| year |
Australian sporting history on this day |
| 1884 |
Tasmania's
first harness race meeting took place at Newtown in Hobart |
| 1908 |
Edward
Pearson broke the Sydney to Melbourne cycling record by doing
it in 57 hours and 24 minutes. |
| 1925 |
The
Western Australian Trotting Association held the inaugural
Australian Trotting Championships in Perth. |
1942 |
Trainer T J Smith trained his
first ever winner - he gave the game away 7000 winners later. |
| 1963 |
Bruce Reid, Australian test cricket
left arm bowler born |
| 1964 |
Eskimo
Prince won the Golden Slipper Stakes at Randwick at 7/4 favourite
beating Farnsworth by 4 lengths. |
| 1983 |
Jockey Brent Thompson passed $1m
in stake money winnings |
| 1999 |
Jacqui
Cooper won the freestyle title at the world skiing championships
in Switzerland. |
