THOSE WERE THE DAYS
ON THIS DATE IN SPORTING HISTORY
1895: Archie MacLaren, of Lancashire, compiled what was then the world’s highest cricket score of 424 in seven hours and 50 minutes against Somerset.
1950: The World Cup final between Brazil and Uruguay at the Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, was watched by 199,854 people. Uruguay won 2-1.
1983: The British and Irish Lions suffered a 38-6 drubbing by New Zealand in Auckland. At the time it was the heaviest defeat in the side’s history.
1989: Brazil beat Uruguay 1-0 in the Copa America final – their first major title since the 1970 World Cup.
2000: Britain’s tennis team suffered a shock 3-2 defeat by Ecuador in their Davis Cup tie at Wimbledon, relegating them from the elite 16-nation World Group.
2005: Amir Khan won his first professional fight with a first-round stoppage of David Bailey at Bolton.
2012: Heather Watson claimed the first WTA Tour title of her career as she and Marina Erakovic beat Vania King and Jarmila Gajdosova to win the women’s doubles at the Bank of the West Classic in California.
2016: France international midfielder N’Golo Kante joined Chelsea from Premier League champions Leicester for a reported £32million.
2016: Mark Cavendish won stage 14 of the Tour de France, his fourth victory of the 2016 Tour and the 30th of his career.
2017: Roger Federer thrashed Marin Cilic 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 to become the first man to win eight singles titles at
Wimbledon while the
Swiss extended his overall haul in grand slams to 19 titles.
2018: Cristiano Ronaldo was officially unveiled as a Juventus player.