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