ON THIS DAY: 1948
1973: British driver Roger Williamson died in a fire at Zandvoort, Holland, in his second Formula One race.
1989: Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor became the first man to clear eight feet (2.44m).
1995: Monica Seles beat Martina Navratilova in her first tennis match since being stabbed on court.
2010: Great Britain’s Phillips Idowu won the gold medal in the triple jump at the European Championships.
2012: Chinese shooter Yi Siling won the first gold medal of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
2015: James Anderson took an Ashes career best of 6-47 for England on the opening day of the Edgbaston Test.