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1949: Bert Sutcliffe scored 100 not out in the second innings of New Zealand's game against Essex at Southend - the first Kiwi to score two centuries in a match in England, having scored 243 in the first innings.

1960: American long-jumper Ralph Boston set a new world record with a leap of 8.21 metres, breaking the mark of 8.13m set by Jesse Owens 25 years earlier.

1999: Leeds manager David O'Leary paid £5.5million for Coventry striker Darren
Huckerby.

2004: France legend Zinedine Zidane announced his retirement from international
football. The World Cup winner reversed his decision a year later.

2005: Lord Burns recommended a dilution of the Premier League's influence within the Football Association in his structural review of the game's governing body.

2005: Rio Ferdinand and Paul Scholes signed new four-year deals with Manchester
United.

2006: Steven Gerrard branded Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo 'a disgrace' for his part in the sending-off of Wayne Rooney in England's World Cup quarter-final defeat against Portugal.

'Disgrace': Ronaldo (second left) berates Argentine referee Horacio Elizondo following Rooney's challenge on Ricardo Carvalho (floored)

2007: Wayne Rooney suffered a hairline fracture of his left foot during Manchester United's 0-0 draw with Reading. The injury sidelined the England striker for two months.

2007: Tiger Woods won his 13th career major with a two-stroke victory over Woody Austin in the US PGA Championship at Southern Hills, Oklahoma.