| year |
Australian sporting history on this day |
1952 |
Geoff
Brabham, Australian racing driver born - son of Sir Jack Brabham. |
1956 |
Australian
swimmer Sarah "Fanny" Durack, died. From 1910 until
1918 she was the world's greatest female swimmer of all distances
from freestyle sprints to the mile marathon. |
1957 |
David
Foster, Australian woodchopper, was born in Tasmania. |
1965 |
Danielle Woodward, canoeist at
the 1996 Olympics, born in Melbourne |
1973 |
Norman Tome,
Australian soccer player (96 Olympics) was born |
2012 |
Jim
Stynes, Irish Australian rules footballer, died from cancer
at 45. |
