1963, Penny Lumley, real
tennis champion, was born.,
23/10/1962, Christo
van Rensburg, South African tennis champion, was born.
19/6/1962, Michael Jeremy
Bates, tennis champion, was born.
27/6/1960, Charlotte Dodd, tennis
champion, died (born 29/4/1871)
7/1/1960, Dorothea
Douglass, tennis champion, died (born 3/9/1878).
10/9/1959, Colin Gregory, tennis
champion, died (born 28/7/1903).
18/10/1956, Martina
Navratilova, tennis champion, was born in Prague.
25/4/1955, Christopher
Mottram, tennis champion, was born.
27/8/1954, John Lloyd, tennis
champion, was born.
27/11/1953, Peter
Latham, tennis champion, died (born 18/5/1865).
8/3/1951, The International Table Tennis Federation banned
Egypt, for refusing to play Israel.
6/8/1946, Blanche
Bingley, tennis player, died (born 3/11/1863).
28/11/1945, Dwight F Davis, founder of the Davis Cup
tennis tournament, died.
10/7/1945, Virginia Wade, tennis champion, was born.
25/6/1944, Howard Angus, British tennis player, was born.
27/7/1943, Herbert Roper Barrett, tennis champion, died
(born 24/11/1873).
14/10/1941, Roger Taylor, tennis champion, was born.
30/4/1939, Karl Meiler, German tennis player was born
(died 2014).
29/4/1939, Charles Dixon, tennis champion, died (born
7/2/1873).
9/8/1938, Rod Laver, Australian tennis player, was born.
3/1/1936, Michael Davies, tennis champion, was born in
Swansea.
22/11/1935, Robert Wilson, tennis champion, was born.
12/11/1935, William Knight, tennis champion, was born.
9/2/1935, Randolph Lycett, tennis champion, died (born
27/8/1886).
16/8/1934, Angela Buxton, tennis player, was born.
13/6/1934, Shirley Bloomer, tennis player, was born.
21/4/1932, Angela Mortimer, tennis champion, was born.
13/6/1932, Anne Shilcock, tennis champion, was born.
20/7/1931, Herbert Baddeley, tennis player, died.
27/2/1929, Patricia Ward, tennis player, was born (died
22/6/1985).
24/1/1929, Wilfred Baddeley, tennis player, died.
1/12/1928, Arthur Gore, tennis champion, died (born
2/1/1868).
20/4/1925, Herbert Lawford, tennis champion, died (born
15/5/1851).
1923, Hazel Wightman donated the Wightman Cup for women’s tennis
championships. It was only available for UK-USA competitions. It was
discontinued in 1990 because the tournament had become too one-sided; the USA
had won 7-0 in four of the previous five years.
1922, Seeding, to rank the
players, was first used at the US National Championships.
1922, King George V opened the new
concrete tennis stadium at Wimbledon,
seating 15,000.
8/6/1920, Anthony Mottram, tennis champion, was born.
3/4/1914, Katherine Stammers, tennis champion, was born.
1/3/1913, The International Lawn
Tennis Federation was set up at a meeting in Paris attended by 13
countries.
17/8/1912, Margaret Scriven, tennis champion, was born.
23/5/1911, Betty Nuthall, tennis champion, was born (died
8/11/1993).
29/12/1910, Reginald Doherty, tennis champion, died (born
14/10/1872).
13/7/1909, Dorothy Round, tennis champion, was born (died
12/11/1982).
18/5/1909, Frederick Perry, tennis champion, was born
(died 2/2/1995).
12/8/1904, William Renshaw, tennis champion, died (born
3/1/1861).
28/7/1903, Colin Gregory, tennis champion, was born (died
10/9/1959).
21/12/1902, Patrick Hughes, tennis champion, was born.
1900, The Davis Cup was founded after Dwight F Davis donated his trophy.
7/5/1896, Kathleen Godfree, tennis player, was born
(died 19/6/1992).
6/9/1892, Maxwell Woosnam, tennis champion and
footballer, was born (died 14/7/1965).
1891, First French tennis championship. Until
1925 this was open to French players only.
27/8/1886, Randolph Lycett, tennis champion, was born
(died 9/2/1935).
27/4/1885, Leslie Godfree, tennis player, was born (died
17/11/1971).
1881, First US tennis
championship. This became the US Open in 1968.
13/12/1879, Edgar Baerlin, tennis player, was born (died
3/6/1971).
5/7/1879, Dwight F Davis, US Secretary for War 1925-29, who donated the Davis Cup for tennis, was born
in St Louis, Missouri.
8/6/1879, Ethel Larcombe, tennis champion, was born
(died 10/8/1965).
