ON THIS DAY
1938: The Preston North End v Huddersfield Town FA Cup final was the first to be televised in its entirety by the BBC.
1939: Lou Gehrig set a Major League Baseball record when he played his 2,130th consecutive game for New York Yankees. His run of appearances stretched back to June 1925. He died in 1941 of a muscle-wasting disease which became known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
1995: Middlesbrough played their last match at Ayresome Park before moving to the Riverside Stadium. They beat Luton Town 2-1 in Division One.
2005: Chelsea clinched the Barclays Premiership title by beating Bolton Wanderers 2-0 at the Reebok Stadium.
2006: England were awarded the 2019 World Cup by the International Cricket Council.
2008: Chelsea beat Liverpool 3-2 at Stamford Bridge for a 4-3 aggregate victory to qualify for the Champions League final, which they lost on penalties to Manchester United in Moscow.
2010: Manchester United and England striker Wayne Rooney was voted the Football Writers’ Association Player of the Year.
2012: Sprinter Dwain Chambers and cyclist David Millar were cleared to be selected for London 2012 after the Court of Arbitration for Sport declared the British Olympic Association’s lifetime ban on drugs cheats was not in compliance with the World Anti-doping Agency code.
2013: Former FIFA president Joao Havelange resigned as honorary president of the world governing body after an ethics committee report named him as having received bribe money.