HISTORY THIS DAY IN

1862: The first game of rugby is played in SA, with the Officers of the Army playing to a 0-0 draw against the Gentlemen of the Civil Service at Green Point in Cape Town.

1920: Bevil Rudd becomes the first South African to win three medals at a single Olympics, helping the men’s 4x400m relay team to the silver medal in

Antwerp. Rudd had won the 400m gold and 800m bronze. Meanwhile, tennis player Charles Winslow also won a third medal at the Antwerp showpiece, bronze in the men’s singles, to add to the singles and doubles golds he had won at the 1912 Games in Stockholm.

2009: Mbulaeni Mulaudzi wins the men’s 800m crown at the World Championships in Berlin, clocking 1min 45.29sec ahead of Kenyan Alfred Kirwa Yego and Yusuf Saad Kamel of Bahrain, who were both credited with 1:45.36.

2014: Morne Steyn comes on as a substitute to seal a great Springbok fightback over Argentina in Salta, landing two conversions and then a late penalty to give the visitors a 33-31 triumph.