ON THIS DAY
1845:
The world’s first baseball club, the Knickerbocker Club of New York, was formed.
1970:
Margaret Court of Australia beat Rosemary Casals to win the US Open and become only the second woman after Maureen Connolly to complete the Grand Slam of the four major tennis championships.
1983:
Lancashire’s Steven O’Shaughnessy scored 100 runs in 35 minutes against Leicestershire at Old Trafford – one of the fastest centuries ever seen in first-class cricket.
2007:
McLaren were fined 100 million dollars (£49.2m) and stripped of their points in the constructors’ championship as a result of a Formula One spy scandal. However, the World Motor Sport Council opted not to dock the points from their drivers, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso.
2010:
Former two-weight world champion Ricky Hatton was admitted to a rehabilitation facility after “suffering from severe depression for several weeks”. Hatton had been the subject of tabloid allegations of cocaine use the day before.
2012:
Football Association chairman David Bernstein made a “full and unreserved apology” following the findings of the Hillsborough Independent Panel.
2016:
Anti-doping chiefs condemned computer hackers who claimed to have accessed the personal records of Olympic athletes including Serena and Venus Williams and Simone Biles.
2018:
Premier League champions Manchester City matched a record-breaking season on the pitch with record revenues of £500.5m off it, according to the club’s annual report.