3/9/1878, Dorothea Douglass, tennis champion, was born
(died 7/1/1960).
9/7/1877. The first All
Engfland lawn tennis championships were staged at Wimbledon,
at the original site at Worple Road.
23/2/1874, Major Walker Wingfield patented the game of lawn tennis,
(as distinct from ‘real’ or royal tennis) under
the name of ‘Sphairistike’, a version
of the Greek for ‘playing ball’. Between July 1874 and June 1875, 1,050 of his
tennis sets were sold.
24/11/1873, Herbert Roper
Barrett, tennis champion, was born (died 27/7/1943).
7/2/1873, Charles Dixon,
tennis champion, was born (died 29/4/1939).
3/2/1872, Sydney Smith,
tennis champion, was born (died 27/3/1947).
11/1/1872, Wilfred
and Herbert
Baddeley, twins, tennis champions, were born.
29/4/1871, Charlotte Dodd,
tennis champion, was born (died 27/6/1960)
22/9/1870, Charlotte
Cooper, tennis champion, was born (died 10/10/1966).
20/5/1869, Joshua Pim,
tennis champion, was born (died 15/4/1942).
2/1/1868, Arthur Gore,
tennis champion, was born (died 1/12/1928).
13/2/1867, Harold Mahoney,
tennis champion, was born (died 27/6/1905).
18/5/1865, Peter Latham,
tennis champion, was born (died 27/11/1953).
9/10/1864, Maud Watson,
tennis champion, was born (died 5/6/1946).
3/11/1863, Blanche Bingley,
tennis player, was born (died 6/8/1946).
3/1/1861, William Renshaw,
tennis champion, was born (died 12/8/1904).
15/5/1851, Herbert Lawford,
tennis champion, was born (died 20/4/1925).
Volleyball
30/5/1974, Vigor Bovolenta, Italian
volleyball champion, was born.
1952, The Volleyball World Championships for
women were first held.
1949, The Volleyball World Championships for men
were first held.
1918, Volleyball was introduced
to Europe, by US troops.
1895, Volleyball was invented by
William Morgan at the Holyoke YMCA. It was introduced to Europe by US troops
during World War One.
Water Polo
1885, The Swimming Association of Great Britain
drew up the official rules of water polo.
26/1/1879, Charles Smith, water polo
champion, was born (died 6/4/1951).
Weightlifting
24/2/1933, Philip Caira, weightlifter, was
born.
8/8/1930, Launceston Elliot, weightlifter,
died.
30/6/1917, Julian Creus, weightlifter, was born.
28/5/1891, The first world
weightlifting championships were held at the Cafe Monico in
Piccadilly, London.
Wrestling
11/3/1988, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Japanese professional
wrestler, was born.
27/5/1982, Natalya Neidhart, Canadian wrestler, was born.
18/1/1969, Dave Bautista, US professional wrestler, was
born.
2/8/1968, Michael Stanco, American professional
wrestler, was born (died 2014).
13/3/1966, Akira Nogami, wrestler, was born.
30/5/1955, Jake Smith (Roberts), professional wrestler,
was born in Texas.
10/7/1926, Kenneth Richmond, wrestler, was born.
9/6/1924, Ed Farhat, professional wrestler, was born in
Lansing, Michigan (died 2003).
10/9/1917, Masahiko Kimura, Japanese wrestler, was born
in Kumamoto, Japan (died 1993)
3/11/1880, Edward Barnett, wrestler, was born in Ireland.
Yachting
4/2/1991, Stewart Morris, yachting champion, died (born
25/5/1909).
29/8/1989, Peter Scott, yachtsman, died (born 14/9/1909).
1973, The Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race was first held. It is now
he;ld every four years, withy the start and finish point at either Southampton
or Portsmouth. Since 1989 the course has been extended to include a visit to
the USA coast.
1957, The Admiral’s Cup race was first held off southern England.
1925, The Fastnet Race was first held; a 975 km run from Cowes, Isle of
Wight, round the Fastnet Rocks off SW Ireland, and back to Plymouth. It is held every
alternate August during Cowes week, and is now the final event of the Admiral’s
Cup (see 1957).
14/9/1909, Peter Scott, yachtsman, was born (died
29/8/1989).
25/5/1909, Stewart Morris, yachting champion, was born
(died 4/2/1991).
1875, The Yacht Racing Association was formed, to regulate the sport.
1851, The US schooner Americas
won a race around the Isle of Wight. The Americas Cup is named after this ship.
It was originally known as the Hundred Guinea Cup.
1812, The Royal
Yacht Squadron was founded at Cowes, Isle of Wight.