| year |
Australian sporting history on this day |
1929 |
Norm
'Wizard' Smith set a new land speed record for Australia of
128 miles an hour at Seven Mile Beach near Gerringong, New South
Wales. |
1947 |
Bob
Fulton, English-born Australian rugby league footballer and
coach, was born. |
1959 |
Wally
Lewis, Brisbane and Australian rugby league footballer / Channel
9 commentator, was born; Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame
2002, named in Australia's 100 Greatest Players 1908-2007. |
1962 |
Aboriginal
boxer Jeff Dynevor won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games
in Perth in the bantamweight division. |
| 1979 |
Jockey Graham Cook rode
5 winners on the card at the Doomben
racecourse |
1996 |
Rugby
union star David Campese announced his retirement after 101
Test matches. |
