| year |
Australian sporting history on this day |
1921 |
C.L.
Winser won the Adelaide golf championship. |
1960 |
Jockey Rod Quinn was born. Rode
more than 2000 winners before announcing his retirement from
riding on November 23, 2013. Rode Lonhro to 6 of his wins. |
1968 |
Australia
was bowled out at Lords for just 78 runs |
| 1983 |
Jockey Gavan Duffy
rode 5 winners on the card at the Eagle
Farm racecourse |
1986 |
Champion horse Vo
Rogue won his first race - a Maiden Handicap at Eagle
Farm, starting at 5/1 and defeating Narangba in 1.11.1 over
1200 metres. His main wins were in the 1989 and 1990 Australian
Cup, 1988 Futurity Stakes, 1987 Alistair Clark Stakes, 1987
and 1988 Turnbull Stakes, 1988 and 1989 Blamey Stakes, 1988,
1989 and 1990 C F Orr Stakes, 1988 Winfield Stakes, 1988 and
1989 St George Stakes, 1988 William Reid Stakes and 1989 George
Main Stakes. |
1989 |
Jeff
"The Hitman" Harding won the WBC world light
heavyweight title in Atlantic City - the first Australian
to hold that title. |
1995 |
Boxer
Kostya Tsyzu successfully defended his IBF world junior welterweight
title at Newcastle. |
