| year |
Australian sporting history on this day |
1888 |
Frederick
Lane, swimmer, was born - the first to represent Australia
in swimming at an Olympic Games, won 2 gold medals 1900 Paris. |
1924 |
Melbourne Cup winner Windbag
won his first race - the 5 furlong Nursery handicap at Canterbury
beating Longdale and starting at 12/1. His main claim to fame
came in 1925 when, in front of a crowd of 106,829 people he
won the Melbourne Cup by half a length from the 7/4 favourite
Manfred, carrying 9 stone 2 pound at 5/1 and ridden by Jim Munro. |
1925 |
James
O Anderson won the Australian Men's Tennis Championship in
the final played at Rushcutters Bay in Sydney. |
1954 |
Ribands
became the first Australian harness racing horse to break
two minutes for the flying mile at the Harold Park Raceway
in Sydney. |
1960 |
Margaret
Smith won the Australian Women's Tennis Singles Championship
at Milton in Brisbane - at 17 the youngest ever. |
1964 |
Runner
Ron Clarke set a new Australian 5,000 metre record of 13 minutes
45.8 seconds at Marks Field in Sydney. |
| 1993 |
Jockey Damien Oliver
rode 5 winners on the card at the Kyneton
racecourse |
1999 |
Australian
cricket captain Mark Taylor announced his retirement. |
