ON THIS DAY
1927: Former England batsman Tom Graveney was born. He made 79 Test appearances, making 11 hundreds and 20 halfcenturies and averaging 44.38 with a top score of 258. He died in 2015, the week after his brother Ken.
1929: The first four places in the Le Mans 24-hour race were occupied by British-made Bentley cars. The pairing of Woolf Barnato and Sir Henry Birkin took first place, their car averaging 73.63 miles per hour.
1932: Yorkshire’s first-wicket partnership of Herbert Sutcliffe and Percy Holmes established a new first-class record stand of 555 during the match against Essex at Leyton. Yorkshire declared when Sutcliffe was dismissed and won by an innings and 313 runs after bowling their opponents out for 78 and 164 in reply.
1982: England midfielder Bryan Robson scored after only 27 seconds against France in Bilbao. The goal was the quickest in World Cup history at the time. England went on to win 3-1.
2004: Liverpool appointed Rafael Benitez as their new manager. The former Valencia boss went on to guide the Anfield club to Champions League success in his first season in charge.
2008: Tiger Woods won the US Open after 19 holes of a play-off against Rocco Mediate at the Torrey Pines course in southern California.
2012: The International Olympic Committee opened an investigation into allegations made in the Sunday Times that Olympic officials and agents from a number of countries breached regulations over the sale of tickets for London 2012.
2018: Jason Roy scored 120 and stand-in captain Jos Buttler 91 as England beat Australia by 38 runs in the second one-day international at Cardiff. Regular captain Eoin Morgan missed out with a back spasm.