| year |
Australian sporting history on this day |
1911 |
Cecil
McVilly became the sculling champion of Tasmania by covering
1 mile in 6 minutes and 42 seconds - later to win the Australian
Championship in May. |
1937 |
Bill
Lawry, cricketer and commentator, was born. |
1961 |
90800 spectators went to the MCG
to see Australia play the West Indies in a test cricket match. |
1965 |
Vicki
Wilson, Australian netballer was born - won gold medals Olympics
1999, 1995, 1991 and gold medal at 1998 Commonwealth Games,
Sport Australia Hall of Fame 2004, Australian Netball Hall
of Fame 2008. |
1973 |
Shane
Gould set the world women's record for 1500 metres freestyle
when she swam it in 16 minutes 59 seconds. |
1979 |
Cyclist
Laurie Venn won the Austral Professional Wheel Race from scratch
in Melbourne. |
1982 |
Neil
Robertson, Australian snooker player, was born. At age 14
he was the youngest player to make a century break in an Australian
ranking event, won 2010 World Championship, 2007, 2011, 2011
World Open, only Australian to win a ranking event. |
1995 |
Female
jockeys rode all the winners at a meeting at Murtoa - the successful
riders were Kim Arnold, Vanessa Hutchinson, Maree Payne and
Christine Puls. |
1998 |
Lleyton
Hewitt won the Australian Hardcourt title in Adelaide at age
16. |
| 2001 |
Jockey Noel Callow
rode 5 winners on the card at the Traralgon
racecourse |
2004 |
Shirley
Strickland, runner, died aged 78. |
| 2006 |
Jockey Brendon McCoull
rode 5 winners on the card at the Hobart
racecourse - he has done so on 3 other
occasions at Tasmanian race tracks |
