13 DAY
Everton and Liverpool played the first Merseyside derby. Everton won 3-0 at Goodison Park.
Benny Lynch retained his world flyweight title at Clyde’s Shawfield Stadium with a 13th-round knockout of fellow Brit Peter Kane. The contest is regarded as one of the finest flyweight bouts of all time.
1954: Britain’s Chris Chataway knocked five seconds off the world 5,000 metres record, clocking 13 minutes 51.6 seconds in beating the Russian Vladimir Kuts at London’s White City.
1984: John Lowe made the first televised nine-dart finish, at the World Matchplay in Slough, collecting a record prize of £102,000.
2002: Britain’s Paula Radcliffe won the Chicago Marathon, setting a then world-record time of two hours, 17 minutes and 18 seconds.