What happened in sport on this day..

May 19

 

 

year	Australian sporting history on this day
1974	Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league footballer for Newcastle, Australian half back and TV commentator, was born.
1990	A no race was declared at Moonee Valley when three runners failed to jump a fence to avoid a fallen horse.
2014	Three-time formula one world champion Sir Jack Brabham passed away, aged 88. Brabham’s motorsport career started on Australian speedway dirt tracks in the late 1940s before he headed to the United Kingdom and joined the Cooper Racing Team, with which he won the 1959 and 1960 Formula One championships.