| year |
Australian sporting history on this day |
1931 |
The first Test
Match was held at the Gabba in Brisbane - Australia v South
Africa. |
| 1957 |
Jockey Russell Maddock
rode 5 winners on the card at the Gold
Coast racecourse |
1971 |
At the Bendigo Golf Club, Ian
Coulston set a world record by playing 401 holes of golf in
24 hours without a break |
1987 |
Pacer Village
Kid became the first horse to win the Miracle Mile twice at
Harold Park. Started at 7/4 on favourite. |
1996 |
Trainer Peter Hayes trained 6
winners from 7 races at a meeting at the Balaklava
racecourse. |
1997 |
Janie Siddons
became the leading run scorer in Sheffield Shield cricket,
overhauling David Hooke's 9,364 runs. |
| 2010 |
Female jockeys won every race
on the card at a meeting in Ipswich, Queensland. Teresa Nikora
rode three and the other two races were won by Rachael Murray
and Bree King. |
2014 |
Test cricket batsman Phillip Hughes
a result of the injuries he sustained when struck by a bouncer
two days earlier. He scored 26 first-class centuries and was
a prolific scorer for New South Wales, for whom he had debuted
at the age of 18, and later for South Australia. He was born
on November 30 1988 in Macksville, New South Wales. He made
his test debut for Australia against South Africa in February
2009, scoring back-to-back centuries in his second match in
Durban against the feared fast bowling of Dale Steyn and Morne
Morkel |
