2014 Event Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez is thrown out of the World Cup for biting Italian player Giorgio Chiellini on the shoulder; Suarez has also been banned from nine international matches and a four-month suspension from playing 2014 Event Mexico matches Brazil in today's World Cup game, resulting in a 0 - 0 score 2001 Death Tony Miles, chess player, chess Grandmaster, won matches with World Chess Champions Boris Spassky, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, achieved peak rating of 2635, January 1, 1996 dies 1997 Event Juli Inkster and Dottie Pepper win LPGA Diners Club Matches 1996 Event Dottie Pepper and Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches 1996 Event Jim Colbert and Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches 1996 Event Tom Lehman and Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches 1995 Event Kelly Robbins and Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches 1994 Event Kelly Robbins and Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches 1991 Event Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 pro tennis matches 1984 Event Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day 1976 Birthday Carlos Moya, born in Geneva, Spain, professional tennis player, ranked 1st in the World for singles, won over 500 ATP-level matches, won French Open singles, 1998 1971 Event Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors win their 1st U.S. Open tennis matches 1971 Birthday Ger Senden, born in Heerlen, Netherlands, professional soccer player, played for Roda JC, 1989 - 2008, retired May 2008 after playing over 400 matches in the club 1955 Birthday Tony Miles, born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, chess player, chess Grandmaster, won matches with World Chess Champions Boris Spassky, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, achieved peak rating of 2635, January 1, 1996 1901 Event Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous) 1897 Death John Cottam, cricket (Test for Australia 1897, no Sheffield matches), dies 1895 Birthday Fred Badcock, cricketer, swing bowler in New Zealand's 1st Test matches 1892 Event Book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company 1892 Event Diamond Match Co patented book matches 1827 Event English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
