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2002 Death - Charles Sheffield, science and science fiction writer, Starfire, dies at 67

1996 Event - South Australia grab exciting draw vs W A to win Sheffield Shield

1995 Event - Queensland beat S Australia to win 1st ever cricket Sheffield Shield

1994 Event - Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland vs. Tasmania)

1993 Event - Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500

1993 Event - New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield

1993 Event - Queensland all out for 75 vs. NSW in Sheffield Shield Final

1992 Event - WA beat NSW by 44 runs to win the Sheffield Shield Final

1991 Event - Victoria beat NSW by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final

1990 Event - NSW beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final

1989 Event - 96 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England

1988 Event - WA beat Queensland by 5 wkts to win the Sheffield Shield Final

1987 Event - WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria

1986 Event - Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Qld

1985 Event - NSW wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket

1984 Event - WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield

1983 Event - NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield

1982 Event - British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket

1968 Birthday - Gary Sheffield, born in Tampa, Florida, outfielder for the Florida Marlins

1965 Birthday - David Baker, Sheffield England, U.K. cyclist

1963 Birthday - Suzanne Sulley, Sheffield S Yorks, rocker, Human Leauge-Human

1962 Birthday - Joanne Catherall, Sheffield England, rock vocalist, Human League

1959 Birthday - Stephen Singleton, Sheffield, rocker, ABC

1957 Death - Reginald Sheffield, actor (Second Chance), dies at 55

1956 Birthday - Adrian Wright, Sheffield, rock vocalist, Human League-Only Human

1955 Birthday - Philip Oakey, Sheffield, rock vocalist, Human Leauge-Only Human

1951 Birthday - Paul Carrack, born in Sheffield, England, rock vocalist, Squeeze/Ace-How Long

1944 Birthday - Joe Cocker, Sheffield Eng, rock vocalist, Little Help From My Friends

1940 Birthday - Gareth Roberts, chancellor, Sheffield University

1934 Birthday - Bernard Rands, born in Sheffield, England, composer, Wildtrack

1934 Event - Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days

1931 Birthday - Johnny Sheffield, born in Pasadena, California, actor, Boy-Tarzan Finds a Son

1930 Event - Clarrie Grimmett takes 10 for 37 vs. Yorkshire at Sheffield

1926 Event - Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, vs. NSW

1912 Birthday - Jimmy Jewel, born in Sheffield, England, James Arthur Thomas J. Marsh, comedian, television, film actor, appeared in film 'The Krays', musical drama 'Casualty'

1902 Event - Australia won the one and only Test Cricket played at Sheffield

1901 Birthday - Reginald Sheffield, born in London, England, actor, Second Chance

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

1892 Event - Commencement of 1st Sheffield Shield cricket game, SA vs. NSW

1892 Event - Dr. Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube

1857 Event - World's 1st soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in England

1849 Event - Start of 1st Lancashire-Yorkshire clash at Hyde Park, Sheffield

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