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1996 Tommy Mitchell, cricket (Derbyshire leg-spin, 5 Tests for Eng), dies
1994 Boon completes his 20th Test Cricket century (131 vs. Eng, MCG) 1990 Greenidge and Haynes make 298 opening stand (v Eng), their best 1985 Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 vs. Eng) 1981 Maurice Fernandes, cricket captain (WI in 1st Test win, 1930 vs. Eng), dies 1973 1st one-day Cricket international for WI (v Eng) - lose by 1 wicket 1973 Majid Khan and Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test vs. Eng 1972 Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 and 8-53) on Test cricket debut vs. Eng 1971 Byron Dafoe, Sussex Eng, NHL goalie for the Los Angeles Kings 1967 Asif Iqbal and Intikhab Alam make 190 stand for 9th wkt vs. Eng 1965 Jon Evans, Nottimgham ENG, Australasia golfer 1963 Caroline Pierce, Cheshire Eng, golfer, 1995 JAL Big Apple Classic-2nd 1960 Nevil Shute [Norway], Eng/Australia author (Town like Alice), dies at 60 1949 Maurice Gibb, Manchester Eng, rocker, Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever 1944 Joe Cocker, Sheffield Eng, rock vocalist, Little Help From My Friends 1943 Mick Jagger, Eng, rock vocalist, Rolling Stone 1942 Alan Price, Eng, rock keyboardist, Animals-House of the Rising Sun 1938 Would be start of Eng/Australia Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout 1937 Rajinder Pal, cricketer, pace bowler in one Test India vs. Eng, 0-22 1934 Ponsford and Bradman make 451 partnership in 316 minutes vs. Eng 1934 Millicent Martin, Romford Eng, actress, Alfie, Nothing but the Best 1930 Bradman scores 236 Australia vs. Worcs, his 1st f-class innings in Eng 1919 Franc [Franklin E] Essed, Suriname agricultural eng, Oper Grasshopper 1913 Yuvraj of Patiala, cricketer, scored 24 and 60 in only Test India vs. Eng 1912 Robert Flemyng, Liverpool Eng, actor, Windom's Way, Young Winston 1910 1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf vs. Eng) 1908 Michael Redgrave, Bristol Eng, actor, Browning Version, Lady Vanishes 1884 Fred Morley, cricket lefty quick (16 wkts in 4 Tests for Eng), dies 1879 Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, US/Eng's feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor 1879 William Froude, British civil eng/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68 1877 Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 vs. Eng 1877 Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 vs. Eng 1874 Chang and Eng Bunker, Chinese/Thai Siamese twins, dies at 62 1867 Jack Hearne, cricketer, cousin of George and Alec 12 Tests for Eng 1856 Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron, Nobel 1906 1829 Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited 1824 Francis Turner Palgrave, Eng, poet, Golden Treasury, Professor, Oxford 1811 Chang and Eng Bunker, Chinese Siamese twins 1785 Thomas De Quincey, Eng, writer, Confessions of English Opium Eater 1605 Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor |
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