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The first baseball stadium was opened at the Union Grounds, Brooklyn, New York.
1929: England lost their first international football match outside the British Isles when they were defeated 4-3 by Spain in Madrid. 1963: Tottenham became the first British winners of a European trophy when they beat Atletico Madrid 5-1 in Rotterdam to take the European Cup Winners’ Cup.
1986: Italian Formula One driver Elio De Angelis died in a Marseille hospital the day after a crash while testing his Brabham at the Paul Ricard circuit in France.
2002: Zinedine Zidane scored with a stunning 20-yard left-foot volley at Hampden Park as Real Madrid beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 in the Champions League final.