| year |
Australian sporting history on this day |
1891 |
Victorian
rules football umpires began the practise of bouncing the
ball in the centre square after each goal. |
1915 |
Tasmanian
William Peck set a new world record of 43.6 seconds for the
18 inch standing block chop at a meeting in Ranatunga in New
Zealand. |
1954 |
Jockey Cecil Kelly "rode
the card" when he rode all 6 winners at a meeting in Glen
Innes, NSW |
1954 |
Trainer Maurice McCarten trained
five winnes at the Randwick
racecourse |
1955 |
Julien Wiener, Australian test cricket player
- batsman (1979-80), born |
1971 |
Damon
Diletti, Australian field hockey goalkeeper, was born, Olympic
medallist in 1992, 1996, 2000. |
1974 |
Sir
Frank Packer died at age 67 of pneumonia - he owned the 1947
Caulfield
Cup winner Columnist. |
1988 |
Ben
Lexcen, who designed the yacht that won the America's Cup
in 1983, died aged 52. |
1994 |
The 34
year old Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna was killed in
a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, near Bologna
in Italy |
