| year |
Australian sporting history on this day |
1914 |
Australian
tennis player Norman Brookes won Wimbledon for the second time
- having previously won it in 1907 |
1925 |
H.R.
Sinclair won the Queensland Golf Championship at the Hamilton
Club in Brisbane. |
1930 |
Charles
Kingsford-Smith completed the first London to New York Flight. |
1953 |
Lew
Hoad and Ken Rosewall won the Wimbledon Doubles title. |
1964 |
Roy
Emerson won the men's singles title at Wimbledon beating Fred
Stolle in the final 6-4, 12-10, 4-6, 6-3. |
1970 |
John
Newcombe won the Men's Singles title at Wimbledon defeating
Ken Rosewall. |
1971 |
Ned
Zelic, soccer player, was born. |
1980 |
Yvonne
Goolagong-Cawley won Wimbledon for the second time - the first
time the title was won by a mother |
1998 |
48 year
old Joe Bugner won the WBF World heavyweight title, defeating
43 year old James Bonecrusher Smith in the first round |
