ON THIS DAY: 2012
The Queen knighted West Indies great Garfield Sobers during a state visit to Barbados. Sobers was the fifth cricketer to be so honoured.
Tiger Woods issued an apology for cheating on wife Elin as he made his first public appearance since a car crash the previous November.
Victoria Pendleton was unseated on her first ride over regulation fences in the Betfair Switching Saddles “Grassroots” Fox Hunters’ Chase at Fakenham.