TODAY: Sept 5 ON THIS DAY: 2006

1951: Maureen Connolly won the US Open tennis title at the age of 16 years and 11 months.

1961: Aston Villa beat Rotherham in the second leg of the inaugural League Cup final to win 3-2 on agg.

1970: Austrian Formula One driver Jochen Rindt was killed when his Lotus hit a guard rail in practice at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. He became the sport’s only posthumous world champ.

1971: Peter Gethin, driving a BRM, won the closest F1 race in history, by 0.01 seconds from Ronnie Peterson at Monza. Just 0.61secs separated the first five cars to finish.

1998: Tottenham parted company with manager Christian Gross after 10 turbulent months at White Hart Lane.

Randy Lerner took full control of Aston Villa. By the time he sold the club 10 years later, the US tycoon had lost more than £300million