| year |
Australian sporting history on this day |
1884 |
The first Test Cricket match was
played at the Adelaide Oval |
1894 |
The first race meeting was held
at the Scone
race club in New South Wales. The first club president
was Thomas Cook of Turanville. |
1989 |
First interstate cricket match was
played between Victoria and Tasmania |
1908 |
Australia
drew the first ever rugby league Test against England, 22 all. |
1930 |
Australia started playing its first
ever Test cricket match against the West Indies |
1942 |
Jockey J Hayden "rode the card"
when he rode all 6 winners at a meeting in Thangool, Queensland.
He then repeated the performance at the club's next meeting on
April 8, 1943. |
1974 |
Cannington
greyhound track in Western Australia held its first meeting. |
| 1987 |
Jockey Jim Cassidy rode 6 winners
on the card at the Rosehill
race course |
| 1988 |
Racehorse Tetue Topaz won a race
at the Rosehill
race course starting at 200/1 |
| 1997 |
Jockey Greg Ryan rode
5 winners on the card at the Gunnedah
racecourse - he repeated the feat on
September 10 1999 |
