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1948: The first Olympic Games since 1936 - the Games were suspended due to World War II - opened at Wembley Stadium.

Monica Seles shows her power

1973: British driver Roger Williamson died in a fire at the Zandvoort Circuit in Holland, his second Formula One race.

1978: Penny Dean swam the English Channel in a record seven hours 40 minutes.

1989: Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor became the first man to clear eight feet (2.44m) at San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1995: Monica Seles beat Martina Navratilova at an exhibition match in Bucharest, Romania. It was the American's first tennis match in two years after she was stabbed in the back by a Steffi Graf fan during an encounter between the two in Hamburg.