On This Week – 17th April 2017
17th – The Greek tennis player Demetrios Petrokokkinos was born today in 1878. He competed at the...
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Posted by Margaret Roberts | Apr 17, 2017 | This Week in Sport & Leisure History | 0
17th – The Greek tennis player Demetrios Petrokokkinos was born today in 1878. He competed at the...
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10th – John Joseph “Johnny” Hayes, American athlete and winner of the 1908 Olympic...
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3rd – On this day in 1908 the heavyweight wrestling championship was won by Frank Gotch after a...
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27th The 1871 rugby union match between Scotland and England was a single international rugby...
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20th – On this day in 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel about slavery, “Uncle...
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