| 22nd August 1851 | The first Americas cup race is held
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| 12th January 1876 | Jack London born
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| 6th February 1895 | Babe Ruth born
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| 24th June 1895 | Jack Dempsey born
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| 12th September 1913 | Jesse Owens born
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| 25th November 1914 | Joe DiMaggio born
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| 23rd October 1915 | Cricketer WG Grace dies
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| 12th February 1917 | Dom DiMaggio born
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| 3rd May 1921 | Sugar Ray Robinson born
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| 1st September 1923 | Rocky Marciano born
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| 30th June 1927 | The first Ryder Cup golf tournement is held - the US win
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| 23rd March 1929 | Roger Bannister born
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| 14th April 1929 | The first Monaco Grand Priz is run
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| 10th September 1929 | Arnold Palmer born
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| 11th January 1930 | Rod Taylor born
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| 30th July 1930 | Uruguay win the first world cup
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| 4th January 1935 | Floyd Patterson born
The legendary boxer
For more information see :http://www.cmgworldwide.com/sports/patterso/
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| 1st November 1935 | Gary Player born
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| 3rd January 1939 | Bobby Hull born
US Ice Hockey star. Thats the game that takes place during the interval in the fights.
For more information see :http://www.bobbyhull.com/
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| 29th May 1939 | Al Unser born
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| 1st December 1939 | Lee Trevino born
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| 21st January 1940 | Jack Nicklaus born
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| 28th February 1940 | Mario Andretti born
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| 23rd October 1940 | Pelé born
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| 17th January 1942 | Muhammad Ali born
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| 13th September 1942 | Bela Karolyi born
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| 10th July 1943 | Arthur Ashe born
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| 22nd November 1943 | Billie Jean King born
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| 12th January 1944 | Joe Frazier born
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| 12th December 1946 | Emerson Fittipaldi born
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| 21st June 1947 | Michael Gross born
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| 9th July 1947 | O.J. Simpson born
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| 29th August 1947 | James Hunt born
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| 28th February 1948 | Bernadette Peters born
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| 10th January 1949 | George Foreman born
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| 26th July 1949 | Roger Taylor born
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| 10th February 1950 | Mark Spitz born
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| 23rd May 1952 | Marvin Hagler born
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| 2nd September 1952 | Jimmy Connors born
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| 11th July 1953 | Leon Spinks born
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| 6th May 1954 | Roger Bannister breaks the four minute mile
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| 21st December 1954 | Chris Evert born
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| 10th February 1955 | Greg Norman born
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| 24th February 1955 | Alain Prost born
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| 16th May 1955 | Olga Korbut born
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| 16th September 1955 | Robin Yount born
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| 6th June 1956 | Bjorn Borg born
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| 18th October 1956 | Martina Navratilova born
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| 16th February 1959 | John McEnroe born
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| 14th August 1959 | Earvin "Magic" Johnson born
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| 21st December 1959 | Florence Griffith Joyner born
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| 7th March 1960 | Ivan Lendl born
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| 21st March 1960 | Ayrton Senna da Silva born
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| 1st July 1961 | Carl Lewis born
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| 19th April 1962 | Al Unser born
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| 12th December 1962 | Tracy Austin born
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| 16th December 1962 | William "Refrigerator" Perry born
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| 18th March 1963 | Vanessa Williams born
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| 2nd September 1965 | Lennox Lewis born
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| 20th March 1966 | The Jules Rimet World Cup trophy is stolen
The Trophy on display in the run up to the 1966 finals was stolen, although later recovered by a dog! At the time the Brazilians, the then holders, went ape. Subsequently when they won the trophy for the third time in 1970 it was awarded to them permanently. It was then stolen and never recovered. An expression about glass houses and stones comes to mind.
For more information see :http://www.worldcup.daegu.kr/english/FIFA_Overview.htm
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| 30th June 1966 | Mike Tyson born
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| 30th July 1966 | England win the world cup
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| 7th April 1968 | World racing champion Jim Clark killed in crash at Hockenheim
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| 3rd January 1969 | Michael Schumacher born
Germanys (yawn) Formula 1 (yawn) World (yawn) Champ...zzzzzz
For more information see :http://www.mschumacher.com/
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| 13th January 1969 | Stephen Hendry born
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| 14th January 1969 | Sir Matt Busby retires as manager of Manchester United
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| 14th June 1969 | Steffi Graf born
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| 29th April 1970 | Andre Agassi born
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| 12th November 1970 | Tonya Harding born
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| 6th September 1973 | Greg Rusedski born
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| 2nd December 1973 | Monica Seles born
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| 12th February 1974 | Naseem Hamed born
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| 30th June 1975 | Ralf Schumacher born
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| 5th July 1975 | Arthur Ashe becomes the first black winner at Wimbledon
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| 29th November 1975 | Former motor racing champion Graham Hill killed in air crash
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| 30th December 1975 | Tiger Woods born
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| 29th March 1976 | Jennifer Capriati born
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| 1st July 1976 | Ruud Van Nistelrooy born
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| 2nd April 1977 | Red Rum wins the Grand National for the 3rd time
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| 14th December 1979 | Michael Owen born
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| 17th June 1980 | Venus Williams born
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| 12th September 1980 | Yao Ming born
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| 30th September 1980 | Martina Hingis born
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| 28th March 1981 | First London Marathon
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| 7th June 1981 | Anna Kournikova born
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| 26th September 1981 | Serena Williams born
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| 30th August 1982 | Andy Roddick born
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| 30th June 1985 | Michael Phelps born
U.S. Olympic swimming champion
For more information see :http://www.michaelphelps.com/2004/index.html
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| 19th April 1987 | Maria Sharapova born
Russian tennis star
For more information see :http://www.mariaworld.net/
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| 23rd October 1987 | Champion jockey Lester Piggott jailed for tax evasion
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| 11th October 1989 | Michelle Wie born
U.S. female golf sensation
For more information see :http://golf.about.com/cs/womensgolf/a/michellewie.htm
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| 3rd April 1993 | The Grand National that never was
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| 30th April 1993 | Tennis player Monica Seles stabbed
The young tennis player was stabbed by Gunther Parche, a fan of Steffi Graf who had just been diposed as number 1 by Seles. Someone should have told him it's only a game
For more information see :http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/Dropzone/6766/sel.html
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| 1st May 1994 | World Formula 1 Champion Ayton Senna killed during the San Marino Grand Prix
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