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1818 - Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle)
1882 - 1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground
1923 - Ottawa Senator Cy Denneny becomes NHL's all time scorer (143 goals)
1926 - Tennis star Suzanne Lenglen beats Helen Wills in their only match
1931 - 1st telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball)
1939 - Katwijk soccer team forms
1940 - Bradman scores 135 in a non-Shield match for SA v West Australia
1941 - Joe Louis KOs Gus Dorazio in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1943 - NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio, enlists into the US army
1953 - Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea
1953 - DSB soccer team forms in Eindhoven
1955 - Mike Souchak sets PGA 72-hole record of 257
1957 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs St Louis
1963 - Toru Terasawa runs world record marathon (2:15:15.8
1964 - 101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling)
1965 - US-Japan baseball relations suspended over Masanori Murakami dispute
1968 - Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield Mass, opens
1971 - England regains cricket Ashes with a 2-0 series win
1973 - Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut v Pakistan, his only Test Cricket
1974 - 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
1974 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic
1976 - NZ scores their 1st innings win in Test Cricket, v India
1976 - Richard Hadlee takes 7-23 v India, his 1st match-winning spell
1980 - Dot Germain wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1982 - Commencement of Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket match, v England
1989 - Former baseball player/manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash
1995 - Tiger mgr Sparky Anderson takes unpaid leave due to baseball strike
1996 - 1st full ODI for the Netherlands, v NZ, cricket World Cup Nolan Clarke makes ODI debut for Netherlands at age 47
