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2001 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 Juli Inkster and Dottie Pepper win LPGA Diners Club Matches

1996 Dottie Pepper and Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches

1996 Jim Colbert and Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches

1996 Tom Lehman and Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches

1995 Kelly Robbins and Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches

1994 Kelly Robbins and Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches

1991 Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 pro tennis matches

1984 Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day

1971 Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors win their 1st U.S. Open tennis matches

1955 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 Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)

1897 John Cottam, cricket (Test for Australia 1897, no Sheffield matches), dies

1895 Fred Badcock, cricketer, swing bowler in New Zealand's 1st Test matches

1892 Book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company

1892 Diamond Match Co patented book matches

1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches


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